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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 02:42:29 +0000 From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) Subject: Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004... Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action References: <432c32961d25d0e649fedb4aedbcf520abdba15f@i2pn2.org> <09jhjj18ilvlokctkrtjjaeiav80hld9l4@4ax.com> <8lnmjj1qfifg8dht3eq5qgdouqvg2dek4i@4ax.com> User-Agent: tin/2.6.2-20221225 ("Pittyvaich") (Linux/6.10.7-100.fc39.x86_64 (x86_64)) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 02:42:30 +0000 Lines: 64 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.180.143.226 X-Trace: sv3-HDKKzZDsBOEudUWr8ixvokEroMweWp7HAwF2V2j/x0JbHiCEZOSqAbri77Nkt8nVdKJAvF8O3NDMAkz!Il8XRei+4D3VBuAwbpdayJWhfTaDv8F8Oh9gzTcV5YvMr7Ie3piEcFVi/wTxUs6y7fJnsI0bCUl1!q/LeyNDTcXNzUJM+xurc8N4zswCnyPKI X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3872 Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 01:06:32 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote: > >Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > >> On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 01:03:45 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote: > >> >Are you looking at your saved local posts?! Or are those online? I miss DejaNews! :( > >> It's all local. (I have a spreadsheet!* ;-) > >Wow. You keep track of everything locally, don't you? ;-) > > > >Ugh. See, this is why I miss DejaNews. Heck, Google Groups could in its > >early days before it got worse. And why does https://groups.google.com > >require me to log in? Frak that. > Google was always awful in comparison to Deja News, and only got worse > as the years rolled on. But it got terrible once they rolled Usenet > into their whole Groups interface; it polluted both streams and I > don't think it made users of either platform happier for the > intersection. > Still, I was surprised to see how much spam was on c.s.i.p.g.action, > according to Google. Almost all of that got filtered server-side for > me and it was rare that any snuck through so it actually ended up on > my client. Of course, Google could have filtered it too, but I guess > since most of it was /coming/ from Google groups users, that might > have been a conflict of interest. > Narkive is pretty good, although I do wish they had the ability to > better locate articles. The lack is forgivable though, since that > would likely require a lot more CPU and bandwidth, and I suspect the > site is already run on a shoestring. > >> * not actually a spreadsheet > >Oh, you pecker. :P > Would it make you feel better if I told you it was a five-gigabyte MS > Access database?* ;-) Geez. Big. > * I don't actually use a database either. If you must know, it's all > just a bunch of plain text files stored in a ZIP** archive. 5 GB of text files? Impressive. I am also an old school basic text files too. > ** okay, it's a 7Z archive ;-) How big in total decompressed? -- "When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, 'So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.'" --Acts 11:18. Chicken & King R 2 far! Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org. / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( )