I, for one, am getting damn sick and tired of , server to busy, we are trying to beef up our server. sick of it, it will only get worse. dammit!, when are you going to beef up your stupid server? I've been getting this message for months now. so tell me, just exactly WHEN are you going to BEEF UP YOUR SERVER? methinks never. it just keeps getting worse and worse.

-- ed (edrider007@aol.com), November 03, 1999

Answers

ed,

Maybe it's just me, but it seems that I get far fewer busys when I start at the "recent answers" page, instead of the "top level" page. Mr. Greenspun made some changes, 6-8 weeks ago (?), that appears to "cache" the recent answers page.

Give it a try. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), November 03, 1999.

Thanks alot Mr. Sysman for blowing my "secret" about how to get connected. :-)

-- A (A@AisA.com), November 03, 1999.

Ed,

You forgot to add RANT ON in the body of your thread!!!

Excuse me but have the words "THANK YOU" ever enter your consciousness regarding this website?? To WHO you say?? Well, lets start with Ed Yourdon, Phil Greenspun, all the moderators, great posters, lurkers, pollys, doomers, etc.,etc. that make this site absolutely FIRST CLASS!!! You sound like every other punk, yuppy, crybaby, whiner that this forum rants about which are destined to go thru some real hard times very soon. GET A LIFE !!! THese guys aren't hear to please you, and buy the way, your getting way more than your payin' fur' bucko !!! Phil G., Ed, THANK YOU for this forum, and BTW, I'm no a**kisser, just very thankful that this site even exists or I would have gone postal months ago. RANT OFF

-- rob (rgt350x@aol.com), November 03, 1999.

You're welcome, A.

Also, once you do get either page, RIGHT click, and OPEN IN NEW WINDOw for individual threads. Then, just close that window when you're done reading, and the top level will still be there. Hit the RELOAD button when you want an update, but not after you read every thread!

That also seems to help. My $.02 <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), November 03, 1999.

Sysman,

Thanks for great tip!

Midas

-- Midas (midas_mulligan_2000@yahoo.com), November 03, 1999.

You're welcome Midas. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), November 03, 1999.

I like this part...

"Probably the relational database management system that sits behind this site is in trouble. This causes threads to stack up waiting for the RDBMS. In this situation, the best thing we can do is ask people to try again in a few minutes."

No, that isn't the "best" thing they can do. It might be the only thing they can afford to do, or the only thing they know how to do, but isn't the best thing they can do. The best thing they can do is fix it.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), November 03, 1999.

Sysman: Now that right click on the link for a new window is "kuhl". "Real" thanks this time. :-)

-- A (A@AisA.com), November 03, 1999.

Well, anyway, it looks like Phil is getting a lot of practice in programming/running a high volume server without crashing. Better "server busy" rather than "server crashed". :-)

-- A (A@AisA.com), November 03, 1999.

Did you know if you right click while holding down the control key and F12 key you can instantly see where a person is posting from? It even gives their real email address.

-- (PuterNerd@Information.highway), November 03, 1999.

Just a minor point that wsan't madee real clear above:

This forum is running on a GIFT server from MIT, as an experimental software development tool. Therefor, it is FREE to our use, so as the old tourist trap placque sez:

"QUITCHERBITCHEN"

or the more popular version:

"QUITCHERBELLYACHIN"

Chuck, who has a couple of the latter with "Thendara" and "Adirondak Mountains" and "Brate's Indian Stand" on them kickin around.

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), November 03, 1999.

Hmmm....

Why all of the 'busy' signals? Just yesterday, a polly said this was a dying forum. Looks pretty busy to me. Another example of a dumb polly statment.

-- haha (haha@haha.com), November 03, 1999.

Gotta agree with Chuck here. This is a FREE site/service and we have no business complaining...

-TECH32-

-- TEC32 (TECH32@NOMAIL.COM), November 03, 1999.

Any shortcut keys for those without right click buttons? As in those with Macs or WebTV, etc.?

-- winter wondering (witnerwondering@yahoo.com), November 03, 1999.

(((THANK YOU Phil)))

...for hosting us here... FREE OF CHARGE!!!

(And may the Y2K Bug bypass MIT completely!)

;-D

Diane

(So, if you can't get in, go find a great newsbyte to post when you do make it back in, please).

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), November 03, 1999.

Phil is GREAT. Hold firmly to the refresh button, guys.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), November 03, 1999.

Posted by (155.76.111.181) Paul Davis on November 01, 1999 at 13:29:05:

In Reply to: Is it just me? Or are they willfully blind? posted by Dirt Road on November 01, 1999 at 10:36:04:

Yes, that ? keeps most site rippers from working on Greenspuns forums. You CAN drop threads into the 'offline' folder in IE or Netscape, and they will download. Do THAT with thirty or forty threads all at once, and you will lock everyone out of the forum, since Greenspun put a limit on it. And you will get about half of them loaded as 'server busy'.

-- (hmmm@hmmmm.com), November 03, 1999.

I am unable to access the "recent answers" page today. It returns this message, "Ouch. You've encountered an error. Probably a programming error on our part." This is a new one on me...anyone else getting this?

-- (RUOK@yesiam.com), November 03, 1999.

See... the "real" Phil... on this thread...

speeding up this software a bit

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id= 001hIx

I have changed the software a bit so that it should be faster.

-- Philip Greenspun (philg@mit.edu), November 03, 1999

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), November 03, 1999.