Slashdot Prepares Switcheroo

We're planning on making the final switch from Slashdot to Banjo tonight at around 8pm my time. User preferences changed after 6:30pm will be lost. Comments won't be. Around 8pm, Slashdot will stop providing dynamic pages: only the static homepage will be visible until we we complete the transition, which will hopefully take only however long it takes for us to incrementally update all the critical data. We should see you by 9.

Re:New Hardware Specs ?

[michael]

The old hardware setup is here [slashdot.org].

The new one is not terribly different: five beefier HTTP servers instead of six, still with the same Arrowpoint load-balancing switch; one NFS box and one beefier database machine.

And of course, this will mark the switch to Slash 2.0.

I'm sure there will be a story (maybe not until Monday though) which will give plenty of specs and info.

Re:banjo.org

[Anonymous Coward]

"hillbillys" in this context is not a contraction, possessive, and is not a letter or number like a VCR is.

Re:Well

[TOTKChief]

What's really nice about the new Slash is that FP is gone, and I guess it's replaced with the Nth comment number in the entirety of Slashdot. That should strike a blow for the noisemakers...

Can't wait to see the race for post N million, etc.

Hey, Taco, what about sticking a "N comments served", kinda like McDonald's, on the static front for all the noobies? Be kinda cool, and updating every 20 minutes or so shouldn't make it too much of a load on the system, no?

New random quotes

[HongPong]

Sweet! The random quote of the day seems to have been updated. Futurama's definitely new I think. Though I bet it's just a text file they can change at will, it seems different than usual.

For posterity: I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth. -- Fry

Neato!

[vslashg]

You know what's really improved? The historical stuff. Pull up an article from months ago, and you'll be able to browse the comments in an intelligent manner! Very nice.