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Here's you chance to generate wasteful http traffic without even having to run unpatched IIS! We're ready to test Banjo, our new fancy setup w/ new code and new hardware. We plan to keep testing until we think
the system is ready. You are also welcome to submit Bug Reports, although it would be helpful if you skimmed the list of bugs before submitting new ones so we don't have 300 of you tell us that your user info page has other people's comments listed on it again. The new hardware is mostly in place, but the code hasn't been fully optimized yet, so run your wgets... write your bots... whatever makes you happy, but please don't be malicious: just try to load and submit web pages. And don't be surprised, its gonna go up and down like a yo yo as we fix things.
Deliverance
I didn't see CmdrTaco in the credits...
"In individuals, insanity is rare, but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule." -Nietzsche
I can't say I really give a rat's ass about the format of /., but SpaceGhost ROCKS! ROCK ON, SPACEGHOST!
5p4c39#057 15 13373r t#4n t4c0'5 m07#3r!
*has an aneurism*
Bug Report: There are no stories or comments. Don't know how that made it through the rigorous testing process...
Got Rhinos?
For god sake Taco, what are you doing? Did you put this on the front page and then go to lunch?
Put up another story and get this off the front page. How slashdotted does it have to be, before you realize it's dead?
Karma shields holding - 80%
Not only that, he's a Republican.
that a beowulf cluster may have helped here?
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
Failed.
Your pizza just the way you ought to have it.
Too bad it's taken. Sigh. I'm gonna miss bubba when he's gone.
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i dont know about you, but computer illiterate people standing over me while i fix something - expecting to learn something - stresses me out big time.
You guys are going to call Cisco BEFORE you screw up the configuration this time right?
(Well, the slashdot effect replies were even more mandatory, but I was too late to add one of them - I do have some standards even if you can't tell from my posts. ... I'll go and take my medicine now, OK?)
Money for nothing, pix for free
You mean the fact that the story said expect the site to go up and down like a yo-yo and still everyone complains over and over again its down?
In an unrelated story, Slashdot's banner impressions are up 1000-fold today.
It's intentionally disconnected to provide OpenBSD-like security.
I'm glad to see that the things that were confusing my HTML parser last night have mostly been fixed already. Now I'll have to find a different source for difficult HTML...
Don't allow anyone to submit replies until after an elapsed time from when the article is initially posted. The time can be decided by the poster based on content length or something. This won't stop fp attempts, but at least it will give people time to read the actual articles before competing for fp. Who knows, one day you may see a fp that actually has someting to do with the story.
Yes. Yes I do. It's usually something to do with the latest S6 headlines
Got Rhinos?
I'm curious as to what the difference between slashdot and slBANJO! is. When I read "our new fancy setup" I didn't expect to see the Exact same thing, but with a different logo.
It seemed a lot faster... but then I realized the load is probably much less than slashdot.org. So I have to dismiss that much.
Is there a "new features" list somewhere? What's the difference? And also, will Slashdot ever get a new interface/design?
Just whining 'cause I can...
The next comment I write will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
using a new design?
Srap out his eyes.
Somebody already thought that clever comment up in the last stress test discussion. Please find some more inventive humor. Thanks.
This big-mouthed kike is sure to be added onto my gassing list.
There, there. After a five minute visit with the Mohel, you'll be feeling a lot better.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
Good points. One time I used a feature on slashdot in a paper I wrote. I had to guess on the year for the works cited page.
And every time I see the (Updated 9.9!) I think, "oh, i better read that".. I always thought it meant version 9.9, not 9/9/??.
Seems like banjo lost a few "strings".
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.
then people would go for 2nd post
Does anyone else see the irony in this?
-sid
"Whoo - first real post"
or
"Whoo - first reply to first post"
So, is it codenamed for a certain mutated sea monkey?
Perhaps, since E2 links have been popping up in the stories, and they're related, could the next Slashcode have the ability to [link] the [bracketed text] to [E2] sites?
That would be a little more [goatse.cx|efficient].
Now squeal. SQUEAL!
Well, if a tree falls in the forest... I agree enough already...
Moahahaha, and so on.
Money for nothing, pix for free
How ironic.
we'll be watching Nicholas Bachmann
Yup, I can't get to it either, the slashdotters slashdotted slashdot. Yay.
~ now you know
Yes, you're very smart. Shut up.
Kermit stresses you?
I heard "banjo" and was thinking more "This router don't go to Aintry..."
Shiver.
Kill, Tux, kill!
Wow! I like the new feature where a big blank space is displayed instead of stories! It reduces clutter as well as being visually stunning. Truly the next step in modern web design. kudos.
> And don't be surprised, its gonna go up and
:)
> down like a yo yo as we fix things.
How is that any different from REGULAR slashdot over the past couple weeks?
-Chris
I got the site.. but I can not log in to my nicely stripped down version of slashdot...
Oh the humanity.
Linuxrunner
www.slightlycrewed.com - Because aren't we all?
This must be the Hindenburg effect.
The mighty airship down in flames.
Still down - WTF?
db
Cig:
ôô
or I mean to make itself immune to the slashdot effect.
... sounds interesting. Be sure to post the results of your meta slashdoting for all to see.
hmmm
Bango is already DOWN! -- "Windows - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition." (Anonymous USEnet post)
Apple is like a strange drug that you just cant quite get enough of they shouldnt call it Mac. They should call it crack
First you poisoned Rusty. Then you poisoned Inoshiro. And now that Rusty's moving to Maine and unavailable, you're stealing his ideas!
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I'm all for linux/apache etc, but honestly:
:p /. can make coffee and weld under water =D
Here's you chance to generate wasteful http traffic without even having to run unpatched IIS!
That's Score: -1, Troll in my book
Oh well, let's have a look if the new
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
Is http://banjo.slashdot.org/ slashdotted already?
at first glance, I don't notice much different in banjo
what exactly is new in the new slashcode (from the one the current slashdot uses)?
I'd like to teach you that 'fist' can be a verb. What's your number?
Personally I would blame Ann Tomlinson.
It may seem petty, but I must take exception to this one item listed in the user information pages:
"Show your real email address without cowering behind childish anonymity or obfuscation."
Excuse me, but the last time I posted my email address on Slashdot (by mistake), it started a torrent of spam that still has not stopped. Email filters can only go so far.
What in the world is wrong with wanting to avoid useless email? I'm not posting as "Anonymous Coward"; isn't that good enough for you?
There's also the fact that some people prefer to creatively obfuscate their email address their way and post clues or instructions on how to decode it in their signature. I think that's pretty cool... Oh well...
Is there a list of advantages/improvements of the new version?
Back to the drawing board, folks. Nothing here to see. Literally. ;-)
-EvilMagnus
Never a script kiddie around when you really need one.
The new site has been effectively banjoed.
[Scene: CmdrTaco, standing in front of a mirror.]
Mirror: >CRACK<
[Scene: Andux, staring at his user info, speaking in the third person, watching his karma slowly trickle away...]
Andux: Um... No offense, Taco!
[Scene: Back at the mirror.]
CmdrTaco: ...I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!
(Do not sign anything.) -- Fell, Planescape: Torment
It's not your fault; since VA doesn't make hardware anymore, he probably had to run it on a Packard Bell. :-)
Or one could say something like: "Guess you could say we strumed the banjo a bit to hard. Ha Ha Ha!" for a few points...
"Aw, I'd just waste them anyway." -- Hans Moleman
Chortle chortle snigger snigger
Didn't we do this two weeks ago? (Score:-1, Redundant)
std::disclaimer<std::legalese> sig=new std::disclaimer; sig->dump(); delete sig;
Thats really cool. This is the first time I see the slashdot falling prey of its own weapons. Shortly after you posted the article, poor banjo was slashdotted into oblivion. *cheer slashdotters* We won again!
If programs would be read like poetry, most programmers would be Vogons.
holy christ!
thats more than a little frightening
Unfortunately, they are still running on mysql. I think they would benifit from postgres. The speed issues are mostly moot now, and there are a lot more featueres in postgres.
How about the option to disable my .sig for a post? UBB has it.
why not put some code into the script so that it automatically starts all 'stories' with a first post so that no one can claim it?
Seeing as it's down and I'm not willing to download the code and test it out, I'll just complain here (I don't see it in the CHANGES file):
:)
I hope to GOD that the new version of Slashdot will include the actual YEAR in comments, stories, and everything else. I realize that for stories and comments we can look up in the year for the (non-Y2K compliant) year, but it's just annoying.
I am sick of:
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 16, @11:13AM
by BigBlockMopar (slant6mopar@I.HATE.SPAM.yahoo.com) on Thursday August 16, @11:21AM CST (#5)
(not that I have anything against CmdrTaco and BigBlockMopar)
and
You have moderator access and 5 points. Welcome to the those of you just joining: please read the moderator guidelines for instructions. (updated 9.9!)
After clicking it is revealed that this is September 9th, 1999, almost TWO YEARS AGO.
I should probably be bitching to people who actually do the code (or fix it my own self) but I just have to vent. After a couple years it starts to build up.
Goodbye karma!
Just curious, but why wasn't this on Taco Hell ( http://slashdot.org/tacohell/ )? It seems like that would be the apropriate testing area.
I think that's because it's a totally new version of Slash... If I understand correctly...
Speaking of Taco Hell, Taco hasn't updated it in ages... Maybe he's stopped using it...
Hey, I bet you didn't think slashdot could slashdot slashdot. Ha haha.
You should have made Banjo a beowulf cluster. harharhar.
IT'S DEAD JIM
I think this is all part of CmdrTaco's plan to rename Slashdot to what he wishes he had chosen in the first place: Banjodot.
Got Rhinos?
Is to heave the Slashdot effect upon youself ...
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
See this above post for the errors you're getting: Andover.net comment
Sigh... another nice site down the tubes.
Only posted minutes ago, and Slashdot has already become the victim of itself? Or is it not loading for other reasons?
Banjo
The name "banjo" stresses me too much already.
I expect Kermit to start singing any second.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
apparently they decided that instead of 'slashdotting' other ppl they would 'slashdot' themselves :)
Well, cool, it's already crashed. I suspect the original SlashDot is going to get stressed more by all of the "banjo's down" posts.
And don't be surprised, its gonna go up and down like a yo yo as we fix things.
;-) j/k... looks great guys !
But at least a yo yo is working when it's going up and down...
Slashdot has been slashdotted. How clever. How about the next tool who feels like telling us all the first sentence above for the umpteenth time gets a kick in the nuts?
refused connection to Netscape and Opera
so banjo got slashdotted?
Help end the use of Sigs. Tomorrow
Uh-oh (#74)
ARTIST: Muppets
TITLE: It's Not Easy Being Green
It's not that easy being green
Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
When I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold
Or something much more colorful like that
It's not easy being green
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
Or stars in the sky
But green's the color of Spring
And green can be cool and friendly-like
And green can be big like an ocean, or important
Like a mountain, or tall like a tree
When green is all there is to be
It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why
Wonder, I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
And I think it's what I want to be
-- Truth goes out the door when rumor comes innuendo. -- Groucho Marx
It looks like the /. team learned an important lesson from the first trial of Banjo: never create a list that you get to the top of just by posting.
The amount of journal whoring (posting inane crap to your journal just to get to the top of the journal list) was almost unbelievable. It looks like they've disabled that list.
Of course, I have to wonder what the utility of the journal is, given that I could create a thread at any time on the current slashdot just by entering a URL. I guess that making it an eaiser feature will increase it's use. I'm just not sure that is such a good thing.
www.eFax.com are spammers
Leave it to slashdot to /. itself :)
I can't get to the site :(
garc
Well, I guess the test results are in. -b
If I wanted a sig I would have filled in that stupid box.
Come on guys! Give us a bit more info than that. Whats the hardware setup? We want to hear all about the lovely geeky hardware setup and drool uncontollably. Anyone got any ideas?
"My banjo's wet." -- Kermit.
By far my favorite muppet quote. Classic.
You guys can to better! Set up a script that autoposts every submitted story to Banjo! We want to see crap on the front page, and we want to see it now!
(Not that these will necessarily come true, but I can hope :)
Your right to not believe: Americans United for Separation of Church and
I'm a little annoyed by the increased posting history, not for any real concern over privacy (that would be dumb, it's a public forum) but rather because I've always counted on anything stupid I post essentially disappearing after a few weeks. Now all the stupid things I've said will be easily found for all time (or at least a lot longer). Including this post.
Thus making me look even stupider. Wait, is that how you spell stupider?
| Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
This just in.....
Banjo slashdotted so bad that the slash crew can no longer access the box.
OSDN reports that crew members are enroute to the hosting site to implement repairs and neccessary impact adjustments.
More at 11:00
Perhaps if they had a fresher copy of the articles they could get a better test since then everyday readers like me can act like we do everyday?
It's going to bounce up and down while Slash coders debug the DB.
It's Deja Vu all over again!
Well I guess we've come full circle. Slashdot has just slashdotted Slashdot.
http://windows.scares.us
that we can crapflood slashdot, just like we did for K5?
Maybe the db is getting too many connection attempts?
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Kazooie?
Ouch
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It's really to bad we can't do anything about the content
Honk Honk!
Go home script kiddies!
Put up two different servers, that way you can have the dueling banjos :)
I'm thinking that the name banjo was a carefully chosen reference. I mean, all I can think of when I think of banjoes is duelling banjoes, which, of course, makes me think of the movie, Deliverence.... And all I have to say about that is "c'mere webserver, we're gonna make you squeel like a pig"
you've hit my pet peeve: your current time zone is not pacific standard time, it is pacific daylight time.
the anal retentive nerd.
have a nice day.
post anonymously to preserve karma.
>Bizarre errors
/usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Oh crap.
/usr/local/libexec/mysqld: way, way too many connections!
/usr/local/libexec/mysqld: are you crazy?!
/usr/local/libexec/mysqld: what do you think this is, Slashdot?
/usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown Complete.
010815 12:16:10
010815 12:16:12
010815 12:16:13
010815 12:16:14
010815 12:16:15
Ahh, I see what the problem is.
It would have to be done from outside the internal network anyway since one of the things we want to test is the load-balancing switch, which is more than a little tempermental.
:)
And sure, the "right" way is to fire up ab and go to town, and we've done that to some extent already. But nothing simulates the load on slashdot like the load on slashdot.
And we're still in bug-finding mode, for that matter. Submit them if you find them.
I'm writing this note to apologize. I think I broke your new server. You said the new hardware and software were maybe not completely configured yet, but I clicked on the link anyway, and now I think your server is down.
I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to break anything, I know I should be more careful in the future. Hope this doesn't set you back too far.
Sincerely,
rkent
You have hit reply without submitting 10 times, which the system doesn't permit. Either submit the form, or don't.
This came up after I tried creating an account and when I tried to click Reply. (and i didn't do it 10 times).
Nevrar
And I read every reply, although I don't admit to it :)
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
big blocks rule, be it Ford, Pontiac, Chevy, MOPAR.
... some have been shoehorned (ever fit a sideoiler in 'stang ).
427 side oiler Ford
455 HO Pontiac
454 ls6 Chevy
426 Hemi Mopar
the above 4 motors were the nastiest off the production line. Now you could argue about anything you like, but stock, these motors were the street kings. If my memory is right the weekest motor was the 455 HO at 440HP and the top was hemi or ls6. They both could from the factory in a simular setup would have about 500HP
btw, all the above, I've owned in one way or the other. All could move me down the line between 11.2 seconds to 12.5 seconds. All have been stock.
and for us motor heads
onepoint
if you see me, smile and say hello.
I should post like that every time I read slashdot
"Oh, you can take that, eh? Well let's raise it a few hundred volts...."
Got Rhinos?
> You are also welcome to submit Bug Reports,
> although it would be helpful if you skimmed the
> list of bugs before submitting new ones so we
> don't have 300 of you tell us that your user
> info page has other people's comments listed on
> it again.
Well, the new spell checker is working. Congrats,
keep up the good work. The run-on sentence
module is apparently not loading, or is mis-
configured.
> The new hardware is mostly in place, but the
> code hasn't been fully optimized yet, so run
> your wgets... write your bots... whatever makes
> you happy, but please don't be malicious: just
> try to load and submit web pages.
I was right... Big time.
(At least he never runs out of stuff to say...)
Slashdotted
1. How come this doesn't happen to the Goatsex site?
2. How does he afford the bandwidth?
while /bin/true; do wget http://banjo.slashdot.org/index.shtml; done :P
Got that running on 14 computers here at work, Code Red eat your heart out
Did we slashdot the new slashdot?
-CrackElf
"Blake is an idealist, Jenna. He cannot afford to think." - Kerr Avon, Star One, Blakes 7
Because then the race would be for second post, or first real post.
Even if you did something clever like wait until 10 posts have been submitted, then displayed them in random order, people would still try for first post. Even if the comment numbers were consecutive from story to story or started at a random number so that the post was not actually labeled #1, people would still try to be first.
As long as there is any way at all to distinguish posts, it will be done.
IIS? Did someone say IIS? AHHHHHHHHHHHH
-- Ilya
They're using OS X? Sweet!
Looks like Banjo got Slashdot'ed. Does that qualify as a bug?
first second post - ma 1337 @55
I dunno... *I* thought it was funny...
OT: Heard anything about the link (or not) between B-K and B-T?
I realize that with the new hardware and all there is a little bit of a learning curve, but generally if you wish people to use the pages contained in the hardware, you need to push the little buttons on the front that say "on"
I guess you could call it the Cluster's Last Stand....
Got Rhinos?
Yeah, it was in a comment. Here it is:
[ from `slashd' in slash-0.90.tar.gz ]
# I suppose I'll let the secret out: for a few months, before the moderation
# system came into being, this little function faked "First Posts" and then
# deleted them when a real comment came along. Worked pretty well, and nobody
# figured it out. I disabled it when the moderation came online feeling that
# it was a cleaner solution. -CT
already! anyone got mirrors?
Now who's the real dookie, meaning who's really the shit? Them niggas ride dicks, Frank White push the sticks, on a Lexus LX 4 and a half, bulletproof glass tints if I want some ass.
Custer's Revenge: The greatest video
Isn't slashdot abusing it's power here? I'm posting anonymous because this will probably get modded to hell.
It seems unfair to the slashdot community for Taco to place this burden square on their shoulders. When software is traditionally beta and load tested, it is done via a very small percentage of the user base, or by a hired agency. The slashdot community, being what it is, will thoughtlessly pound the shit out of any link posted to the front page of the site. The so-called "beta" test posted earlier this month would have been far better suited as a slashcode article, and as another poster pointed out, load testing can be automated fairly easily. Other sites don't ask their own users to QA their next rollout, so why is /. any different? Wouldn't both of the tests have been much better suited to some kind of QA testing house designed for that purpose?
It seems to me like /. is just using it's user-base to avoid paying for proper testing. Does no-one else here have a problem with this?
I think I saw it mentioned in a comment in the slashdot code. Or maybe it was in an interview once, I don't remember...
Ooooh GREAT!
Now we can all be the banjo-boys we have always been accused of being.
"Yew shore gotta purdy mouf."
"Squeal like a pig for me boy!"
Could have at least called it stratoblaster or even balalaika, but noooo gotta be banjo boys now.
Kids, thank your dad.
"Thanks taquito."
Hurray, it's Bundy Sunday Banjo Day!
I went looking in the bug reports for something that might clue me in, but de nada. Can you tell us what the next rev of /. is backed by?
You know it's bad when Slashdot can't handle the Slashdot effect.
Got Rhinos?
Well, it looks like we've already slashdotted Banjo. Didn't take very long. Maybe you shouldn't switch yet.
By definition : one.
Does this mean Banjo has been slashdotted?
Good grief! When I read the news item, there were ZERO posts! I posted my "it's slashdotted" post and now see that about a dozen people have already said the same thing. Talk about Internet time!
As someone posted earlier, it would be nice if you guys give a little more detail about the new hardware
Make It Secret . Free JavaScript implementation of AES for your browser
...would this be an example of the "Metaslashdot Effect"?
Isn't slashdot abusing it's power here? I'm posting anonymous because this will probably get modded to hell.
How the fuck is this offtopic? This is perfectly ON topic!
MAY YOU DIE OF METAMOD COW DISEASE!
Despite the logo on banjo, the hostname actually comes from something else.
Is you can do whatever you want there. Blow your Karma out the airlock and it doesn't matter, because it never gets resynced back into the main Slashdot database.
Just curious, but why wasn't this on Taco Hell ( http://slashdot.org/tacohell/ )? It seems like that would be the apropriate testing area. I guess that's just for testing things with slash itself, but still...
Go look around for Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast on Cartoon Network to see the latest incarnation of him. He used to be one of the three trillion Hanna Barbera ten-minute superheros, with sidekicks Jase & Jan (convenient prisoners a lot of the time) and some monkey named... I think... Blip. AC cause I'm lazy but hopefully you'll read.
At least the rest of the net is snappy, now that all slashdotters are trying to try out Banjo...
/Janne
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
That took you down a few weeks ago? Or are load balancers temperamental by nature?
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I've just saw some users that once saw Banjo. I think that their comments shall be really good rated, something like Rare or Amazing!!! ( please, note the exclamation marks)
To those who have problems with wondering:
Aproved. Very good although still slow(Score 5: Amazing!!!)
by killeruser (killer@user dot net) on Thu August 16, 13:21 EDT (#5)
Very good site. I had some minor problems, but it's good. Didn't notice lots of differences, but I loved SpaceGhost. Can anybody tell me what's different?
----- no sig
-=-=-=-=
I know life isn't fair, but why can't it ever be un-fair in MY favor!?
It wont load for me either, whats the problem?
Thanks, I didn't want to say it myself. Pundits will believe that I write the other response as well. Oh well, fuck you moderator. I hope you die a horribly ironic death where pulling down a moderator menu somehow causes you to lose your head.
Appears to be Slashdotted already... Maybe you guys should try asking the site maintainers for permission before posting direct links in your news posts! For god's sake, think if the children!
One more post on the journey to negative Karma history!
Looks pretty good. My tests indicate anywhere between 100-125pg/s for the front page. No images because they are just boring (and easily cacheable). Your average response time seems to be ~600-800ms which could stand to be improved a little. As a comparison yahoo is about 50-200ms from the same (very well connected) location. Some of this is just page weight, but I don't think this is the bulk of it. Tests were run with a little app that spawns n threads which each make x number of requests to a particular URL.
Anybody know of a MIDI file of "Duelling Banjos" so I'll have a motive to hack http://www.cousincouples.com?
Has banjo been slashdotted already? Because I HONESTLY CAN'T TELL FROM THE COMMENTS!
One more post about Banjo being slashdotted, and I'm going to scream.
I like the space ghost picture... btw, is that copyright infringement to use him?
Well that was so quick to /. that it was most unsatisfying.
/. next?
I need more of a challenge. Who shall we
It appears that something is preventing you from realizing that it was not the fault of banjo, and that internet explorer is not flawless.
Yes, I am posting ac, because you seem like the type that would e-mail me to flame me.
P.S. The altering of browser names it immature and unoriginal.
You might as well call it "nova."
it's not going to stop until you wise up, no it's not going to stop. so just give up.
Priority: Critical
Description: It doesn't work.
There was a very long pause then banjo took down my IE 5.5
And asked me if I wanted to send a bug report to MS, so I did. Probably Banjo would like the same report?
Now I guess I'll try with Oprah (I mean Opera) and then Neckscrape (I mean Netscape 6.1).
Help end the use of Sigs. Tomorrow
"And don't be surprised, its gonna go up and down like a yo yo"
And this is different from the current servers how?
Sorry, I would have posted this sooner, but it took 5 minutes for comments.pl to load.
We turned off the banjo web servers for a few minutes to see why the DB server is spitting out bizarre errors.
Being that I'm from Florida, I'm perfect for the job of testing Banjo!
i think it might be slashdotted already!
i could live a little longer in this prison
and as i am reading this, the fortune at the bottom of the page reads:
"We came. We saw. We kicked its ass." -- Bill Murray, _Ghostbusters
"I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines." - Mr. Furious, Mystery Men
I think he's the offspring of that guy who got laid in the movie. That's where the Taco comes in.
Strict obedience to the law is the key to liberty.
. .
aplogies for replying to my own post and all, _but_ for the moderator who rated my post "+1 funny" - were you testing banjo tonight or my sense of perception? . .
I must be missing something here . . .I guess it's ironic : 1. breathe sigh that banjo has cool feature I craved for 2. make out with sincere gratitude for said feature 3. get modded "Score:5, Funny"
was that some /. admin commenting on the sustainability of the new code / db?
Or was some agency (with mod points) out there "stress testing" /.'s new server by calling all our old posts to hold against us in our future lives?
only time will tell
= = = Idle Random Thoughts - usual disclaimers apply = = =
Too bad it's /.'ed already.
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
If you're wondering where the name Banjo came from Cartoon Networks's site has a funny clip.
"Why do we always hurt the ones we love?
Why, Banjo, WHY?!"
-carl
. We've got computers, we're tapping phone lines, you know that ain't allowed - Talking Heads, "Life During Wartime"
famous last words....
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its time for slashdot to get a makeover.
So when the new code, banjo, goes live, do we have to change 'free as in beer', to 'free as in moonshine' ?
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This goes for every good software development team, external testing is VITAL in order to maintain quality. Try to make a good product, let the actual users test the product, help them submit improvement proposals/bug reports, and prepare to recode the whole thing :-)
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotele
What you really are is a weak, pathetic man who can't take responsibility for his own life or problems. I pity you, and at the same time I look down on you. I know that as long as you chose to hate and blame like this, you will never be a tenth the man I am or everyone else here is. Yes, I am a Jew. Do your worst, but you'll never make me hate you. I could never hate anyone as truly weak and pathetic as you.
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Well they asked for it, I'd love to know the hits per/ms. I lanched 10 wgets at once and it was sluggish was getting 404 errors.
Quick, put up another story so that people will go slashdot something else.
Have mercy on the poor server.
Wow... (This is from the original poster)
Techno and Diamund Jews??? Why didn't you
realize it was:
1. A Joke/Experiment in POOR taste...
2. Not worth responding to otherwise???
now with
- more trolls
- more idiots
- more asinine crap articles
- bigger egos
It looks like your request for help with the stress test has caused at least one web master to insert a "webbug" into every page on his site that links to a non-existant image on the banjo site. This means all his visitors are participating in the test without any knowledge of it.
...
Check the source at http://www.brickshelf.com - the last line contains the link.
Based on that site's stats, on 8-16-2001 he served 629,984 pages, meaning that many people unwillingly participated in the test.
Of course, there's also the possibility that the webmaster there doesn't like you, so he hopes all the extra traffic will "doom" the project - basically a poor-man's DDoS.
You decide
Media Assassin
You have brought up the submission form without submitting 10 times, which the system doesn't permit. Either submit your submission, or don't. But I haven't posted a single thing? whats up with that!
If your web server is named Banjo, is your database server named Kazooie?
Will I retire or break 10K?
. . .
finally I can see my posting history from more than a week or so back.
I've never been a very frequent poster, but this is one reason why I've trailed off for months and months.
The search engine hasn't ever - in my recollection - thrown back at me my complete earlier posts, and user info has been extremely restricted to maybe the most recent couple of weeks. I once even resorted to a google search, but only came up with posts from literally ages ago.
This may sound like I'm being self obsessed. But here's why this annoyed me :
On /. I'm not holding a conversation in the way I am with someone in person. Sure I may hold a short - term memory of the poster's handle to whom I replied, or the topic of the story. But that's about it. Conversing on - line simply doesn't have the cues and triggers for recall like talking with someone in person. There's so little secondary information or impressions to rely on.
I'm not talking about staring back at how I managed to get some karma either (tho' it's nice:) but to try and understand the context of my thoughts at the time. By looking back I can see how stupid or even, maybe, informed I was. That helps me learn.
It brings me back, because I can better relate to my earlier experience of /. and what meant something enough for me to write, edit and post, hopefully in a grammatical fashion. Now all that I want is a _full_ record of my posts.
I guess some people might find some privacy concerns over this (given that even google doesn't seem to find everything I posted) but then I'll trade that for the learning experience, and the ability to find the souls (by handle at least) who provoked me to though in the first instance.
I would have posted a link to my user search on banjo.slashdot.org but then it's down;) Something for you guys to stress test I guess?
This is one confusing feature! I was looking at the comments I had posted and I was like damn, don't remember posting these... Most have been when I was drunk. But apparently when I'm drunk I have no consistency... first I'm whoring, then I'm trolling, and then I'm just totally offtopic!
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htpp://www.google/cached/2690/35535638/ba%j0/88%00 76598
Since I couldn't find any answers to either or the questions (and I did look in both stories), I have to ask two things:
Just curious :) ...
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
i want to splooge all over fiorina's aquiline nose, and spank her ass til it's cherry-red for allowing hp to make so many suck-ass printers lately.
no patrick, thank you!
Banjo - i bet and have now confirmed...
comes from one of the main Slashgeeks - Pudge.
he is a Perlgod and he has a super-cool black lab dog named Banjo.
Banjo completely rules, and if you ever get the chance to meet him, (banjo, not pudge), you're a lucky person indeed.
oh, and Pudge - "READ A BOOK!"
guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat.
Anyone consider what the new Journals' comments should look like? It occurs to me that a user might get fed up with Trolls and the like. I think it would be nice to be able to delete a comment without deleting your Journal Entry. A similar effect could be achieved by modding garbage posts down -- but wouldn't this (unlike articles) be a special case where the original poster would be the *best* person to determine a comment's value -- regardless of whether they've posted comments to their owm entry? If nothing else, who other than a Journal's owner can be expected to care about comments to personal Journal entries?
"The girl makes Godot look punctual." -- Buffy
Too bad it's been slashdotted.
-- Will program for bandwidth
Wow, I got 4711th post! Whoopee!
Money for nothing, pix for free
The only reason you got modded up is because you're one of those techno Jews.
Oy vey, you're so right.
After all, I was born in Cardiff, Wales to a parents who are Irish/Scottish and Scottish/French Hugenot (Hugenot = 'Cajuns who didn't immigrate to the USA).
As you can see, I'm clearly a Yid.
I ain't got nothing against Jews and all, but ya'll tend to stick together and I kinda admire that. You know like the Mafia and shit.Sure do! My best friend since high school is a Jew. Given that I'm not even Jewish, it's a testament to how well we Jews stick together.
Oh yeah... The only reason I wrote is because I think banjo jokes are dum because they're made up by techno and diamund Jews who ain't never hunted or fished cause thier mama too afraid they gunna get killed by the Klan.This Yiddohpile has never enjoyed hunting and fishing. My pastimes instead include wandering around rural automotive wrecking yards, collecting parts for my old cars. My mama's more afraid of the fact that I'm going to have another 1971 Chrysler New Yorker fall on me some day.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
well .. its taking a year and a day to load Banjo ..can it be that /. has /.'ed itself!?!? OH THE POSIBILITIES!.
[alk]
Oh, New Slashdot,
Don't you fail on me,
I've given you new hardware,
To keep Banjo from its knees.
Have you read my journal today?
Security Hold... huh? Is that where they put all security that's missing from the rest of Windows? Tell me if you find it!
The connection was refused when attempting to contact banjo.slashdot.org
It feels so existential.
"He was a wise man who invented beer." -- Plato
...but it seems to be failing the load tests already.
The new hardware is mostly in place
Yes, but did you connect it?
Sig (appended to the end of comments I post, 54 chars)
10:19am PST -- trying to load a page
10:20am PST -- give up; read The Register
10:22am PST -- trying to load
10:24am PST -- give up, try to find a security hold in Windows
10:24am PST -- done; try and reload Banjo
10:27am PST -- give up
10:34am PST -- submit comment to the good 'ole Slasdhot
I want my 15 minutes back.
there are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots
I mean: Asking for collaboration for finding bugs is fine, but asking to stress a server from outside the intranet when you can simulate the same thing without crapping your internet pipe doesn't make much sense to me
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my 10,000 seccond wait for reply before fail request, just timed out. ----- sig disabled
Banjo kablooie!
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for slashdot.sig (129323052 bytes).
It looks to me like the new slashdot has been slashdotted. extremely slow response time.
- Hyperbolix