8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC Part 2

[allshookup]

I would not join any cruise meets thread until I was ''on the cruise'' just for luck, in fact I thought it bad luck to say in advance I was on it, I remembered the rush of 2004 for 2005 and knew it would happen again.

There was a PANAMA thread in the main forum, people asking questions and I was active in helping people on that, I posted some pictures, and then found Mr Verandah Man -Andy, was posting them here, My Navigators became in demand and as well as posting them on this thread, another Website took them and then IBGRAVE's, uploaded them onto the Dis WDWINFO here.

One congratulation, the 2005 Repo thread was closed down, and after a siesta, came back in another form, at a later date, at least this one has kept going, although, I read, long threads slow the DIS down, and they may 'CAP' threads if they cannot resolve.

Wouldn't they just be able to delete all our old posts so the thread isn't so long? I mean it's not like we ever discussed anything of importance that isn't already on the website?

 

[bellelinus]

The Pirates Interactive (Rocky Horror Picture show type thing ) would be great but the best one to do it too is Curse of the Black Pearl ...we would have to figure a way to coordinate with someone on the ship to see if the would run POTC COTBP on Pirate Night ...Otherwise we could do it on a different night , which may actually be better ...

I know I have posted the script here before , but I dont know if Tom Posted it to the website or not ....If not here it is for your reading pleasure

http://www.potcinteractive.com/printscript1.html

You are right -- in some ways it would be better on a night other than pirates night . . . I'm not sure how to contact DCL to figure out how to get this arranged, but it sure would be fun!

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Pirate night for the Westbound is on night 13.
If it is the same on the EB it would make Pirate night on the after it docks in Aruba, August 29th

I bet it will be Aruba night, last time it was in Curacao.

Wouldn't they just be able to delete all our old posts so the thread isn't so long? I mean it's not like we ever discussed anything of importance that isn't already on the website?

I dont think they would do that, but read the message form the Webmaster, long threads are slowing down the Dis, but they are working on a possible fix.

 

[bellelinus]

Wouldn't they just be able to delete all our old posts so the thread isn't so long? I mean it's not like we ever discussed anything of importance that isn't already on the website?

The other one was not shut down because it was too long, but because it became less than friendly . . . since we are still getting along pretty well I don't think they will close it just because it is long.

 

[bellelinus]

I dont think they would do that, but read the message form the Webmaster, long threads are slowing down the Dis, but they are working on a possible fix.

Andrew, where is that message from the Webmaster? Ta.

 

[allshookup]

The other one was not shut down because it was too long, but because it became less than friendly . . . since we are still getting along pretty well I don't think they will close it just because it is long.

Well we certainly are a friendly bunch here, so I sure hope they wouldn't.

Andrew I haven't checked out the message from the webmaster yet so I guess I better go read it!

 

[DisneyVegas1]

You are right -- in some ways it would be better on a night other than pirates night . . . I'm not sure how to contact DCL to figure out how to get this arranged, but it sure would be fun!

If there is enough interest to do this , then we can do it a different night then Pirates , which I agree will be better ....I will make the arrangements to do this with DCL myself if there is enough interest...(I will talk to Rachel the CD to get a night and time arranged , And I will Post it on my Cabin Door or figure out someway to get the word out ...Maybe even convince Rachel to print it in the Navigator ) ..

So , you keep a standing count of the interest and let me know and I will take care of the rest ...But everyone please read the script , we did this once before on the Magic and it was good , But I am sure with this band of Pirates it will be rail 2 rail people and it should be Great ....

 

[bellelinus]

If there is enough interest to do this , then we can do it a different night then Pirates , which I agree will be better ....I will make the arrangements to do this with DCL myself if there is enough interest...(I will talk to Rachel the CD to get a night and time arranged , And I will Post it on my Cabin Door or figure out someway to get the word out ...Maybe even convince Rachel to print it in the Navigator ) ..

So , you keep a standing count of the interest and let me know and I will take care of the rest ...But everyone please read the script , we did this once before on the Magic and it was good , But I am sure with this band of Pirates it will be rail 2 rail people and it should be Great ....

OK, I will be in charge of keeping count of those interested in doing this -- I also have to check to see if it is listed on the pirate zone website . . .

 

[allshookup]

Andrew, where is that message from the Webmaster? Ta.

Found it!!!


http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1682844

 

[bellelinus]

Found it!!!


http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1682844

Thanks, Diane -- he made it pretty clear that they don't want to limit the length of threads and are looking for other options, so I would say that if we can remain on friendly terms this thread will be fine.

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Andrew, where is that message from the Webmaster? Ta.

Had to go back 7 pages on the main forum!!!

We know there have been some issues with the boards and I wanted to give everyone an update. I've included a non-technical and a technical version. Since the server move we have run into several issues:

1. The code that was supposed to keep people from using the built in search and keep them on the board tracker search wasn't working right. Some people were able to access the built in search which quickly kills the boards.

Technical- Hows this for a query???
Count: 1 Time=1208.00s (1208s) Lock=0.00s (0s) Rows=8744.0 (8744),
SELECT
thread.threadid, thread.forumid, post.userid
FROM thread AS thread
INNER JOIN post AS post ON(thread.threadid = post.threadid )
WHERE post.postid IN(N,,{repeated 146966 times}N) AND thread.forumid IN(N) AND post.visible = N

Yes that is 1208 seconds

That is fixed and by all accounts performance has been better today.

2. The hard drives weren't fast enough- sometimes new isn't as much better as you would think

Technical- the old database server was 4 10k scsi's in a raid 0+1. The new one has 4 15k SAS in a raid 0+1. We are not seeing much difference at all. We are looking at adding 2 15k SAS's for the OS and having a 6 disk raid 0+1 or going with 2 drives for the OS and tying into our hosts fiber channel SAN.

It's going to take a week to sort that out.

3. We are getting a little big for the "stock" version of the software.

Technical- it doesn't scale all that darn well

We are considering bringing in some expert consultants that are specialists in mysql performance to look at the code and see what they can do. We know that long threads are becoming an issue. I'll just copy a quote from the vbulletin board to explain:
vb stores the threadid and dateline in the post table. Whenever a bunch of posts needs to be selected, vb filters the post table by threadid and orders the results by dateline, and takes a few of the posts (of course there is an index involved). In other words the query is similar to

SELECT * FROM post WHERE threadid=$threadid ORDER BY dateline LIMIT 8575,15

which means that mysql will have to throw away the first 8575 results and then return the next 15. If my understanding is correct, this is the reason why large threads are bad. We need only 15 rows, but mysql has to analyse thousands.
With some threads approaching 125,000 posts you can see the issue. We don't want to have to put thread length limits back so we are looking for options.
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Alex

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1682844

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Thanks, Diane -- he made it pretty clear that they don't want to limit the length of threads and are looking for other options, so I would say that if we can remain on friendly terms this thread will be fine.

See I was beaten too it, I am going cross-eyed trying to find it

 

[allshookup]

See I was beaten too it, I am going cross-eyed trying to find it

Sorry Andrew! I was surprised that it got buried so fast.

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

The other one was not shut down because it was too long, but because it became less than friendly . . . since we are still getting along pretty well I don't think they will close it just because it is long.

Well we certainly are a friendly bunch here, so I sure hope they wouldn't.

Andrew I haven't checked out the message from the webmaster yet so I guess I better go read it!

Yes the first repo thread was closed down due to a couple of people being rude, warned and continued after a warning, The thread name 'changed' regularly, confusing anyone who wasn't subscribed, and when the Westbound REPO started there was some very ''direct' posts concerning 'PINS' and people getting them on the cruise and selling them on ebay.

The vast majority suffered due to a few, -

I felt I had been insulted in a couple myself, so I had left the first thread before it finally closed, I rejoined the second one later.

On the cruise i met some and they said it had 'gone out of control'

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Sorry Andrew! I was surprised that it got buried so fast.

Yes I went back and forth twice thinking it was only at the weekend, ''7'' pages back!!!!!

 

[m&m's mom]

Just heard from Los Veranos Canopy Tours and DS and DH are in for the 1PM tour. (I will be a non-participant) DS is very excited - he had a blast doing a ropes course that included a zip line when he was in Minnesota last month.

Pamela (pdarrah)

I got confirmation this morning as well for 1:00 so it looks like it is a go

 

[dahuffy]

You can take puppies at 6 weeks but the foster parents want to keep the puppies with mom for 2 more weeks. We can wait, well Cherie and I can, the girls are bouncing off the wall.

I insisted on leaving Harley with the breeder until he was 10 weeks. They just need that time to learn socialization skills. Personally, I think 6 weeks is too young. Just my humble opinion.

 

[dahuffy]

I luked for a few days before I was brave enough to post. The thread was scary even way back when.

You luked? Sounds messy!

 

[tom31b]

Two quick ones,

Can someone PM me the stuff for website (Todd wanted a POC character and then there were another post or two of "we should post that on website). I'm on road a lot this week and don't relish searching backwards this weekend.

As far as pirate night goes, would they do it Aruba night if departure isn't until 11:30? Or would they wait till sea night (or do it Cartagena night?)

 

[dahuffy]

I never knew about the board til two months before my second cruise!!! It was sure nice to know a lot of people before we cruised. It is not that I don't like my DH.... but it was nice to talk to other people too!!!

I feel the same way Cheryl...and I'm pretty sure Kevin does too!