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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.
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.
We should see you by 9.
On what day?
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NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Is this a 1st post or did all the comments get lost?
Is this just my lucky day?
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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.
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.
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
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
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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"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...
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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.
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)
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?
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 :)
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.
server or am I the lucky one?
--Blair
"Nyah-ha-haaaaah."
EXCELLENT... You mean things are like this BEFORE they do the switch:
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The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, pater@slashdot.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
If God gave us curiosity
and I just noticed, my comment is apparently the 2,171,131th comment for this article! Woah, talk about a lively debate!!
by Telek (dNaO99@hSoPmAeM.com) on Saturday August 18, @03:44 (#2171131)
If God gave us curiosity
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!!
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.
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
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!
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..
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
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!!!!!
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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.
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