Rabble Rabble Rabble. I needs to shoot me up some dope! Gimme my fix; I cant wait 20 minutes!
Seriously though, this board needs to be overhauled. Where does our 15$ go anyway? Dont companies give presentations every quarter about their earnings and spendings? I really dont know much about business, but I expect to see pie charts damnit.
As has been noted many times here before, the Chicago Reader still is a privately held company, so owes information about its financial state only to those holders. Of which, you and I are most decidedly not.
Not if they are privately held.
Oh, so I guess that means the company that just bought out the Chicago Reader is also a privately held company? Drat.
I signed on to post a response and the connection timed out. Now I’ve lost my train of thought.
The SMDB tech staff averts tragedy once again. Well done, you competent heroes.
There have been timeouts all damn day today. No, it’s not me.
This is fucking garbage. Guess what company is likely going to be at least $15 poorer next year?
How do you explain the fact that I have had no timeouts?
How do you explain the fact that I’ve had several, yet have had Internet connectivity all day? I have several remote connections open to various datacenters around the US and not a single one has dropped.
You are the one who made the claim it was the SDMB’s fault. I falsified that claim. I have no need to explain anything.
You do realize that your connection to the SDMB server passes through many different systems, any one of which could be the problem?
Christ, will you shut the fuck up? I’ve had several timeouts here, period. There is nothing wrong with my Internet connection, and there is clear documented history of timeouts on this site from many users. Are they all wrong?
If their timeouts occured all day long, but others have had no timeouts all day long, then, yes, they are all wrong. Q.E.D.
By the way, I didn’t say there was anything wrong with your internet connection. However, congestion on the path between your ISP and the SDMB server could account for the difference in service between users.
Wrong. The problems here, at least what has been admitted by the technical staff, are database related and have nothing to do with connectivity. This explains intermittent timeouts and why http://www.straightdope.com doesn’t timeout, as it’s apparently a static web site. Straight Dope Message Board - Your direct line to thousands of the smartest, hippest people on the planet, plus a few total dipsticks. is a dynamically create page and relies solely on the MySQL database to render. If the database is good and fucked up, like I suspect it is, the timeouts COULD be limited to certain users.
Dur, you mean like routers and wires and stuff? Can you explain to me how the Internet works, because I have no idea. Educate me.
That does not mean every timeout is due to a database error, which typically manifest themselves not a slow loading or timeouts, but by page errors.
There is not enough time in creation to educate the bottomless void that is your ignorance.
If some of us have problems and others do not how can the problem be the Dope? I had no problems at all yesterday or today. How is that possible if the data base is the problem? (and apparently I am not the only one…)
Not slow loading, not timeouts? Are you really this fucking stupid? You are clearly out of your league here. Improperly indexed databases usually lead to both slow loading and eventual timeouts. Oversubscribed databases and underscaled hardware also make a database perform poorly, causing, yes, slow loads and timeouts. Usually page errors are generated due to bad code or bad database calls, and they’re usually immediately displayed (no delay)
Come on, smart guy, show your technical prowess. Impress us. Don’t forget to include things like autonomous systems and routing protocols in your explanation. Since you’re one of the resident know-it-all fucksticks here, I hope you don’t disappoint.
I am sure that happens a lot in your life. Sucks to be you.
Is that all you have? Come on! I thought you could do better than that. You’re so fucking smart about everything, I figured a quick explanation of how the Internet works would have been a no-fucking-brainer.
BTW, your fly’s open.
Just shows I can’t depend on you to zip it when you are finished sucking cock. You’re fired.
You seem like you’re genuinely asking, so I’ll try to genuinely answer.
I’ve seen databases that are so poorly organized that they’ll have several tables just for user accounts. Depending on how those tables are organized (could be by registration date), a good number of users could be affected while the rest are not. Thing that can cause this are table locks (bad code opens tables exclusively for modification, which in turn, locks them for other things to make changes to it). I’m guessing that this database is a total mess and things like this are done.
For example:
tblUsersOriginal (user accounts up to 1/1/2003)
tblUsersNew (user accounts from 1/2/2003 - 1/1/2007)
tblUsersNewer (users accounts from 1/2/2007 - present).
MySQL has funny limitations that may have forced the database admin here to do some quick bandaid work, I don’t know. But doing things like this is bad. So if process A has the third table here locked, the database could be unavailable to that group users, since they are logged into that table (which needs to be updated to render the page).
Is this making sense?
So when do you turn 13?