dreadedmonkeygod . net

Guess who went running on the freshly cut lawn on Monday?

Not officially back up, as I'm still making tweaks and getting things tested, but things are trending in the right direction. Hope everyone (yes, both of you) can bear with me just a little longer...

Unfortunately, the easy fixes aren't working, and I don't have time for anything more in-depth. I'm still hovering at about 1.3 open database connections on average, and that's too many. (The limit is 0.2 average connections.)

I've made my best shoot-from-the-hip attempt, and now it's time to really dig in. But a full cycle of debug, fix, test, and test again is going to take time I just don't have this week.

So I'm going to have to shut down the site for a while until I can make some fixes.

See y'all on the flipside...

So, back on the 12th I had a bit of a spike in my traffic here.  10,000 hits to my comment form alone.

Spammers.

I've been over the official resource usage limits on my ISP's server for some time, and they've generous enough (or busy enough with other things) to look the other way for a while.

Unfortunately, that spike in traffic put me on their to-do list, and I've had to make some adjustments. I've put in a caching layer that I expect to solve the problem with the ISP, but there will be a trade-off.

Unfortunately, comments posted here may take up to an hour to appear.

 I'll address this when I have time to sit down for a few hours and rework the way those pages are built, but for now I ask for your patience while I beef up the security around here and convince my ISP that I've handled the problem. 

I've wanted those things gone for years, and now I've finally bothered to Google for "emacs disable menu bar" and "emacs disable tool bar."

  (tool-bar-mode -1) ;; Disable tool bar
  (menu-bar-mode -1) ;; Disable menu bar

Nice to get some of the visual clutter cleared away.