Mac +/- for Macs & Mac users, plus or minus, more or less.

Just updated to Drupal 5.10 easy as pie. Tried to go to 6.4, but UVa's sql server is too old a version for that.

But such an easy install: Drag it over and run the update script and done!

So the site should be secure again now.

In the ITC "all" meeting this morning, our newish CIO James Hilton asked us to think of our jobs and community in terms of what is possible, not in terms of why something can't be done. (I'm paraphrasing here.)
So I do believe I'm going to try to find out who has control over the SQL servers for student and people and see what can be done about upgrading them.
Or at least moving my databases off of them!
The reason this site (and student) is so slow is because the database server is completely overwhelmed–or maybe underpowered. Serving any static HTML is lightning fast, but when serving dynamic content it slows to a crawl.
While I admit this is a sore point of mine, I really believe that removing these bottlenecks could have a profound effect on the community building our CIO wants so badly. Static pages don't build community, but you have to be stubborn as I am to continue to use dynamic content on student or people with performance as bad as it is. And as bad as it has been for a year or more.

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