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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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 Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 10:30 pm Post subject: Dave's ESL Cafe: reminds me of 1992 |
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Remember when it used to take 20 seconds for an Internet page to load, back in the early 90s?
Don't fret, you can still have that experience by visiting Dave's ESL Cafe!
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Xuanzang
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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I thought you meant Rodney King  |
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cvmurrieta
Joined: 02 Mar 2009
Location: Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I've noticed the slower speeds on Dave's recently too |
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Frankly Mr Shankly
Joined: 13 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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| cvmurrieta wrote: |
| I've noticed the slower speeds on Dave's recently too |
They have been a constant feature of the board since I started using it in 2003. But don't take it from me, ask the Yangpa
http://theyangpa.wordpress.com/2006/03/28/114353940499504484/
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Dave Sperling Responds to PHP Error Complaints with Even More PHP Errors
By Billy B. Robertson HNIC
Far from the smoggy streets of crowded Seoul, life is sweet out here in California. And it's sweeter than most for Dave Sperling, owner of Dave's ESL Cafe, the most popular site on the internet for ESL job listings in South Korea. As you enter the gate and coast down the three-mile driveway towards "The House that Konglish Built," Mr. Sperling's status as the king of ESL job sites is hard to deny. And yet, despite this success, Mr. Sperling has been encountering an increasing vocal outcry from the users of his site, who claim that the site is too frequently down and too unreliable.
Speaking to us from atop a pile of cash, the webmaster answered his critics, "I don't know what everybody's complaining about. I keep working on the job listings, and that money keeps rolling in. In fact, I don't even know why the ESL market is so hot in over there. I guess they've really rebuilt the country since the Vietnam War." Pausing to take a sip from his strawberry daiquiri while fanning himself with a handful of 100-dollar bills, Mr. Sperling reflected on his success, "Hell, 2 years ago, I didn't even know the intronet was!"
"Frankly, I don't see any problem the server," he said, gesturing towards the cobwebbed machine which is kept in the corner of the room next to some dingy mops and old paintcans, "It's the best server Atari ever made! I think it works just fine, it's just that sometimes I need a socket for my hairdryer."
Dave then took us on a tour of his house. Leading us down the marble-laid hallway, he opened a door to reveal an enormous closet. Inside was a huge collection of black berets. "I bought this one at an auction of old props from the Blossom show. Lead actress Mayim Bialik was wearing this in the episode where they find out that Joey has Down's Syndrome."
While staring in the mirror and adjusting his beret at various angles, he came back to the subject of his site, "They wanna complain about the constant PHP errors, but Sperling don't play that. I decided I was gonna have to calm things down by slowing up the site with extra PHP errors. Now, I'm no internetician, so I just poured a bucket of water on the server, and that seemed to do the trick." He adjusted the beret for a fourth time. "Do you think this is too jaunty? I'm looking for just a little jauntiness, not too much."
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hugekebab
Joined: 05 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:03 am Post subject: |
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"Frankly, I don't see any problem the server," he said, gesturing towards the cobwebbed machine which is kept in the corner of the room next to some dingy mops and old paintcans, "It's the best server Atari ever made! I think it works just fine, it's just that sometimes I need a socket for my hairdryer."
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I think he downgraded to a ZX Spectrum a few months back.
Anyone remember how long a game took to load on one of those and then didn't work in the end! Happy days! Still more reliable than this forum though |
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Robot_Teacher
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
Location: Robotting Around the World
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| Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:03 am Post subject: |
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I'm kinda wondering if this forum is going to get fixed or if it's slated to be decommissioned. It sure is one active site that means a lot to English teahers in Korea, but hobbling on one leg technically speaking.
I don't mind if it gets decommissioned as it's obviously on the back burner of owner priorities, but all the knowledge and stuff in it should be preserved. Too bad we can't download the whole forum and it's history, upload it on a new server, host it, and let it continue on with adequate speed and reliability most sites today have in their functionality.
Can you download the entire forum and it's history of posts, host it on a server, and let it go on? Is this theft if you could pull it off? |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:38 am Post subject: |
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I remember the flame wars between Americans and Canadians, and the legions of stories of expats who got screwed majorly by hakwon owners.
Those were the days. |
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toadhjo
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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| It's probably slow because the economy is bad, so n00bs like me are flooding the boards looking to find economic salvation in Korea. |
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