User talk:Bkkbrad

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Save The Game!

Cool idea with the site. Anything you can do about the vandals? Kernow 01:32, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just in case you didn't already know: http://www.savethegame.org/ has been vandalized by the Wikipedia:Willy on Wheels vandal or someone imitating him. Chris Chittleborough 08:17, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Editing Brent Spiner

Instead of removing information that you don't know about, try inserting a {{fact}} tag, then wait to see if anybody can come up with the citation. EOBeav 18:54, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good point, Brad, I hadn't realized this person was running around posting that stuff. I've seen the "...delivered a pizza to..." post among characters in here. EOBeav 20:47, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

pagelinks.sql

As I said on meta, I did manage to build it, but rather than as a single table, I split it up into several dozen, and with storage engine MyISAM rather than InnoBD. The split wasn't too much of a problem for what I wanted to do, though I believe there's another storage engine to combine several separate tables, and have them behave to queries as if they were one. It was still horribly slow, though, and I haven't tried to do it since. I don't need it for most of the db processing I do, fortunately. Alai 17:04, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I tried that on some of the other imports, for the most recent set of dumps, and it does indeed seem much more efficient than the "disable keys" approach (I presume because it avoids creating unordered indexes that are later discarded anyway). The server parameters tweaks makes a significant difference too (though I have a mere 0.5G, tragically). Alai 12:36, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Transliteration

What is the correct english transliteration of the following thai word?: โจวทง

I can't speak thai, but a used an internet translator to translate both halves of the word and I got "Johow Tong". I saw that you added the thai version of the Daoji page, so I thought you might be able to help me out. (Ghostexorcist 22:02, 8 April 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Thanks a bunch. I needed it for my Zhou Tong (monk) article. I found the Thai version of his name online. (Ghostexorcist 01:26, 9 April 2007 (UTC))[reply]

CREW

Hi, I did some cleanup on the disambiguation page CREW, deleted a previous edit you had made, as explained on the talk page. Is my assumption correct that 'Concurrent Read Exclusive Write' and 'Crew (algorithm), matrix manipulation algorithm' are the same? If not, feel free to revert. Thanks

Ngaan and waa

I see you have added th:ไร่ to the article Rai (area) that I had created. I now also created the articles Ngaan and Waa, and invite you to add their interwiki links to the Thai Wikipedia. Kawp khun krap, Khon Krung Theb Chai. — SomeHuman 15 Apr 2007 00:36 (UTC) Update: By your link from the 'rai', I found งาน and ตารางวา (of which the วา -wor wein, or sara aa- appears to correspond to the English transcription 'waa', so I wonder what ตาราง stands for) and already put in the interwiki links to those. — SomeHuman 15 Apr 2007 00:59 (UTC)

Thanks, both for your answer on my talk page and for the interwiki's on the Thai Wikipedia. Kind regards. — SomeHuman 15 Apr 2007 14:46 (UTC)

Lijiang City

Hello, Bkkbrad. 胖金哥 and 胖金妹 mean "plump gold brother" and "plump gold sister" respectively. Being plump, in Naxi culture signifies beauty or good looks. This term is commonly used to address the people there. I went there last year and it was told that they did not like being called "sir' or "miss", as it suggests that they work in nightclubs or, even worse, brothels. Thank you!--Tdx iang (Ta lk) 13:31, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Edit summary

Thanks. I like to be a little witty to the vandals; it makes the work less monotonous. Besides, when they bait me like that, how could I not? :) Dooms Day349 01:31, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Gengis Khan map

Hello, the red zone is the starting zone of Gengis Khan conquests, and Delün Boldak is the main town of this area, then the main town of the empire.

Bonjour, la zone en rouge foncé est la zone de départ des conquêtes de Gengis Khan et Delün Boldak est la capitale de cette région, puis, par extension, celle de l'empire.

Have a nice day. Historicair —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.254.12.46 (talk) 19:05, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Ways to improve Nón lá

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