ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

EBasil,

I saw you here briefly yesterday.

If you check in let us know what's up with da' Fish (12/16/07).

Did y'all get hacked, a server crash or beseiged by evil spirits?

i talked briefly to malakai yesterday...he said there were some issues with the database, and asked me to not discuss it further. so, please don't bother him or me with questions...it sounds like they have a handle on things

Doug, Wesley a bother. Never Sir. Good Day Sir. Your Amigo Eddy Texas Outlaws/Pavel Flow.

Eddy,

I was wondering what part of "EBasil" was confusing.

eddy's a SF mod, no?

It's up . . . sort of.

It would appear the last time a back up was performed was around November 7.

Although I could be wrong.

The internet . . . whadda' ya' gonna' do?

Our database totally fragged and then matters got much worse. When the site comes back online it will be 100% roller and inline.

I'm sorry! I must be in the wrong department.

DB Backup underway, so the fix is in. We might have to give up 24 hr availability, but if that means that the pithy comments and freewheeling innuendo will be preserved for posterity, I'm all over it.

And let's show a little love for our booted bretheren! I think they might have been the progenitors of the satin shorts and leg warmer's skating craze. And isn't fashion forward skating what it's all about?

the fish is lookin pretty fried today, which sucks cuz i needed some advice on spandex for this year

It's been fried since yesterday. Now I'll probably get bumped back to zero posts again... No respect, no respect...

I love that picture James.

I'm wondering what happened to the 'fish THIS time.
It's been running slow all week and now I keep gettng database errors.
I've got a PM on there too that I haven't been able to read.
You've got to love computers.

Yeah, well...personally, I hate computers. People that program computers are low on my list, too.

Relax Eric. You're up and running again. It's all good now, baby.
Maybe in the future you just need to keep a programmer locked away in a hole in your basement for just in case.
"It types the code into the program, or else it gets the hose again."

it crashed again...i haven't been able to get on all morning

wtf silverfish?

Jeremy Coffman wrote:...you just need to keep a programmer locked away in a hole in your basement for just in case.
"It types the code into the program, or else it gets the hose again."

I like the way you think, but I ain't doin' that "tuck". Ha ha!!

How about making some racing leathers out of over weight skaters? Then you could do a whole other kind of tuck.

Is anyone else having trouble today? It was slow yesterday but this morning I cannot get anything.

You know, I'm not a web guy. What I know about HTML and XHTML, CSS, Flash, pHp and all that other technical gobbledygook can be put on the head of a pin.

But from just observation it appears ANY website such as SL, Skater's Cafe, IMDB and a host of others both skate and non-skate related that have DISPLAY ADS ends up with complications.

I'm not saying these added features are the root of SL's recent difficuities but some of those displays will zonk my computer as efficiently as a baseball bat. And I don't mean to brag but I'm not working with an Commodore 64 here where you stick the phone handset into a rubber modem. I got the CPUs, RAM and connection speed to make things work.

And yet on some of these pages I visit all hell will break loose if it involves one kind of display ad/link or another. Now some of the links are getting so complicated with attached video and other features I can't open the page without it freezing up just trying to connect. And I know it's not me because I can tell the web masters also realize the problems because it doesn't take long for some of these complicated, code-muscled behemoth features to get zapped forthwith by the guy in charge.

Again, I'm not singling out SL and saying the display ads are all the problem. I just know the pages with them (SL included) do seem to have more issues than pages without (like, ahem, ah, you know, Slalomskateboarder.com.)

Display ads can cause some mayhem, but not on Silverfish. That's because the display ads there are hosted on the 'fish server, limited in size and construct and can only slow your graphics card. The crashage you've been seeing at the Fish is a function of extremely large, interconnected databases of photos, videos and forum postings. Let a bargain-basement nerd goof one thing up and the domino effect is absolutely tremendous. Kill me now.

I just had this image of Malakai slapping EBasil on the hands and screaming, "I thought I TOLD YOU NOT TO TOUCH THAT? Now, just wait til your father gets home and sees what you'vd done!"

and again...for me, it's been down since yesterday afternoon...i've talked to others who have had the same result

Anyone else today?

Wesley Tucker wrote:Anyone else today?

yep...early this morning

but it's up now

Fried today at 0125 California time

Silverfish no workee this morning either.