Comments on: Blog Service

By: welikerocks

welikerocks — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:05:38 +0000

“P-dog” Friend of Curt?

So yep, it’s official! You can call Mrs.Rocks, WeAreParanoid from now on.
I’ll own it. I am. I am. Skeptial, suspicious, and paranoid officially now I guess. Might be a good screen name after all.

Especially when my husband, the environmental scientist asks what are the definitive papers re GW and AGW and we can’t seem to find one without errors and fudging. That’s just sad and disturbing. Especially when work like CA is doing gets ignored or not done in the review process or by the authors themselves. ( yay AGU!)

A hater? Not us, not me. Hate is a useless-awful emotion. That word is thrown around much too easily these days, IMHO. I’ve seen it, who uses it and who it comes from. And I’ve made up my mind about it. This also is-my opinion.

I am glad the board glip wasn’t sinsister as I thought it was!!
Sincerely!

By: Steve McIntyre

Steve McIntyre — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:32:20 +0000

#18. That’s a pretty plausible logical explanation. There are a lot of images on the site and that would be what’s doing it. It does result in a LOT of server volume relative to most blogs although realclimate would presumably have similar or greater server volume.

#21. I do not purport to be a computer expert and relied on information that I was given during a shutdown when we were trying to resolve things as quickly as possible. Dealing with the service provider is like pushing on a string to get information. In order to diagnose things, I proceeded to try to trace the information back to original data and in the process detrermined that I had been given some inaccurate information and we arrived at a correct diagnosis. That’s why you check things.

By: Steve Sadlov

Steve Sadlov — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:14:03 +0000

I’ve witnessed way more embarassing things like this which involved large multinationals. We all have our “DOH!” moments. Good work with the root cause analysis guys! Not bad for a true “non profit!” (“anti profit” is probably the appropriate term, thanks to Steve M’s personal financing of all this!)

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:04:56 +0000

Its interesting how some have jumped to the conclusion that the problem was a DOS attack before all the data were in. This ought to be a lesson for us.

Yeah, I know even the paranoid can be right about having enemies, but let’s do the audit before we start blasting at shadows.

By: P-Dog

P-Dog — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:48:15 +0000

Why do people make claims of “eco-terrorism” without any evidence? Turns out it’s not even a DOS attack. Pony up, haters.

And what dumba$$ still is attributing a quote that Gore didn’t even make to Gore? Pshhh.

By: Michael J

Michael J — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:28:42 +0000

I bet Al Gore could have helped you resolve this Steve, After all, he did invent the Internet.

By: Chris H

Chris H — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:10:12 +0000

Aaargh! ~~between~~

By: Chris H

Chris H — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:08:17 +0000

#17 I had a quick look at a couple of pages and a few images and as a rough estimate, I’d say the average page size, including images is around 100,000 bytes. At 1,000,000,000 bytes per day, that would be between 10,000 page downloads per day.

By: Steve McIntyre

Steve McIntyre — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:49:55 +0000

Update: the problem seems to be a little different than initially advertised and the server people have re-described the reason for the shutdown. The problem is due to the number of bytes served; it’s not due to a DOS attack. We didn’t get a 1-2 million hit spike after all. The problem is that we’re running at over 1 GB being served every day. For example, two weeks ago the weekly total from the stat sheet was 7 487 504 903 bytes. It seems like a lot for a blog.

By: welikerocks

welikerocks — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:48:45 +0000

#15 Curt
And isn’t only natural that the Culprit returns to the scene of the Crime?
Concern Climate Scientist
Your “C” names aren’t very original.
Even your real name is a double C, eh?
Sheesh.