Is static-rendering possible?

November 12, 2001 7:57 AM

Despite all the new RAM, at least from Europe, access is reaching 11.9 levels of difficulty. Is static-rendering possible? This time users are trusting MetaFilter more than the usual sources, as it does a great summing up job.
posted by MiguelCardoso to Uptime at 7:57 AM (14 comments total)

I know a lot of users don't like NPR but they're certainly doing a much better job than CNN, Sky or BBC World Service. They're calm, they actually quote all other TV and radio stations impartially - acting as a really valuable summary of all available news on the crash - and they have cool and collected commentators on hand.

posted by MiguelCardoso at 8:01 AM on November 12, 2001

Er, sorry, just got on to the front page. Seems like its a problem with the server this end. Just slow, that's all. ;-(
posted by MiguelCardoso at 8:06 AM on November 12, 2001

Things were bad on November ninth? I wasn't aware. :)

If the load stays bad, I'll move to static rendering later this morning.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:30 AM on November 12, 2001

What's the current status?
posted by ParisParamus at 11:21 AM on November 12, 2001

Seems to be working for me. I have a feeling this thread is causing some problems though.
posted by PWA_BadBoy at 11:25 AM on November 12, 2001

I'm not getting a "new submission" parenthetical statement on Mefi (but it is working here on Metatalk)
posted by ParisParamus at 12:16 PM on November 12, 2001

PP, are you seeing this message in the upper right?:

"Due to increased traffic, this page is static for the day"
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:30 PM on November 12, 2001

PP, are you seeing this message in the upper right?:

Yes. But either I was not before, or it was not there before. Sorry to waste your time like that, Matt.

posted by ParisParamus at 12:58 PM on November 12, 2001

access is reaching 11.9 levels of difficulty

you're still mad about the times thing and did that just to spite the americans, didn't you?

;o)
posted by lotsofno at 2:06 PM on November 12, 2001

Hey, lotsofno, the truth is even more ridiculous. I've always written September 11 on my posts - even initiated a thread on the correct way to refer to the attacks - and today, wishing to be cool and American-like I decided, disastrously, to adopt your own style. 'Cept that, instead of 9.11, I wrote 11.9, betraying my wan attempt to be one of the crowd. And got ticked off by The Man himself too. Pathetic indeed; I agree.

P.S.
Doggone, it's The Times, you insolent whippersnapper! :-)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 2:19 PM on November 12, 2001

wishing to be cool and American-like

ahah! You heard it here first, folks -- MiguelCardoso wants to be American-like.... If even MC (that bastion of stubborn European multiculturalism) can see the light, maybe there is hope yet for those poor, as-yet unenlightened foreigners among us who still fail, despite the preponderance of evidence, to perceive the incomparable awesomeness that is America, and its flawless, unflappable (i.e., "cool") understanding of the True Nature of Things....
posted by mattpfeff at 2:50 PM on November 12, 2001

there's "tech stuff" near the bottom of the about page. I think there was some mention of some more RAM being added somewhere in MeTa, too, but I can't find it....
posted by mattpfeff at 6:22 PM on November 12, 2001

Here it is, mattpfeff.

*mumbling like Igor in Frankenstein Junior: "Can't do anything for yourself, can you, mattpfeff...what would you do, I ask you, without me constantly cleaning and tidying up after you...honestly...groan, mumble, sheesh..."* :)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 8:30 PM on November 12, 2001

11.9...

MiguelCardoso is Christopher Walken in The Continental
posted by y2karl at 12:00 AM on November 13, 2001