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Leave it to you techno-geeks to totally complicate the discussion of anything related to computers into code.

You all get your factor raised another 20 points.

I'm a bit geek myself, but I just have to say I hope the site runs better, whereever it may physically be.

Once Fred Neitszche declared God is Dead, f*ck became the most important word in the English languag

Leave it to you techno-geeks to totally complicate the discussion of anything related to computers into code.

Well normally I wouldn't have thought twice about it. However what is happening here is quite similar to my situation at home. I've got a static IP, fast DSL connection and I have Linux on my server at the moment (with 3 low traffic websites). I'm kinda bored with Linux at the moment so I wanted to change things a bit. Since Null is also a techy I wanted to ask him what he was using. I know absolutely no tech unix geeks in real life. Hell, all the people I know don't even know what unix is. They are clueless Windows appliance users. I don't say that as an insult, just as an observation of what Microsoft has done to the casual computer user. They've turned them into an internet appliance user (not a geek and not security concious), But I digress....

Well, NAO has been running on the new server for nine days now. So far people can still log in, and I haven't heard of any problems. Do you notice any differences in performance or availability, or are there any problems I haven't heard of yet? If you're having troubles reaching or using NAO, please let me know so I can take care of it or forward it to Jaz.

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

NOO!! I was in the middle of writing something! and then my computer decided to screw up!!! But that's not NAO's fault. I just thought you might like to know :P

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I was in the middle of writing something! and then my computer decided to screw up!

Ooh, I'm sorry to hear that! I hope you've saved it or can at least reconstruct it?

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

If you're having troubles reaching or using NAO, please let me know so I can take care of it or forward it to Jaz.

Aynjell and I have seem sporadic delays and time outs from our end. This hasn't happened for about 2 days now but I figured I'd report it. I cannot be sure it was happening on your end. There are alot of factors that have to be met for a webpage to be served up across 3000 miles of ocean and probably 1000 miles of land (shortest distance).

Just thought I'd let you know. Throw that possibility into the water. Anyone seen any random time outs or denials of service?

Aynjell and I have seem sporadic delays and time outs from our end. This hasn't happened for about 2 days now but I figured I'd report it.

Noted, thanks. :-)
I had to reset the modem this weekend because it seemed to be dropping packets. This may have been the cause of your problem. Fortunately this doesn't happen very often, and I'm in the process of developing a watchdog so the server can automatically power-cycle the modem if the connection dies, and I can check/reset everything with my cellphone.

Please let me know if you experience any longer major outages and I'll take care of the problem ASAP.

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

I think the move was pretty good, and I don't see any problems at all except that the images take an extra second to load now.

I am mainly talking about the top NAO banner. On the previous site, it used to come up in a flash, but now it takes an extra second, and I see blank space for that time, every time I visit NAO. And, I have noticed this behaviour on almost all the computers I have used to access NAO, all having various connections speeds. Not sure if anyone else is having this issue.

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and I don't see any problems at all

Thank you, that's exactly the stuff I want to hear. :-)

As a matter of fact, the situation you describe is exactly what I've expected. The old server was located in Pennsylvania (i.e. relatively close to most of you overseas people) and had a 100Mbit 'net connection, which means you could download anything at full speed.
The new server is located in Switzerland and has a waay slower connection but plenty of CPU power needed for future versions of NAO. Basically we traded connectivity for processing power with this move. You may well feel the effects of the slower connection on the images. The actual pages shouldn't be significantly delayed tho.

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

Hm ... would it be possible to create, let's say ... something of a fall-back or so, only for the US folks? kind of a mirror or bridge?

btw: would the NAO API that good to be able to write a post in an external app and insert it in here? this possibly would help to avoid stuff that has happened to eg. rosyxxx (as mentioned in some other place).

cu, w0lf.

Fuck off the 30 seconds posting limit!