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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.
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].
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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Is there a list of advantages/improvements of the new version?
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!
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?
Banjo
The name "banjo" stresses me too much already.
I expect Kermit to start singing any second.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
Well, I guess the test results are in. -b
If I wanted a sig I would have filled in that stupid box.
Put up two different servers, that way you can have the dueling banjos :)
>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
"Oh, you can take that, eh? Well let's raise it a few hundred volts...."
Got Rhinos?
I guess you could call it the Cluster's Last Stand....
Got Rhinos?
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.
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.
"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.
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
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....
Make It Secret . Free JavaScript implementation of AES for your browser
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
. . .
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?
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?
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
www.slashcode.com - read all about it, download the source, find exploits (?!), chitchat with others who tinker with this code, fork your very own slashfork...
I don't think look & feel is supposed to be very different, this is about the code behind the scenes.
I do not have a signature