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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. 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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  3. 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.

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

    And what color is the ethernet cabling in your world?

    --Blair

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

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

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  6. 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!

  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Hidden sids by sulli · · Score: 4, Interesting

    are gone. What happened?

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  10. 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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  11. 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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