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I haven't been able to much there in over a week. It’s starting to get annoying.
Wed Jan 29 20:50:26 PST 2003
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Sat Sep 28 00:54:00 PDT 2002
If they can just stabilize on the first we might finally be there with a new dump... which would be good news all round.
Fingers crossed.
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I think I'll wait for the enthusiasm to die down ;).
For the record my first search had September and the refreshed error page had January so maybe something is happening after all.
[edit] Hit the refresh button and now the January results are returning recently added sites and cat changes...very good news :) [/edit]
I presume you are some sort of Meta Editor John? If so, is there high expectation that the RDF will work this time?
The search index has also been updated, and progress has been made toward solving the catid problems, so hopefully a full rdf with catids will be available soon.
OntheEdge, the server time outs aren't related to the search or RDF. I'd suggest reading some of the posts in the internal Bugs and Features forum, they should give you more information on what's happening and how it's being fixed.
I have no idea what the truth is, but I can't imagine Netscape being *that* clueless they wouldn't. For something like the ODP, redundency seems an obvious must. Otherwise one hard drive crash could take the whole thing down. Would Netscape want to publicly look like bozos with this happening? As for cost, load on the ODP isn't that great, and wouldn't require any sort of expensive boxes. This sort of redunancy would require maybe a few thousand at most in hardware. Chicken feed compared to the cost of the 2 paid staffers.
Just my opinion of course!
My head serves absolutely no purpose except to sit on my shoulders.
