Author Topic: PM messenger fixed now (Read 1529 times)

Matthew · « **on:** April 06, 2016, 04:16:33 PM »

CathInfo wasn't allowing PMs until I fixed it just now.

It was a small database field issue, which arose after I moved the database here to the new server. It's fixed now though.

Matthew · « **Reply #1 on:** April 19, 2016, 06:53:05 PM »

Quote from: mw2016

I am unable to access my pm's.

That's because your account is only 1 day old.

MMagdala · « **Reply #2 on:** May 24, 2016, 12:57:39 PM »

Well, it may be "fixed," but --perhaps due to the fairly recent server meltdown-- I have lost most of my previous PM's, and I am very upset by that because they had links in them which I was counting on keeping.

Matthew · « **Reply #3 on:** May 24, 2016, 09:45:11 PM »

Quote from: MMagdala

Well, it may be "fixed," but --perhaps due to the fairly recent server meltdown-- I have lost most of my previous PM's, and I am very upset by that because they had links in them which I was counting on keeping.

Sorry about that --

I've tried to tell the membership on many occasions that I can't promise you Gmail's 1 GB of storage (to keep a large portion of your important docuмents -- in short, your digital life -- on my server)

I had to focus on the things I can actually get traffic from -- like posts and topics.

But all that is in the past now, because now that I have my own server, I no longer have to worry about database size or anything like that. I don't plan on trimming any databases going forward.

AlligatorDicax · « **Reply #4 on:** May 25, 2016, 01:29:04 PM »

Quote from: Matthew (May 24, 2016, 10:45 pm)

But all that is in the past now, because now that I have my own server, I no longer have to worry about database size or anything like that. I don't plan on trimming any databases going forward.

Well, there's deja vu for you!

Uh, huh. I said some things a lot like that when I bought & installed my first hard drive: a princely 42-megabyte Seagate ST251

, for only $309 retail, plus tax, in Silicon Valley. Could've been ~60 MB if I'd trusted the available RLL encoding, but back then it was considered less reliable--thus riskier--than MFM. It didn't take all that long for me to fill up the drive(s), causing unplanned "archiving" of data & programs to floppy disks, so as to increase available space for day-to-day usage.

It doesn't qualify technically as nostalgia, because I'm quite pleased that the technology progressed past the manual configuration requirements of PC/MS-DOS days, esp. the installation delay caused by evaluating specific interrupt numbers, choosing them, and setting them.

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Note *: Somewhere around here I've still got its hard-copy QA sheet
in fading dot-matrix ink: Seagate ST251-0 or -1 (1 of each), 12 errors, "03/19/90", seek times 40 ms. and 28 ms., respectively. I still have them in the expansion box in which they're installed, altho' their data has long since been copied to newer drives; that written, I wonder: Would they still power up?