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Living Room / Anyone here using a standing desk?

« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2011, 09:48 PM »

There was another article recently (can't locate it) about how sitting all day is worse for you that they previously thought -- and more articles recently about standing desks.

Anyone here have any experience trying that?

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Living Room / Re: Hidden Netflix Marathon Gems to Watch Online

« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2011, 06:57 PM »

I'm up to episode 10 and am really loving the Intelligence series.  They really take their time with dialog and details, it's such a nice change from normal.

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Living Room / Re: The Official DonationCoder.com card game: CodyCards

« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2011, 01:03 PM »

15 decks of cards just came back from the printers and they look and feel great:

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Official Announcements / Re: Server - Apache problem running out of memory

« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2011, 12:41 PM »

SoftLayer's handling of the issue has been horrible and at this point I wouldn't feel at all comfortable recommending them to anyone as a hosting solution.  In the past i've recommended SoftLayer on the basis that they may be more expensive, but they are more stable and reliable.  But this experience has turned all of that around.

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Living Room / Re: Was DC Down Yesterday? And Very Slow Today?

« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2011, 12:39 PM »

yeah, the thread is here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=26461.0

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Developer's Corner / MOVED: Server - Apache problem running out of memory

« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2011, 12:39 PM »

This topic has been moved to Official Announcements.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=26461.0

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Official Announcements / Re: Server - Apache problem running out of memory

« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2011, 12:57 AM »

ps. we set maxclients to 21 now to see if that helps.. though it seems to have slowed down web access to the server substantially.

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Official Announcements / Server - Apache problem running out of memory

« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2011, 12:57 AM »

I'm not sure how accurate my description of this problem is going to be, but we seem to have a problem on the new server which has caused the server to crash occasionally.  It seems to have to do with running out of memory from Apache processes.

In truth, it's hard for me to even write about the server software that is the backbone of our entire culture without flying into a screaming rage about how incredibly horrible all of it is designed and how it's virtually impossible to figure out what goes wrong and why and how impossible it is to configure this stuff to work well under load.  But hey, it's just the software that powers millions of web sites and servers and runs the entire internet, so why should it matter if it is complete crap.

But anyway.. the best solution we can think of is maybe to set apache maxclients to something like 21 and hope this will keep the server from running out of memory.

Does anyone have any better ideas?  We upgraded the server when we moved to 8gb but the use of vmware to host multiple servers seems to be really taking a toll on available memory.

We never had this problem on the old server.. I'm not sure why we are having it now.

I'm also not sure if this is related to the random but persistent problem we are having with the server (especially member server) timing out on some downloads, or failing with partial files.

Any suggestions or ideas would be welcome.

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Living Room / Re: Hidden Netflix Marathon Gems to Watch Online

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2011, 09:43 PM »

Intelligence (2006), a canadian cop+criminal tv series like "The Wire":



http://movies.netfli...ntelligence/70153374

2 seasons, about 20 hours in total.

A Canadian version of The Wire using people you'd recognize from da Vinci's Inquest and Battlestar Galactica. Intelligence is an engrossing crime drama told from the point of view of both the ambitious feds (they call them "Horsemen" for the Mounted Police in the White North) and the successful but challenged organized criminals. Like the Wire, Intelligence is talky in a rapid fire way that requires you to play close attention to each scene. Miss a couple of short scenes while you go for snacks and you'll be lost. Also like The Wire, it respects its audience to feed them realistic characters and situations. You get to follow along closely with the double dealing office politics of the feds, the shrewd confidence games of the crims, and the arrogant incompetents in both camps who keep everybody off balance and in danger. Meanwhile, everybody's got issues with their ex-wives or ex-husbands. This is one of those shows that pulls you in so deeply into the lives of the characters that the time just flies.

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Living Room / Re: Proof That People Cannot Read (EULAs)

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2011, 06:53 PM »

 
nice story 40hz!

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: BrowsterTraySwitch v2.06.01 beta (oct 22, 2010)

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2011, 05:30 PM »

i havent updated BTS recently --i'll have to try it with Opera 10.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Enhancement request: support NT 6 idle priority

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2011, 05:30 PM »

added to my todo list, i do plan a major PT release this year.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Possible bug when using Splice out strip defined by selection

« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2011, 09:37 AM »

that's odd and should definitely not be happening.. i can't reproduce it here.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: More feature for "Modify Format/Case"

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2011, 04:37 PM »

and for ultimate flexibility, dont forget you can tell chs about external scripts to run, written in perl, python, etc.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Dropping Multiple "Documents" On To A Single Dock Item

« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2011, 10:07 AM »

there is no current way to do it, but it could be added pretty easily.  a question is -- how do these apps want multiple files to be specified? as additional commandline arguments?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Festure Request - Post Capture Option - No Explorer Popup

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2011, 07:51 PM »

ah i never knew about that option.   

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Festure Request - Post Capture Option - No Explorer Popup

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2011, 06:42 PM »

it opens windows explorer?

the options for what happens after capture are on two tabs of preferences: "Interface Options 1 (top left After Capture Show)" , and "Post-Capture Options" entire tab.

Let us know what option it was causing the behavior.

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Living Room / Re: Flight Simulation... Do You Partake?

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2011, 03:04 PM »

gothic, the dc server admin, is a SERIOUS flight sim guy.  i'll pass this to him.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2011, 04:35 PM »

Was this happening before the servers went over to VMs?

not nearly as often, but yes.. in fact it was.  which i think is a real clue.
and it's also what makes me think it's not hardware, since this server is only totally different hardware.

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Living Room / Re: Photos of the Surprise gifts I won from the April Giveaway

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2011, 05:12 PM »

Actually the "best" thing in that surprise box is not in the photos -- it was a set of cards and box so that you can start using my index card system of getting organized.

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Living Room / Re: Photos of the Surprise gifts I won from the April Giveaway

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2011, 04:28 PM »

thanks for posting hope it wasn't too dissapointing, i just put in a bunch of random things and hoped you might find something interesting.  or at least got a good laugh/surprise.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC with two monitors problem

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2011, 12:31 PM »

Ok i will build a debug version.. will be interesting to figure out what is going on..

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC with two monitors problem

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2011, 11:56 AM »

Anyone else experiencing this?  Can I ask you to check which version of LBC you have installed? (see about box).

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Living Room / Re: The Universe Within - very cool flash image zooms from galaxy to atoms

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2011, 11:46 AM »

great find. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drupal is f*cked

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2011, 11:39 AM »

No in this case im speaking as an end user -- if you think you a forum is going to be an important part of your website, don't even THINK about using the druapl forum system.

It might still be reasonable to use drupal as your CMS and bridge to another true forum system, but don't even think about using the drupal forum system, it's unbelievably bad.