Anonymous writes:
Mig33 lets you access MSN Messenger off your cell phone. You need a JAVA / GPRS compatible phone, but it’s very cool.
Monthly Archive for November, 2005
Earlier this morning there was intermitted outages, this was caused by TabServe’s users table being corrupt and queries to it were not releasing. As a result, Apache kept reaching its max clients limit and stopped accepting further requests until it restarted. The logs show it crashed possibly because it was being opened so frequently, because of one account being served so much. The account is owned by a Spanish Web site distributing skins patched to use TabServe and because customizing MSN Messenger in the Spanish market is so popular, ridiculous amounts of requests are sent to msgrconfig02.msnfanatic.com. This is the exact reason tabserve.msnfanatic.com and msgrconfig01.msnfanatic.com were dropped and it looks like msgrconfig02 may have to go soon, I wish people would read! Anyway, the data for that account is now served as a static page (the account not found TabServe msgrconfig error), so it’s not accessing the database at all.
Last week a secondary hard drive was added to the server to allow for MySQL and local backups. Back is run daily at 7AM GMT when the server is least busy. Visitors may experience problems when accessing any Web sites on the server during this time, usually for only the first 20-30 minutes. MySQL was moved to another hard drive to improve performance and is working much better than I expected. Along with a lot of optimization, things have been running smoother than ever.
We can confirm that a new QFE patch for MSN Messenger 7.5.0311 will be available soon. The expected file size is between 2-3mb, and latest testing build is 7.5.0316 and the only major fix is the improved reliablity of signing in, as this has been a big problem for many users. Hopefully we can see an end to error 80048820.
A new build of Windows Live Messenger pre-beta has been released to testers, the installer is 5MB smaller and the build number is 8.0.0363.
Released within the last month, MSNLiveDisplay is a new tool which updates your display picture to a capture from your Web cam or other connected video device. You can specify how often it updates, the default update interval time is 10 seconds. Keep in mind display pictures take time and bandwidth (although, very minimal) to transfer, so a higher interval might be appropriate.