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MADDOG10 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:43:24 GMT

Yes, much appreciated. A heck of a lot easier...! Thanks.

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calabs — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:54:49 GMT

I like the change you made on the display order of the state games.... MUCH easier to read now.. thanks Todd

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Todd — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:25:36 GMT

Indeed! I'm seeing the same thing. I think much of that has to do with programming changes that I've made when trying to fix the issue. There are some pretty neat techniques that I worked on that accomplished the same thing as before, but more efficiently (faster, and taking up less memory).

I also got a chance to fix one of my pet peeves: the order of the games listed on each state's results page. Previously they were alphabetical, which actually made it difficult to quickly scan. Now they a... [ More ]

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sfilippo — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:14:22 GMT

Looks like the upgrades helped a lot, Todd.

The site's pages are loading faster than ever before for me, anyway.

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mybolade — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:58:12 GMT

Thanks Todd, I appreciate you. Do whatever you feel is necessary and thanks for the heads up.

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Todd — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:45:47 GMT

FYI, I'll probably have to do one more reboot shortly, and then hopefully we're done for the night.

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Todd — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:44:33 GMT

The memory upgrade has been completed. Thanks everyone for your patience with this (and with the other miscellaneous outages).

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buddyven — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:34:39 GMT

Todd that's why I was replaying yesterday that i wasn't able to reach your site sometimes when I need it, but as an It pro, I know that this kind of proccess takes sometime, well anyway I was feeling all the way down when it happened, but I think that we will be better with a new and stronger system you are upgrading to, best luck with it

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konane — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:32:39 GMT

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tnlotto1 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:28:29 GMT

thanks for your hardwork Todd

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Todd — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:14:00 GMT

I was just admiring it myself.

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jackpotismine — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:50:40 GMT

Thanks Todd, we appreciate all your efforts. You're the Man .

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pacattack05 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:38:33 GMT

Even though there have been times where I was screaming bloody murder after 4 hours of not being able to access the LP, I know it's for a good cause...lol

Do whatever it takes to solve the problem..lol

BTW...A nice lunar eclipse tonight in the eastern sky...

Site will be briefly down for an upgrade

Todd — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:25:10 GMT

Just a heads up: I going to see if I can do an upgrade to the web server this evening, which will involve taking the site offline for maybe 15-20 minutes. So if the site suddenly stops responding for a bit, that is probably the upgrade taking place.

For those who care for technical details, I'll be upgrading the server memory. Most of you are aware of the sporadic outages the site has been experiencing over the past couple of weeks. There is a possibility that it is being caused -- at least i... [ More ]