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| 2003-07-12 |
| We lost about a week's worth... I'll be restoring them by hand. There's a lot of comments in a week. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #12 Please leave all my mispellings as OEM. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2003-7-12 12:16:52 PM |
| #11 Welcome back. When the freaks start coming after you, you know you're doing something right. I hope that's not considered "mean spirited" by the loser bastards. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-7-12 10:51:26 AM |
| #10 I don't know how the church website got there. Yesterday's problem was due to my having thumb fingers. I went to take a comment associated with one article and connect it to another, with a view to combining the two. I went to type "WHERE ID = 16387" and as I reached for the "=" key with finger number four, finger number five hit the Enter key. The database then associated all the comments ever made (a bit over 30,000 of them) with a single article. Then the CPU usage went to 100 percent and stayed there. |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-7-12 10:48:06 AM |
| #9 Fred: Was the site under attack yesterday? For some time I was diverted to a church website? |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2003-7-12 10:29:09 AM |
| #8 Rafael - You're not the record holder. I did the comments system as now constituted in April, 2002. Anonymous, browsing December 14th, 2001, left the comment that I'm a liar. That was in response to my annotation re Pakland that "These guys just have no originality at all. Sure is a coincidence that countries on either side of them are plagued by terrorist attacks and lunatic gunmen." I'm not sure which part of that statement is false -- that the Pak gunnies lack originality or that countries on either side of them are plagued by terrorists. Mabybe Mike in Tokyo (a curse on his moustache!) knows... |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-7-12 10:16:37 AM |
| #7 FRED: Don't waste your precious time restoring last weeks comments!!!! We need you to keep the site running well and not be too tired. They weren't THAT amazing, and there's 51 other weeks in the year!!! |
| Posted by: Anon1 2003-7-12 5:31:19 AM |
| #6 Fred- If I knew the table names / field names etc. I'd be happy to try to whip up some ASP to help - mebbe automate the process, if possible? Been doin' it for last 7+ yrs. All I have is a 3 yr old laptop to work with, now, but I'm running Win2K Server on it and can use Access and ASP to prototype something. Rafael - I never know if people look back to see if they got a response on a thread that has fallen off the front page. Since I'm in Thailand (GMT+7) I'm waaay off-track on time (EDT = -11 hrs) - so it gets a little schizophrenic. |
| Posted by: PD 2003-7-12 3:51:58 AM |
| #5 I'll share a pathetic story with you that involves comments: Back when I discovered Rantburg circa Dec. 2002, I once commented on an article and discussion which was a month old and I didn't even realize it 'till later. Brilliant, but hey, atleast I had the last word. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2003-7-12 3:40:01 AM |
| #4 By hand? What, like punching cards? |
| Posted by: Pete Stanley 2003-7-12 3:39:48 AM |
| #3 Huh? You mean you KEEP the comments? Oh shit... er, I mean, uh, Oh my! |
| Posted by: PD 2003-7-12 3:28:20 AM |
| #2 I think some of mine are better left lost :) |
| Posted by: Rafael 2003-7-12 3:16:52 AM |
| #1 At least, I think they work... |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-7-12 2:26:41 AM |