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A question, Admin.


Have all the "packages" now been "upgraded"? I note that, back in November, you had "only upgraded 120 of the packages", thus implying that many more required upgrade. I guess what I am really trying to say here is, is this it now (for a while at least)?

  • 5 months later...

From the placeholder text it sounded like the database was being cleared down of messages in some arbitrary fashion. Cue lots of people complaining that the offer they put up of an old CRT telly for sale in 2007 has dissappeared.


I take it there's an MySql db in the backend? It's pretty scaleable these days and should be able to handle pretty large amounts of data.

Is there some some indexing or partitioning that could be done to help speed things up without the need for these periodic cleardowns?

I think 'placeholder text' was referring to the polite notice from admin informing us about the work being done on the forum (which appeared when you tried to access the forum earlier in a frantic forum addict like manner) :))


I wouldn't worry about what a backend is. Probably a thing to make the forum go faster. Like stripes or something.

placeholder, the page that was there while the forum was down.


MySQl is a very good, free database, consequently it's practically ubiquitous as the means for data storage for web applications.

All our messages and PMs we type are saved in a database once we've pressed submit, as is our profile information and lots and lots of metadata (has this post been replied to, has it been hidden etc) to allow the forum (in this case phorum) software to do its job.


There are other ways of storing data such as text files, flat files, but they are pretty cumbersome, slow and security prone compared to the humble relational database, a fifty year old concept that noone has managed to improve upon in any significant way.


I could go on, but it's very boring.

Awww, you are very sweet MP and Lady Kat...


Alas, your efforts are wasted...and you are right, MP, it IS very boring!:)) But thank you very much for taking the trouble.


Erm...Lady Kat..."stripes"? (And NO, please do not attempt to explain...LOL!!!)




*pea brain enters temporary meltdown mode*

The forum wasn't down for everyone.


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Ooh, a Terence Malick film, cool. Will definitely check it out. I don't think he's ever put a foot wrong personally (though averaging a film a decade, there'e not a huge canon to be fair). His fil

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13/07/2011 10:47mockney piers9. Re: University Degree - advice appreciated

Worth a try. Where I went, in this situation of it being such a near thing, you could be granted a viva , or spoken examination, and an external expert would judge how good ones grasp of the subject w

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> 13/07/2011 10:56mockney piers8. Re: EDF Cinema



Good spotting CB.


My pride has been wounded like never before.



(Respect to that bleedin Mockney though).

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