The Forum's having some work done on it...

[Ladymuck]

Well, that wasn't too long. Had just enough time to finish my ironing! Thanks Admin.

[Administrator]

Pleasure to be of assistance Ladymuck.

[Ladymuck]

Awww...

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)?

[SeanMacGabhann]

I'm pretty sure there will be no more upgrades for the next few weeks at least

[Ladymuck]

Why didn't you tell me before I went away? I could have planned my holidays around the upgrades!!!:))

[Laddy Muck]

"This forum is currently disabled. This is a temporary situation. Please check back later."

His Laddyship was not amused earlier!

But forum does seem faster - so, thanks, Admin.(tu)

[Laddy Muck]

PS: what did you do - exactly - to make it speedier?

[mockney piers]

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?

[Laddy Muck]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> From the placeholder text...

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> I take it there's an MySql db in the backend?

Anyone out there who could translate into English (for the thick)?:-S

[katie1997]

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.

[mockney piers]

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.

[Laddy Muck]

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*

[Sue]

Seems much faster now - thanks for the hard work this morning :)

[Chener Books]

The forum wasn't down for everyone.

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

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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[Alan Medic]

A backend must be an arse I suppose and go faster stripes are what allows zebras to run faster than horses (I suppose).

[Laddy Muck]

Chener Books Wrote:

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> The forum wasn't down for everyone.

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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).

[popovtheghoster]

Wow Mockney in backdoor action shocker ! You go girl.

[Laddy Muck]

popovtheghoster Wrote:

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> You go

> girl.

Girl? Hmmmmmm....interesting...