[John Robinson]

As a sidenote, our comments table is very nearly 4 gigabytes (4,294,967,296 bytes) large. MySQL requires a magical invocation to exceed this sacred number. This is one other task we will perform tonight, dead chicken in hand.

[Howlin]

[BlueAngel]

Thanks for letting us know.

Downtime bump!

[MinorityRepublican]

no freerepublic for a few hours?

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

FYI PING

[copycat]

This is one other task we will perform tonight, dead chicken in hand.

Which hand do you use?

[Fred Mertz]

I can sleep tonight. Yay!

[Ramius]

Back where I come from... about this time we'd sacrifice a goat. Got goat?

[keithtoo]

Thanks for the heads-up. I guess you know our brethren (and sistren) at L.com are down?

I need both windows operating to get my fix.

I guess I'll live.

[ChadGore]

Freepers angels!
(we do database maintenance too)

[CounterCounterCulture]

But...but where will the moose and cheese nest during those hours?

[chance33_98]

MySQL requires a magical invocation to exceed this sacred number.

I have a copy of oracle 8i enterprise you can have, still in the box :)

[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...

[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.

[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.

[Mark]

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

[hole_n_one]

FReeRepublic is going to be #@!$'n down!......what the #@!$?

[Quix]

PERHAPS it's not a suitable time or you prefer not to for other reasons . . .

But it would really be helpful if I could html tag code the FREEPCARDS in Word font sizes 8-12.

I enjoyed the larger font sizes--3-7 and miss being able to do those, too. But even if you wish to still prevent me from doing those, I'd still like to be able to do the small font sizes for the cards.

Thanks for all your hard work in our behalf,

Blessings,

[Timesink]

When it comes back up, can we have bump lists back? *beg beg beg*

[Chad Fairbanks]

Dang... them's prime freepin' hours, too... why codn't you have picked something better, like 8AM-10AM???? ;0)