Sorry if emailing our benefactor is a no-no. It's done.

I wrote:

Just one question: Are you planning to "beef up your server" before or after 1-1-2000?

He replied:

Prompted by your email, I just modified the software to make slightly more efficient use of the current server.

Frankly I'm ill-disposed to invest in a $1 million computer merely to host the Y2K forum. I'm not really convinced that there is very much interesting to discuss! Computers and software aren't very reliable...

Philip

I don't doubt the man's word. Guess this is more efficient use tonight.

Guess there won't be any "beefing up". Guess I'm the goat.

Guess I'll go read a book now.

Flame if you must this old gray head.

-- Scat (sgcatique@webtv.net), September 21, 1999

Answers

Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.

-- Guinevere (formerly@Camelot.org), September 21, 1999.

Scat, were you getting the busy server trying to get in to the forum, or exiting from threads? Also, when you get the busy server message trying to get in the forum, how long do you wait to hit the refresh button?

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), September 21, 1999.

Phil seems more social, usually he tells you to read his book :o)

Gayla

Last Saturday night I had to wait for minutes to get on (the forum), and that is with cable!

-- Brian (imager@home.com), September 21, 1999.

It's "gratis." That about says it all, Scat.

But wow! You got three whole sentences from Phil, and he DIDN'T tell you to read the book! Amazable.

;-D

Diane

(He's a great guy, but doesn't think much of Y2K).

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), September 22, 1999.

I just modified the software to make slightly more efficient use of the current server.

Well, I guess that explains the mysterious disappearence of the graphics.

-- Deborah (infowars@yahoo.com), September 22, 1999.

That's interesting.

What better way to test server and software than under heavy traffic volume? And $1 million dollars for a computer? Wow, who's the sales rep, Doctor Evil? : )

Mike

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-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), September 22, 1999.

I noticed that the "recent answers" page isn't being updated as often. It seems to take about 5-10 posts before it's updated. It does seem a little better, but still mucho busys. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), September 22, 1999.

If you are persistent and never give up the ghost, you will get on to the best forum around. I pretend that I am dialing into a radio show contest, and the fifth caller wins.....the only thing I win is to become a contributor or lurker...it's worth the wait!

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), September 22, 1999.

Hi all,

I came back to see if I'd been banished. Not yet.

Gayla, I get Busy's trying to get in, trying to go to a chosen thread, trying to go back, you name it - probably the same as everyone else. I hit Refresh in a nanosecond & keep hitting it until either I get in or my Webtv gets really nasty with me. Does calm work better?

Bardou, it's worth it. That's why I never give up,

never give up,

never give up

that ship.

-- Scat (sgcatique@webtv.net), September 22, 1999.

This is a great free service. I hope it continues.

-- Anonymous99 (Anonymous99@Anonymous99.xxx), September 22, 1999.

I for one wish to thank Mr. Greenspun for his hospitality, and generosity of letting this fourm exist. I wonder at times if we need the email feature as most email names are made up and just plug up the server. But this is Mr. Greenspuns house, and what a nice house it is!

Thank you for hosting this roudy bunch of ingrates!!!!

Tip of the fadora to you!!!

-- helium (heliumavid@yahoo.com), September 22, 1999.

"I'm not really convinced that there is very much interesting to discuss!"
BBWWAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Sheer volume belies *that* phallacy.

Nope, the collapse of everything we take for granted is boring, drop of dullery in the bucket. Kicking the bucket under dire circumstances just doesn't interest me. Yawn, zzzzzzzzzz. Computers screw up all the time anyway, so what's new? Even Greedspin has taken this approach.

And that's why, folks, the curtain's about to fall. But we have 100 days of comfy denial left, so eat, drink and be merry, and give no thought or discussion to long-term well-being!

The real Doomers are those who do not want to consider their fate.

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), September 22, 1999.

200,000 answers indicates a lot of somebosies want to talk about a lot of somethings ....

Still wish he had a spell-checker.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), September 22, 1999.

If I may suggest an alternative to sitting there punching that reload button again, and again, and again...been there, done that...pop on over to the preps forum and add your two or three cents or take a moment to visit the Humpty Dumpty forum, lots of great thoughts and ideas presented there.

Prep Forum

Humpty Dumpty

-- Lilly (homesteader145@yahoo.com), September 22, 1999.

Weird. I use this forum early morning, mid-day, evenings until about 9:00 - live on West Coast USA. Rarely, perhaps only once a week do I get Server Too Busy.

In one way I agree with Greenspun, there isn't a lot of y2k stuff being discussed - and I'm sure _he didn't mean it this way, but what is there left to discuss?

This forum is an excellent chat room. Cutting edge news, some even with y2k content. And when y2k content comes by we are sure to get a good assortment of views, more than enough to validate _whatever y2k view we may hold. As someone wrote re csy2k, come for the signal stay for the noise.

-- Mitchell Barnes (spanda@inreach.com), September 22, 1999.

Hi Scat! Once you get into the forum, don't use your left mouse button to access threads. Click on the thread with your RIGHT mouse button, then select "Open in a New Window." Click on the "maximize" button so it will fill the whole screen. After you read the thread, close it by clicking on the X at the top right of your screen. You can then go on to the next thread without getting knocked off the forum. I hope this helps. :-)

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), September 22, 1999.

Thanks Gayla - that info will help. I have also found that I can get thru to the forum by going to Ed's page and clicking on the 'forum' link from there. Don't know if it is just the timing or what, but I can often get thru there when I can't get thru on my regular link.

-- Valkyrie (anon@please.net), September 22, 1999.

Ashton & Leska:

I believe the word you meant was fallacy. A phallacy is, uh, something completely different.

-- Pearlie Sweetcake (storestuff@home.now), September 22, 1999.

Hi Gayla -

Nope, won't help me. As I mentioned, I'm on Webtv, an entirely different beast. There is no right or left clicking as there is no mouse, this is not a computer (thank god), there are no windows - I know how to deal with them at work in Microsuck but don't have to at home.

I get immediate action with simple little ditties like Go, Return & Back. I have the forum saved in folders for 2 users (both me), back door shortcuts from saved threads, and on a Fkey for straight-to access, big & easy to read on my TVscreen. So when everything fails at once I'm chewing nails. But when it doesn't.....

Come to think of it, I shouldn't have complained!

-- Scat (sgcatique@webtv.net), September 22, 1999.

Nope, Pearlie: that, like all our 'misspellings,' is intentional.
When Philip phlails such a fallacy it's a phallacy ;^)

Or possibly a -- um, well, better not type it, censor-bait! LOL

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), September 22, 1999.

Million dollars...that's 'cause Phil buys multi-processor Unix servers with mirrored disks and Oracle licenses.

-- Shimrod (shimrod@lycosmail.com), September 23, 1999.

"big & easy to read on my TVscreen."

I'm on TV!!! Hi mom!! :-D

-- Chris (#$%^&@pond.com), September 23, 1999.

Lilly makes sense. So I'll just repeat what she writes:

If I may suggest an alternative to sitting there punching that reload button again, and again, and again...been there, done that...pop on over to the preps forum and add your two or three cents or take a moment to visit the Humpty Dumpty forum, lots of great thoughts and ideas presented there.

Addition: Once you get to either one, bookmark them so you can keep going back to them.

Prep Forum
http://www.greenspu n.com/bboard/q-and-a-new-answers.tcl?topic=TimeBomb%202000%20%28Y2000% 29%20Preparation%20Forum

Humpty Dumpty
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-new-answers.tcl ?topic=HumptyDumptyY2K

 

-- Stan Faryna (info@giglobal.com), September 23, 1999.

Chris,

Yup, you're on Web-TV, and DirecTV, well kinda, actually DirecPC but it's the same dish... <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), September 23, 1999.