FR: Scheduled Downtime Jan14 1am-3am PST

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

You too!

I was going to bed early but I may stay up long enough to see Free Republic take a rest!

HAHAHA!

[hole_n_one]

LOL!

[glock rocks]

i got a copy of windows 1.0 (for dos) nib. useful, eh?

[chance33_98]

I have been running 8i myself for some time and do all my own maint ;)

[chance33_98]

i got a copy of windows 1.0 (for dos) nib. useful, eh?

Indeed! Do you have a COM machine or a trash-80 around? Couple that with a 300 baud modem and we could be rocking :)

[lorrainer]

You're not gonna change anything, are you? You'll still be open tomorrow, won't you? All my friends will still be there, right?

OK, lorrainer. Get a grip. Deep breaths. Look at the cached articles. A Republican is in the White House and we hold the majority in both houses. There, see? It'll be OK...

[Willie Green]

Which hand do you use?

According to the instructions,
it needs to be his left hand.

[kayak]

Trying to scare us into making donations, huh?

Well, I hope when some people try to open FR and get some awful "File not found" message, they dig deep into their pockets ....... :-)

P.S. ~~~ thanks for all you do to keep the hamsters happy! God bless you!

[Diddle E. Squat]

then reimage the slave servers

Uh-oh. Emancipate the gerbils or PETA and The Forehead may try to Trent Lott FR.

[Cool Guy]

AGITATOR, CAN YOU GET US A FIX for the down time? (FR chat room) Thanks.

[Issaquahking]

Been readin my mail? You knew I'd be snoopin/lurkin in and out like a shadow without a trace! Good on ya! Tahnks for the heads up.

[Valin]

I can turn my computer on.
Did you know they have solitaire on these things?

[socal_parrot]

Selected movies for 1:00am in the LA area-

AMC- The Quiet Man

Encore- Breakin'

IFC- Swimmin' With the Sharks

HBO2- Dude, Where's My Car>

HBOSGw- Body Double (Nudity)

MAX- Speed

SHOTw- Cecil B. DeMented

TMCe- Dead Sexy (Nudity)

KFTR- Los Cuatro Mosqueteros

HTVN- La Invasión de los Muertos

Spice- Looking for Booty

[agitator]

For what it's worth, and in case the world is about to come to an end during FR maintenance time, the RFR chat server will be open at:

http://chat.agitator.dynip.com

[Tony in Hawaii]

The gang's all here, or there. :)

[Scutter]

As a sidenote, our comments table is very nearly 4 gigabytes (4,294,967,296 bytes) large

Time to think about data partitioning. Perhaps by aging off really old comments into a seperate table, or maybe by partitioning by forum (i.e. a seperate comments table for each forum). This makes your code messier, but is a common technique used to scale databases that get too large.

[chance33_98]

Did you know they have solitaire on these things?

I used to play freecell all the time. My best was 52 wins in a row, it really blows losing after that and I have been too busy to try again...

[Cool Guy]

Thanks. We need to make sure FReepers do not lose their sanity over the downtime.

[Cool Guy]

Everywhere.

[Mark]

Did Gray Davis give his permission to violate "his vision"?