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What the hell.

I'll post a more verbose explanation of this shortly.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 20 December 2004 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Rad!

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

hi guys.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Crikeys.

― Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

First and last time ILM will be on the inactive list.

― Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

So all that stuff we posted in the intervening 17 days is lost on the other side of closed-off wormhole?

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

17 Days Later ...

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

So all that stuff we posted in the intervening 17 days is lost on the other side of closed-off wormhole?

Yep. The database became corrupted because of disk errors, and this was the earliest functioning backup. (brought on by dodgy software raid, which I've since dropped)

You should find the server is a lot more responsive now. I also have a scheme hatching to speed things up further, and nullify the performance hit that operations like searches can cause.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.moggies.co.uk/breeds/persian.jpg

― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

At the moment things seem rather slow... any probs?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.hellschancecantina.com/aaaaaaaaagh_.jpg

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

man now I forgot all those threads were that I so desperately wanted to revive.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

so, like, the 'ILX back to mine' thread no longer exists? at all? can't be reconstituted? man, there were a lotta things i still wanted to download from those lists...

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry :(

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

(anybody save it then?)

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

no apologies andrew!! without you there'd be.. like.. nothing.

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

this makes me sad for my ocean's 12 thread, which NEVER EVEN GOT A CHANCE

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

It was fate.

― papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

What's up spankers?

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

So the thread where we wrote a script where Andrew had disappeared, Caligula-like, into a world of mirrors, ordering room service and making pornos... that's gone?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I think Jean Cocteau and Saul Bass are filming it in hell as we speak.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Saul Bass, Tinto Brass...whatevah...

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

So the thread where we wrote a script where Andrew had disappeared, Caligula-like, into a world of mirrors, ordering room service and making pornos... that's gone?

Are you serious? FUCK

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

we'll never be able to fly with inspiration like that again. It CANNOT be recreated. It made the 'Ralf Hutter's Blind Date' screenplay look like a walk in the park.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just bewildered because I really was making pornos... uh.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

In a room full of mirrors?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

And you're not sharing? Punk.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, colin...i think i have a copy saved in gmail ;)

― bulbs (bulbs), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

In the downtime, I have learned that the rest of the internet isn't very interesting, except for all the parts with naked girls.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I have discovered how much fun it is to pretend to be a female on forum sites.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

And be naked? And did Kyle contact you?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know, is he a furry?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Your agonizer, Mister Kyle!

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

kyle, did you meet a woman called Princess Woof? If so, I'm sorry.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

you BITCH

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't you raise your hackles at me, mister.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

LOOK! ZU ZU'S PETALS! OH, BERT, IT'S SO GREAT TO SEE YA!

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

AND YOU WANTED A HEART, AND YOU WANTED A BRAIN...!

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan got the last word in on the Elektra costume discussion! I never got to retort!

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

how many days did they lose when the calenders changed from julian(?) to gregorian(?). it's like that only more (or maybe less).

props to andrew for ONLY losing 17 days 8)

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

the boards seem a bit slow loading

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, especially the new answers pages. also clicking on the ile/ilm in the top right corner doesn't work for me...

(steve, have you got a thread about your end of year mix somewhere?!)

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.base58.com/ultra

― bulbs (bulbs), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

clicking on the ile/ilm in the top right corner doesn't work for me...

This has now been fixed. It was a bug introduced earlier today somehow after I added some unrelated optimisations.

the boards seem a bit slow loading ... especially the new answers pages.

This is an interesting issue, and something I will be looking into soon.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The loading seems fine to me...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so relieved that the nightclub ejaculation story will now never be archived.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The big performance bonus we should see is that searching should no longer bog down normal browsing/posting activities. Even the most ridiculous search requests shouldn't affect other users of the site (unless they too are performing ridiculous searches).

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

(steve - is there an ilm thread, though? there should be. i've just got to the stefani/toxic bit and it's total genius.)

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't log in :(

I changed my email address sometime in the dody period, I guess. Now it's telling me that my name and (the new) email are in use by a registered user, but won't accept my old password or send me a new one.

― Archel having login trouble, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe i'll start a thread for end-of-year mix CDs there then

xpost

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Posting is slow, though...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Also new registrations not being accepted, it seems.

(Not to bug on my own account, just to let you know.)

― Archel having login trouble, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks for fixing stuff, Andrew.

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

17 DAYS IS NOT ENOUGH.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 21 December 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha - "zuzu's petals". otm pleasant plains. god i love that fucking movie.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I like to think of the 17 days not as downtime for ILX but UPTIME FOR LIFE! YEAH!

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

crikey its going really slow right now and half the time it doesn't even want to connect me to threads.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, this really is a Slow Train Coming. Andrew, I hate to get up in your business and I know you are still working on things but this thing seems to be thrashing -are you sure it's tuned properly? Maybe you need to increase some cache size or add some swap space?

On the other hand, maybe the whole net is slow because of last minute on-line Xmas shopping and that is what is getting us.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

This is posted to say, not to complain (obv)..

A question I replied to on ILM still says "unanswered" in the New Answers page (The Ghostface killer one).

Posting a new answer takes ages.

The pages/threads load seems quite normal for quickness, for me anyway.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

same here. i got my first "Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /home/ilx/dev/stable/boardfunctions.php on line 125" just now, too.

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Right..

I post an answer, click the Submit button. It takes ages, I go back page to the "New" page and refresh. The new answer is added, but other updates (i.e. to the New Ans page) haven't been done. So, the New Ans page is out of step. Something like that?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm... things are taking quite a while to move along.
I recommend some bran for the server - it clearly isn't getting enough fiber!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The pages/threads load seems quite normal for quickness, for me anyway.
Not for me. Anecdotal evidence seems to suggest that loading old threads with no new content is pretty fast, while loading new threads or threads with new content is lard-ass slow. Conclusion: the thing that stores/retrieves new and recent messages is fcuked, whether in software hardware or both. But nobody likes a user with a theory about what the computer is doing.

xpost:
New Ans page is out of step
My reverse engineering of this is that the New Answers page is created on the fly by doing some retrieval of all those new messages and is screwed up for the same reason as I mentioned in paragraph one. The famous archive trick uses a simpler algorithm, maybe a table lookup, so it works faster and cleaner, so long as that table is not corrupted.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm. Seems to have healed itself. Loaded a whole bunch of pictures really fast. Perhaps in classic AI fashion the system read my above comments and decided to prove me wrong.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

My only problem right now is that posts seem to submit REALLY slowly.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, i have impatiently reposted due to this. i am a fool.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I urge everyone to please be patient with their postings. If a page is taking a while to load, can you please wait. If the server is congested and you just throw another request at it, it's hardly going to help things.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I've disabled the "unread messages" feature for now, because that seemed to be causing a lot of the server load. Once I sort out why this is performing so badly I'll turn it back on.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, is that why the "later" function isn't working anymore?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

thing seem great now (apart from lack of 'unread msgs' indicator). the thread/new answers loading problem was crazy. cheers again andrew.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, good work, Andrew. Thanks!

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, that's made a huge difference. thanks!

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually found a thread just moments ago where Graham mentioned that he was going to look into caching the lastread feature... before he left, that is.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

My new emo band is calld 17 Days Down.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

You are really flying the flag, my man.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The debut album, Lost Threads, is about what is said once, but ultimately forgotten, not just by those who have heard, but by the one who has spoken.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I just hope you do a cover of "Every Kind of Music But Country" if you really want to stay true to your concept.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

don't think much of that cacophonic 'Sea Man' interlude tho

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

But Steve, you lobbied so hard for its inclusion! That's it, you're out of the band!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

finally i can go off and do my experimental IDM 'B Log' project free of contractual obligations

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Have fun rotting in your laptop ghetto!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Were you the two glitchmeisters I saw swapping secrets at TekServe that time?

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Have fun rotting in your laptop ghetto!

This is my new favorite sentence anywhere.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

This year ILM crashed on a weekend
Laptop Gheto Boys go Fripper-treating

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

more tracks from Lost Threads:

"I Love Everything (but Me)"
"(This is) The Dream of Dan and Ned"
"This is the Song Where I Say..."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

(I am so designing a cover for this).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Is anyone else having problems with their settings? Some of my New Answers options aren't working suddenly.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

You just got here, right, Barry? Read upthread. Andrew turned off the "unread" messages feature, which has several visible effects.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, sorry, I missed that because I couldn't remember which messages I'd read and which I hadn't, Catch 22, etc.

I'm so used to that feature!

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I take it you guys are joking, but shit, if nobody minds I might actually use the name "17 Days Downtime" for an idm concept album.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Have at it!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

How about "History Load Failed"?

― brianiad (briania), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Needs more emo!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I should note that this release of Spencer's would be the second album on the ILX label. Because this is the first:

http://ox.eicat.ca/~scarruthers/ilx/pisscutter-s.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew Wh3re : drummer
Don Utbitch : angular metal body guitar
Sean See : bassist, shouter

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, howabout:

Today is my Archive

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The Ballad Of Poxy Fewl

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I really miss the "later"/"unread" option, it made ILX so... manageable.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess you'll just have to manage that shit inside your brain for now, Tuomas. ;)

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh i used ILX for ages without the later thing so am quite happy to do without it if it means ILX can be as zippy as it currently is

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

.. and it is.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never used the later feature, so nyah.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Reset Password
ilXor.com
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Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail() in /home/ilx/dev/stable/passwordreset.php on line 116

― Archelll, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I've ticked the "mark unread" answers box twice and hit "save" in settings but it's not working - is this what Tuomas was talking about? I'm not sure I can keep up with it.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess you'll just have to manage that shit inside your brain for now, Tuomas. ;)

maybe we should shut down ilx altogether and talk to our imaginary friends in our head from now on.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean ilx is REAL?

― Archelll, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe we should shut down ilx altogether and talk to our imaginary friends in our head from now on.

Look, there are plenty of message boards which do not have the lastread feature, and I've personally never used said feature, so I'm sure we can manage for a little while.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I LOVE lastread. I can survive but my nights will be very cold and lonely without lastread.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my, I can't login, reset my password or create a new account. If I'm missing a notice about this problem, my apologies.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail() in /home/ilx/dev/stable/passwordreset.php on line 116

― Dale, Thursday, 23 December 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously, I'd rather have unreliable ILX than lose the last read feature. Yes, I know other messageboards don't have it, that's one of the reasons I don't read them.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Could we have an update/ETA on getting Unread Messages back? Pretty please?

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish instead of the web interface we can have an offline reader. i'd be willing to help creating this.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd rather it didn't come back at all if it's going to make ILX any slower than it currently is (i.e. NOT slow at all, hoo ray)

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

it's hard to tell though, traffic is much lower just now (possibly due to holiday seasons, possibly cos less people are using it cos that later thing isn't here)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd swap a 50% drop in speed for the return of last read and later.

(Ken's idea intrigues me)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

At first, I bitched about not having an unread feature. Now, I just want my identity back.

http://www.io.com/~jkweston/gif2/prisoner.jpg

― Pleasant/Plains, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Preface: Thank you for fixing the machine, Andrew!

Would it be an idea to have each thread on New Answers list the time the last post was added? That would do the same job as the red writing, as far as my reading habits go.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

????

That's always shown up on my screen, even during THE RECENT UNPLEASANTNESS.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Would it be an idea to have each thread on New Answers list the time the last post was added?

you can do this in Settings

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Make that THE ONGOING UNPLEASANTNESS.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus, you guys can be unpleasant sometimes.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 30 December 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Update: I R FULE, continue as you were.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 31 December 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear ILX,

HI DERE!

I remain,

― Unpleasant Sometimes (Rock Hardy), Friday, 31 December 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

LASTREAD I KISS YOU

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

it returneth!

When I noticed the "Unread messages" heading had returned to thread.php a few days ago, I was wondering if the functionality would be coming back to New Answers before long. Hurrah!

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

http://ilx.p3r.net/archive.php?board=1&date=20%2F12%2F04

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 6 May 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

what is the point of that???? I am confused!!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 6 May 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Just showing the hole in the archive where the downtime was.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 6 May 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

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