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Slashdot Prepares Switcheroo

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hoo-boy-its-time dept.

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.

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  1. Re:New Hardware Specs ? by michael · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:When exactly is "9"? by Mononoke · · Score: 3, Funny
    9 rebmuN

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    9 rebmuN

    Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted.

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  3. Well by PovRayMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is this a 1st post or did all the comments get lost?

    Is this just my lucky day?

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    1. Re:Well by TOTKChief · · Score: 3, Informative

      What's really nice about the new Slash is that FP is gone, and I guess it's replaced with the Nth comment number in the entirety of Slashdot. That should strike a blow for the noisemakers...

      Can't wait to see the race for post N million, etc.

      Hey, Taco, what about sticking a "N comments served", kinda like McDonald's, on the static front for all the noobies? Be kinda cool, and updating every 20 minutes or so shouldn't make it too much of a load on the system, no?

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  4. Re:Isn't there some rule? by roguerez · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  5. "my time" is when? by blair1q · · Score: 5, Funny

    And what color is the ethernet cabling in your world?

    --Blair

  6. You can tune a banjo.. by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..but you can't tunafish

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  7. Just curious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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.......

  8. banjo.org by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    news for hillbilly's, stuff thats inbred...

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  9. Missed Opportunity by scott1853 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Why the hell didn't we get a chance to put up a poll on what would happen with the update!?

    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.

  10. So What? by rabtech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  11. How to tune a Banjo... by daeley · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.'

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  12. When All Is Said And Done by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Interesting
    There'll be partying, liquor flowing, a food fight or two, an underwear on the head parade, and lots of other celebration type activities the little ones shouldn't read about.

    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.

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  13. New Hardware Specs ? by green+pizza · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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!

  14. Best of luck by cnkeller · · Score: 5, Funny
    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 said mission control the Mars polar lander....

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  15. Tick Tock by Lothar+0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  16. Hidden sids by sulli · · Score: 4, Interesting

    are gone. What happened?

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  17. New random quotes by HongPong · · Score: 4, Informative
    Sweet! The random quote of the day seems to have been updated. Futurama's definitely new I think. Though I bet it's just a text file they can change at will, it seems different than usual.

    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

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  18. Re:Neato! by krow · · Score: 3

    Thank you, that was a lot of hell to make that work :)

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  19. Obvious Bug Remains by smagruder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When do we get the see the YEAR shown with older or searched articles??? Hmmm???

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