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Anyone got the skinny on the Real ILX coming back?

― stet (stet), Monday, 14 August 2006 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Nope.

― Lucy Alder (Madchen), Monday, 14 August 2006 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Yuk, something went wrong there.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 14 August 2006 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Markleby's been on vano.thehold.net grousing too.

― stet (stet), Monday, 14 August 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Hoyl crap it's back.

4590469 messages in 126053 threads. 12793 registered users.

I wonder if that has anything to do with it

― stet (stet), Monday, 14 August 2006 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link

If it was back, it's not any more.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 14 August 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Yep, it was back long enough for me to see the front page.

― stet (stet), Monday, 14 August 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Hey. I guess that means someone's working on it, then?

― Mark C, Monday, 14 August 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know -- there's been no noises from anyone I've heard. Perhaps it's just dying, not completely dead.

― stet (stet), Monday, 14 August 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

fuck.

― the artist formerly known as grimly fiendish, Monday, 14 August 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Is that your contribution?

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 14 August 2006 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Real ILX has been down so long that this place has replaced it in my URL autocomplete box. :(

― stet (stet), Monday, 14 August 2006 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Is that your contribution?

yup. sadly, i can think of nothing more useful.

― gf, Monday, 14 August 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Maybe Andrew is seeing how many emails he gets as a test of our ILXLove?

― stet (stet), Monday, 14 August 2006 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha! This place is up for less than a day before it gets poxy fuled itself

― stet (stet), Monday, 14 August 2006 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link

It has replaced my autocomplete thingy too.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 07:59 (eighteen years ago) link

As soon as I saw ilxor in the Observer I thought it would be bad news but I didn't realise it would have this impact - newspapers! who'd a thought?

Having said that I was getting poxy fuled more often recently anyway.

― ned trifle, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link


4590469 messages in 126053 threads. 12793 registered users.

we missed out on such a big opportunity. if we made the NUILX donations like a big thing on the front page, and made it to cost £5 per registration JUST BEFORE the observer article, we can probably afford to run ilx on a dedicated OC192 line.

― ken c, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't understand how the Observer thing can have such a detrimental effect. On Sunday and Monday maybe when there's a spike of interest but usually these things tail off pretty quickly and more so when you can't access the board.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Some of us have been posting on LAST FM while ILX is down.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link

This looks much nicer.

I screwded up my first registration, so now I'm called M for some reason.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Hi M. I'm C.

― C J, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Whee! I'm in, it seems to work!

I didn't think anyone read OMM, anyway. Perhaps pulling the site down is their revenge for all the snark martian and Marcello tossed their way over the last few years?

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link

right who's going to start the first evah THEHOLD-ILX FEUD with me??

― ken c, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Momus isnt here.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link

You've said his name, so it won't be long.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Ken won't have long to wait then.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link

is the observer mention online? i can't see it on their webpage...

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Apparently it's only in the print version? I didn't buy a copy yesterday, so I don't know for sure.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

It's in the review section. It's a tiny single line mention in a sidebar. NO KITTY chooses her top five music sites. ILX is the first.

I find it a bit hard to believe that it was enough to cause an outage, really. But who knows.

― JimD, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 15:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, it seems pretty weird to me, even if they'd done a big feature on it, bigger publications than OMM have covered ILX more prominently without it pulling the site down.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link

YOU BRITS AND YOUR FUCKING NEWSPAPERS RUINING MY GOOD TIME

― trees (trees), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link

The Entertainment Weekly notice should have done it if anything was going to.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Didn't Ned's infro from Andrew say that it was a lot of hits from a specific UK referrer which caused ilx to fall over? Cos if the Observer piece didn't even include the ilx mention in its online version (and it didn't, it's here), then that's enough to disprove that theory, really.

― JimD, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

(info, afro)

― JimD, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Some of us have been posting on LAST FM while ILX is down.

The ILX Flickr group is also getting posts.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, sounds like it must be something else causing the problem, then...

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe dissensus is performing a denial of service attack?

― lf, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link

HI DERE.

So anyway. I have no idea what's going on beyond what I've been forwarding to all and sundry what I hear from everyone else. Though it has been amusing to note that apparently I *am* ILX in some eyes.

The whole referral question is pretty strange. Surely it would have topped out by now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe dissensus is performing a denial of service attack?

-- lf (lfam@o

Haha, the dissensus floodbot that sticks in a 1,000,000 word post about grime in 2006 whenever is sees an open comment box.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Okay, I updated the Wikipedia entry with a link here, at least.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

From http://ilx.thehold.net/thread.php?msgid=41#unread

works fine for me in here, too. What do we have to do to stress-test this thing? how hard does it have to be hit before it poxy-fules?
-- kingfish in absentia (jdsalmo...) (webmail), August 15th, 2006 4:50 PM. (later)


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Woah! Don't stress-test it yet! It'll definitely break, as it's on a shared server. It's just to fill the database with a reasonable amount of stuff so code tests have some connnection to the real world.
-- stet (bonald...) (webmail), August 15th, 2006 4:51 PM. (later)


Maybe linking from outside isn't the best idea just yet?

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah, that would do. Hold on. *edits*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't believe it's only because of that newspaper thing either. This kind of "no reply from server" was happening now and then (a couple of times during the last couple of weeks - remember the previous weekend's "we're back" ?) besides the poxy fuling.

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

That hadn't been happening to me at all. I was just getting poxy fuled a lot. Like, loads.

― trees (trees), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Granted, but Andrew's brief message to me was clear enough:

> Nope, not been pulled. Just there was an article in the Guardian (I
> think) which linked to ILX. The server is being bombarded. :(
>
> Andrew

So there you go.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

happened to me
xpost

― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh. I sit corrected, thanks.
xpost

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I mean, keep in mind Andrew may be getting odd info there himself. But he's there keeping an eye on the server and presumably knows where the traffic is coming from. *shrug*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link

The Boserver sells 457,000. If every single one of them tried to load ILX that'd be 10 times the average load. But still ...

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Have we at least put links in every other boards so that the ilx diaspora knows to migrate here?

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Woah! Don't stress-test it yet! It'll definitely break, as it's on a shared server. It's just to fill the database with a reasonable amount of stuff so code tests have some connnection to the real world.
-- stet (bonald...) (webmail), August 15th, 2006 4:51 PM. (later)

― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

As has been told to you before.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm OTM there. The hold can probably take a bit moer than it has now, right enough, so letting forlorn lost ilxors know should be OK.

I wouldn't open the wikipedia/world announcement floodgates though. After all, the real ILX surely can't be down for much longer, can it?

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link

No idea.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not counting on seeing the old database again until it's running on new code.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

sad thing is first thing i did when i realized ilx was beyond poxy fuled was peep raggett's myspace profile for news.

― bohren un der club of gear, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh dear. (But it says more about me than you, I think.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

^^^ roffle @ screen name, gear

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

as long as someone remembers to implement and incorporate a poll facility into the new new code all will be well.

― konal doddz, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

You misspelled "hell" there.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link

where all the noise duders at??

― bohren un der club of gear, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link

rofflz at seeing the words "All Noise Dude Summertime Fun Board and Pickle Bar" on wikipedia.

― nklshs, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link

x-post -- They are discovering the invention of the noize aesthetic in the early 90s.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link

(Credit to Jess for making that call, BTW.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link

could this end up being the permanent ilx home? where is this being hosted? am i missing an explanation somewhere upthread that i'm too lazy to read?

― bohren un der club of gear, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

No, this is a temporary test site on a shared host. The permanent home will be elsewhere -- but this is good for testing out new code in the interim.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link

it's pretty swift

― bohren un der club of gear, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

xposts
No, on my crappy shared space server, probably.

I put this up last week to test out code changes/rewrites for the nuILX project that's starting up. Then ILX died, and I asked for some test posts so there was actually something here to work on. then loads of people turned up!

It should be quick. ILX has 4 million posts. This has 400. :D

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link

nu-nu-ILX, 1 million posts by Saturday.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link

be patient, stet, ned is typing as fast as he can

― nklshs, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow, the Statscock actually works here! I am number one! Woooo!

― masonic boom (kate), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

be patient, stet, ned is typing as fast as he can

Actually I was catching up at the fracturing despair over on the right these days that just maybe they were wrong about what a good idea Iraq was. I'd be gleefully entertained were it not for all the misery and death.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Woo hoo! I found ILX!

(hugs screen)

I've been looking everywhere for this.

― JohnneyB, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Some guy named Swearingen had kidnapped ILX and was renting her out for two bits a fuck.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Supposedly youtube has been down all day.
Something to do with being named in TIME top 50 coolest websites list?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4793481.stm

Thank god ilx wasnt in that!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd love to see a video of the poxy fule

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I have nothing to say at this time.

― M.V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

http://bedrock.deadsquid.com/img/other/people/ann/ann_seashellfar.jpg
I ain't gonna be your fule no more

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually I was catching up at the fracturing despair over on the right these days that just maybe they were wrong about what a good idea Iraq was. I'd be gleefully entertained were it not for all the misery and death.

From the Red State piece:
"It does us very little good to coddle or otherwise allow people like Moqtada Al Sadr to be coddled."

I love it when forward leaning tuff guys use idiomatic language with abandon. It's time to stop coddling and take the gloves off! The Sunnis keep moving their leg onto the Shiite's side of the seat, so we may be forced to pull over the car. No more coddling.

― Floofer Barrrrrr (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

You know, the observer article didn't even give a link, it just named "ilxor" as the site. For people to find it though that, they'd need to google first. So unless all the traffic is coming from search engine referrals, I really don't think it can be related to the Observer.

― JimD, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

well, you know that ilxor.com redirected to ilx.wh3rd.net, right?

― lf, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link

word in the tubes is ilx got sonned by hipinion in a internet msg board beef

― lf, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

anyways

― lf, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow, the Statscock actually works here! I am number one! Woooo!

I see Ned has claimed his throne

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link

How am I not on the statscock? I've been posting like mad!

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link

There are discrepancies, I think, with the statscock.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Once again?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe one of them blanks is you nick.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeh, it's having troube with people who a) didn't register and b) have registered with their real names instead of their screen names and are now having to change their name box all the time.

this is the reg page's fault, it's confusing.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, ALLAN, THEHOLD IS FULL OF PEOPLE!

this reminds me of the time i went to see the manic street preachers in livingston. when i got back to my flat, there were 150 people having a party. i opened the door and whacked someone in the face.

anyway. hello everybode. how long before this breaks, i wonder?

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link

have registered with their real names instead of their screen names and are now having to change their name box all the time

fucking hell. i thought that was a good idea. o well.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Didn't you read the FAQ, grimly?

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

yes. he told me he'd changed that. the big ginger twat.

― simon (simon), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

He's too late now.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

oh FFS. how do i get my posting name to stay as "grimly fiendish"? proper ILX did it. gah.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh he wasn't.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

ginger geezer

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link

oh, like that. i see.

this is weird. in a fun way.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link

[countdown to stet appearing to deny gingerness ... 10 ... 9 ... 8 ...]

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Hey, I'm not ginger! Also first 100 post thread!

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

word in the tubes is ilx got sonned by hipinion in a internet msg board beef

proof?

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

more like poof amirite

― jergins (jergins), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Grimly, how the hell can you see up as far as the top of Stet's head to inspect the colour of his hair anyway, you only reach about as far as...oh, I see.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link

That joke is after the watershed. It should be ailsa_xxx

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link

i've just realised: i actually own a bit of thehold.net. i think. i suppose that means that, when this inevitably breaks, it's a bit my fault.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link

ilx got sonned by hipinion in a internet msg board beef

that is very funny. especially because hipinion is terrible.

― trees (trees), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Is there a link to this Observer article somewhere?

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's the real hilarity

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link

So, where are you going in Thailand, Ned?

― M White, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

And how have you convinced everyone you're a big lanky Scottish bloke of dubious hair colour and let us give him money when HE DOESN'T EXIST AND IT'S REALLY YOU!

*rips off stet-mask to reveal a chap sporting long hair with no sideburns, and wearing a purple tie*

(and you'd have gotten away with it if it hadn't have been for those pesky kids)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link

so anyway: does anybody know anything about when the "real" ILX is coming back? because we're gonna run out of bandwidth here real soo

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link

This is where Andrew comes in. Hopefully soon.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

rah!

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Perhaps if people stopped telling everyone everywhere to get their asses over here and treat it like real ILX, it might help?

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link

*whistles idly*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Nu-ILM is completely dead.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link

It needs more posts by Ned.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Hi!

― Andrew, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link

(The old ILX is back, by the way.)

― Andrew, Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link

fuck me ragged, so it is. hello andrew.

i'm going to stay here :)

actually, no, i'm going to bed. i'll get my head round this tomorrow morning.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Seriously, Grimly or Stet, what's the deal with usage here? Can we treat this like ILX, how many people arsing about as per old-ILX can be sustained etc? Are the behind-the-scenes things going on as we all muck about? Should I feel bad for telling three other people that this place exists?

(xpost, oh)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link

well, now that proper ILX is back up, we should treat this as what it is: a testing area. i guess we should just shoot over every so often and post threads insulting stet, and mocking his coding.

in seriousness, i imagine it'll be a useful place for the coding team to fuck about. but i'm assuming nobody's reading this anyway because they're all back on real ILX [trips over tumbleweed, hurts arse]

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link

You can keep posting away, but now the real ILX is back expect to see things go weird sometimes, or new features appear and disappear randomly, and GF to arse about with the mod powers.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll gladly pop over from time to time and insult you both, if it helps.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Tum te tum. Now it's sort of like sitting in the living room after the party's gone, looking at the crushed cake and girl being sick in the corner

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, that's me :-)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I like it better over here anyway.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Rargh. (That's just me clearing my throat.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Poor lonely stet.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

keep the pink box that says it's not really ilx once it really becomes ilx - i like it.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link

"and GF to arse about with the mod powers."

The FAQ was right, you're even calling him girlfriend!

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link

A mod needs to edit that big lie, yo [a mod says: no]

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link

this will be handy every time main-ILX poxy fules...

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link

it'll be like something from a buster keaton film. a horde of ILX0rs will come running over here, waving their hats in the air. then thehold.net will fall over, revealing itself to be nothing more than a cardboard facade. or something.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 07:14 (eighteen years ago) link

The real one is back up. We could just stay here though. Fuck Coke Classic.

― Alba, Wednesday, 16 August 2006 07:25 (eighteen years ago) link

This one loads faster.

― Momus, Wednesday, 16 August 2006 09:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, old ILX is slowing down at the moment... Poxies on the way?

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't get ilx to load. its not even poxy fuled. Its the way it was since sunday.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:02 (eighteen years ago) link

And me, it's just not loading at all.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:17 (eighteen years ago) link

hmm. it's fine now, certainly.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, am in agane

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm going back and forth, but I like it over here, where ailsa is the number two poster.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:18 (eighteen years ago) link

It's all entertaining.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link

How did I drop down so far?> This just isn't right...

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link

The real ILX is back down.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

No it isn't.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, you're right. You beat me to it.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Pink box keeps it safe. Wh3rd wouldn't make a liar of pink box.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 20:09 (eighteen years ago) link

hi dere poxy fule. first time since the comeback.

― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link

i hate getting PFd while i'm trying to post.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link

PHAROAH, STOP WITH THE POXY FULING. LET MY PEOPLE GO.

― MOSES (nklshs), Thursday, 17 August 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't know why we bother going back to that other ilx site.

― ken c, Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

ihttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/Newcoke.jpg

― stevie (stevie2), Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

ihttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/Cocacolazero.jpg

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link

It's almost certainly the usual late morning/early afternoon (my time) slowdown that's been gumming up the machine daily for a while anyway. It'll be back.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

has there been an ILX thread on coke zero's ugly advertising yet?

― stevie (stevie2), Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

It ringzabell, yeah.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link

IMG SRC IMG SRC IMG SRC IMG SRC

― nklshs (nklshs), Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I have posted like a motherfucker on the sandbox, why am I not on statscock?

― nklshs (nklshs), Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link


TURN BACK YOU POXY FULE

― nklshs (nklshs), Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

l-r: Ned's evil uncle, gear

― nklshs (nklshs), Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

(hobo not pictured)

― nklshs (nklshs), Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I have posted like a motherfucker on the sandbox, why am I not on statscock?

It's cuz I'm using fake email address, innit?

― nklshs (nklshs), Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

(hobo not pictured)

What do you think the burger is made from?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 August 2006 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.ycdtotv.de/img99/86t_345.jpg

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 17 August 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

America's awake again I see :(

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Morning, gerry.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, bastards :-(

Just got home from work early, thought I'd see what's up, selected a thread, clicked on it, poxy bloody fule. Gah.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, at least we now have a place to bitch about the poxy fulage.

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link

And I am drunk at work on my last day and I want something to pass the time befoe I have to make a speach about how I have loved my time here, and its not the people but the need to develop as a person that has made me hand in my resignation.

It feels great though

― Merrini (Merrini), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Cheers?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Now I have no excuse not to go cut, sand and paint shelves. Wait, is that two Netflixes over there?

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

You can build robots that can do that, but can robots post to ilx? No, we can't.

― nklshs (nklshs), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Because of POXY FULE.

― nklshs (nklshs), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link

http://image.listen.com/img/356x237/3/5/6/8/508653_356x237.jpg
Poxy Poxy

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 18 August 2006 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link

fdsasgf fds afsds

― fds dsf, Friday, 18 August 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Can't get there from here.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Saturday, 19 August 2006 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I think somehow the act of turning my computer on causes it.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 19 August 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link

saturday morning!

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 19 August 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

And again! Sunday evening!

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 20 August 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Oi! Rock Hardy, no! :-)

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 20 August 2006 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I never shut down last night, so it's not me, whew.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 20 August 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Oy.

― stet (stet), Sunday, 20 August 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

of all the times for the real ILX to break, a sunday when i'm at work till midnight is not the best.

i can't even go for a pint on my break because i've brought the car. serves me right, i suppose.

buggeration.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Sunday, 20 August 2006 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link

ooh, hey, i've brought a book without realising. superb. i'm off to read that for a bit.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Sunday, 20 August 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Markleby's been on vano.thehold.net grousing too.

Have you got other other places? Blimey.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Sunday, 20 August 2006 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link

vano was a very short-lived refugee camp, set up during last november's outage, which has five registered posters, none of whom ever visit. it also has some pictures of stet's hair.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Sunday, 20 August 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Take it over to the nu-Glasgow thread!

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Sunday, 20 August 2006 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link

j/k

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Sunday, 20 August 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link

oh, i'm not supposed to be here right? drat.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 20 August 2006 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link

dammit, i was really looking forward to those napalm death recommendations too... i was ready to go out to the shops tomorrow afternoon... just aswell as i don't really have the money

― noname#1, Monday, 21 August 2006 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link

The real ILX is gone off the internet because of you.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Monday, 21 August 2006 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow. I actually get to USE this thing. Usually when I find that ILX has poxy fuled, I'll arrive here, read up this thread, go back to regular ILX, and find that that's back up again. This is the first time I'm actually reloading without having anything come up since this board became available for regular ILX folks. So hi there.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Monday, 21 August 2006 01:07 (eighteen years ago) link

*burrrrp*

This place needs some class mongrels.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 21 August 2006 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Yo. What's happening?

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Monday, 21 August 2006 02:34 (eighteen years ago) link

i like the pink box

― kephm, Monday, 21 August 2006 02:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I bought a new laptop. And it was broken! &%%#$# ASUS.

So aulde-ILX is recalcitrant again? Im just getting timeouts. No errors.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 21 August 2006 02:36 (eighteen years ago) link

This place needs some class mongrels
It's like the all-powerful aliens have resurrected one from each nation-state over here on the toy version so that they can study how everybody interacts and determine whether the real ILX is worth saving. In a few minutes a hogbutcher, let's say Nick A, will come creeping out of the bushes.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Monday, 21 August 2006 02:39 (eighteen years ago) link

So this is the part where we split up and get picked off by the killer? Because I hate it when that happens.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 21 August 2006 02:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh damn. Bad laptop. Shame on it for being broken. And you bet your sweet bippy "aulde-ILX is recalcitrant again". I too am getting timeouts vs. anything particularly productive. *pokeprod*

The pink box is super-sweet. It adds a nice touch. Maybe the pink box keeper uppers can throw us out a few quotes or somesuch. Fun stuff.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Monday, 21 August 2006 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link

In a few minutes a hogbutcher, let's say Nick A, will come creeping out of the bushes.

EEK. Me no likey that thought at all.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Monday, 21 August 2006 02:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Mmmm, nothing like a little hot pink box action while waiting for ILX.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 21 August 2006 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Someone had to say it eventually ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 21 August 2006 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I'm surprised it took that long for that joke to be cracked.

Um, ok, I just saw a TV commercial advertising a scrap metal recycling site in Houston and one of the people in the ad looked like the spitting image of... Nick A. Doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Monday, 21 August 2006 05:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Someone had to say it eventually ;)

Rock Hardy at your cervix, ladies and gents.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Cool yourself down, Poppa.

Actually, while Nick would bring the surefire roffles, perhaps it would be better to select jaymc from that particular cohort, as he would be more helpful in reconstructing the missing pieces of the fullblown ILX.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Monday, 21 August 2006 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

AND AGAIN!

Are these code issues, traffic issues or a combination?

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 21 August 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link

YOU'RE ALL DEAD

― jaymc, Monday, 21 August 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I have no mouth and I must scream.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Monday, 21 August 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I feel like I'm in that same pub that Simon and Ailsa are in on the aulde-ILX WDYLL thread, but I can't quite seem to find them.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Monday, 21 August 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

i like the pink box.

― kephm, Monday, 21 August 2006 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/Tor_Johnson.jpg

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 21 August 2006 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.nrk.no/img/303463.jpeg
Pox cars
Are turning
Out of town

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

http://media.bestprices.com/content/music/20/489525.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I feel like I'm in that same pub that Simon and Ailsa are in on the aulde-ILX WDYLL thread, but I can't quite seem to find them.

Simon's under the table, cursing super-strong cider which he claims he hates but curiously can't seem to stop drinking.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

hic. DAMN YOU ... hic ... SUPER-STRONG ... hic ... bleeugh. you're all my besht mates.

the cider is all stet's fault. still, it makes a change from the time he forced me to drink double vodka and blue aftershock. or was it double blue aftershock and vodka? either way, i don't remember much about the next day. or the one after that.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Or black Sambuca. I blame your missus for that (even though I went back and bought more afterwards)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Drunks, all of you. (I love you.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I like how Ned always softens his comments with declarations of love. (Actually, I'm starting to adopt this technique myself; the other day I told my friend Troy, who has lost a lot of weight, that I loved him, but he really should buy some pants that fit him...).

This is what I have learned from Ned. And ILX.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

THIS IS GETTING STUPID, I AM SO SICK OF THE POXY FULE!!!!

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 10:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Kate OTM.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, and BTW, that "foxy pule" thread - SOOOO not safe for work.

― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Now she tells me.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link

bump

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

how is the imperative recoding going, anyone?

― stevem, Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link

For those interested (though maybe they won't thank me for calling this to general attention):

http://groups.google.com/group/ilxor

While subscription is closed at present, understandably so -- I'm not a member myself -- you can still read all the posts if you want to keep track. *VERY* technical, though, so unless you can stand that your eyes will glaze over. But suffice to say a number of good points have already been addressed which will help speed up the database/reduce bottlenecks/etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd still like it if one of teh illuminati would take a shot at my question. (Are these code issues, traffic issues or a combination?)

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm not illuminati but I think the issue is a combniation of both. The code as it's written is not as efficient as the amount of traffic ilx generates needs it to be.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link

OTM. The code as it stands uses the database for just about every page you see. That's ok when it's small, but i understand it's past 4gb, and the strain's showin.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Gotcha. So the code rewrite is to change our DB-access vehicle from a 4-cyl. Chevy ImpLOLa to a 12-cyl LMAOborghini. I guess one obvious question is, what if the best model available is a 6-cyl. vehicle? (I'm not doubting y'all's ability, just asking.)

I would just about get behind dumping the DB and starting fresh, and everybody could have 30 days or whatever to save their favorite threads. It would be interesting to start from scratch with basic topics like "Sex: C/D" with a mix of old-time ILXors (whose outlooks might have changed) and newcomers. But I know that's been brought up and pretty much discarded as a plan.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

There was some talk of keeping old threads seperate and only injecting them into the live database when they were bumped, but that was purely top-of-the-head gas on my part and hasn't really been checked for feasibility.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link

"Sex with a mix of old-time ILXors: C/D"

(since ken c isn't here, someone has to do the parody threads...)

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

And again. Grmbll.

Hooray for all of you at thehole.net! (which is my default typo when I try to get here, inexplicably.)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 24 August 2006 08:56 (eighteen years ago) link

This is insane - it's not usually Poxy Fuled at this time of the morning. I'll have to WORK all morning now. Bah.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:00 (eighteen years ago) link

It *was* on, and now it's not.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, it's back. Later.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Am I missing something? All I've had consistently for days now is timing out.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Thursday, 24 August 2006 11:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Are you p3ring or wh3rding? I use wh3rd and it's been okay most of today.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 24 August 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

It's confusing:

poxy fule 1 = admin doing some admin thing (couple of minutes)
poxy fule 2 = too many people visiting the site (longer)
timeout = even more people trying to visit (hours on end)
other timeout = something else happens which can sometimes be solved by Andrew?

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I was p3ring, but I couldn't get in with wh3rd either (assuming the other parts of the url are the same).

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Thursday, 24 August 2006 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I use wh3rd and it's been okay most of today.

B-b-but I'm afraid of sharks!

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 August 2006 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link


_________/\____________\o/_________

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 24 August 2006 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link

ho hum poxy fuled again.

Too many connections in /home/ilx/dev/stable/boardfunctions.php on line 127

lol @ "stable"

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 24 August 2006 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link

If it was good enough for jesus...

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 25 August 2006 01:25 (eighteen years ago) link

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― tom, Friday, 25 August 2006 02:32 (eighteen years ago) link

it's down awful early today.

― stet (stet), Friday, 25 August 2006 10:54 (eighteen years ago) link

It's just timed out for me ALL WEEK.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Friday, 25 August 2006 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I think you may have network/router problems Al. Happened to me before with BT connect where I could access some sites but not others.

ILX is mostly down at the moment so it's kind of hard to diagnose anything when you don't know if what you're trying to connect to is even available.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 25 August 2006 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link

See if you can ping the servers.

(type "ping ilx.p3r.net" and/or "ping ilx.wh3rd.net" from a command prompt)

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 25 August 2006 11:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Get replies from both.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Friday, 25 August 2006 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link

try a tracert

"tracert ilx.p3r.net"

That might show you where it's timing out.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

and see if your isp is reporting any problems on their status page.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

The important bit (i.e. once it reaches ILX)

18 335ms 336ms 352ms 61.88.181.230
19 349ms * * 61.88.181.230
20 * 352ms * 203.123.80.12
21 347ms 352ms 349ms 203.123.80.12

Trace complete.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link

um

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 25 August 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link

er

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 25 August 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Aliens.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 August 2006 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Can you go here: http://wh3rd.net
?

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 25 August 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

No, that times out as well.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Friday, 25 August 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I should say, in the interim I changed the registry setting to 10000, so nothing should really time out given it gets 10s to answer.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Friday, 25 August 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

It's PF'ing as well, by the way. AND it's almost weekend (= two days of timeouts coming up)...

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 25 August 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Dunno tbh. I still think you've got ISP issues.

I'm going for a pint.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 25 August 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh well. Hopefully I'll be able to connect to nu-nu-ILX.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Friday, 25 August 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

It's fucked right now, right?

― Modal Fugue (Modal Fugue), Saturday, 26 August 2006 09:14 (eighteen years ago) link

right

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Saturday, 26 August 2006 09:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I killed it with some bad crossword clues.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Saturday, 26 August 2006 11:13 (eighteen years ago) link

i haven't had any trouble at all in the past few days

― trees (trees), Monday, 28 August 2006 03:54 (eighteen years ago) link

And this morning it's back like nothing happened...

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Monday, 28 August 2006 06:56 (eighteen years ago) link

and now i can't even get a poxy fule. just 'not found.' wtf

― trees (trees), Monday, 28 August 2006 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm back where I was yesterday.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Monday, 28 August 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeh, that's odd. I'm getting not found too -- just like during the big outage, which was when Andrew turned it off temporarily.

― stet (stet), Monday, 28 August 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link

no pong from my ping, server is unreachable.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 28 August 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I hope they haven't pulled the plug! Andrew said he was going to hear today, but that he thought we'd have until Sept 30th. Hmm.

― stet (stet), Monday, 28 August 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Phew. It's back.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 28 August 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Nope

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Monday, 28 August 2006 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Yep.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 08:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Nope

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Up and down like an uppy downy thing today :(

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.crooze.fm/php/modules/topMusic/photos/C/ChrisRea.jpeg
Fule (If You Think It's Over)

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Been working fine all day for me until about two minutes ago.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it all goes wrong when the hogbut- sorry, Chicagoans- get to work.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

lock/delete chi and d.c. threads plzzzzzzzzzzz

― plzzz, Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm annoyed because it went down when I was just about to read what where the Top Funniest 500 Posts Ever.

It's back! Oh wait..

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link

That Best Posts Ever thread stalled at 22 posts, and a lot of those are not even Best Posts, but just generalized discussion!

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link

she's breaking up

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

more liek dullest posts ever AMIRITE

chi / d.c. / watercooler threads are where all the known ilx addicts tie up teh server pretending its a chatroom AMISTILLRITE

― zzzzzlp, Tuesday, 29 August 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

You're poxy, I'm poxy, all god's chillun are poxy.

Meanwhile, we had a tenant on the back porch for three weeks:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/BigMama.jpg

Rebuilt the web every evening at dusk, took it down at dawn. I was careful not to mess with her, but she quit showing up about a week ago. About an inch long (just the body, not counting the legs).

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link

eight.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link

STARSBUCK COFFEE

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link

and now every bugger trying to find old threads to bump has killed it dead agane.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Any idea what's happened - I didn't get a chance to have a read through the relevant threads before it buggered off again.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I think with the recently publicity we've received it's just chock-a-block with users.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

The new answers cache was deleted, I guess an attempt to unpoxy the fule by reducing server load?

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

How was the fap in Edinburgh? I wish I could have been at some of those Scottish ken faps.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Ken, I know about that*, I meant recently, like in the last couple of hours with all the new answers gone.

(xpost)

*though I still struggle to believe that one article in the Observer Music Monthly has crashed this for weeks on end.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link

You should come over for a double ken-fap! It was small but perfectly formed and very pleasant indeed. Drinks, football-watching, Thai food and Belle and Sebastian. Pretty much a perfect day out, really.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost:
Sorry, Ailsa, I just wanted to say that because once we were in Edinburgh in August and we managed to find a hotel for one night and the guy told us possibly maybe he could let us have a room the next night if the Great Northern Railway rep didn't need it. Well, that didn't work out so he said he would try to help us find another room, but when we came down to breakfast he said: "I've called round, but Edinburgh's just chock-a-block with the Festival!"

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

The search function can kill the whole thing with just one user. When the cache got corrupted, loads of people started searching to try and bump old threads.

For some reason there's no timeout set on searches, so the server will continue with the very, very slow search until it's done. While it's searching, nothing else can access it. Hmph.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

People should've revived threads via New Questions.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 30 August 2006 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeh, it was the ancient threads that did it, I think.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Point the search link to Google.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Until nu_ILX code is sorted, that is. One less overhead to worry about.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link

The quickest fix could well be to put a timeout on SQL queries. But I don't know how many people have server access these days to do that.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link

http://cdn.fastclick.net/fastclick.net/cid53723/media105616.gif

― bohren un der club of gear, Wednesday, 30 August 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Well. that was good for about five minutes. Is it just the search function that knackers it, or does random, viewing expanded categories etc do it as well?

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Opening the categories page is another big hit, but by far the worst culprit is doing a search.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Can we stick something on the new answers pages of ILX telling people to cool it with the search function?

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link

(when I say "we" I mean "someone that isn't me", obviously. Sorry.)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link

i can't understand why anyone bothers with the ILX search anyway. it's a heap of spectacular shit. ever since i realised google can search the thing, that's the method i've used.

the real ILX has just popped back up while i type. new answers has even less on it than it did last time i looked.

the whole thing is fucked, and is obviously going to remain so until someone posts something sensible on every new answers page saying: YO ILX0RS, DON'T USE THE FUCKING SEARCH, or similar.

at the moment it's something of a clusterfuck and i haven't really got time to worry about it.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, now there are no new answers at all again on the new answers page. Give it two minutes before everyone starts searching for stuff and it all goes tits up again...

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Results 1 - 10 of about 87 from ilx.wh3rd.net for "tits up". (0.11 seconds)

Google pwns poxy search.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Um, aren't a lot of threads deindexed?

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Hm, I thought I had posted something about using Thread Titles and Login Names in searches.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 00:35 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.geocities.com/alcus2/rickynelson4.jpg
Poor little fule, oh yeah

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Didn't I see a "ILX is down for maintenance" about two hours ago? Now it's all fuled poxily again.

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 31 August 2006 05:02 (eighteen years ago) link

is here working then other than the lack of the historical posts then? or is it still a gentle fledgling?

― secondhandnews, Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Here works just about as well as real ILX, fwiw

― stet (stet), Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link

here works substantially better :)

― grimly fiendish (simon), Thursday, 31 August 2006 11:14 (eighteen years ago) link

How much can the database deal with though? We can't all migrate here can we?

― beanz-ii (beanz), Thursday, 31 August 2006 11:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Not as permanent move, absolutely not. It'll work fine in the short-term though while the real database is repaired.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 31 August 2006 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Um, aren't a lot of threads deindexed?

Searching 90% of ilx is better than killing it.

One thing I noticed is that wh3rd.net give more google results than p3r.net - I was concerned that maybe deindexing threads wasn't working properly for both domains and asked a question about it on the Mod request forum. No-one answered.

compare:
Results 1 - 10 of about 187 from ilx.wh3rd.net for "tits up". (0.24 seconds)

Results 1 - 10 of about 42 from ilx.p3r.net for "tits up". (0.26 seconds)

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 31 August 2006 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Searching 90% of ilx is better than killing has killed it. :(

― grimly fiendish (simon), Thursday, 31 August 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I meant searching 90% using google and only using the ilx search if you have a desperate crushing need to find a deindexed thread and think the search engine will actually work. I find clicking "random" for a week is more efficient.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Stet, has *anyone* answered to Andrew's message on the Google Code group yet?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Unless someone's replied to him privately, it doesn't look like it.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I wish could've replied but my coding skills are not mighty enough to save ilX

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Stet, Pash, check your mail. (I am not offering a solution to the current problem, but this is a related issue.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Not that I'm aware of. I've been asking around to see if there's anyone with the appropriate skills. I think a lot of us could and would volunteer to have a pop, but I fear we really need a proper DBA with experience of large (4gb+) databases. Does anyone know of any ilxors who sound like that?

― stet (stet), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmm. I don't know what the question is, but I've worked with 70GB+ databases before (on SQL Server 2000). I'm not really a DBA though, more application development, so I dunno if I could help.

What's the problem?

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Me too.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know the specific problem, only that the DB isn't behaving itself. There are problems with the code's scaling, but they're long term and not likely to be the source of this outage.

Currently the DB (MySQL on Linux) is in itself apparently broken -- from the outside it appears it is not responding correctly to updates, inserts or selects.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

It does suddenly occur to me that MySQL ships with a 4gb limit. I'm sure that must have been raised at some point in the past, however, but the DB is about 4gb as it stands.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link

There's a 4gb limit on table size in MySQL, but not on the db itself.

― jaq (jaq), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I know absolutely fuck all about MySQL, sorry.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link

MySQL hasn't had that limit since v3.22. Might be a problem with Linux file size limit?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/table-size.html

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.cinematical.com/images/2005/11/johnnyrotten.jpg
Ever get the feeling you've been poxy fuled?

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

This is no fun.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 31 August 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link

The worst part is that I still can't be bothered to get any work done.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 31 August 2006 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha ha ha me neither. Terrible. I keep looking at other fora, but they are mostly terrible.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 31 August 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.american-buddha.com/joey2xa1.jpg
Hanging out on ILX nu
Eating chicken vindaloo

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Thursday, 31 August 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I'm trying to sneak through today so I can say I actually took the whole month of August off.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 31 August 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm actually crunching through some work -- means I can relax this weekend. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 August 2006 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I am drinking tea, and avoiding Real Work by planning Christmas gifts for people. Yes, it's still only Auugust, I know.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 31 August 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I've been working on xmas gifts for a couple of months now!

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 31 August 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Please tell me you're kidding

― beanz-ii (beanz), Thursday, 31 August 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link

No, my mom does similar. She says it helps her beat the rush.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 August 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you mean buying/making them or just mentally noting what might be good gifts? This is the sort of organisation I can only aspire towards aspiring towards

― beanz-ii (beanz), Thursday, 31 August 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Mrs. RH mail-orders all year "for christmas," gives the gifts as soon as they arrive, then buys more when it's actually christmas. She's going to fucking ruin me.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 31 August 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Might be a problem with Linux file size limit?

It's unlikely - the main file size problem hits at 2G, and I'd have thought that if ILX is approaching 4G the largest table would already have passed the 2G point.

In any case, few systems still have the 2G limit.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you mean buying/making them or just mentally noting what might be good gifts? This is the sort of organisation I can only aspire towards aspiring towards

Making them. knit knit.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 31 August 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

hi everyone i just found this. whew!

― mitya (mitya), Thursday, 31 August 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I DECREE THIS IN A PUBLIC FORUM SUCH THAT I WILL MAKE GOOD ON IT:

This year, I will FINISH and actually GIVE the Xmas CD I have dedicated the last weeks before Xmas to for the past 2 years to recording. The "won't get mad at christmas" song. The lo-fi disco "joy to the world". The soft pretty one that will probably make my mom cry. Etc. SEE, I'M NOT A TOTAL FAILURE. MERRY XMAS, MOMS.

― nklshs (nklshs), Thursday, 31 August 2006 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link

the last weeks to for recording to for the for to

UGH where did my sentence-making skills go

― nklshs (nklshs), Thursday, 31 August 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Currently the DB (MySQL on Linux) is in itself apparently broken -- from the outside it appears it is not responding correctly to updates, inserts or selects.

Has something happened to the permissions for the database user? Is there a size limit on the share where the db is?

I am in awe of people using this time to make xmas gifts! I've just been filling time with more cups of tea.

― jaq (jaq), Thursday, 31 August 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link

It looks as if some checks that were run yesterday (which should have been completely safe) sent it haywire. Then the searches to refill New Answers compounded things.

Just now best opinion is that it won't work until somebody with server access restarts the DB server.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 31 August 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Damn, I just got poxyfuled here at the Sandbox!

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 31 August 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link

O RLY? Hoo shit.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 31 August 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Very briefly. I hit Refresh immediately and the page came up that time, no delay.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 31 August 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link

guys, regular ILX is working now

― OTMBOT (OTMBOT), Thursday, 31 August 2006 23:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Not for me it isnt, Ive been trying it for about half an hour now and it just wont load up - so its still at least slow (for me anyway).

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 31 August 2006 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link

NOTOTMBOT

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 1 September 2006 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Not letting me in either :(

― Zora Zora, Friday, 1 September 2006 06:14 (eighteen years ago) link

has anyone been poxy fuled on thehold yet?

― ken c, Friday, 1 September 2006 09:59 (eighteen years ago) link

This is like being in the secret house in Big Brother

― Samuel K.B. Amphong (Dada), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Damn, I just got poxyfuled here at the Sandbox!

-- I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (crumpw@bellsouth.net) (webmail), August 31st, 2006 9:25 PM. (Rock Hardy) (later)

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:02 (eighteen years ago) link

oops, no email address filter.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:02 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...
I just got poxy-fuled but it didn't say turn back you poxy fule. this feels odd, somehow.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

:(

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

"Board database failure" seems a bit final, somehow.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah "board database failure" doesn't sound good. :(

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah well, I've been sent a Borders voucher that appears to be multi-printable and emailable to all your chums. Enjoy!

http://f.chtah.com/i/48/449524318/voucher_oct02.htm

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

uh oh

― Kali Pachanguero (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link

time change fulage?

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Sunday, 29 October 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Dang your eyes, you beat me here by 2 seconds!

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 29 October 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Not poxying, just timing out.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 29 October 2006 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Times me out too. /cry

― Zora (Zora), Sunday, 29 October 2006 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

i think something broke

― joy & joy (jergins), Sunday, 31 January 2016 01:30 (eight years ago) link

yup

― sleeve sandbox, Sunday, 31 January 2016 01:34 (eight years ago) link

that was a quick fix

― sleeve sandbox, Sunday, 31 January 2016 03:35 (eight years ago) link


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