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Kernel.org Needs Some Help, Perl Foundation Got Some
Dante wrote in to say "I just read this on the Linux Kernel mailing list, it's from Peter Anvin, one of the ftp.kernel.org maintainers...
H. Peter Anvin writes: "The recent troubles we've had at kernel.org pretty much highlight the issues with having an offsite system with no easy physical access. This begs the question if we could establish another primary kernel.org site; this would not only reduce the load on any one site but deal with any one failure in a much more graceful way.
Anyone have any ideas of some organization who would be willing to host a second kernel.org server? Such an organization should expect around 25 Mbit/s sustained traffic, and up to 40-100 Mbit/s peak traffic (this one can be adjusted to fit the available resources.) If so, please contact me."
In related news, mbadolato wrote in to tell us that "there's a press release over at dyndns.org announcing that they've donated $20,000 to the Perl Foundation!
'Thanks primarily to Perl and other Open Source technologies, we are able to provide DNS services to over 180,000 members of the Internet community,' said Tim Wilde, founder and chief executive officer of DynDNS.org. 'This is our way of giving back to some of the people whose tireless devotion to writing quality software has enabled us to provide our services to the Internet community over the past three years.'
The donation page for the Perl Foundation can be found here
To persuade RH, AOL willing to sponsor second kernel.org site.
-- Hasbullah bin Pit (sebol)
Perl Foundation Got Some
Well it's about time! I couldn't bear to think about those 45 year old GNU hippie geek virgins working at the Perl Foundation anymore.
-Metrollica
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It's just what the government wants you to believe.
The same goes with George Bush's encounter with a pretzel. George Bush has died because of the pretzel and has been replaced with a robot replica using an Athlon cpu. They would have used a superior cpu like the Pentium 4 but it would make him appear too intelligent. We all know how dumb George Bush is. Whos with me?
Anyway, this robot is really just a front end for Dick Cheney to spread his zionist Jew loving Neo-Nazi Communist Conservative Liberal Republican Democratic Fascist ideals and to reinstate the Taliban as rulers of Afghanistan.
Under that mask of Osama Bin Laden hides Dick Cheney who is the mastermind of attacks on his own country for what reason I am not sure of. He was also the one behind the Enron disaster we are hearing of so much in the news.
As you can see, it is all very complicated.
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Mod this up!!
I was just thinking the same thing - (I'm a newbie troll - I cant even spell Fuk Yu Wancker properly yet)
By the way, fellow trolls - please welcome me into your midst with open arms and a nice big group hug
"You can all kiss my arse"
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This was of course a joke - a really, really bad joke I agree; but a joke never-the-less.
I thought it might be funny but the 'Slashdot Lameness filter kicked in and rejected it. Ok I've typed enough lower case shit now, so lets see it it gets posted
Maybe Microsoft could host kernel.org.
Then again, maybe not...
How about some of those porn sites that use Perl extensively donating some of their profits?
Of course, maybe they do - if I was getting bucks from porn people I might not be issuing press releases about it :)
"The recent troubles we've had at kernel.org pretty much highlight the issues with having an offsite system with no easy physical access. This begs the question if we could establish another primary kernel.org site; this would not only reduce the load on any one site but deal with any one failure in a much more graceful way."
I'm confused; I don't see how it begs the question. I dont see an attempt to prove anything with itself.