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I'm going to rebuild apache and PHP using the older versions and see if that fixes it...

Well, nevermind, it's not just with the quick reply... I just got another hang up... I'm working on it guys, hold tight.

it seems to have been a problem with the quick reply... for now (until I fix it) I've reset everyones options to NOT use the quick reply. Options will be reset once I figure out what the heck is making the problem. I do know this.... on this new server I've upgraded to the most recent builds of PHP and Apache, and the problem MAY be a scripting problem that SMF (the author of the code that testmy.net uses for it's forum) needs to fix... some bit of code that isn't compatable with the newest versions of apache or PHP. I do know this much, the posting is instant when quick reply isn't used. And also, when the posts seem to lag with quick reply the posts are actually made instantly... the problem is that the following page is taking forever to load. I know this because while it's lagging you can reload the thread and the post that you've made (that was lagging) is actually posted. If a reload of SMFs code doesn't fix the problem then we may have to wait for the next version of SMF to fix the problem.... and if a reload of SMFs code doesn't fix it I'll be posting to SMFs site letting them know about the problem and seeing if I can get some help over there to script a possible fix. I'll keep you guys informed. If you want to re-enable quick reply you can do so by changing the quick reply option in you look and layout preferences under the profile tab. -D

very nice.... by the way, MY posts have been instant lately, what about you guys? -D

okay, changes have been made to the mySQL config, hopefully this setup will fix the problems.... let me know. -D

I'm still working on mySQL to figure out why the posts are taking a long time to process, sometimes they're normal and sometimes they take a long time... I'll get it. --- and at the end of the month I think I may be getting my host to get me another server that's in the datacenter I was normally in... I can't believe I forgot to request them to put me in the same datacenter... every time I get a new server I forget to do that... grrrr. And last time I got a bill for like $1300 because they didn't get my request to turn off the old servers. It was a friggen nightmare bill, lol.

please confirm on your end(s) that the thread posting is quick now. -D

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I fixed the database issues... posting is now faster than it's ever been... and the changes dropped the server load WAY down.... running VERY nicely... better than it's ever been database wise. -D

That issue should be resolved... please retest and let me know

I'm doing a full package backup of the site and all the databases so the site may be a little laggy while this is being done... it's a heavy CPU process so I'm sorry for the slow down. -Damon

Wow, that was a hard one... One thing that sucks is that I didn't have enough time to get everything done before DNS propegated so it's going to take a little while before everyone's able to get to the site via the domain name. Hope you guys enjoy the improved server... we're now running on a dell power edge quad-core xeon with SCSI hard drives... it's a beast. The main reason I switched is because I wanted to take advantage of a special that my host has where I can choose either double RAM, double hard drive space or double bandwidth... we needed the bandwidth so that's what I went with. So very soon we'll be offering larger test sizes to accommodate some of the hardcore connections some of you folks have out there. Please post any problems you see with the site, sometimes issues arise after major server transfers like this. Right now I'm recompiling apache/PHP with GD and pspell so that the spell check and score images will work, this should be done shortly. -Damon -Owner/Admin Oh, and a few days of posts were lost in the transfer... sorry but there's nothing I can do to fix this, my host cut the other server off sooner than they promised me :-/

Well the users connection doesn't really matter because the video doesn't start playing unless the user clicks the play button anyways -- and also, as was pointed out by S_T there is a button that I added to enable users to disable the feature. And when I scripted the addition I made the disable/enable button work on cookies so the site will remember your setting until you clear your cookies... doing it with cookies versus having it as a profile option works best in this case because unregistered members will also have the ability to remove the videos and of course as a unregistered users it couldn't be done as a profile option because... well... unregistered users don't have profiles to make option changes to --- anyways, this addition is just a precursor to the larger picture which will be testmy.net videos made by myself and other testmy.net mods/admins, more info on this will be available as soon as I work the kinks out of my little brainstorm I have rollin' ttyl

I plan on starting TMN videos also. It's an idea that came to me last night. We're going to have tutorials and a bunch of other stuff in video format... going to have a whole TMN youtube video section... I'll be recruiting video authors to help me start building a nice database of various videos so look for this new addition to the site very soon. The idea is so new I haven't even had a chance to discuss it with the mods/admins... I'm still working out the outline of the idea in my noggin

yeah, that CPU cooler is the shiznit -- I put the 'ARCTIC COOLING ACFZ4 80mm Ceramic' in tdawn's computer and for the first time I saw an arctic cooling fan go bad... but it had good reason, the fan must have hit a cable or something because when i got in there to see what was up two of the fan blades were damaged and the fan was spinning at about 60RPM. The heatsink kicks so much ass that even though the fan was fucked it still kept her computer cool enough to run, although the computer shut down every so often when it got over 55*C --- she has a CeleronD so her CPU runs hotter than mine, as I said before with my Core2 Duo combined with the freezer 7 I don't break 100*F (38*C) with the fan OFF. Pretty nuts, that Core2 Duo is so optimized, I love it... I haven't compared the voltage but I'm sure with how cool it runs the voltage is significantly lower than other chips. My old pentiumD ran much hotter... they sure have come a long ways with the dual core architecture. Is there something I need to do special to display the video card temp with speedfan? The temps it's showing are... System, CPU, Core 0, Core 1... and one that says AUX, which is obviously something that's reading incorrectly because it reads between 205*F and 230*F, lol. -- anyways, let me know When I was younger I used to like to hear my performance also... but after a lifetime of noise you start to change your way of thinking... and when you realize that you can get the same performance with silence and then you put it to practice you start becoming a fan of the silence. Especially since lately I've been running my powerhouse PC in my livingroom... last thing I want in my living room is the sound of a 747... loud ass fans tend to ruin the ambiance when you're watching a movie --- it's sooooo sick, I have my computer running on HD outputs to my 50" plasma.. I'm soooo in love. I also gotta Dell XPS Gen4 (first computer besides laptops that I've owned that I didn't build myself) off someone who was going to tr4ash it because he got locked out of it... didn't know the windows password and didn't know the BIOS password.. since he didn't know the BIOS password he couldn't change the boot sequence to make it possible to boot from CD to reinstall windows. So I got it off him for $250!!! -- new with the upgrades it has it was like a $3000 computer... system with a radeon X800XT, 160GB RAID0 array, Sound Blaster Audiology 4, 2GB of 566MHz ram and a P4 3.4GHz -- and the case is crazy, the CPU cooler is built in and has 2 120mm fans and a HUGE heatsink for the CPU and a butt load of cooling for the rest of the case... so it was basically a TOTAL steal for $250 --- I ended up getting Vista installed on it after Linux boot hack of the windows password. So I got that puppy running on the 26" Sony Bravia LCD in my bedroom... it's friggen awesome. I just need to figure out what I'm going to do with my office... my office computer's in my livingroom right now so my normal monitor is all lonely in there... I suppose I could hook my laptop up to it :-/ -------------- anyone know if they sell a DVI to VGA conversion plug? I already have the VGA to DVI converter but I need one the other way around, I'm sure it's out there but I've never seen one. I need one because my monitor is DVI but my laptop's output is normal VGA. EDIT BELOW.... I just took some pictures of my computers and uploaded the images. It started as me just taking a picture of the cooling system on the XPS, I wanted to show that to you guys... it's the only time I've seen 2 120mm fans as a CPU cooler... it's soooo cool, I just HAD to show you guys.... but that's what it started as. And it ended up that I took pictures of everything and then I moved on to my main PC and took pics of that too. lol Click HERE if you'd like to check out the computer I got for $250, the pics illustrate the 2X 120mm CPU cooling fan system on it... very sweet. And if ya want to check out my other self built computer click HERE. Oh god.. Now I'm just showin' off ... Oh yeah.. a cool thing that I just got for it is the floppy drive, it's not just a gay ass floppy, it also has a multi card reader... pretty much reads every type of flash card. Even though it doesn't say so it even reads my xD card from my camera, I was suprised... supposed to read something like 52 different types. Hell I never even knew there was that many card types, haha. If you want one I got mine at NewEgg (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813998514) -- the USB cable is a little stupid, they really should have made it an internal USB type plug. But I guess the way they did it makes it easier for people that don't know what they're doing... or aren't AS computer literate as most of us here are. -- both pic sets also show the sweet ass monitors I'm running them on -- a Phillips 50" Plasma and a 26" Sony Bravia LCD .. although the Bravia is smaller I totally loooooove the picture on it.. LCD is totally much better as a computer monitor, much crisper -- that's why I think I'm going to take my plasma back and swap it out for another LCD.. I got it at Sams Club so I don't have to worry about the return... they have an unlimited return policy as long as you have your receipt, so far I've swapped my TV out about 8 or more times -- no questions asked, hehe. -- OKAY, I'll shut up now. anyways.. blah blah blah... wow, I typed much more than I meant to -D

oh yeah.. the screenshot

Okay, I installed 'speedfan' -- very nice program by the way. I just installed it on my moms computer tonight so I already had it downloaded which is nice. I found out after installing it that it actually has the option to show the individual core temps. So anyways, the temp that I was seeing must have been an outside temp or some shit, because the core temps are a little bit higher, and are more in line with what you'd expect the temp to be. See the screenshot, the 'CPU' temp in the ASUS probe program shows the same as the temp that speedfan shows... but the core temps shown by speedfan are higher. Anyways, I'm still very happy with the temps that I'm getting, especially since I have the system overclocked by 20% You guys should post some temperature screenshots. OH YEAH, what's a good program to show the temperature of my video card? I have an ATI Radeon x1950XT. Also, what's a good program to overclock my video card? Check out my wishlist for cooling my video card once I deceide to start overclocking that sucka.... The cooler/heatsink (ARCTIC COOLING Accelero S1 VGA Cooler) >> http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16835186016 The fans (ARCTIC COOLING Turbo Module Sleeve Dual VGA Fan) >> http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16835186021 Thermal Compound (for glueing the memory heatsinks, I guess the stuff they give with the kit sucks...) I think this is pretty much the most kick ass cooler for my video card, any of you ever used this or seen this cooler first hand?? Once I get this cooler then I'll be overclocking my video card... but what program should I use to check the temp AND what should I use to do the actual overclocking? -D

Wow, that program crached HARDCORE. It gave me an error, saying something about a driver not being able to load... then once I hit 'OK' it popped up the same error, OVER AND OVER AND OVER. So bad that I had to just log out and log back in. Any suggestions of other programs that do the same thing?

yeah, the temp reads the same... it's been a little while since I checked it in the BIOS. But last time I did it read the same, I'll try that out. I had no idea that you could check the temp of each core like that. I'll try out 'Core Temp' and repost here. bbiab.

Wow, I don't know how I did it.. but god damn. I changed all the fans in my case, my 90mm fan was changed out to a Thermaltake A2017 (http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16811999121) and then I changed out my 120mm fans to ARCTIC COOLING AF12025 (really quite Fluid Dynamic bearings... very nice). All the fans are super quite. But the 90mm fan (it's my side fan) has a manual speed control. No matter what speed it's set to my cpu runs at the most at 80*F idle... but if I crank it up (where it gets a tad loud) it somehow gets BELOW room temp.. I have no idea how, lol. My room temp in here right now is 72*f -- how can you explain this screenshot. By the way, I'm able to get such low temps because I have a core2 duo, and they run pretty cool by themselves.. BUT I also have an ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134) -- which I've said many times that I highly recommend, that sucker is so awesome that I can actually turn the CPU cooler fan off (and have no fans pointing at the CPU) and the heatsink alone is good enough, not even breaking 98*F idle... crazy, full load with the fan off I think it gets up to like 114*F or something. Anyways, the temp in the screenshot is also with my system overclocked 20% -- 1337!! -- how the hell is it under the room temp though?!?! - only time I've seen that is with a pelteir -- maybe it's because the air is moving so fast across the heatsink, the case fan that I'm cranking up is a side fan that points right at the heatsink. All I know is that I'm glad I changed these fans out, my temps dropped a pretty good amount, it was already running ice cold. But the main thing I like is that the case is silent... so quite you wouldn't hardly know it's running if all the blue lights weren't glowing .

Thanks everyone, sorry it took till now for me to get in here, I was pretty busy yesterday. That birthday ROCKED. Thanks again, you guys rule. naw, only got the one, hehe awwww, that IS beautiful brotha, thanks.