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This place goes down more often than my ex GF.
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I'm serious. What the HELL are you guys doing? I've NEVER seen a website with this bad of relability. I mean, you're running it on a crappy computer, someone IS taking allt he money, it isn't even run on macs, and its closed like every 4 days? You guys need SERIOUS help.
Oh yeah, btw Demonhood, guess I have permission to post now HMMM?
- Ca$h
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Man is it me or is the management of this place turning ghetto? At this rate, looks like MacNN could follow AppleInsider's downward spiral.
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I'm serious. What the HELL are you guys doing? I've NEVER seen a website with this bad of relability.
You were obviously never a member of Apple Insider.
I mean, you're running it on a crappy computer, someone IS taking allt he money, it isn't even run on macs, and its closed like every 4 days? You guys need SERIOUS help.
Who cares what platform it runs on? As long as it is fast and stays up constantly. When Apple Insider switched from a x86 Linux box to a Cube, people were not exactly congratulating the managemnent on their wise decision. (Perl under OS X had/has a terrible memory leak which made Maraiah Carey look like a bastion of stability)
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Motorola: The Exception To Moore's Law
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Ca$h, I don't know what is up with you, but I find that this reincarnation of our server is much faster than the state it was in a few hours ago. 
Sure, it's unstable, but if every time it goes down for a few hours performance increases, take it down for another few days! 
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Ca$h, I don't know what is up with you, but I find that this reincarnation of our server is much faster than the state it was in a few hours ago.
I didn't know the servers used to be located in Texas.
(waits paitently for groverat to arrive on the scene)
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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The server -- which is in Boston, by the way -- is a wildly overloaded PII 350 (for the amount of traffic we get -- around 2 million page views a month -- Infopop recommends a PIII 900 or better). A new server is in the works, but a mangled installation of Red Hat has prevented it from being put into use.
As for yesterday's problems, it turns out that a program (which we forum admins still haven't been able to identify), which had been stealthily launched so as to leave no tracks, was eating all the CPU time, thus causing the speed problems. The server administrators have been alerted about it.
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Hey tooki, why don't you go to CompUSA, get a marked-down Pentium III 900 and 768 or so megs of RAM, install Red Hat, send it to MacNN, and have them reimburse you? All of that would probably only take a few days, couple of weeks at the longest, as opposed to the months of saying "The new server is in [random part of the United States]. We'll have it operating soon."
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Jan 2001
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...Then Monish would get the server, look at it, and just let it sit there, while he does nothing.
Kinda sounds like what's happening now.
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wow. you guys are taking this WAAAAAAYYY too seriously. why doesnt tooki go buy a new server for this site? maybe he has a life? who cares.
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tooki also doesn't get paid for his services... he's also not willing to forego paying rent to get a new server up... 
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You can use mine, just add bandwith.
32K/sec upload isn't too good, but 900MHz with a gig of ram is.
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P.S. We discovered the source of the rogue program (whose function remains unknown): the forum server got hacked into. Now that the security is patched up again, it should be ok...
and while we were at it, we did a few changes to the configuration to see if we can tweak any more performance from this machine until we get a new one running.
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your girlfriend only goes down on you once a week?
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why was my pst delated? It saw funny. HEHE.  D
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Originally posted by tooki:
<STRONG>P.S. We discovered the source of the rogue program (whose function remains unknown): the forum server got hacked into. Now that the security is patched up again, it should be ok...
tooki</STRONG>
Does this 'rogue program' have a name? Can you tell me how much RAM the program occupied?
Maybe it was a distributed-computing client application that was supposed to be using CPU idle-time. Who configured that server? That's where I'd look.
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Originally posted by peso68:
<STRONG>why was my pst delated? It saw funny. HEHE. D
Ca$- h</STRONG>
(First and foremost Ca$h, I'm not insulting you with this post.)
When I read that, I suddenly burst out laughing for some bizarre reason. Just get a bottle of jack daniels right next to the computer you use the most, and post away. I'll die laughing.
Thanks man.
[ 08-22-2001: Message edited by: The Dude ]
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hey, you guys want to use my IIci for a server?
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Anytime.
Hehehehe
- Ca$h
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Originally posted by gumby5647:
<STRONG>hey, you guys want to use my IIci for a server? </STRONG>
Hells yea!!! ****, we could get some copper wiring and rig up an Altair to it!!!
My god, we'd have one KICK ass server!!!
Someone get MS on the phone!!! We need Bill Gates expertice with BASIC on this!!!
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