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Old 06-November-2007, 09:02 PM
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The BAUT Forum is extremely slow today, been getting worse over the last hour or two.

It's so slow, I didn't want to wait 10 minutes for search results to see if there's another "slow" topic going.

What's up? Another slashdotting? The BA Blog: 55 Cancri 5-planet system? Some other hot news? Or is something just hosed?

I see Universe Today is not responding except for:

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Do you want to save this file or find a program online to open it?

Filename: universetoday_com
Type: Unknown file type
From: www.universetoday.com
Time to hit submit... and go out for lunch.

Edit: I fixed it! No. I don't know. It took a few minutes to submit this article, but suddenly everything is pretty responsive.

Edit: If it could help... I tried downloading that file offered up by UT, and it appears just to be the .gz-compressed version of the UT home page. Something's not decompressing it before serving it up.
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Old 06-November-2007, 09:10 PM
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yeh im having the same problem thought a blackhole was responsible for the ssssssssssssssslllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnn nneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
then i was going to drop kick my pc thinking it was its fault
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Old 06-November-2007, 09:13 PM
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It seems to have cleared up now.
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Old 06-November-2007, 09:24 PM
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I checked both slashdot and digg but didn't see anything from the BA on there. Must have been a server issue.
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Old 07-November-2007, 01:44 AM
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I did something that misconfigured my server today, which was why people were getting that strange message. Is Universe Today working again? It's working for me, but I can't tell if it's working for everyone.
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I did something that misconfigured my server today, which was why people were getting that strange message. Is Universe Today working again? It's working for me, but I can't tell if it's working for everyone.
http://www.universetoday.com
Working OK for me now. (And broken a few hours ago.)
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Old 07-November-2007, 01:49 AM
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That's exactly what I was hoping to hear.
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I got front page on Fark, and for a few hours got approximately one bajillion hits.
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I got front page on Fark, and for a few hours got approximately one bajillion hits.
See it, about the 55 Cancri system, with a 'Cool' label:

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Tuesday, November 06, 2007
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(Bad Astronomy) Astronomers find solar system much like ours. Oil is $100 a barrel there, too (153)
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Old 07-November-2007, 04:06 PM
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It's slow this morning (Wed, Nov 7th).
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Old 14-November-2007, 01:16 PM
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It's so slow. I normally compose myself in these situations but this is getting annoying as heck. It just took me 5 minutes to post a thread and 5 more to report a double post. Please do something about it. I suppose with the increased traffic and more revenues from Google Ads, BAUT can have a better server, no?

Heck, I think I'll take a break from these forums for exactly 10 days, starting from now. I hope things will be better when I return.
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It's so slow. I normally compose myself in these situations but this is getting annoying as heck. It just took me 5 minutes to post a thread and 5 more to report a double post. Please do something about it. I suppose with the increased traffic and more revenues from Google Ads, BAUT can have a better server, no?

Heck, I think I'll take a break from these forums for exactly 10 days, starting from now. I hope things will be better when I return.
I'm gonna watch this and if you come back in nine days....or less...
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just testing to see how long it would take for this to get posted.

EDIT: Less than a second. Good. Well I guess things are getting better now. So I hereby postpone my 10 day break (at least while everything goes smoothly).
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Old 14-November-2007, 06:21 PM
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I could stop anytime I want for as long as I want.

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First, you have to want to quit. I don't wanna.
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Are we under attack this morning (EST)?
It's slow, and I'm getting about a 33% time-out rate.
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It is slow today for me too.
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Old 30-April-2008, 05:04 PM
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Some members are slow, but some are pretty smart. It's not right to judge the entire board by the slowness of a few members.
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FINE!
I'll leave...
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