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zendevil Posted Feb 15, 2006
Post early for Christmas!
zdt*"Anyone spotted my EYe thread wandering around?
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Jim Lynn Posted Feb 15, 2006
"So, took 2 hours from 7 till 9 to put this update onto the servers and it's now going to take DAYS to rectify????"
Well yes, possibly. It doesn't take long to apply a software update, but that update is the end result of months of work. Any changes we now make have to be written and tested before they can go live. Hence it could easily take a few days before we're happy to release a change to live.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Feb 15, 2006
Couldn't you restore the previous version in the interim?
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Jim Lynn Posted Feb 15, 2006
No because restoring the previous version requires the same amount of testing as doing a different fix. The problem comes because we'd be switching back to immediate update, but the queue is still running, so immediate updates would keep getting overwritten by the queue processing.
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SEF Posted Feb 15, 2006
> "Any changes we now make have to be written and tested before they can go live."
So what went wrong with the previous testing you should have done but which failed to spot that things were so badly broken?
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You can call me TC Posted Feb 15, 2006
I assume the extracted post there is by someone on pre-mod - it's only a minute old.
I would like to congratulate Jim on his patience with us all.
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RFJS__ - trying to write an unreadable book, finding proofreading tricky Posted Feb 15, 2006
I feel like digging up the 'Neighbouring threads with surreal connections' thread. My P.S. currently shows:
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zendevil Posted Feb 15, 2006
Which continent are you in?
I'll get me coat
But must say that right now here in frogland hootoo is running faster & better than ever before so
& give that ham(p)ster some exrta sunflower seeds.
zdt
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Feb 16, 2006
Oh. Apparently I now don't *have* any conversations.
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kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 Posted Feb 16, 2006
Oooh, did you guys just do something? My Convo's window is looking spookily accurate...
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Trin Tragula Posted Feb 16, 2006
Yeah, I just got that. It fixes itself in a bit though 
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Jim Lynn Posted Feb 16, 2006
606 has temporarily closed, so the processing of conversation lists is now fast enough to cope with the load.
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kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 Posted Feb 16, 2006
Zooooooooooom
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Feb 16, 2006
Ah, 606 is closed - I already wondered how you managed to fix it that fast 
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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Feb 16, 2006
Consistent - how very interesting - I'm wondering how I got here after reading all the backlog
ah yes, a link in the ACE forum..
So..what have I missed? Dare I load my PS?
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- 21: zendevil (Feb 15, 2006)
- 22: Jim Lynn (Feb 15, 2006)
- 23: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Feb 15, 2006)
- 24: Jim Lynn (Feb 15, 2006)
- 25: SEF (Feb 15, 2006)
- 26: You can call me TC (Feb 15, 2006)
- 27: RFJS__ - trying to write an unreadable book, finding proofreading tricky (Feb 15, 2006)
- 28: Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) (Feb 15, 2006)
- 29: Trin Tragula (Feb 15, 2006)
- 30: aka Bel - A87832164 (Feb 15, 2006)
- 31: Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) (Feb 15, 2006)
- 32: Zak T Duck (Feb 15, 2006)
- 33: zendevil (Feb 15, 2006)
- 34: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Feb 16, 2006)
- 35: kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 (Feb 16, 2006)
- 36: Trin Tragula (Feb 16, 2006)
- 37: Jim Lynn (Feb 16, 2006)
- 38: kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 (Feb 16, 2006)
- 39: aka Bel - A87832164 (Feb 16, 2006)
- 40: Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor (Feb 16, 2006)
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