Patience People!!!!

This is from someone's rant on the "Bug Reports" tribe, and Darren's (Our SysAdmin and Tribe-God) response to it:

Ranter:
Well I hate to join the rant bandwagon but unfortunately after not being able to log on last night even once during the hours of 5 p.m. and midnight, consistently got the servers busy error message or page can't be found, same issue again this morning and pretty damn consistenly I am burning out on patience.

Darren's response:
That happens when I have to restart the entire site -- which I did last night, it usually takes about an hour for the grapher to recalculate all the degrees of separation and repopulate that module.

Some days I don't think anyone listens to me AT ALL. Most of the problems with tribe.net are BUILT IN. The backend is flawed, the software is flawed. I am not a Java programmer, and it is prohibitively expensive to hire a Java programmer, so we are rewriting and re-architecting everything. Until then, the site is going to fall down and go boom under the following conditions:

1) More than 1000 requests per second
2) failure of the grapher daemon (calculates degrees of separation)
3) MySQL queries locking up
4) Breathing heavy.

On number one, it's made worse by people not being able to hit the site and then hitting the "reload" button.

I don't know how else to explain to people -- this application DOES NOT SCALE past what we have, and to make it scale would require oodles and oodles of money that we don't have -- so I am rebuilding the site in something we CAN afford. I don't know how to put it any plainer than that. I am fine with people leaving, because I am pretty damned sure that once the rewrite is live there will be a lot of people either coming back or discovering tribe because it'll run so well.

Back to Soren's Blog:

Have faith in the Darren...Trust in the Darren...
and all will be well.


The new launch is coming.

Found it!!

My all-time favorite short story:



Dwar Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.

He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe - ninety-six billion planets - into the supercircuit that would connect them all into one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies.

Dwar reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then after a moment’s silence he said, “Now, Dwar Ev.”

Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.

Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. “The honour of asking the first questions is yours, Dwar Reyn.”

“Thank you,” said Dwar Reyn. “It shall be a question which no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer.”

He turned to face the machine. “Is there a God ?”

The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of a single relay.

“Yes, now there is a god.”

Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch. A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.

‘Answer’ by Fredric Brown.
©1954, Angels and Spaceships

Promotion!!

I'll be getting the official "offer letter" today. > - D

The corporate entity that I work for does a lot of different things, but their primary business is insurance. Insurance for cellphones, specifically. I've been lucky enough to work for a tiny little division of the company that has nothing to do with cellphones OR insurance, but that gave me the opportunity to make great bonus money every month. That particular account is ending at the end of July though, so that's left me with a couple of choices: either laterally transfer to another department and make equal base-pay but without bonuses (translation: big pay-cut) or try to promote before the account ends and hope that the increase in salary will come close to equaling what I used to make in bonuses.

I applied for an intermediate position in a department that deals with insurance claims hoping to gain some experience that might lead to a higher-paying position down the road. The supervisor of that department contacted me and she suggested that, based on my experience, performance and recommendations from my past supervisors and people that I had listed as references.... that I apply for a much higher position in a different department but within the same division of the company.
So I did. I met with that supervisor yesterday and he told me that, based on my performance in the company, my reputation, and recommendations from my past supervisors and people that I had listed as references... he offered me the job without a real interview!!

Short term - I'm going to spend two weeks going through basic new-hire training for the wireless division so that I have an understanding of what we do from the bottom up.

Then I'm going to go through two weeks of intensive training and testing to get my Missouri Property & Casualty license.

Then I'll go through two more weeks of intensive training and testing to get my Adjuster's license through the state of *Texas. (*don't ask me why....I have no idea.) That means I'll actually have real credentials that will open doors for me down the road.

Now here's the tough part: That testing is supposed to be REALLY tough. Many people don't pass those tests on the first try. I'll have to spend a LOT of time studying over the next several weeks. I'll also have to work evenings for a few months, so I'll have to spend time away from my family and friends, both in real life {sorry drummers.... but this will work out for the best I think} and on Tribe (*sniff*) but within six months, I'll be back to working really good hours and I'll be making much better money! I should be able to finally get a decent computer and internet at home and life should get a whole lot easier.

*whew* Finally!!!

So... I logged in this morning to find THIS:

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ROFL!!!!! (that's 99 hits in 3 days)

Quick - somebody hit me

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The Sexed Generation

Slippy posted this link {and pic} on her blog. You rawk Slippy!

It' s one of the funniest things I've ever seen so I had to spread the love. Enjoy..........!!!

www.youtube.com/watch