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[Ferretlover]

Same AP story appeared in the St Paul Press on Sunday. It was titled, "Energy survivalists preparing for chaos."

[jasonraymondson]

The upgrade proceeds.
Problem being the long weekend in the US is our host isn't available until tomorrow.
And bandwidth isn't a big problem... yet. Processor cycles however... big problem. (& memory).
Fear not good people... cycles are on the way.

What has been the peak server load?

[Aaron]

The upgrade proceeds.
Problem being the long weekend in the US is our host isn't available until tomorrow.
And bandwidth isn't a big problem... yet. Processor cycles however... big problem. (& memory).
Fear not good people... cycles are on the way.

What has been the peak server load?

Shut MySQL down yesterday.

100% sustained

[jasonraymondson]

What processor are you running on the server? Xeon? Dual Quad with 8 GB of DDR3 should be able to handle the load. of course your host will probably rake you over that. Good Luck and Keep up the good work and staying on top of this.

Dual-Core Xeon 4 Gig Ram. We'll be moving above that... possibly clustered machines.

[jasonraymondson]

Did you all check out the foxnew site and see who they were quoting.

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox/pa ... geId=3.3.1

What Are People Saying on PeakOil.com?

"I think if people are better informed, we're less likely to see the types of riots, violence, unrest, and irrational responses to peak oil. All one's preparation could be for nothing if you're surrounded by a neighborhood of desperate people who were left in the dark." -- Windmills

"If the do-gooders among us pull too many of them into the boat, the boat goes down, and we will die too. This is overshoot, and that means we're in a leaky little lifeboat, not on a dock on the shore of Paradise." -- Jenab6

"I think we are one news announcement away from the start of the Survivor: Peak Oil episode." -- MonteQuest

[kokoda]

Peakoil.com popularity is soaring.

http://www.quantcast.com/profile/traffi ... om.peakoil

Its figures have blown out from 6000 per day up to 40,000 in a matter of a couple of days!!!

[Rage]

It looks very similar to the global population graphs I have seen to argue for a die-off or the "hockey stick" graph of global atmospheric carbon concentrations. Perhaps this is an ominous sign?

[Boo38]

...could be the associated press article by Samantha Gross titled "Ready for Disaster"...saw it in the Wisconsin State Journal on 5/25/2008...nice little reference to peakoil.com at the end...sorry don't have a link. Of course, the surge in the graph started before this article, but I have been seeing a lot more references to peak oil issues in the MSM lately...

[kpeavey]

Matt Drudge links to the Samantha Gross article

[JPL]

Did you all check out the foxnew site and see who they were quoting.
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox/pa ... geId=3.3.1
What Are People Saying on PeakOil.com?
"I think if people are better informed, we're less likely to see the types of riots, violence, unrest, and irrational responses to peak oil. All one's preparation could be for nothing if you're surrounded by a neighborhood of desperate people who were left in the dark." -- Windmills
"If the do-gooders among us pull too many of them into the boat, the boat goes down, and we will die too. This is overshoot, and that means we're in a leaky little lifeboat, not on a dock on the shore of Paradise." -- Jenab6
"I think we are one news announcement away from the start of the Survivor: Peak Oil episode." -- MonteQuest

Wherps. Jason you now have village genius status IMHO (grin).

Now some of the crap we've spouted for the last few years (OK I know there was a lot of good stuff as well) comes back to haunt us.

This site is a rich seam for any jurno digging for a class-A wackoe story. Oops...

JP

[drgoodword]

And bandwidth isn't a big problem... yet. Processor cycles however... big problem. (& memory).
Fear not good people... cycles are on the way.

Aaron...I hope you won't hesitate to reactivate the donate button if needed.

[Ainan]

It makes me sick to my stomach. I'm not ready for peak oil to be mainstream. My advantage over the schmucks is slipping away...
What do you bet that gold and silver take off this week with all the n00b buyers along with those who were waiting on the sidelines to buy when peak oil went "front page?"

I agree Polemic, i need another year and a half of global stability and a lack of awareness of peak oil on the publics part for my preparations. It may be wrong but it's either them or me.

[Revi]

The price of a barrel of oil went down, so maybe the story is over now too.

I don't think that the news has an attention span longer than a week.

[Aaron]

And bandwidth isn't a big problem... yet. Processor cycles however... big problem. (& memory).
Fear not good people... cycles are on the way.

Aaron...I hope you won't hesitate to reactivate the donate button if needed.

Trying to avoid it... may have to... stay tuned.

[shakespear1]

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Sarkozy: "Demand for oil is stronger and stronger and supply is increasing very little, if at all"

I would say that the message is being spread to get everyone accustomed to hearing it. It is a gradual process so as not to shock the masses.

[cowuvula]

Very cheap bandwidth in seattle area, you can put your computer in the building at ATT building in seattle, one of the real backbones, quite cheap like 10 cents a gig download.
also you need to move out of houston and move your yacht business to portland, you have about two years to do this, course may be you just want to check out quick and get it over with, I understand that.

Anyway, nested servers are the way to go in case of peak hits like this weekend. My provider can handle 250 megabyte per second continuous sustained.

[kpeavey]

August 12th
25,000th member signed on

3 months and a day for 5000 new members. The surge from the newspaper article gave this place a boost. Unfortunately much of the spike in traffic waned after a couple of weeks.

[kpeavey]

my first post
seems like I've been a doomer for some time.