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(...) How about breaking down the member pages into pages split by first letter of first or last name, and by country/state? I'm not sure if your "caching" means keeping the indexes by each sort but it would seem this need not be true dynamic (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Excessive Cross Posting
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Todd, Is there some way to shut down the excessive cross posting which has been occurring lately? I'm beginning to feel that Lugnet might be better off if no cross posting was allowed, though I can see some reason for limited cross posting. Some (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: posting weirdness
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(...) It's actually infinitely worse than that. The NFA it produced actually had exponential performance, so it would try to do it 2^80 (2 raised to the 80th power) times, which would take about 302,200,000,000,000,000 seconds or about ten thousand (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: posting weirdness
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(...) yah, that's what it looks like to me. Since it would match any newline, and start adding up the whitespace until it found the beginning of a new paragraph. it'll backtrack to the next blank line, try again, and fail once more.... if you have (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Certain bottlenecks are indeed standing out like sore thumbs. One big one is the dynamic generation of the /shop/ pages on guide.lugnet.com, and another is the dynamic generation of member-specific set lists. An even bigger one is (was) the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: posting weirdness
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(...) Was, ya. (...) I was using a regex involving \n\s* which compiled into a nondeterministic finite-state automata in Perl 5.004 and 5.005. Perl 5.6 is smart enough to compile it into a deterministic finite-state automata (essentially realising (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) No prob. I posted what I wanted to post without the spoiler. Something *is* broken, then? (...) About a screen and a half worth. Haven't people done spoilers lately??? (...) ++Lar (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK, please try again now! (...) Whew! Thank you so much for finding and reporting this! I'm not sure yet[1] if this was a stupidly written regex on my part or bona fide bug in perl's[2] regex engine. Either way, the post you submitted caused (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function temporarily disabled
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(...) I've had nothing but problems with www.hort.net/gallery/, which is all dynamically generated. Every month at about the same time we disappear entirely out of Google's search engine, which they claim is due to updates. Although it usually only (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: posting weirdness
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(...) No, nothing has changed in the web interface for posting since November 3. The good news here is that I see several HTTP processes each trying to use 100% of the CPU -- and collectiving using up several minutes of CPU. They seem to be hung. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function temporarily disabled
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(...) That's an intriguing thought. It looks like it requires Google to be able to crawl a site completely, though. I wonder if they play well with dynamically generated content... (...) Yes, it is. --Todd (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: posting weirdness
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(...) Whoa -- stop posting that. Something about it is chewing up tons and tons of CPU. How many whitespace lines are you putting in? I wonder if there is a regex speed issue. --Todd (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: News search function temporarily disabled
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(...) Hi Todd, Did you ever consider a google search box? Like this one: www.sis.pitt.edu/~dist I don't know for sure, but I think that the search is done on google's server. Toki (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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has something changed to disallow lots of blank lines (ala spoiler prevention)? I have tried to post something that has a lot of white space several times now, and the server just times out. Another post at the same time without white space goes (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Elemental Challenge
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(...) Steve: Never mind on trying to repeat it -- I see the occurrence in the HTTP logs about 3 minutes before you posted the question about it. Your browser (apparently MSIE 5.01 for Win98) doesn't appear to be sending the referring page URL (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Strange Duplicate Messages.
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(...) Well, the good news is that, as far as I can tell, there's nothing wrong with the news server. The bad news is that, apparently, your web browser actually did submit the post three times. According to HTTP form the logs, the timestamps of the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Web site font to small to read
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Bingo! That was it. Thank you! I must have accidentally discovered this feature. You know I looked all over the various IE preferences and all I found was a place where I could change the default font. I never found a way that change default size. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Elemental Challenge
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(...) exact time that it happened? I can check the logs and see what your browser is passing. Are you running a beta browser or did you do anything unusual like reload or set up an HTTP proxy? --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Elemental Challenge
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Todd, When I clicked on the set-image (to get the enlarged view) for URL below, I got the frowny-face "Direct Image Link Not Supported". What's up with that? Steve (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New film link list needed
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(...) I think there should be some site(s) where LEGO Movie makers can submit a link to their movie with a brief write up and maybe a still frame of the movie. I envision this as something like the films section at theforce.net with the movies (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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