From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Aug 10 17:13:56 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:13:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Maezz-0004h0-MH for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:13:56 -0700 Received: from mailgate.denbridgemarine.com ([83.104.25.50]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Maezt-0004gj-Ns for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:13:52 -0700 Received: by mailgate.denbridgemarine.com (Postfix, from userid 30) id 00572600823; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:13:49 +0100 (BST) Received: from 121.219.131.136 by mailgate.denbridgemarine.com with HTTP; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:13:49 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <1102.121.219.131.136.1249949629.squirrel@mailgate.denbridgemarine.com> In-Reply-To: <282594.94388.qm@web88002.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <200908071723.18922.phma@phma.optus.nu> <4A7CAA82.1070907@perpetuum-immobile.de> <200908080621.04325.phma@phma.optus.nu> <1198.121.219.131.136.1249898464.squirrel@mailgate.denbridgemarine.com> <282594.94388.qm@web88002.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:13:49 +0100 (BST) Subject: [lojban] Re: webserver hosed? From: "Colin Wright" To: lojban-list@lojban.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.10a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 15946 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: colin.wright@denbridgemarine.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list >>>> lojban.org is hosted on amazon cloudfront and we >>>> are currently experiencing cpu steal, that's why >>>> the website is so slow - sometimes so slow that >>>> it won't work at all :( >>> >>> What's cloudfront? What's CPU steal? >> >> No one has answered seriously or sensibly, because >> both questions are easily answered by Google. >> > > An unreasonable, snarky and unhelpful response to a > perfectly reasonable question! It was intended to be none of the above. > Is it really so difficult to write in language that > doesn't require us to go to Google, dictionaries and > encyclopedias to figure out what's meant? I didn't know what the answers were, so I typed the query into Google and got sufficient explanation to be content that I knew enough for myself. I'm still not an expert, and hence felt ill-equiped to give a detailed explanation. Referring the questioner to an alternative source of information seemed the best idea. > No wonder newbies who are not savvy in IT, linguistics or > logic are scared away from lojban! Any more than apparently being completely ignored? OK, I won't bother replying at all, then, unless I feel I'm an expert. No wonder people might feel that this group simply ignores them. -- Denbridge Marine Limited may monitor email traffic data and the content of email for the purposes of security and staff training. Denbridge Marine Limited. Registered in England and Wales at DSG, 43 Castle St, Liverpool. L2 9TL. Registered Number 4850477 To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.