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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.
No-one cries when you cut up a banjo.
so whats new/cool with banjo?
The old hardware setup is here.
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.
...or, even better O'Reilly's Meerkat
Mmmmm.... Tastey
~g.
We should see you by 9.
On what day?
when they finally get things back up. :-)
And I like replying to my fucking self.
Hey this Morpheus P2P deal by muzic ct is pretty goed.
I am inspiring my fucked up cpp hacking on jean michel jarre now and man am I whoopin some fucking ass my objects are flying in the room.
Another cold one, tonight there's no debuggin, unless I get a hold of a Baygon can....
You know this japanese lamer from s.diego i think, he set out to drink 21 doses of scotch on his 21st birthday and died on the 18th.
The japanese dont dig nothin but sake and rice licquor, you know the original +ORC recipe Moscowskaja vodka(the only real one) and martini - that's for real reversers.
Fuck my mysql box kernel panicked and I am typing this shit on Virus 98.
Yup, definitely the beer is taking effect as I am typing with van halen on volume 21 and the fucking neighbor is mopping his ceilin the violent way you know his ceilin is my floor and he's trying to sleep or somethin....
Fuckit it's friday night I'm outta here.
Broken Hearts are for Assholes. - Frank Zappa
9 rebmuN
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Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted.
NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
PM?... AM?... September the 9th?... 2009?
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"Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos." - Homer Simpson [1F10]
Is this a 1st post or did all the comments get lost?
Is this just my lucky day?
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You can tune a banjo..
..but you still can't get that Dukes of Hazzard theme out of your head.
Make it stop!
They should hold a pool to guess at when it will be up.
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"Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos." - Homer Simpson [1F10]
I believe Rob mentioned a short while ago that the bulk of traffic happens during work days. The weekend is a little slower. Therefore picking the weekend makes sense, since less people suffer from possible problems during the switcheroo. I'm not sure if this is the reason for choosing friday, though.
Ha! Your wish has been granted.
Hammer of Truth
So, do I get to keep that extra karma I got on banjo? last time I looked, it was still there. Please? awww....
The opinions in this post are ficticious. Any similarity to actual opinions, real or imagined, is purely coincidental.
I was always told that the phrase "well-tuned banjo" was a good example of an oxymoron
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
has the switch already taken place ? I have never seen slashdot response to be so slow...
his from someone who hides behind AC. I have no idea why it was modded up so fast, I'd guess coincedence.
I take offence of your KW accusation.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Best of luck with the switch! Remember to be prepared for a short wait on Cisco support!
The only problem with using a digital tuner in this situation is that you really want to tune to match the rest of the band. If they are all slightly off in the same direction, you will want to match them rather than being perfectly in tune yourself.
Thanks.
With all of the first posts and goat sex links, can any of the data on Slashdot be really termed "critical data"?
:)
I say we play "Dark Side of the Moon" till things come back, or... baring that... go out... maybe meet some members of the opposite sex. Hopefully O'Reilly makes a book about that....
And what color is the ethernet cabling in your world?
--Blair
Who wants to take bets on how long it will take before Slashdot switches back to the old code?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/10/193122 1&mode=thread
5 6&mode=thread
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/02/18342
http://banjo.slashdot.org
I'm stunned that so many people are posting comments an a "We're going down in a couple of hours for upgrades" story. Yep, that's what makes the internet great. No point, just an observation.
I think they plan on doing it "Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years Eve" style where only the eastern folks will see the new server live at 9PM. Central, Mountain and Pacific users will continue to see their regularly scheduled /. until 9pm their time.
/. so you can see it before everyone else in your area!
Beat the system! Have your EDT friends send you screen shots of the new
Zildy
Karma: Excer..ex...excellahhh...realll good (mostly affected by drinking not done in moderation)
will be passing its fire onto the Slashdot admins. May you use it wisely. Don't forget that by adopting/using the spank-ray, you must keep Moltar and Zorak imprisoned next to your fluffy Tux penguin. Coboy Neal must wear the original SpaceGhost Black cloak on white spandex speedo costume and will bve dedicated to a 4-year term of cheesy andover.net commercials at the San Diego Zoo or a local carnival of how to pick an ice-cream cone from off the ground with a floppy disk. Also, as stated in the contract, you'll be driving an invisible jet. You won't be able to see it, so just feel around inside your apartment 'till you get the idea. May the spank-ray be with you!
But I'm sure you already Gnu that.
yawn.
I've been waiting for a decent reply to your post but none so far... Banjo appears to be a newer version of Slashcode (perhaps 2.0 or 2.2?). There are some notes in CVS logs for slashcode that mention Banjo.
Not that I've done any amount of research, but based on past stories, I believe that Taco is/was in Michigan (Eastern) and the server is in a data center near Boston (also Eastern). I'd say it's a safe bet that "my time" is Eastern.
I don't think you meant http://www.banjo.org/, did you?
Liberty in your lifetime
..but you can't tunafish
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Did Big Bird tell you that?
NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Yeah! 9 it will be! ~g.
at 7:59 /. will get /.'ed by ppl trying to get a "last post" !
[alk]
Just strummed on the banjo server and about 1/2 of the things I clicked on returned internal server errors. Hope this is not a sign of things to come later tonight.
Will we hear about Cisco chicks, rebooting to erase critical logs and the death of a nearby star system (not neccesarily in that order)?
Will any and all posts asking for the truth, or pointing out that the narrative of events is on it's fifth unique revision be moderated down lower than a hot-grits-toting, petrified Natalie Portman visit to goatse post?
Inquiring minds want to know!
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
"Your time" is Eastern, right? That would be 5pm here on the West Coast?
Not that it really matters that much, just want to make sure.......
At least they have the sense to do it on a Friday night, so they have the whole weekend to screw up. Dimes to dollars says they fall back to the current version by Monday.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
news for hillbilly's, stuff thats inbred...
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
24 hours to get it working
48 hours to get it working
Cowboy Neal will have to get it working
"We should see you by 9"
Um, 9:00 on what DAY?
C'ya later everybody. Nice knowin ya all. Maybe we can talk again in another couple years.
Break on through to the other side...
But I've been wrong before...wait...well, shoot, I just broke my streak...
-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
I have reviewed the changelogs, and I don't see many new features, and certainly none that would affect me as a standard reader/poster on slashdot.
I'm sure the administration side has improvements, and the behind-the-scenes code is better. But I'm left asking... So What?
If anyone can explain the real benefits from this move, let me know. And congrats to those who worked on Bender.
Natural != (nontoxic || beneficial)
9 next Friday? Maybe you give them too much credit....
Helloooo....Newman.
You mean just the code base, right? As in, I won't have to go to http://www.banjo.org/ from now on, and explain to my semi-geek friends who have heard of Slashdot but never kept up with it that I haven't changed to a redneck just because I now visit Banjo as often as I used to visit Slashdot, right?
Will there be a new Karma Cap? I've been beating my head against 50 for the last few months and I NEED IT BABY! GIMME MORE ROOM FOR KARMA NOW DAMMITARRRGGHGHH!!!!
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I think you mean this.
Got friends?
Just in case things go awry:
http://www.wiredweb.com/~banjoboyd/tuning.html
'Remember that as you begin to play music with others its will become important to tune in settings that are loud. Your banjo is a cannon and you stand behind it. If you sence that you are out of tune turn away from the group and face into a corner or wall. This will allow the sound to bounce back toward you. Another easy way to tune in a loud environment is to use a battery powered digital tuners. A fiddle tuner pickup is available which will plug into the tuner input jack and clip on the bridge of your banjo. This tool allows you to tune in the most loud environment without any interference or even the need to hear precisely the string note. You simply tune according to the digital devise display. Most music stores stock these devices and will be happy to demonstrate them for you.'
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Heck, you'd probably be doing that anyway :)
We'll be living off of Google's Slash Cache until they get the site back up.
Good luck guys. Hope it all goes well. Thanks for all the great work!
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
Then they'll try to sober up enough to switch it over without fscking it all up.
I suggest a prize of a /. T-shirt to the first post on the "It's Up!" article when it's back up around nine...(yeah... heard that one before)
Here, I'll help ya by writing the article!
Well we did it, it's up and running and we only lost half of the posts, several IDs, all the settings and everyone's karma is reset to 0, but it seems to be working just fine. Have at it and let us know if there's any problems. The techs have left their pagers in greasy pizza box and are heading off into the bushes to sleep it off. See you in the morning.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
What sort of new hardware will Slashdot (and, thus Slashcode Banjo) be running on? I would be quite intersted in the types and configurations of the servers, switches, and routers involved. It may be old-hat to sysadmins, but to me it's kinda neat!
So said mission control the Mars polar lander....
there are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots
About 50 more minutes left to change your settings to filter out posters who have nothing better to do than keep track of how long until Slashdot makes the change.
"Anonymous Coward" is for whistleblowers, not unpopular opinions.
Okay, I haven't been keeping up with /. things for a bit, but please tell me, WTF is Banjo? Is slashcode finally going down the tubes and they are moving to something PHP based (muhahaha, perl will know it's dead for web scripting when /. switches to PHP ;-)
Anyway, 1 link to something banjo releated (that doesn't have anything to do with musical instruments or "Deliverance") would be apperciated.
Word to yer_mom,
~Manse
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I am currently involved in a server migration at work. Luckly it is an internal web/file server so it is not at critical, yet still a big issue. All I can go is wish all the /. staff the best of luck and hope you won't need too much coffee ;)
http://www.banjo.org/
I think I'm going Japanese...
~g.
server or am I the lucky one?
--Blair
"Nyah-ha-haaaaah."
Hey man I just wanted to mention the word "FUCK" coz I think slashdot looks pretty darnd fucked up after the 7th beer fridy night so "FUCK" does make sense. You mentioned BITCHES, you forgot FUCK.
Broken Hearts are for Assholes. - Frank Zappa
1) According to my user page, my moderation points expire 8/3/2001. I saw someone else has submitted this in SourceForge, so I'll assume it'll get fixed.
2) "Slashdot Overload" still doesn't work properly -- comments 1-50 on page 1, 50-99 on page 2, 100-149 on page 3, etc. Do they care? Noooo!
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Bug #106050, was updated on 2000-May-18 10:17
Here is a current snapshot of the bug.
Project: Slash
Category: Comments
Status: Closed
Resolution: Wont Fix
Bug Group: Slashcode
Priority: 2
Submitted by: eithkay
Assigned to : cbwood
Summary: 1-off error in "Slashdot Overload"
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3) Is the fact that I can't see who posted a reply in nested mode a feature, or a bug? I guess that's one less join to make per comment, which is a good thing if needed, but I'd still like to have it.
4) I'd like to have the strikethru tag allowed -- much less geeky^H^H^H^H^H^H illegible.
5) But, other than that, it's all good (AFAIK).
..!!in an intastella burst i am back to save the universe!!
As well as your own local time, I think you really ought to give times in GMT! Every time zone is given in relation to GMT on official charts and stuff, but I'll be damned if I know how many hours ahead of my own time zone is CET, or west coast time, or CowboyNeal's friend's cousin's dog's time...
jd
Why, is that a beowulf cluster?
sulli
RTFJ.
It has come to my attention that many users are abusing the MetaModeration privelege! Help to stamp out these trolls' ability to squelch our moderation power! Support the SMMMA - Slashdot Meta Meta Moderation Association! E-mail Hemos or Taco today!
are gone. What happened?
sulli
RTFJ.
.. so why haven't you scheduled to perform this work in the middle of the night? Sure it'll be an inconvenience for YOU but that's your job isn't it?
A) I'd never consider such a disruption to any production web servers I'm responsible for administering
B) If I did take them down at 8-9pm, I know I wouldn't have a job by 9am the next morning...
kill_9_1
Every time I load a page here now, slashdot.org sends me a new cookie user= and a bunch of %25 codes.
What's this doing, anyway?
This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is... Oops. Frank, I've got your sig again! Where's mine?
telnet www.slashdot.org 80
e parameter is incorrect. </body>
Connecting to www.slashdot.org...
Connected to wwww.slashdot.org
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 01:10:32 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 87
<html><head><title>Error</title></head><body>Th
</html>
Connection to host lost.
As long as we can watch is synched with The Wizard of Oz, I'm in.
What in the hell is up with the new comment numbering system? Slash is fast and pages come up quick. But this numbering system (e.g., #2171189) has got to go.
And then I got this message even though I haven't posted since before the transition:
Slow Down Cowboy!
Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
It's been 1 minute since you last successfully posted a comment
I would classify that a bug.
[rolling eyes skyward]
-Coach-
Perhaps the world's greatest tragedy is that ignorance is not impotence.
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
--hongpong.com
"w00t" please?
Thanks!
-- Trolled...you WILL be === Yoda
(Statue of petrified Queen Amidala appears, burried to the neck in the sand.)
You blew it up! DAMN YOU!!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!
What kind of damn dirty apes take away hidden [nonexistant] sids from helpless trolls and crapflooders?
One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
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.
So this bluegrass picker goes into 7-Eleven for a few minutes and returns to parking lot, only to find his car window broken. As soon as he sees the shattered glass, his heart sinks. He had left his $3000 banjo in plain view on the passenger seat. "Oh no", he sighed. He looks through the broken window and sees his beloved banjo, still sitting on the seat. And lying next to it is...another banjo!
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I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Looks like were all back and up..
-- I'm the root of all that's evil, but you can call me cookie..
What happened? Did the database count all the comments in it so far, and start numbering from that point onward, or what?
Well, thats just annoying. You have to have at least typed for 20 seconds before you can hit submit? Whats up with that? Some of us can type fast, ya know..
-- I'm the root of all that's evil, but you can call me cookie..
Geez every time i check back together somthing new has borken - now the slashboxes have lost their borders.....
It tastes like the real thing
This fake plastic slashdot
But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I could just roll back
And it wears me out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out
When do we get the see the YEAR shown with older or searched articles??? Hmmm???
Steve Magruder, Metro Foodist
Secondly, moderators get a life! Stop modding people down. Hell, let this be one thread when everyone can blurt out to their heart's content...
Oh baby! Respond to me baby! Oh, yeah! Oh, you know how to respond, don't you baby! Oh baby, you're so Real Time! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!!!!!
http://saveie6.com/
the new code is full of dog feces. It sucks. You guys are shitty wannabe coders. Go drink some starbucks with jon katz and discuss some whiney neo-hippy shlop.
Everything looks like it's up and it's running lightning fast. I like the new comment tweaks like showing the user info.
I just got "invalid form key" while trying to post tho. Maybe we're still in static mode, eh?
Would the book have a rabbit on the cover?
The shareholder is always right.
Prior Restraint has posted 222 comments.
Lovely. Yet another metric that can be used to mathematically prove I'm wasting my life.
I had to change the subject line of my reply before slashdot would let it through. It kept complaining about "postersubj compression". What the fuck?
The shareholder is always right.
Well the codebase has been updated now how about a new look, Slashdot has been green and white as long as I've been coming here (at least 2 years probably longer). It's not a bad look but don't you think it's time for something new?
I would go back and follow up on my postings to see if there are any replies, and maybe make counter replies. To find mine in the thread I would click on the browser search icon to bring up a search box, enter my name, and search for posts with my name as the poster. From there I can see if there are any new replies.
My display format preference is "light".
Now I can't. The new design leaves out the poster name. Nothing to find. The only way I can see my name is if my post got moderated up and doesn't show as just a one liner. But people do reply to posts that don't get moderated up. Not everyone reads at level 5.
So how about putting the names back in on the one liner when the post isn't expanded? Or at least do so for one's own posts when logged in.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
I'd really love to show you how it is broken by pasting an example, BUT...
"Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Junk character post."
So you can fucking figure it out for yourselves, assholes.
still be nice to know how to create journal entries...
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
Any information can be forwarded to my e-mail address.
Thanks!
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I've almost gave up on it and switched ti Kuro5hin!. I hope that this "banjo" thing makes things better.
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