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Kuro5hin Returns
TheTomcat writes "Kuro5hin is back up and better than ever, with its new server from VA Linux. At 2pm(1pm EST) today, the site went live, after a month or so of downtime." Well, this was the first submission in the bin to actually say it was up. Congrats to the whole gang and welcome back. And everyone else stop submitting their return, 'k? *grin* Update: 09/19 01:53 PM by CN : SlashNET will be hosting a forum with Rusty and Inoshiro on Saturday at 5:00 PM PDT (0:00 GMT). Looks like a good opportunity to welcome k5 back, as well as learn how they've overcome the issues that kept them down.
I typed it up before it was up, waited for the countdown, checked it, and then submitted once it was live.
I was over-anxious. (-:
/.: "Welcome back!"
*CRUSHHHH!*
/.: "Huh? Where'd they go?"
K5: "Hellllp meeeeee..."
It's still up now, but careful... =P
Slashdot: "I'm going to pet him, and love him, and call him Kuro5hin..." *squash*
Got Rhinos?
regarding the timely /. post:
[10:22:30] I will hunt Hemos
[10:22:37] And kill him
[10:22:38] That is all
Mr. Ska
I was reading k5 for a few minutes, and suddenly I couldn't get through anymore - so what do I see when I see Slashdot? "Kuro5hin returns." Bastards.
To quote Inoshiro from IRC about 2 seconds ago: "I will hunt Hemos. And kill him. That is all."
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I can see it now...
"Look! Kuro5hin is back up! Get it! Get it!"
Whack! Whack! Whack!
This could get ugly.
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from /.
goodbye
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
"I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way."
I think it's funny, though, that my browser shows the title of the page as "Cannot Find Server."
Got Rhinos?
I submitted a full hour before they went back up. But the story was rejected.
bastards.
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Just a thanks to Slashdot, particularly Jeff "Hemos" Bates for non-stop gavel-to-gavel coverage of the K5 saga, VA for the server, VHosting.com for the coloc, the Scoop crew for code, Intes for sundry details, and Rusty for not throwing in the towel. Couldn'a done i' w'chout ye.
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
I'm sure, many people didn't even know about Kuro5hin without /.'s reports. It was totally unknown to me until to the DoS attack. Then I first heard about it, and read about its concept, and I found it great! Let's see if it's really so (when the /. effect disappears, of course :-)!
A monkey is doing the real work for me.
Spooon!
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That's kind of ironic... that the announcement of it's "rebirth" - results in it being killed.
BlackNova Traders
This is essentially the problem with the geek community in general: unless there's a common cause or enemy, geeks are too busy backstabbing each other. Everybody was backstabbing /. on k5 before it went down, but now that a script k1dd13 slammed k5, Slashdot is being all nice and friendly to it.
How long will Linux survive if Microsoft were to disappear? Or more on the spot, how long before RedHat/Linux becomes the next Enemy? People have already entered holy wars over VI, Emacs, KDE or Gnome...
I would not be surprised if Slashdot was somehow behind all this, and these articles supporting k5 are about proving in a smug, roundabout way, that Slashdot is better than Kuro5hin.
What was Hemos supposed to do? Never mention that they were up? Wait a few days? Mention it but beg people not to click on the link?
/. is by definition /.ed ever day and holds up (mostly) fine.
If Kuro5hin can't handle the traffic, they shouldn't be in the business. After all
Cut em a break.
C'mon who didn't expect K5 to go down in flames the first time they got a SlashWave(TM)? Still next time Hemos you might what to give them some notice first, the /. effect is not a toy.
Welcome back K5 we missed you.
Insert pithy comment here.
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
at LinuxToday. Rusty Foster wrote a first-hand account of the site going back up; funny it wasn't linked to from here.
Related links: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
So, basically, the purpose of Slashdot is to announce news, crash the server the news resides on, and then the slashdot users comment on the crash later. I like it.
I'm on a chair.
i think slashdot should be classified as a sort of DoS and should be DENYied.
bastards.. look what they did to K5,.
please help to take these *outlaws* down.. add this to your firewall.
keep the internet a safe place to surf..
ipchains -A input -i eht0 -s slashdot.org -j DENY -l
After reading all this Slashdot each morning, I've begun to have this Slashdot morning mouth. But now, with Kuro5hin, my breath is as minty as ever! Thanks, Kuro5hin!
thelocust[dot]org
Posted by Hemos on 12:09 PM September 18th, 2000 /.ing, after a hour or so of uptime." Congrats to the whole /. gang, and welcome back to /., Kuro5hin admins! (we figured that you're homeless again) *grin*
from the time-for-/.-to-drown-kuro5hin dept.
Roozbeh The Atomic Microscope writes "Kuro5hin is back down again, even with its new server from VA Linux. At 3pm(2pm EST) today, the site went dead from
It's good to see them back, it really is. I hate it when something like that happens. However, I must stay that I hope that the quality of kuro5hin's users stays the same. I must say the worst thing for a web log like Slashdot or kuro5hin is to have hordes of immature/bad users. Slashdot seems to be coping with it well enough. Sort of ;)
'Round the firewall,
Out the modem,
Through the router,
Down the wire,
Barclay family motto:
Aut agere aut mori.
(Either action or death.)
I wonder how the story submission really works? Are they really reviewed by a cadre of trained mammals, as claimed; or is there just a bot which picks out stories by buzzword quotient? Suck dosn't need to do another /. parody -- /. has become a parody of itself.
"The axiom 'An honest man has nothing to fear from the police'
Why is it that the proponents of "one nation under God" are so eager to get rid of "liberty and justice for all"?
A few moments before 20:00 local time: Saw the Armageddon Clock ticking on the web page.
20:00: Didn't respond.
20:05 or so: WOW! It's alive!
20:10: Ugh, cookie expired, can't remember password, I guess their mail queue is a bit long when I didn't get the reply from MailPassword(tm).
Can't ssh to my mail host - so I upgraded ssh, which involved a loooooong apt-get update. Infuriating...
20:15: Hooray, ssh works. No reply from mailpasswd yet.
20:30: So now k5 stopped responding too. Quick look at /.: Yep, the DoS-bait is there. Duh.
Looks like it'll be a looong night. =(
Think of it a free shakedown of the new server. Why, /. ought to be charging them for this valuable service. ;-)
Pardon the stupid question, but the first I heard of this site was when it was nuked by script kiddies a while back. I've kept an eye on the reports of it coming back, getting better hardware and so on, but I still wonder what the page was before? Same as it is now with a different look?(tech news etc) or something different?
...for fjords...
BlackNova Traders
What a welcome back! They go down and disappear because of a DOS attack, and the first day they get back up, Slashdotted out of existence! Isn't it ironic....don't you think? Damn....I need to get off the coffee.
...Compaq, or some other manufacturer, would you have mentioned that and linked to them?
For those who don't know, /. is owned by VA.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Every user can look over the submissions queue. Every user gets one vote per story. The vote is either (1) post it, (0) don't care, or (-1) don't post it.
Stories that reach a critical number which is a percentage of the total number of users get put on the front page. Stories can be commented on while still in the queue, regardless of whether they ever make the front page or not. Comments can be one of two types: (1) editorial, suggesting changes to the story in spelling, style, grammar; or (2) topical, pertaining to a discussion. The editorial comments do not survive if the story makes the front page.
All in all it works fairly well.
The best thing about k5 was the people there. The breadth of k5 was much wider than /. Discussions of everything from gun control to how to secure a linux box have made the front page.
Who actually cares if such a crappy site is back online or not?
There is no ToS conspiracy. K5 is laboring under several hundred Apache processes talking to several hundred MySQL requests. It's slow. It has been responding a bit in the past few minutes. It's been performing at peak rated load (about 6 hits/second) for most for the past hour and a half. There's just a lot of requests coming through.
And your link just finished loading as I've been typing this post.
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
Is this really news? Is this something that matters?
~fight the power >>-->kill your computer
I think this means I need a life.
I think it's funny, though, that my browser shows the title of the page as "Cannot Find Server."
This is caused by the Micro$oft Infernal Exploiter 5.5 bug that "refreshing" a res:// page (the error messages) into a working page (like you did with K5) doesn't update the title. Bites me too when viewing slashdotted pages.
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XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
Will I retire or break 10K?
I am the lover in your bed (and I can troll you)
Wow, nice sig. It reminds me that I haven't listened to that CD in a few weeks.
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Don't know much about the content of this kiru5hin site, but...
The front web page sure looks good, a lot nicer than the dated slashdot.org look.
The email forwarder www.privacy.nu is still down, which is rather sad, has anyone anymore information than what is on the front page? "Catastrophic hard drive failure?" It's nice to know there was so much outpouring and support fo K'shin, but I'd like to see privacy.nu get some help as well.
Why don't you post this *once* to Kuro5hin? It can then be modded up or down by the community. It would at least give people a chance to comment rationally on it.
Cmon, it's been 6 hours, and I still haven't seen much more than the front page. ahhhh man :(
heh, well.. it was understable :) The load spiked to 17 almost as it clicked over, I thought it was Hemos' doing..
:)
As is, we've had ~900 new users, and a near-rewrite by a panicy rusty while I baby-sat MySQL/Apache all day..
Wooo.. now it works and is not slow under load
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When I just went to smokedot.org all there was was a banner for "crackaddict.com"? And when I went to crackaddict.com just the same thing. oh well..
When I just went to smokedot.org all there was was a banner for "crackaddict.com"? And when I went to crackaddict.com just the same thing. oh well..
/msg'ed me out of the blue on IRC today) offered to host it, and crackaddict.com is his site. Right now I'm waiting for him to get back from dinner so he can finish installing perl modules and stuff like that and get it working.
Oh good, the DNS has updated. Yeah, change of plans - it's possible that Smokedot will be back up tonight! Woohoo! My friend from high school (who I haven't talked to in 4 years, and just
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What's wrong with MySQL? We've never had it crash as a result of internal problems in MySQL. The one time it did crash, was because rusty's code couldn't handle the load and apache/mod_perl started going wonky in how it spoke to MySQL (back in July). But Scoop has improve, and the MySQL we are using is a few versions past what was installed there.
:-P
Really, 3.23.x is stable in its latest builds
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