JARG

I've been getting sporadic slowdowns and a couple of 404s in the past few hours, ever since I started archiving RS. I think I'll turn that off for now, and later tonight I'll shut the board down and optimize and repair the database again. After all the content we've removed from it in the past few days it could probably use a little freshening up. As for your Chrome troubles, I know nothing about Chrome (I've never used it) so I don't know if your problems are strictly related to that browser. Can anyone help? Will clearing cache and cookies fix some things? I suspect the culprit isn't the browser, but your house-keeping activities. I just tried the site in Chrome and didn't face any issues. It's probably not a bad idea to shut the board down when you're doing your house-keeping stuff.

Another thing to consider is the ability of the market to adapt under different conditions. For example, if companies have equipment, permits, employees, etc., in place working a fracking well but they're only producing at 50% then if a spike occurs, they can easily increase production. If they don't have those things in place then it may take years to do it. If Canada can increase their oil drilling production in remote areas, but have no way to move it, then their production increase is limited until they have a pipeline or road built to move the oil which could take years. Yup. Logistics networks, infrastructure, and architecture are all part of the "supply" half of the "supply and demand" relationship.

Indeed The effect of this ought not to be understated. Demand dropped due to COVID and production followed suit. That's the exact order you'd expect. Now that demand has returned, production needs to catch up, and until it does, the disparity between demand and production will be a factor in cost to consumer.

That's why we're finally getting this site https compliant in a couple of weeks. Right now the address for this site is http://www.therushforum.com, but the search engines like Google and DuckDuckGo have us listed as https://www.therushforum.com. So when you click their link, you get nothing. I had no idea they had us listed that way until recently. Ah, that explains that little issue...had me scratching my head...had to an alternative route to log in. I can't believe how long that problem has existed. It's not something I ever thought to check for, even knowing we were still in need of an SSL certificate -- "Does our link in a search result actually work?" Who knows how many people were looking for a Rush forum to join, found us on Google, clicked the link and got nothing, then just walked away. It's embarrassing. Our pages are are asp.net, but here's a redirect I wrote to handle a related issue where we want to load our https page even if users came to it from an http link: string current_url = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.AbsoluteUri; if(current_url.IndexOf("https://") == -1) { current_url = current_url.Replace("http://", "https://"); Response.Redirect(current_url); } It may be possible to do something similar here. Yeah, we're in the opposite boat right now -- search engine links looking for an https TRF and not finding us because we're still http. Once we're https compliant, the search engine links should connect right up. We'll find out soon enough. That redirect you wrote could be something to use in the short term, though. Can you simply flip-flop the http and https in that Replace command? That, and you change the check from == -1 to > -1, so this: if(current_url.IndexOf("https://") > -1) { current_url = current_url.Replace("https://", "http://"); Response.Redirect(current_url); } The previous check says "if the page URL doesn't contain 'https://' then do the swap. This one says "if the page URL does contain 'https://' then do the swap, only this time the swap is flip-flopped.

That's why we're finally getting this site https compliant in a couple of weeks. Right now the address for this site is http://www.therushforum.com, but the search engines like Google and DuckDuckGo have us listed as https://www.therushforum.com. So when you click their link, you get nothing. I had no idea they had us listed that way until recently. Ah, that explains that little issue...had me scratching my head...had to an alternative route to log in. I can't believe how long that problem has existed. It's not something I ever thought to check for, even knowing we were still in need of an SSL certificate -- "Does our link in a search result actually work?" Who knows how many people were looking for a Rush forum to join, found us on Google, clicked the link and got nothing, then just walked away. It's embarrassing. Our pages are are asp.net, but here's a redirect I wrote to handle a related issue where we want to load our https page even if users came to it from an http link: string current_url = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.AbsoluteUri; if(current_url.IndexOf("https://") == -1) { current_url = current_url.Replace("http://", "https://"); Response.Redirect(current_url); } It may be possible to do something similar here.

Yes, fetching records out of a set of 5 million is going to take some time, regardless of indexing. And yes, your parameters are extremely conservative. I have a ticketing tool app that archives cases 30 days after their closure date. Are all the posted comments stored in a single table or does each sub-forum have a dedicated table? Single table. I don't know enough about this stuff to know if that's advantageous or not. I think it's probably fine. Having them all in one table certainly makes house-keeping tasks, such as archiving, easier. The most obvious drawback is that the table has a buttload of rows.

Yes, fetching records out of a set of 5 million is going to take some time, regardless of indexing. And yes, your parameters are extremely conservative. I have a ticketing tool app that archives cases 30 days after their closure date. Are all the posted comments stored in a single table or does each sub-forum have a dedicated table?

I mentioned that at the top. I moved it out earlier today. Felt like giving it more exposure. Some talented people here. :Alex: I approve of this message.

My god, don't you know how important it is in SOCN to be able to hold someone accountable for something they said back when Bush was still POTUS?! The horror! I'm pretty sure SOCN goes back to the days of Stalin. Besides, archived or not, those posts you made campaigning for Ross Perot will still be in there. ;) Just lay back and enjoy it.

My god, don't you know how important it is in SOCN to be able to hold someone accountable for something they said back when Bush was still POTUS?! The horror!

June 11th, 1977 Amazing coincidence. You had a cameo in a dream I had last night: My family and I were visiting some sort of water-themed amusement park and we ran into you. Introductions were made. You seemed slightly disappointed.

First, I wouldn't throw a flag on the play for politics. You don't mention either political party, any single US politician or place blame on anyone other Putin, who ya know invaded a neighbor. Second, I'm 99.8% sure it's all bluster. Using nukes is a military tactic. Talking about using nukes is a diplomatic tactic. Thank you Jarg. Always a voice of reason. I read somewhere that the US and Russia are constantly aware of the other's nuclear alertness levels, and that the big public announcement was for little other reason than to scare common citizens who don't know about such things. I guess it worked on me! Screw you, Putin! There ya' go!

First, I wouldn't throw a flag on the play for politics. You don't mention either political party, any single US politician or place blame on anyone other Putin, who ya know invaded a neighbor. Second, I'm 99.8% sure it's all bluster. Using nukes is a military tactic. Talking about using nukes is a diplomatic tactic.

FBN by the slimmest of margins.

Presto has better songs, S&A has better low-end.

Really well done, including the work done by (what I assume are) your bandmates!

Who is John Galt? I'm Spartacus.

It's because he likely can't. The Working Man Live in Cleveland is all the proof one needs that Alex is a pale facsimile of what he once was. He still my favorite guitarist, and I am still moved by his earlier work, but he's not the guitarist he used to be.

Yup. When Alex bends up to that high E rather than going for the F, which is the minor third where D is the tonal root, he removes the tonality of the chord (major vs. minor) and implies that the chord is sus2.

Maybe I'm partial because I'm a guitarist, but this was great. http://youtu.be/gElx2L1BamE

It's nice to see Geddy get a mention.

Yes, that pretty much sums it up for me, too. If I hadn't known Alex was involved, I would've made it about 30 seconds before passing with a "is Sade trying make a comeback?" comment

I remember reading this in the magazine back in the day.

The only reason I listened to it all the way through is because I felt obligated to given how much I admire Alex. Not really my cup of tea at all.

http://youtu.be/tZHAFiegO74