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Unexpected Slashdot Downtime
Posted by
CmdrTaco
on Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:32 AM
from the zomg-what-a-night dept.
from the zomg-what-a-night dept.
Netcraft confirmed it ... Slashdot was dying for several hours (along with SourceForge, which shares a corporate overlord and router). Some planned downtime from our provider apparently didn't come back up quite as planned. Sorry for the inconvenience. On the upside, we're moving to a new network and hardware soon, so the site should be much faster and more stable rsn.
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It Was a Bad Morning (Score:5, Funny)
I started to shake uncontrollably and found breathing difficult. My roommate heard a strange moan and poked his head in through my door "Are you ok, dude?" I grabbed the closest thing to me, my Limited Edition Ceramic Invader Zim figurine and flung it at him. It shattered into a million pieces.
I wrenched the monitor to face the corner of my room and set the drinking bird to hit F5 repeatedly. I grabbed my torn and tattered copy of this quarter's 2600 and curled up in the fetus position sucking my thumb and sobbing quietly. I picked up my cell phone to call work, I would not be coming in today
Re:It Was a Bad Morning (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:It Was a Bad Morning (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Easily fixed (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:It Was a Bad Morning (Score:5, Funny)
Here's the acid test. If you found the GP (It Was a Bad Morning) post funny, probably you are fine.
If you actually found it insightful- seek professional help.
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I thought it was a wider net outage (Score:4, Informative)
If you look at this website [internetpulse.net] it shows that there is some issue between SBC and Cogent.
Re:I thought it was a wider net outage (Score:4, Funny)
tracert 127.0.0.1
Alternatively, if you can get your hands on sonar...
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Fool us once... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fool us once... (Score:5, Funny)
What else would you expect when your data centre is run by Scientologists...
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Feds installing user tracking software on /. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Feds installing user tracking software on /. (Score:4, Funny)
No, if that was the case uncyclopedia would be down. They host quite a few slashdot posters, here are some:
Good-evening,-Mr.-Gates [uncyclopedia.org]
Microsoft Hates Apple [uncyclopedia.org]
Bill Hitler [uncyclopedia.org]
Microsoft's latest product after researching the black market [uncyclopedia.org]
A Microsoft campaign to persuade people to install Vista [uncyclopedia.org]
A screenshot of GNU/Linux® in use, with the GNU/X-Windows GNU/Ubuntu desktop [uncyclopedia.org]
Rotating Gears, a game which comes preinstalled with Linux®. It is considered to be the best open-source game ever created, next to Russian Roulette. [uncyclopedia.org]
Pimp Your Linux® ~ Use Fedora Core [uncyclopedia.org]
Natalie Portman [amazonaws.com]
Hot Grits [timeinc.net]
A Beowolf cluster [movision.co.uk]
In Soviet Russia... [ooops.pl]
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google or slashdot down == big news (Score:2)
And then, after testing pretty much every other possible cause I could think of, I tried an other server. And, it was google that was down
I guess we always get surprised when that big a site goes dead, even for ten minutes.
We'll all remember the day... (Score:4, Funny)
My bad (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry.
I will be suing! (Score:4, Funny)
Please update the FAQ, too! (Score:5, Interesting)
Hey, CmdrTaco!
Great to hear the news that you're going to be upgrading the tech that supports this site. /. has been a daily part of my life for well-nigh 10 years. Having seen many changes over the years, I'm especially interested in what will be supporting the site when you finish with the upgrade... so,
PLEASE update the FAQ - Tech [slashdot.org] page? ("Last Modified: 6/13/00")
Thanks in advance and please accept my gratitude for (the often thankless job of) keeping this site running so well.
Modernization? (Score:5, Interesting)
Will this new network include IPv6 access, or will
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This is why slashdot was so reluctant to use
That all said, IPv6 wouldn't break compatibility with existing IPv4 users, and would be a fant
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Actually, the main thing that would make for 21st-Century cred is accepting UTF-8 text.
I've had a couple of posts recently on topics where it would have been better to use Chinese or Japanese characters (though not very many of them). I had to settle for pinyin/romaji instead, which isn't really ideal. The ability to correctly include text in non-Western language is of growing importance in the world, even to people whose pri
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Actually, the main thing that would make for 21st-Century cred is accepting UTF-8 text.
Agreed, even though I'm an English speaker.
I've had a couple of posts recently on topics where it would have been better to use Chinese or Japanese characters (though not very many of them).
More to the point, those of us who are math and science geeks (I hear there are a few round here) will like being able to express basic things like greek letters, superscripts, assorted operators, etc. Browsers have got a lot better at their UTF-8 support over the past few years, and there are a good few decent fonts about too.
What are the reasons for holding back? Well, the main one is that the current database holds the data in ISO-8859-1 (probably) and would e
Re:How about moving to a better news system? (Score:5, Insightful)
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And exactly HOW were we to read this story that was posted on the website, while that website was down? You have suggested yourself into a circular argument. Most normal people (which includes
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IT's a RAID on
Run for your Lives !!!!!