I have got used to, and accepted that the SDMB is slow. But a new trick it plays on me has been annoying me - It seems to time it’s slowness (or more accurately - complete-stop-ness) for a minute after I have accesed it.
What I mean is, almost regularly I arrive, it seems perfectly responsive, then I decide to post, and it turns into a slug immediately. Not just posting, the whole thing becomes sluggish. This is so regular and well timed (about a minute after I access) that it is frustrating.
Well, then maybe you shouldn’t try to post, as you’re obviously slowing it down for the rest of us.
Man, and all this time I attributed the slowdowns to insufficient server power.
Probably because most of the files needed to generate the pages are cached on your hard drive. But submitting a post requires more interaction with the overworked SMDB server … and then kaput.
The other annoying thing is - the last time I posted here (other than today) was before I broke my back and went to hospital. So I saw one crap answer to my question and no good ones (which I am sure all arrived after I went to hospital)
The question was - why does windows media player skip every other track when it is playing [a playlist of mp3s]. even though I don’t have shuffle selected. I can’t for the life of me find an option to uncheck that says “skip every other track”. It is really [f****g] annoying as I put all the tracks in the playlist because I like all of them. not every other one.
The first answer was [something like] - “maybe you don’t have the tracks it’s missing on your hard disk”
My answer is - I am not stupid.
My more diplomatic answer us - I checked. And it would be pretty darn unlikely for missing files to be the cause when you consider that A) I have hundreds of files in the playlists, and B) The files could not be added to the playlists without first existing on the hard disk.
If I fail [or can’t be bothered] to find my original post and see if I got any less presumptuous and more thorough and informed answers [as opposed to a lazy guess] then I will ask the question again in GQ.
thanks.
Gah. Well, the obvious answer is to get all your reading and posting done within the first minute. How did you miss the obvious?
bordelond that sound plausable. except that I said every bit of the sdmb slows down, not just posting.
When my post is being to slow i stop it, then I open a new window and try the sdmb again, and the whole thing is unresponsive.
it is only by stubbourness [and luck - in the case of these posts] that I ever get anything posted.
Yeah, it wasn’t worth reading.
I did warn you tramp. Why did you read it?
Do not read this post.
I won’t.
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How did you break your back?
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That makes things worse.
brujo do you want the story I told everyone (hospital, dad, neighbours, patients etc)? or do you want the truth?
Story
I fell out of the top of a bunk bed.
Truth
I drank so much whiskey the night before that I woke the next morning with a bad back, what felt like a broken foot, and no memory whatsoever of how I did it.
My foot was in agony, my back was just mildly painful (not much worse than a typical ‘bad back’). I went to hospital, had x-rays, and was told that my foot is not broken, but my back is [doh!].
I was then confined to [lie flat on a] bed for the next few days, Which was hell because normally I cannot lie flat for more than 5 seconds without getting uncomfortable, and being on a mens ward means lots of snoring. Being unable to turn and bury my head in a pillow I had to lie there with my ears fully exposed to the snoring and the thoughtlessly loud chatter of the night-shift nurses.
Long story short - severe tissue damage in foot, compress-fractured vertebrae in back.
It’s not too bad though as I have had lots of full-paid time off work as a result, and the nice painkillers make me very drowsy, causing me to sleep like a log/baby at night.
blah blah.
Rest assured, I will never drink alcohol on my own again.
:eek: Dude, that sucks. How is your back now? Hope you feel better.