need...more...data...

February 17, 2009 9:12 AM

I'm assuming this got lost in the Great Server Disaster of 2009, but is the Infodump ever coming back?
posted by desjardins to feature requests at 9:12 AM (24 comments total)

We have some security stuff to do with perl still (which seems to be experimental in 64 bit windows), so we took down the "Stuff" perl playground until we could get all the potential sql hacks fixed up.
posted by mathowie at 9:14 AM on February 17

Ditto for the Markov chain post generator.
posted by chrisamiller at 9:14 AM on February 17 [1 favorite]

I cannot believe that this is the only time the word datawankery has been used on this site.
posted by desjardins at 9:18 AM on February 17 [2 favorites]

Perl. On Windows.

Jeepers.
posted by DU at 9:18 AM on February 17

Who you calling a potential sql hack?
posted by Hovercraft Eel at 9:19 AM on February 17 [2 favorites]

What Matt said. The rough shape of the situation is something like (a) bulletproof the perl setup or (b) rewrite stuff in CF.

Infodump may be less of a problem than interactive toys like Markovfilter because the files are generated behind the scenes and just served as precompiled data, but regardless we're opting to be cautious about it all.
posted by cortex at 9:23 AM on February 17

You can just deliver it to my house, then. I live in a safe neighborhood. I have cookies.
posted by desjardins at 9:39 AM on February 17

I don't know what's sadder: that the infodump is dead for the undetermined future, or that someone had to point that fact out to me. Sigh.
posted by Plutor at 9:39 AM on February 17

If anyone out there knows how to get DBI, DBD::ODBC, SQL Server, and Unicode all playing nice on 64-bit Windows I have a few questions for you. Maybe this should be in Ask.
posted by pb at 10:09 AM on February 17

I have all the files from the October dump, if that helps any.
posted by Pronoiac at 11:41 AM on February 17

Maybe this should be in Ask.

The best thing about being lead tech is you can post an AskMe as many times as you want.

I know nothing about Windows or 64-bit anything but people are experiencing similar problems in OS X and are actually compiling software down to 32-bit. Not sure if that is an option or possibility for you here (obviously, compiling SQL Server...really? SQL Server? Okay...is out of the question).
posted by Deathalicious at 12:05 PM on February 17

Is there a marked improvement in using 64-bit Windows? Why not run the 32-bit version and rest assured that it's better supported?
posted by spiderskull at 2:07 PM on February 17

64-bit Windows is much, much better for ColdFusion. But yeah, downgrading to the 32-bit version of Perl might be the way to go, haven't tried that yet. In any case, we're going to be running any Perl on 64-bit Windows—that's not a variable option for us.
posted by pb at 2:25 PM on February 17

I have an old Vic-20 if you want to run perl on that until you can get the supercluster working.
posted by blue_beetle at 2:42 PM on February 17

I have an Old Skool Gameboy. Would that help?
posted by deborah at 2:50 PM on February 17

I got some cinnamon rolls and half a bottle of wine.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:13 PM on February 17

and thou.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:07 PM on February 17 [2 favorites]

Are they Cinnabons? Because, if they are, I'm there. With my Gameboy.
posted by deborah at 9:22 PM on February 17

I have a C64, and a Dreamcast. I think if I wire em together....and wrap it in tin foil.....
posted by hellojed at 11:08 PM on February 17

I can't believe Metafilter is the only site on the web on which the word "datawankery" has been used.
posted by lukemeister at 6:58 AM on February 18 [3 favorites]

I have a C64, and a Dreamcast. I think if I wire em together....and wrap it in tin foil.....

...you'll have an oscillation overthruster.
posted by Dr-Baa at 8:03 AM on February 18

OMG I COINED A WORD
posted by desjardins at 9:11 AM on February 18

OMG I COINED A WORD

It's no "unjuggable stoppernaut," but that's still pretty cool.
posted by dersins at 10:23 AM on February 18 [1 favorite]

Ditto for the Markov chain post generator.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo...
posted by Devils Rancher at 10:50 AM on February 19