Forum running like a herd of turtles !!

[Les]

G'day folks,

I reckon it's NOT me - I have 2 different ISP's and both exhibit the same symptom. Today (12 Mar 2006) the forum seems to take TEN times longer than usual to load/refresh.

Any ideas? Sim? Anything going on at the back end?

Regards,

 

[House_Keeper]

I've noticed too that it's been unusually slow...

Maybe a sunday morning effect

 

[skater]

Mine has been slow for the last few days, but today just has to take the cake. It feels like it did when I had dial up a few years ago.

 

[Chilli]

Yep very very slow here too.

 

[Merovingian]

Slow here, too.

It must be a Quadra issue...

 

[muppie]

Yep, There was a DoS attack on one of the servers shooting up the bandwidth utilisation this morning. The network engineer put a cap on the traffic at the moment, but I have asked them to lift the cap now. Thanks.

 

[Rixter]

Its still very slow here

 

[keithj]

Its still very slow here

And here..

 

[duncan_m]

For the record.. the collective noun for a gathering of turtles is either a bale, a dule or a nest Wikipedia Link.

 

[Davidr]

It is not too bad here...

 

[Les]

Say wha.. ??

Thanks Dunc,

the collective noun for a gathering of turtles is either a bale, a dule or a nest

But if I'd said any of the those, there'd be a collective "Huh?" from several people (including me )
I wonder if that would then create a "confusion of Huh's" - (collectively speaking),

But it could've been worse (based on other collective nouns):-
A parliament of turtles
A pride of turtles
A murder of turtles

I would've thought that a "yawn of turtles" would be far more appropriate

Sheesh, I hope they don't pay the people who invent these collective nouns too much - they don't deserve it

Regards,

 

[Les]

Hey Muppie,

Better get him to do it again then ....

The network engineer put a cap on the traffic at the moment, but I have asked them to lift the cap now

It isn't any better.....

Regards,

 

[muppie]

is it still slow ?

 

[Rixter]

Its just picked up Muppie in the last 10 mins

 

[chrispy]

No problems here at the moment

Chris

 

[geoffw]

It's been mostly fast- but I did have a turtle period a while back.

 

[AlmostBob]

A parliament of turtles

about the only collective noun not appropriate to parliament would be "a murder of parliament", too much of a good thing, reincarnate Guy Fawkes

 

[skater]

It's still slow here.

 

[Macca]

Been slow here for a few days, still is, actually worse this am

 

[simonjulie]

just started slowing down today.
Simon