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Well it has been a long time without an update. Have we ran out of things to write about? Not in the least. Last month was rather busy. I played more video games than I have in the longest time. Halo 3 came out and then there was Portal (Orange Box). I also moved and decided to switch hosting companies. My thoughts were very positive until a few minutes ago when I finally decided to do some work and got a CPU quota warning. Now the whole reason I left Dreamhost was because of the sometimes ridiculous load averages. Overall it was sluggish for a large amount of time. I didn’t mind all the time but I wanted to find something better.

Yes they are extremely high.

me: 13:54:38 up 19 min, 2 users, load average: 292.84, 166.94, 76.25
Jordan: LOL
Jordan: god damn
Jordan: :-/
me: 13:55:45 up 20 min, 3 users, load average: 369.27, 216.13, 99.91
Jordan: i bet someone got mad traffic or something
me: 13:57:04 up 22 min, 2 users, load average: 381.51, 256.07, 123.55
me: can't stop. won't stop.
me: log into dreamhost
me: try to send me a message
me: or just login and i will send you one
Jordan: im in
Jordan: almost
me: yeah i see
me: tell me when you get a prompt
me: did you see my broadcast?
Jordan: lol
Jordan: yes i did
Jordan: lmao.
Jordan: im still not to a prompt
me: that is all i wanted to test
Jordan: you're an asshole 
me: load average: 424.28, 324.76, 169.90
me: watch my account get cancelled
me: HE CALLED ME A FAGGOT
me: something is eating ram
Jordan: finally a prompt...
me: and it is swapping to disk
me: wow.
me: wtf
me: we broke 500
Jordan: lol
Jordan: YOU ARENT HELPING!
me: 14:05:25 up 30 min, 5 users, load average: 532.07, 434.22, 264.45
me: oh im blogging about this shit
Jordan: lol
Jordan: keep a graph
Jordan: name it "Have you ever seen a load of 500?"
me: in 2005
me: someone at dreamhost
me: got 1000
Jordan: lol
Jordan: wow.
Jordan: how high does it go :-/
me: 14:06:47 up 31 min, 5 users, load average: 579.96, 472.47, 291.90
me: forever i guess
Jordan: the only thing I know about load averages is that they're usually below 1
me: 14:07:18 up 32 min, 5 users, load average: 576.01, 481.76, 300.73
me: going down slightly
Jordan: i put in a support ticket, and asked for details
me: 14:08:42 up 33 min, 5 users, load average: 530.73, 489.78, 319.38
me: 14:09:18 up 34 min, 5 users, load average: 570.45, 503.14, 330.09

Jordan and I have both ditched MySpace for something better, Facebook. If you haven’t seen what a modern social networking website is like you should try it out. The coolest thing has to be the applications. Most of them are slow at times and I don’t know who is to blame, the people that made the application or Facebook. I’m not sure how much actually goes through Facebook. I will be finding out soon though, when I make an application. Not all the applications are great most of them appear to be pyramid schemes to invite more friends to use it and you get rewarded. STUPID. Facebook is definitely a step in the right direction. It isn’t perfect and has some small quirks but still way better than MySpace ever was. When I look back at MySpace my eyes hurt now. I have headaches and seizures…it makes me cry. Facebook seems a bit harder to navigate than MySpace. Another thing that was different was the fact that you have to check your notifications manually as there is no indication that something happened. Well enough of my random comments.

Update (05NOV07)

Well it just seems that I am RETARDED. The reason I was getting over quota errors was because I had turned on the FastCGI option when I first took a look at my new hosting. I guess FastCGI and Wordpress don’t get along.