back in the game.

[mandolin]

Okay. Said this before elsewhere, but I am not allowed near LiveJournal anymore in the midst of the Mood Swing Morning of Doom. I'm fine, I just tend to get worked up over really petty things.

Switching over to topics of NOT failing: Now that Southwest and BWI have settled things, I have finally booked a room and plane tickets for G2008. Also, since the G2008 forum is having severe issues I'll throw the offer out here - if anybody needs a roommate, contact me and brooklynx. We've got space for a third.

Still need to:

1) Figure out what to do about carry-ons. Most importantly, how to get Carmine there safely. Not sure if mailing him is the best option, but even if they let me carry him on I can only imagine if they make me stow him under the seat/overhead and he goes crunch courtesy of somebody's feet/luggage.

2) Find out if the hotel rooms have safes. This will impact any decision to take the laptop with me. Didn't take it to G2007 because there was none and I learned years ago that you can't always trust housekeeping. (Okay, the culprit in the Econo Lodge incident was not the brightest crayon in the box and this is no Econo Lodge, but still.) They DO and apparently are big enough to store a laptop. Now I... need to figure out if I can bring the laptop. I want to because I think it's the only way I'm going to finish a con report for the first time since 2003.

3) Find out about food/etc in the immediate area. Preferably stuff within safe walking distance so I don't wind up dragging Greg Wiseman six blocks to find a pharmacy in New York again. (Yeah, that was '03 but I still look back on that and feel bad about it. Nobody else knew where it was.)

4) Figure out the rest of the to-do list because this is way too short.

5) Get lunch because hey, it's noon. Well, that was easy.

Comments

[y2hecate.livejournal.com]

What sort of issues are you having with the Gathering forum? I'm admin over there at the moment, and I'm having trouble even getting into the pages, let alone the control panel to approve/deny new applicants/spam accounts. Thought it was just some bad days server-side or something, but apparently not.
I can't really mess with the files, but I can talk with those who can. Lemme know what it's doing (or not doing) for you, and hopefully we can figure something out.

[brooklynx.livejournal.com]

It's hard to say what the exact problem is for sure, but I suspect part of the code is fouled up somewhere. I've notice that it will time-out after 120 seconds when trying to look at the forum, member list or even just trying to log in to maybe even make a post. Or at times, it takes a while to even load up the forum.

Here's an example of the time out line I get:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded in \\NAWINFS04\home\users\web\b2908\rh.gathering\phpBB2\db\msaccess.php on line 176


Something that might help out a little for the possible log-in in problem is going through and deleting the non-posting "members," that are spam bots in some cases. When I was helping Guan try and clean up the AMGC forums, we ran into thousands of these.

[y2hecate.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I get the same error. And I've been trying to go through and delete said spam accounts, but if I can't get in, I can't delete. :/ I wish I could just go down the user list and check off all that I wanted to delete, but this version only has where you look up and delete one user at a time. So.. takes a looong time. Gathering staff's currently discussing options.

[brooklynx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's how it was for me when dealing the AMGC forum mess. Of course Guan could put together a command string and delete a large batch at once. :/

Well, hopefully they can figure out something.