Comments on: One Very Special Disclosure Survey

By: siri

siri — Sat, 17 May 2008 04:22:49 +0000

Would a credit check help them? I just know many people in America have to go through a credit check before they are hired. Or before they rent housing.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:51:53 +0000

A little eye shadow and fishnet stockings would be nice.

By: Drumman

Drumman — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:49:31 +0000

earlofhuntingdon That was in Ann Arbor

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:04:29 +0000

Unintentional play on words. Joe Wilson’s recent comment notwithstanding, I’d prefer a steak with FDL’ers rather than its homonym with a Gooper.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:52:58 +0000

You have, of course, reared a pack that has learned never to respond to the command of, “Just trust me”, or to pepper spray or those nice fat stakes we’re all looking forward to at the next FDL/EW barbecue. Beer? Well, neither Pavlov nor Skinner learned to desensitize their hounds to that.

By: Telebro

Telebro — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:49:14 +0000

If McSlime had all of his lobbyist campaign staff complete this survey and make it public, the “maverick” label would come to have a new meaning – more related to an out-of-control outlaw. We have had eight years of thievery and extortion. It is time for change we can believe in.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:31:47 +0000

Alright now Wheelers and Wheelies, I know you are all concerned, because you know, the management here is so oppressive (I think Jodi/JodiDog is the only one banned so far); but it is general bugginess with the whole FDL site probably associated with all the boffo new content being added. There is a lot of way cool good stuff going on, Marcy and I are affected the same as you; be patient. It’s all good.

By: Minnesotachuck

Minnesotachuck — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:05:51 +0000

EW, you must have had some snark vitamins for breakfast. Great post!

By: Minnesotachuck

Minnesotachuck — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:02:25 +0000

Whew! It wasn’t just me either. And that awesome comment I was drafting is now in that Great Bit Bucket in the Sky!

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:40:33 +0000

OT - Not just clogged, I think something else may have been up. What we got was the 403 Forbidden error page from the ew.FDL.com web server. So our computers were able to reach the FDL computer(s), which wouldn’t have been possible if da toobz had been clogged, and the web server program was up and running running. But for some reason, it lost track of the files that make up the FDL websites’ contents, and as a result the sites couldn’t be served out to us. Further clues: I used the link in the 403 page to try to send the FDL webmaster an email during the outage, but that email bounced… though immediately thereafter I was able to successfully ping the FDL computer(s)… which is weird. In summary, the FDL computer(s) were evidently up, but the various programs running on them (web server, email server) either had not been started, or else were not running correctly, or else not configured correctly.

If I had to guess, I’d say there was a hardware failure, and they had to bring a whole new computer up, and then restore the site contents from the most recent backup image made sometime earlier today.