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Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bring-it-on dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Where did "Banjo" come from? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    PUDGE YOU SUCK

  2. It's not easy being green... by Uruk · · Score: 0, Troll

    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

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    -- Truth goes out the door when rumor comes innuendo. -- Groucho Marx
  3. Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe this new Slashdot will be free of all the worthless Linux zealot dregs and Jews. If you can't accomplish all that, at least try to get rid of the Jews.

  4. Talking out of your ASS!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    Yes, it appears that Banjo has been slashdotted. I just tried to load the page, and it times out. I even tried to telnet to Banjo's port 80 (which is, BTW, the HTTP port), and I get no response. Normally, telnet will say "Connected", and then you can type "GET /" which will fetch the default page. But right now, telnet just says "Trying 64.28.67.73..." which means that Banjo is not completing the TCP handshake. That typically means that the machine is down, or that the machine is so busy, it can't handle any more connections on that port. Sometimes you'll even get a "connection refused" message. But right now, it just sits there.


    You're talking out of your ass!!! Banjo's just been SLASHDOTTED!!! Do you know what that means???

    Slashdotting has NOTHING TO DO WITH HTTP or port 80 running correctly. It has EVERYTHING TO DO WITH BANDWIDTH, FUCKER!!!

  5. Re:Um... by graveyhead · · Score: 2, Troll
    You are right though, you should be -1, Redundant, so shut up and go back into your troll cave.
    Um no. I think all the same lame jokes about the silly name and the even dumber ones about slashdot being slashdotted are redundant. And you are not helping.
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