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Alabama?
I take it you're referring to the lovely, hilarious, and brilliant Jill?
I've been keeping my eye on the CPU utilization histogram all day and it really is a thing of beauty. Though it also gives me an appreciation of just how much processing is happening here.
The new db server is an absolute BEAST, and though it's not even close to being over-utilized (the previous one was perpetually in that state for a month or so), it's definitely not just idling along, either.
It's running between 10 and 15% utilization for the most part.
Hey, you guys have given your all to this site and you deserve the big rewards that has finally arrived.
Forgot that I wanted to respond specifically to that part.
I won't speak for Dave and Matt, but speaking for myself, I truly do see this not so much as a big reward that has finally arrived, but the ability to finally go after the big reward, much better-armed!
As I've often told my wife, my retirement milestone isn't measured in dollars. It's a matter of completing my vision of what message boards should be (born nearly 20 years ago), and now I have the resources to feel like I can make that a reality in my working lifetime.
They'll be redirected back to me the same way I forward things to Matt and Dave the instant I realize someone's simply trying to go over their heads.
These folks GET the whole message-board thing.
My new boss's screen name is his real name, "Clem Chambers".
Oh, and for any who think I'm bailing out anytime in the foreseeable future, you're stuck with me for at LEAST the length of my contract, which is 3 years.
None of us is going anywhere soon. We've been busily keeping this an enjoyable hobby and (surprising to some) a viable, profitable business and this is an extremely exciting time for us. For one thing, I've been using a worn out pair of pliers to work on this car and keep it running (well, an exaggeration, but bear with me) and they just wheeled in a big cabinet full of Snap-On tools and the hotline to the nearest O'Reilly.
I know why there are concerns, and I initially addressed it in the draft version of my post-PR post, but removed it at Matt's request because it seemed to be a kind of "bashing" thing.
I think a lot of the concerns are based on seeing what happened to Silicon Investor when it was acquired by Go2Net, who was later acquired by InfoSpace.
Keep in mind that we later acquired Silicon Investor and look what we did with it. Well, okay, maybe not the BEST example.
But when we bought SI, it was basically "Ugh! This thing's a mess!" and I spent 18 months of my life basically doing nothing but rewriting it from scratch. Rewriting it to be what it was prior to its first acquisition, but with new bells and whistles.
ADVFN knows they didn't buy something that's a mess and in need of fixing.
They know the status quo is working and have no intention of messing with it.
I think I know the error. It's about a deadlock and your transaction being chosen as the victim? Line 151 of post_info.asp?
Unfortunately, we'll have to suffer through it for a few more hours, since I don't want to roll any new marbles into the db's universe this time of day, but fixing that is on the top of my to-do list. I'm sure it's a database configuration issue, as we didn't have this problem with the old, much slower system.
It is nice.
I can see that there's a bit of concern out there that tomorrow morning you'll have "Favourites" at the top of your screen, etc.
I'll try to sum up in another post tonight, though the gist is that it's still business as usual around here with the same cast and crew.
Actually, I may not need to put up anything. I just read my new boss's post he's getting ready to submit, and he says it so much better than I could've.
Those Englishmen and their superior linguistic facility! <g>
Will it still be friendly?
It's been friendly? :)
Definitely. The sites will continue to be run by the same workaholics who've been running them. Plus a few more, one of whom is an excellent programmer I hope will be reporting for work this month.
The acquisition makes this possible. It wasn't possible before for some behind-the-scenes reasons, but I'll certainly give it some thought now.
He's not allowed an heir anytime soon, nor am I or Dave. We gladly signed on to stay aboard! And they wouldn't have wanted it any other way. One thing they made abundantly clear to us when we met with them is that you simply do NOT mess with what's working well.
Sadly, no. Neither was I able to negotiate better pricing on the huge number of Austin Healey parts I'm needing for an ongoing restoration.
I sure hope so, because I can’t wait to see the excavator stuck in the mud.
EXTREMELY good one! LOL
They roll just like us.
Definitely one of their most endearing traits.
Everyone, if you've got a mental picture of ADVFN being stuffy suits in smoky boardrooms making decisions about things they don't understand, it couldn't be further from the truth.
They're hard-working mules just like us and what I love about their culture is they have the same passion for what they do that we do.
They're basically us with British accents.
Churak hates when I write essays, and when the topic is cars or anything mechanical, I tend to do so.
So, instead, let me just give you the links to two of my favorite boards on iHub:
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=1014
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=2389
Included are quite a few pictures of my track toys, etc.
Yes. Dave and Matt will still be the ones dealing with our users and doing the policing, in accordance with the same set of rules.
I'm sure it won't take long for people to see that little will change here.
We've always been corporate and profit-motivated. That we make a living with our favorite hobby has always been icing on the cake.
That's actually why my involvement as part of the community has been somewhat limited. Because we've been corporate for years and my main job has always been to make us a successful corporation.
Edit: .... as further evidenced by the fact that our office and personnel in Boogerville remain intact.
Sad? Bittersweet?
See my post on the Q&A thread.
Probably the biggest change is that my bosses are in London and I'm Matt's boss now rather than the other way around. Somehow I think I can predict his reaction if I try to make him dance for his paycheck, though. <g>
As you may or may not be aware, Silicon Investor and Investors Hub have just been acquired by Advanced Financial Networks (“ADVFN”, ticker AFN.L), a London-based firm specializing in high-end, feature-rich financial content. Though they’re based in the UK, their customer base is very global, including many US-based customers.
We have been approached by numerous companies who have wanted to acquire us over the years, but ADVFN immediately looked like a great partnership to us. More of a “parent” than owners. They’ll provide us a lot of things that will be very valuable to both sites, both in terms of features, and increasing our size and marketshare. We’ll provide them far greater visibility in the States.
As our London counterparts are fond of saying, and we strongly agree, the most immediate change we’ll make is “Nothing”. You don’t fix what isn’t broken, don’t mess with the crown jewels, and when it comes to online communities, you NEVER bring about sudden, radical change, even when it’s an improvement.
Aside from new ownership, there are other corporate structure changes, but they shouldn’t radically change the way we’ve always operated. We’ve always been a group of hard-core, message-board-loving mules who rely heavily on each other.
We’ll largely continue to operate and cooperate as we always have.
We’ll soon have access to ADVFN’s superior charting and quotes tools. Something else that’ll happen immediately is the hiring of a programmer I’ve known for a long time and who is far better than I am, and it’ll be a full-time job for him, rather than something that was done when I could find the time for it. The bug fixes and feature additions should be forthcoming rather quickly. He hasn’t even started yet, but has a big to-do list.
I also won’t be tied up in ad sales anymore, either. I’ll be able to be a lot more active in the operation of the sites rather than simply the business side of them, and will finally be able to aggressively pursue some related projects that’ve been near and dear to my heart, but I’ve lacked the time and funding to make reality. ADVFN is 100% behind me on these other projects, not only through their words, but through their actions. Specifically, their acquiring other sites that are outside the Finance area.
For those who’ve suffered through my words for years, you know that I’m speaking of Talkzilla. Even before the dust has settled, I will be on the acquisition trail for established sites we can incorporate into our structure and business model. The first area will be my first love: Cars.
To sum up, things have changed, but they’ll largely remain the same. We are satisfied that our new owners/partners want exactly what we’ve always wanted. For us to be bigger and better.
Here’s to the future of our sites. It’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.
Bob Zumbrunnen
It nearly did early in the process. I was trying to expose a positive wire from the battery to the starter while the starter was underwater and had the brilliant idea (and no knife) of using a lighter to melt the insulation where the wire was more easily reached.
Had a short-lived fire in the area where the fuel tank lives.
Considering how long ago that went out, I'm surprised it's still pretty much a secret. hehe But I know that company's stock isn't widely watched by our members.
I'll post about it pretty soon in the Q&A board here and the Welcome board on SI.
Sell-off?
I'm frankly very surprised it's holding up as well as it is. But right now it's more in keeping with what my expectations were if the C&D were rescinded because of compliance. Though I can't imagine compliance and rescinding coming about that quickly.
Right now it seems to be trading pretty much where it was already headed on its own.
Our adserver (well, actually, the networks it calls) drop cookies to enforce frequency caps on ad displays.
As a premium member, you do still get ads, on the homepage and quotes page.
The quality of the ads you would see are quite good, since these are definitely our high-end pages, so you should allow the cookies. Might see something that really interests you.
Yes we should have realtime search.
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Top priority for me today will be to research and fix that problem. Likely a configuration problem with the new box.
If I'm not mistaken, the post still "takes" on that particular error and the error is happening on the way to taking you to your message.
Nearly all stored procedures use "with (nolock)" to limit our exposure to this problem, but that's not true of most of the T-SQL, which post_info is still full of. The new version, which still isn't ready for production, is about half the size and almost exclusively uses stored procs, and only about half as many as the current version's T-SQL statements.
Interestingly, I've found that "with (nolock)" slows down some processes, but have yet to find any rhyme or reason to it.
Anyway, half an hour before the open and the new db is acting like a Greyhound bus being used to do a VW microbus's job. Not even close to breaking a sweat, and realtime search indexing is enabled.
Edit: Live is looking comparatively good for the web-server, too. Likely because it can get its data from the db server so much more quickly and not have requests queueing up like was probably happening before. Still, it's having to work hard. Just not quite as hard. I hope to have the new webserver into production this week or next, which has around 50% more horsepower than the current one.
Surprisingly (I check each time before I start it), no water in the oil yet, although I did have an "Oh ****!!!!!!" moment a week or so ago.
Getting it started has become an increasingly long and drawn-out process each time because there's always something new wrong with it. Up to now having to run a jumper wire to the fuel injector pump and apply power to the solenoid directly.
One time when it wasn't quite this bad to start and I could still start it from inside, if I had the charger and marine battery connected to it and only needed to run juice through the stereo amp's power lead to get the cab working, I fired it up and watched in fascination as all the muddy water was getting sprayed all over the place by the fan, it not registering on me until it died that it was pouring buckets of the stuff into the air intake since the hood was open.
I muttered some obscenities, then decided if damage was done, it was already done (as in a pretzeled connecting rod), closed the hood as best I could with the jumper cables attached, crossed my fingers, and turned the key.
Fortunately it started.
A bigger ordeal was when I initially got it stuck and was only halfway turned to the current position, but the lean angle was pretty enormous. Ran low enough on fuel that it wasn't picking any up because of the angle.
I'm sure you know what an enormous pain it is when that happens. So I had to haul a bunch of fuel down 5 gallons at a time, then found that when I was going through the normal restart procedure (which I'd only done ONCE before on this thing in 7 years of owning it-- I quickly learned not to let it get low), I found that the fuel pump plunger was basically a lever that moved up and down freely. That's how the battery charger ended up down there to begin with.
Had to crank the engine with a couple of the injector fittings cracked open until I could see fuel showing up, got it started on 2 cylinders and the other two showed up pretty quickly after.
Keeping my fingers crossed that my credit will be approved (probably looks awful -- 3 of our cars are less than a year old, with 2 of them being barely a month old) and the rented excavator will be here tomorrow. First job will be to dig even deeper through the dam, as the backhoe is now just as full of water as it was before. It's sitting in what would be the middle of a decent-sized pond.
Are you sure you're not bookmarking www.investorshub.com in one instance and just investorshub.com in the other.
You can be logged in to both, but if you're logged in to one, you're not necessarily logged in to the other.
Dave's not here.
Make sure you're not blocking our ad server. The images are on it.
If you're seeing empty boxes, you're not seeing our ad server for some reasons. Its name is adserv.stocksite.com
If you're seeing something like "Suppressed Graphic", click the link it provide and it'll show you the picture. Supered Graphic shows up if you've disabled graphic displays in messages.
I warn you, though. It's gruesome. Just imagine it's your $20k machine you're looking at.
I looked at it again tonight and while it's not surround by mud anymore thanks to the excavator, it's just as deep in the water as it was previously, if not deeper. The excavator dug the channel through the dam a bit more and dug a big basin around the backhoe to hopefully allow the water to drain, and to remove the weight and suction of the mud. Looks like he accomplished the latter but not the former.
Wow! That's some seriously quick accelerating through a close-ratio gearbox! Would guess terminal speed in that sound file in the 120-140 range?
A friend's wife brought her non-S (one of the first shipped) MC's to the track at the last event. Just to hang out with him; not to run the car.
I talked him into taking me for a ride in it. The way that car handled, even with all-season run-flats on it (which, with the wheels is about 80 lbs at eac corner and the anti-thesis of what's desirable in a light car that can seriously turn) was incredible! We weren't hitting the kinds of speeds we hit in bigger cars, but we'd go way past "normal" braking points and he'd just tap the brake to put weight on the front of the car and dive into the turns.
I was laughing out loud during most of the ride. Couldn't believe what that little car was capable of! It was getting mugged on the straights, but the cornering G's were incredible!
Another friend with an S who was getting smoked by most of us at MAM switched to light wheels with R-compound tires on them on a Sunday morning and was suddenly one of the fastest cars on the track.
If it's inconsistent about the temperature at which it comes on, I'd suspect either wiring that isn't up to snuff or an accumulation of deposits on the sensor, resulting in a lot of lag time before it correctly senses coolant temperature.
I assume you're talking Celsius here? That temp would be far too low for Fahrenheit.
Electric fans in cars are triggered two ways:
1. Temperature sensor (usually in the block or intake manifold) detects a high enough temperature.
2. A/C is turned on. Keep in mind that using Defrost turns on the A/C since it dries the air.
In my experience, nearly any time the cooling fan(s) quit working in a car have been because the temperature sensor has failed. Oh, and it's not necessarily the same sensor that sends the signal to a temp indicator in the dashboard.
It's possible your temperature sensor is slowly failing or has become so covered in deposits (never use tap or hose water to top off a cooling system -- too many minerals) that it's slow to warm up to coolant temperature.
But 90 Celsius doesn't seem too high a temperature for cooling fans to kick in. Engines like to be hot. The racing phrase is "Hot oil, cold air". That's what makes power, and engines make the most power when they're burning fuel the most efficiently, generally speaking.
Now if you're referring to ambient (outside) temperature, ignore all of the above. Even the hottest of days is very cold by engine standards and ambient temperature isn't a factor when an engine system decides whether or not to turn on the radiator cooling fan.
But it looks like you're referring specifically to engine temperature. I assume you changed your thermostat (you said "thermometer), which is always a good first part to replace when trouble-shooting cooling systems. Personally, I test them, which can be done with a pan of water on the stove and a meat thermometer. If it opens when the water hits the marked temperature, it's a good thermostat.
I've never seen a radiator-mounted temperature sensor for cooling fans (but I haven't been a professional mechanic for years), although it sure seems intuitive that that's where it should be.
If you can fairly easily get at it (I tried to help a neighbor with their fans not coming on in their Ford Windstar, and never could even FIND the sending unit) the temperature sensor is a relatively inexpensive replacement and that's where I'd go next if you feel the radiator's getting too hot. Though it sounds like the fan's still coming on at a decent-enough temperature, it could be signaling the sending unit's eventual demise, which can be a real bummer, especially if you happen to be going up a steep hill when it happens.
On the same subject, if a car starts overheating, it's generally a good idea to keep it rolling at a decent clip if you can do so without using much throttle. Get air flowing through the radiator. Once you come to a stop, the water just starts getting hotter, even if you turn the engine off because it takes forever for the block to cool down. If it starts overheating while going up a hill, then the lesser of two evils is to pull over.
For more/better car advice, add this board to your Favorites: http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=1014
Edit: Just noticed you said it *used* to come on at 90 but is now higher than that. If it's much higher, it could be getting dangerously close to boilover, so you probably are right to be concerned. A cooling system is pressurized so the boiling point is actually a bit over 100C.
If you can find the sending unit, and you've got a meat thermometer and a volt-ohmmeter and access to the specs, I'd remove it, test it, clean it thoroughly, retest it, and if it gets within specs after cleaning, put it back in and consider it fixed. If it doesn't get within specs, replace it.
Typically what you're looking for is continuity between the sensor wire or where the wire connects, and the body of the unit (ground) when the unit reaches a desired temperator, and no continuity below that temperator, or if the sensor also sends signal to the dash, a change in resistance as the temperature climbs, within the specs called for in the manual or found online.
My daughter was saying tonight that Regina Spektor's CD's have been the soundtrack for her Junior year, Eve 6 her Freshman year, and other groups/albums that have been the soundtrack for different periods of her life.
I said that my soundtrack for most of the 70's and 80's would be pretty much any Cheech and Chong album.
Nobody laughed. They either didn't get it or are just not very amused by drug humor.
Oh, that was good!
I'm seeing more deadlocks reported now than we had on the previous server, which is a bit puzzling. It's the weekend, there's little traffic, and the server is idling. I'm going to go through it as much as I can this weekend, tweaking it for maximum performance. Which won't be easy. The interface for SQL 2K5 is pretty rich and intuitive, but it's also very foreign.
I'm still looking for the promised visibility into full-text search catalogs, but not finding it.
Bist du Deutsche?
So few people know what my last name means. In Switzerland, especially around Bern, it's as common as "Smith". But in Germany it implies that an ancestor of mine was basically the town drunk.
Referential integrity isn't used here as there are no true "deletions" that need to cascade. That's the only scenario in which I like to use referential integrity at the server level.
Check tools and "My Settings" and make sure you don't have the mailbox display limit set at 10 messages. I do. I've got 81 messages in my MailBox right now, but only 10 are visible.
It'd take a lot of big boards that'd be tough to haul down there. The only thing I've got that could haul it down there and still get back up the hill is stuck in the mud. <g>
And not worth the effort. Not having to step in the muck too often. I can get from the dry soil to the machine now without even getting my shoes dirty.
Although the inside of the cab is a total mess. The floor and about halfway up all of the interior surfaces is covered with a slimy mixture of mud and algae.
OT, but what the heck. Churak, skip to the next one, as this is gonna be an essay. <g>
I was asked what the back-story was on the "stuck" and "bermuda" pictures.
I've got a sizable lake (was beautiful when it was full) on my property. Maybe about 4 or 5 acres. With great inflow (except during droughts like the current one we're having). I had a 4-inch pipe running through the dam that I was planning to use for hydro-electric power generation for my workshop, which is fairly close to the lake, but even with the 4-inch pipe always open, the dam got breached a couple of times last year, so I decided to raise the dam 8 feet and bury much bigger pipe (thinking a pair of 8-inch ones), which would dramatically increase both the volume and surface area of the lake, while also giving me a lot more energy to harness to make electricity.
So I dug out a bit of a trench in the dam then let the water do the rest of the work.
There're still pockets of water and the soil that used to be underwater ("muck") is really solid in most places, but not far below the surface, it's really wet and soft. Think chocolate pudding with a bit of a skin on top.
I'd managed to dig out about 30 feet of 6-foot wide channel down to the rock pretty far back from the dam, but that wasn't working out as a good way to dry out the muck. I was having to back up further and further on each bucket-load and was running out of places to dump it. And the channel was quickly filling with water that the muck was releasing. The water's probably about 4 feet deep now.
So I decided to get over to the dam and work my way back to where the original channel is.
Spent about half a day scraping off weeds so the sun could bake the soil better. Then went to the dam and started slowly scraping there to start digging down.
First bucket-full I got, when I lift it, the front of the machine immediately broke through the dry surface and deeply into the muck.
This kind of stuff happens all the time with these machines and the routine to get them unstuck is pretty standard. Drop the load of dirt, then while slowly backing up, using the front bucket to push yourself back.
This wasn't working. The front bucket couldn't get a grip on solid enough soil to do any good. Like pushing on a rope.
So I resorted to the extreme measure of working the front bucket and the rear one at the same time, pushing and pulling respectively. That wasn't working either.
At this point, the machine still started and ran well as it wasn't buried deep enough for movement to start breaking wires.
I wasn't too far from the rocky hill I often use to get down to the lake, so I figured I'd just rotate the machine 90 degrees and work my way slowly toward the "shore" where I was sure to get good grip. This is also a common maneuver, though there's a lot of pucker-factor to it. You push down onto the ground with the rear bucket until you've lifted the rear tires off the ground, then swing the bucket so the machine basically pivots around using the front tires as the axis.
Since my back tires were already sunk to the axles (the front ones were immediately), it required lifting the machine WAY up, which is scary because when you turn it with the bucket, it feels like the slightest breeze will roll the machine over onto its side.
Anyway, got it turned around 90 degrees and was able to make quite a bit of progress toward the rocky shore, but couldn't quite get on it will enough to back up the hill. Since I was partway up the hill, I figured I'd just put it in second gear and get a running start down the hill and back onto drier soil.
No joy.
The front immediately sunk in so deep that the radiator fan was in the water and flinging the stuff everywhere.
So I decided to turn the machine another 90 degrees because I knew the dam was extremely solid and I could push against it with the rear bucket.
Turned the machine again, reached out to push against the dam, and discovered I was about 2 feet away from reaching it.
Now I was well and truly stuck. The machine was high-centered so much that if I extended the rear bucket, the back of the machine would drop so much that pudding-like mud would pour into the open back window (better that than breaking the windows), and if I retracted the bucket, the machine would tip forward and the radiator fan would fling muddy water all over everything.
When the machine started sinking on its own, I decided maybe that'd be a good time to analyze the situation from OUTSIDE the cab. It's a good thing I had the side windows open because it was buried too deep for the doors to open and even the windows might not have opened at that point. They definitely wouldn't have prior to yesterday.
Over the days, the hole the machine had dug out for itself started filling with water, as did the interior of the machine. I think it was my 2nd or 3rd day of trying to extricate it that most of the wiring down low (connected at the starter) broke. Which made things more challenging because with the batteries and wiring under highly-conductive muck, it didn't take long to drain the batteries, so I've got a marine battery, charger, and generator down there right now and until yesterday had to work blind to connect the jumper cables under about a foot of water. And a few days ago, the in-cab electrical gave up the ghost after being underwater for so long. Most of the water has now been drained (thanks to the excavator), but it's completely unresponsive to the ignition switch.
Had I figured out yesterday, while the excavator was still there, how to get it started, the machine would probably be sitting up by the workshop right now and I'd be out there for hours power-washing it.
The rear boom with its heavy 3-foot bucket was sitting on the ground and making for a lot more work for the excavator when it tried to pull it. Had it been off the ground, I think it would've been comparatively easy. He even tried to lift the bucket and boom into the locked position, but because of all the mud, it refused to lock.
After he left, I finally figured that if I ran a jumper wire to the fuel injector pump and applied juice to the solenoid, it'd start and run, which it did. And I got the bucket into a semi-locked position so it's off the ground and by not being extended, isn't dramatically adding to the effective rear weight of the machine.
The dumptruck is a separate story as is the 963.
I drove the dumptruck own there and found it was staying on top of the dry soil pretty nicely, so hooked up a chain, put the backhoe in gear with the throttle open just enough to turn the tires a bit, then tried to pull it with the dumptruck. The truck couldn't get enough grip, so I drove it back to the house.
Later I decided to try again with the truck, but from a different location. I misjudged while I was backing it up (the mirrors had gotten folded in by the trees I ran it through) and I simply backed it off into an area that was still very wet and it was immediately stuck.
The 963 actually managed to pull the backhoe a foot or so forward, but the owner accidentally killed the engine, and the starter wouldn't work.
He returned Friday with a new starter and got the machine running, and immediately got it stuck. They called their friend with the excavator and after quite a bit of work, got that machine out, then he pushing on the rear gate of the dumptruck and got it out. Actually, he started pushing while I was still waiting for the air pressure to come up enough to release the brakes, and he was moving it like it was a little Tonka toy. Impressive machine!
Once we got the 963 and dumptruck out (the 963 ended up having to push the dumptruck up the last half of the hill leaving the lake), he spent hours digging out the mud around the backhoe and trying to move it, then dug a big ramp down toward it and found solid rock, but apparently the rock dropped off pretty dramatically and he was stuck for a while but managed to get unstuck.
So now I'm just having to sit on my hands until the local equipment rental companies approves my credit and arranges a truck to deliver the excavator I'll be renting for a month. It's a bit bigger than the one that was here yesterday and the owner told me that the one I'm renting shouldn't have much trouble yanking my backhoe out, running or not.
If I weren't such an unknown, non-celebrity type of person, I've often thought the story of my life would be interesting reading. Well, I don't doubt that it would be, regardless. But few would buy it. The Backhoe Ordeal really is but one of many similar goings-on that happen on a weekly or daily basis.
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