Site is slooooow

[comfortably_numb]

I played with windows 1.0 back in late 1983

Fun fact: Clear Channel radio stations were still using Windows 3.1 on their automation PC's until at least 2003!

 

[jayn_j]

Fun fact: Clear Channel radio stations were still using Windows 3.1 on their automation PC's until at least 2003!

Not surprised. I was still supporting hp9825 io issues until I left Colorado in 2007.
Industrial apps tend to be very long lived. When a control app is working, you don't risk changing things if at all possible.
When I was running the business, we took on some contracts to provide board test for a 80286 military system in 2005.
Aerospace is even worse. A major platform can take a decade or more to develop and NOTHING can be updated. A good example is the Airbus A400 project. We did the data network including component data loading for that one. When the project was defined, they chose a state of the art media which was a 2Gb PCMCIA card. By the time the aircraft went operational in 2012 we were forced to buy used cards off ebay. We could not use usb memory, even though it was present on the commercial laptops we were using for user interface. Real effort to find laptops with PCMCIA slots as well.
The reality is that the consumer market runs on a much shorter time line and anyone who is setting up commercial, military or especially aerospace components is going to be negotiating for lifetime buys for all projected product plus maintenance spares.

 

[harshness]

I worked on a metal cutting machine (high-definition plasma) and a metal bending machine (press brake) that are running Windows CE from the Windows 95 era.

 

[Foxbat]

Hey! About 19:50 here in the Eastern TZ and our usually zippy site is like molasses in January. At least it seems that way here in Michiana…

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Zippy as normal here.

 

[KE4EST]

Zippy here too.

 

[primestar31]

No issues in mid-Michigan

 

[comfortably_numb]

Snappy here in NM

 

[navychop]

…do….dah….

 

[long_time_DNC]

No issues here in the PNW...

 

[Bobby]

Working great in the SF Bay Area.

 

[Foxbat]

Huh. I was getting the blue bars of slothiness when posting. I tried restarting my iPad and it seems a little better now.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone!

 

[charlesrshell]

Running great St Louis area.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Something just hit the search engine with over 50,000 searches a second searching the members. I trmporarly disabled the search until I can figure out hats going on and why.

 

[KE4EST]

Yeah the site was taking forever to load.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yeah I got a notification about it and logged in and looked at the logs and was just searches of members from a bunch of different addresses. So I killed the enhanced search and am now rebuilding the search idex as it was saying it was damaged and needed to be rebuilt. That is running now.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

This seems odd... guests: 11,542 online right now.

 

[Foxbat]

This seems odd... guests: 11,542 online right now.

Who invited "them"?!!??

edit: looks better now:

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Who invited "them"?!!??

Looks like your iPad.

 

[b4pjoe]

This seems odd... guests: 11,542 online right now.

Chinese bots?