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Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
Posted by Magnus on 1 March 2003, 19:25 GMT

The long hunt is over, and we have finally hired ourselves a couple of file archivers. New to our staff are Joey Gannon and Morgan Davies, who will share the job of file archiving.

They have just been added to our systems, and it will be a while before they have been introduced in all the parts of our systems, so please give them a while to get up to speed. Once there, though, we hope to see the large backlog of files shrink fast.

Update (Nick): Files seem to be trickling in. After seeing Random Numbar Generator's 73 port as the first added file I didn't know whether to laugh or cry; nonetheless, here we are.

 


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Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
Joey Gannon  Account Info
(Web Page)

Yep... I'm one of the new archivers. Yay for me! As soon as Niklas tells us everything we need to know, we'll start working on the queue right away. Our goal is to make a big dent by Pi Day.

     1 March 2003, 19:32 GMT

Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
Munkay Account Info

Congrats to you and Morgan. We all want a big chunk taken out of that queue

     1 March 2003, 21:15 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
swtaarrs  Account Info
(Web Page)

Maybe you should consider shutting down the file upload form until you get the pending queue under control, so the files don't keep piling up.

     2 March 2003, 06:07 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
Aaron Fineman  Account Info
(Web Page)

I can help go over them. Just email some to amfineman@earthlink.net, and i can send back a reveiw. (this might not be legal)

     2 March 2003, 14:11 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
Joey Gannon  Account Info
(Web Page)

I'm not entirely sure what you said, but if it might not be legal, it's probably not a good idea. :o)

     2 March 2003, 16:37 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
no_one_2000_  Account Info
(Web Page)

Reviewing is a different job, but you could apply for that when they start hiring them. :)

     2 March 2003, 22:50 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
angelboy Account Info
(Web Page)

What's the difference between a reviewer and an archiver?

     3 March 2003, 22:00 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
no_one_2000_  Account Info
(Web Page)

A BIG one. A reviewer looks at files and gives them a ranking, sort of. It rates them from 1-10 on different aspects of the program and then they write a summary of the program. This gives people information about the program; "should I download this or not?"

An archiver is somebody who uploads the files into the archives (ticalc.org/pub).

On another note: maybe it's just me, but it seems that ticalc.org has been loading instantaneously (holy cow, that's a big word) on my 56K modem lately. Before it was really slow. Did you guys do something to boost the speed, or am I just the only one on the site right now?

     3 March 2003, 22:44 GMT


Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
KermMartian  Account Info
(Web Page)

Nice humility! Lol :)
Congratulations! Hopefully TICalc.org can get back to 2-3 day uploads eventually! Yehah!

     3 March 2003, 16:34 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
Nick Disabato  Account Info
(Web Page)

Joey got his humility from me. :P

     3 March 2003, 18:02 GMT

Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
Daniel Wolfe  Account Info

Finally!

     1 March 2003, 19:35 GMT


Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
FOCUSEDWOLF Account Info
(Web Page)

Funny. I always though ticalc was run out of someones garage....it almost sounds like some crazy "nonprophit" buisness. Is their a office building you guys rent...lol ;-)

cubicles...hah

     2 March 2003, 04:06 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
rmohr02 Account Info
(Web Page)

See link.

     2 March 2003, 05:44 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
Munkay Account Info

Please tell me that that is not the way it is right now!!

     3 March 2003, 21:45 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
Morgan Davies  Account Info
(Web Page)

It is.

     3 March 2003, 22:19 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
no_one_2000_  Account Info
(Web Page)

What's wrong with it?! It seems to work fine (obviously)

     3 March 2003, 22:46 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
Munkay Account Info

Well I'm ignorant about the sever end of computers so just give me a while longer and the stuff should make a more sense

     4 March 2003, 01:41 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
Chivo  Account Info

Just FYI, servers are most often I/O (input/output) bound, meaning their performance is limited by their storage and transmission speed and is not limited very much by the processor speed. That's why they have just 200MHz processors but work just fine as servers.

I hope that's what you wanted to know about servers. If it isn't, then don't read this post.

     4 March 2003, 03:25 GMT

Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
joelt  Account Info
(Web Page)

Congratulations! Unfortuantely, ticalc.org has lost some of it's prestige of having the largest archives on the net. Hopefully, you can get that back. In the meantime, don't let the necessity of expressing the number of files in the pending queue in scientific notation drive you insane.

     1 March 2003, 19:44 GMT

Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
jrock7286  Account Info

Congratulations...You guys are really needed in the staff. Postings have REALLY been slow...

wow...no_one hasn't posted yet...isn't he like ALWAYS on???

     1 March 2003, 19:49 GMT

Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
bak Account Info

Good now there can be some newer files posted.

     1 March 2003, 19:59 GMT


Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
Chickendude  Account Info
(Web Page)

You're a quick one! :-p
And good luck to Joey and Morgan and don't forget--uploading files is fun!

     2 March 2003, 21:52 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
no_one_2000_  Account Info
(Web Page)

Yes! PLEASE don't lose interest in uploading files :)

     2 March 2003, 22:57 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
343GuiltySpark  Account Info
(Web Page)

>> uploading files is fun!
lol ... It probably is until you've uploaded about a hundred ... hope they don't get overwhelmed by the 1200+ files in the queue. You know, my Calculus teacher always tells us to have fun on the tests ... <sarcasm>we just ALWAYS have fun on those tests</sarcasm>.

     3 March 2003, 00:19 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
Morgan Davies  Account Info
(Web Page)

Actually it is kind of fun!

     5 March 2003, 07:06 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
Joey Gannon  Account Info
(Web Page)

Actually, the fun part is when you try to add a file and the profanity filter finds something it doesn't like. Sudddenly this list of obscenities pops up, and it's kinda amusing. (Archiving at school = bad!)

     5 March 2003, 15:26 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
343GuiltySpark  Account Info
(Web Page)

Well ...
:If Archiving_at_School==Bad
:Then
:Archive_at_home
:End
But then I guess you'd just be wasting that free time at school that you apparently have ...
Is the list of obscenities just a list of those found or a list of every single one that isn't allowed?

     5 March 2003, 23:20 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Joey and Morgan join ticalc.org
no_one_2000_  Account Info
(Web Page)

Hey, that would be kind of funny, until the teacher sees... How many times has that type of thing happened? (Hopefully none of mine... I upload clean programs LOL)

     6 March 2003, 01:26 GMT

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