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Old 06-November-2007, 10:02 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, 10:10 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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It seems to have cleared up now.
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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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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, 02:49 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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(Bad Astronomy) Astronomers find solar system much like ours. Oil is $100 a barrel there, too (153)
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It's slow this morning (Wed, Nov 7th).
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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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I could stop anytime I want for as long as I want.

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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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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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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.
Well now; that's an interesting introductory post. Welcome...

Anyway, a board might only be as weak as it's weakest link. On second though... maybe CT and ATM should be excluded from that comment.
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Well now; that's an interesting introductory post. Welcome...

Anyway, a board might only be as weak as it's weakest link. On second though... maybe CT and ATM should be excluded from that comment.
My ATM thread excluded from the exclusion of course.
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Bogie, you ARE the weakest link.
Goodbye.
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What gives you exclusive rights to being excluded from an exclusion?
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Bogie, you ARE the weakest link.
Goodbye.
Ouch!

I wish you had used a smiley.
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I bought my exclusion from a guy who said he represented the BAUT church.
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Ouch!

I wish you had used a smiley.
Oh ok...

Bogie, you ARE the weakest link.

Goodbye.
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Hey, I'm just joshin' ya Bogie

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