Re: [ARSCLIST] back to the future, forward to the past

[David Seubert <seubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The little green puzzle icon means you don't have QuickTime plugin 
installed. You don't need QuickTime to download files, just to stream them.

The article brought our database (but not the actual website or 
streaming radio which run on separate servers) down yesterday for a 
while, but we moved half the load to a second server this morning are we 
are back up again, though response time is not super quick. The database 
(which is actually our library catalog) is running on a Sunfire V90 
server with 8 dual-core processors and it was being overwhelmed (which 
is partly a website architecture issue, not simply a speed issue). They 
had to bring the database down yesterday because staff could no longer 
check in and check out books because of the traffic!

Noah Pollaczek and I will be talking about the project in greater depth 
at the conference in Seattle, including all the gory stories of 
overloaded servers.

David Seubert
UCSB

Helen Cornwall wrote:

> They're swamped from people following up this article. I figured out 
> the little green icon that looks like part of a puzzle is for 
> streaming, which I can't get to work, (firewall?) but if I search on 
> the item it gives me the choice to download an MP3, which then plays 
> fine on Winamp. Mario Ancona accompanying this email, from 1907...way 
> cool!
> thanks, and if I get weekend time I'll follow up the other 
> possibilities. --Hc