JimG
dogzen
bmattock said:
Bill, if it's OK with you I'll pass on that hug.
bmattock
Veteran
shutterflower said:
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. - Roy Batty, Bladerunner
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
bmattock
Veteran
JimG said:
I'm crying now. Sad Bill.
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
enochRoot
a chymist of some repute
blade runner is one of my all time favorites! can't believe it's 24 years old!! special effects hold up better than almost anything from that era! but the director's cut is crap. i prefer the voiceover.
bmattock
Veteran
enochRoot said:
Yeah, me too. Second favorite movie - Princess Bride. And don't let's forget the first Aliens and Super Troopers (not Space Troopers). Then there's Fandango (Costner) and never forget the Trinity movies. Right hand of the Devil.
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
JimG
dogzen
The book is pretty good to: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
JimG
dogzen
Blade Runner that is.
enochRoot
a chymist of some repute
jimg: yup. read that, and several other philip k. dick novels too.
bill: princess bride is up there for me too, as is the first alien
bill: princess bride is up there for me too, as is the first alien
SteveM_NJ
Well-known
i noticed a number of errors attempting to open and read some threads, i just attribute it to glitch at the time .. ( i certainly dont care enough if anythin I ever wrote, is kept/deleted, but i do go back and read what others have to say, i think that im still learning every time i read a post. (*sometimes- what NOT to do, just as important as what to do) smile
it will work out in the end.
it will work out in the end.
Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
OK, once you're mixing Wagner with Star Trek, you really are off the deep end. (Saw the movie, never read the book)bmattock said:
Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
And, btw, the clock still seems to be off by about an hour. 
einolu
Well-known
gallery still appears frozen too. I left a number of comments a few hours ago and they have yet to show up in the 'recent' section.
kaiyen
local man of mystery
On the one hand, I can understand the frustration about writing all this stuff here only to have it disappear.
But...in what way has Jorge or RFF ever offered to be some persistent space for one's writings? If there is something I want to write and have it last, then I put it on my blog, or my website. Even then, some massive crash can wipe my stuff out (or, like I did the other day, I could just mess up my .htaccess file and lose access for like 10 hours while I cleaned it back up). But I believe that the only place I should feel any sense of security about my writings is my own space. Not RFF.
It's frustrating. But let's keep it in perspective. So several of us lost some posts. Big deal. Photo.net once went down for a day and lost like a month's worth of posts across the board. Everything over a 30 day period just gone. A lot of that was from me, since I post like a fiend. But c'est la vie, I guess.
allan
But...in what way has Jorge or RFF ever offered to be some persistent space for one's writings? If there is something I want to write and have it last, then I put it on my blog, or my website. Even then, some massive crash can wipe my stuff out (or, like I did the other day, I could just mess up my .htaccess file and lose access for like 10 hours while I cleaned it back up). But I believe that the only place I should feel any sense of security about my writings is my own space. Not RFF.
It's frustrating. But let's keep it in perspective. So several of us lost some posts. Big deal. Photo.net once went down for a day and lost like a month's worth of posts across the board. Everything over a 30 day period just gone. A lot of that was from me, since I post like a fiend. But c'est la vie, I guess.
allan
sf
Veteran
Yeah, you're right. I guess i just put a little more value in them than I should have. I moved my review to my site.
I know we can't hold anything over Jorge or Joe, since the site is free. And I know there were no written or implied warranties of security and stability.
I guess my 100mm experience has just made me very bitter these last two days.
I know we can't hold anything over Jorge or Joe, since the site is free. And I know there were no written or implied warranties of security and stability.
I guess my 100mm experience has just made me very bitter these last two days.
No posts have been deleted. its a missmatch between what is displayed and the actual posts you as a user has.
sf
Veteran
Thanks, Jorge. I'm glad about that. So can we assume that our paranoia about hackers is unfounded? I'd like to think so.
ClaremontPhoto
Jon Claremont
On most systems of this sort there a pruning function which deletes threads not added to or looked at for some time. The administrator can usually define the time before an orphan thread is deleted, but typically it is three months or more.
After all if nobody ever posts to a thread any more and nobody ever reads it then it just might as well get pruned and speed up the database.
After all if nobody ever posts to a thread any more and nobody ever reads it then it just might as well get pruned and speed up the database.
sf
Veteran
Jon Claremont said:
that's reasonable, actually. But sometimes I get interested in something and search the database for posts that talk about it. If they delete untouched threads, we'd have less of a pile to sift through
ClaremontPhoto
Jon Claremont
Every single datbase driven site has downtime, not just this one. eBay, Gmail and UPS: they all work off databases and they all need to go offline from time to time to reindex and backup.
It's just that RFF does it more or less at random whereas the big well known professional sites schedule their downtime if they can. Like I know never to try my banking site between 07.00 and 08.00. Even Apple takes their store offline now and again.
That's not a problem. RFF is a community site, it's not Amazon.
Jorge does a great job here, nobody is hacking his site, nobody is targetting some users, it's just running cranky and needs some care and attention to sort out the database issues. If the hosting company is any good at all they will be working with Jorge to sort things out.
(I would imagine that the advertisers are none too happy about downtime.)
It's just that RFF does it more or less at random whereas the big well known professional sites schedule their downtime if they can. Like I know never to try my banking site between 07.00 and 08.00. Even Apple takes their store offline now and again.
That's not a problem. RFF is a community site, it's not Amazon.
Jorge does a great job here, nobody is hacking his site, nobody is targetting some users, it's just running cranky and needs some care and attention to sort out the database issues. If the hosting company is any good at all they will be working with Jorge to sort things out.
(I would imagine that the advertisers are none too happy about downtime.)
sfb_dot_com
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enochRoot said:
Sorry to say I always found Mr Dick to be a little shallow & unsatisfying and not very well written. Asimov's I Robot has much more depth, although again flawed. For a literary Sci-fi read, try Bradbury's 'The Martian Chronicles' which also explains why Bowie called his band the Spiders from Mars.
Favourite film of all time, probably Apocalypse Now - "The Horror, The Horror" now come to think of it, it's a bit like this forum at the moment. Just wondering if we could send someone to terminate with extreme prejudice our own Colonel Kurtz...
OK, verbal diarrhoea over with, it's just such a relief to be back to something like normality. I promise to stay OT from now on!
Andy