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Welcome to the new Cluster
We're up and running on the new cluster at Exodus West. The hardware configuration is almost identical to what we had on the east coast, just a few time zones over. No doubt we'll be working out a few kinks over the next few
days, so hang in there. Now that that's over with, please continue swimming naked.
!!!yes sah!
mod me down if you want - this is great honor (modded)
My life in the land of the rising sun.
Well, everything seems to be working alright. I can log in and post just fine. :)
:D
The only thing I noticed is that since almost all the links point to slashdot.org, simply using brak.slashdot.org until DNS updates will not work. I've already updated my host file to fix this.
Anyway, congrats.
Cogito ergo sum in Slashdot.
Good lord, that's the last thing I want to imagine the /. crowd doing.
Have you been stalked by Seth today?
Hey guys, why the move from the east? Ya guys gonna stay located in Michigan or move to the demonpit of cali-forn-i-a?
I think I speak for everyone (or, a lot of people) when I say that brak.slashdot.org was really neat (in a "we are all tripping on acid from the 30 mod points and silly stories / posts") kind of way...
How about putting up an "alternative universe slashdot" for us to play on?
(everyone who was "stress testing" brak please say "aye")
My life in the land of the rising sun.
On the new server?
Remember to point your HOSTS file to 66.35.250.150!
Yeah, I know this is off topic, but I just found an awesome book on Linux clustering, written by the same guy that did a bunch of other O'Reilly books. Of course you can't really be on topic with this discussion now can you ;)
I'm curious, how did Slashdot set up the cluster system? Full time maintenence on staff or did they contract it out?
How come I get a 404 for slashdot.org?
:)
Just kidding.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
>simpsons/simpsons<
Anyways, I think that the Exodus West cluster, which has served us so faithfully, should get a good send-off - say, one last surge of traffic to permanently melt the last remining servers to the rack posts.
Every cloud has a silver lining (except for the mushroom shaped ones, which have a lining of Iridium & Strontium 90)
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It's well past beer 30. Time to pound pound pound!!!!
AYE
That would rule.
--j
Heh.. acid.slashdot.org - I can see it now. We can keep the Amiga and CowboyNeal posts here too! :)
Ladies, form queue here -->
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have we any idea what prompted the move? I can't imagine it was for a bigger pipe; and previously (according to the FAQ) the techs were within a short drive of the facility...so now are there new network/db techs or has everyone moved, or as a third option; when there's trouble does CowboyNeal flap his wings and everyone hold on for the ride across the country?
some of the more interesting ones revived:
CowboyNeal & Beowulf Clusters (Score:5, Funny)
by lpret on 17:11 Tuesday 29 October 2002 (#4551192) Alter Relationship
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specifically for Beowulf clusters. Also every time CowboyNeal beats up Bill Gates!! C'mon, you got 30 mod points -- the least you can do is give me one of 'em! And yes I'm drunk.
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This is...the NEW slashdot (Score:5, Troll)
by YourMissionForToday (yourmissionfortoday&YAHOO,com) on 15:41 Tuesday 29 October 2002 (#4550747) Alter Relationship
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long message... excluded
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that was fun
1) There was a story, in entirety, is as follows:
Is this working? fee, fo, fum...
2) somebody posted something about 200 monkeys. I did not cache it - but it was funny and got 118 moderations! (probabbly more, actually) That is some serious messed-up-ness there. (somebody re-post the monkey story please)
3) Did I mention the 30 mod points? I did already? you sure you understood the consequences of *everyone* having *30* mod points? at the *same time*?
4) there are a lot more...
but yeah. really. somebody. need. to. re-post. the. monkey. story.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
If you use anything with a HOSTS file (yes, i believe even XP has it under C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\drivers\etc), you can add a line that says
66.35.250.150 slashdot.org www.slashdot.org slashdot any_other_aliases_you_feel_like_having
Of course, if you didnt have access to the new server, you wouldnt be reading this... right? At any rate, this solves any DNS misdirections due to the server move, and it will even let you access slashdot using the DNS should the root servers of the internet actually fail.
I'm the Devil the Windows users warned you about.
For a minute I was beginning to think /. got Slashdotted...
I have too much (note I said much, not many) karma at the moment, and would like to burn some. Let it burn, baby burn!
"The lesson to be learned is not to take the comments on slashdot too literally." --Vinnie Falco, BearShare
Using a different server sure would be a hell of a lot simpler if you slashdot guys would get with that whole "web thing" and make all the links on the page RELATIVE instead of ABSOLUTE..
I mean, it's kinda annoying to use brak.slashdot.org only to have every link on every resulting page point to http://slashdot.org anyway.
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
- Yes the $TTL 1D was set to high. I'll be taking the heat for that one for awhile I think.
- Spent all day today trying to build enough machines, 8 server died in shipping. Not enought time talking to everyone involved.
- The admins were thinking everything was going to just go to http://brak.slashdot.org/ for a bit. The Developers were thing something else.
- Admins thought the Arrowpoint could do the RedirectMatch we were looking for. It can and it can not.
Well this was the first site to move from Boston Exodus 2 and well we will try to do better on the next group of website.--Yazz
What did East Exodus server say to the West exodus server ? ... ...
You are gonna smoke pot !
What did the West Exodus server say to the East exodus server ? ... ...
You are such a DNS whore! (DNS~=Dense)
Siggy Say, Siggy Do
Let me tell you, those Exodus rooms are BIG, and oddly shaped. It's actually easy to get lost in there.
... lost... and embarrassed...
Just over a year ago, I was part of the IT team to move 50 computers from Exodus to another facility
We had all these computers in a cage in Big Room A. We needed to get all of the equipment to the loading dock, which was on the other side of this huge building.
So there we were, by the back entrance. Got the truck up to the loading dock, loaded some equipment. Then it was time to go back to the cage and get the second batch.
The guard opened the door for us, pointed us down one hallway, and shut the door. *click* Door's locked. We walked down the hallway, opened the door, and entered the cage room.
"Wait," said my friend "Let me make sure this is the right..." *click*
Like in a bad horror movie, the last person into the room let the door slam shut. So we were stuck.
So we walked around for a few minutes, trying to find our way.
"Wait, wait. We're going the wrong way!" said my friend, who had only been here once, and in a different part of the building.
So we turned around and traced our way back to the first door. The door, of course, is locked. We knocked. No answer. We pounded the door. Still no
answer. No intercom. No guard to open the door. The door could be opened in a fire, but that would set off the alarms, halon, whatever. This wasn't
a fire. We were just
So we tried a second hallway, hoping it would be a more direct route to the other door.
"It's this way" my friend said, "I think..."
After walking 100 ft down the hallway, turning left and walking down another hallway and turning past a few more corners, we came to a 4-way intersection, and NOTHING looked familiar. Just a long 100-ft hallway of identical cages in each direction. No landmarks, no maps... blank walls at the end of every hallway.
Being that it was almost Halloween, I half expected our numbers to start droping one-by-one.
So we proceded down a random hallway and came to a blank wall. No door. Turned around , tried another hallway. Blank wall.
"Where'd the fucking door go?"
"I don't know. Maybe we should split up."
"Shuttup. That's what they do in the fucking horror movies."
Eventually we found our way, and everyone survived... except I smashed my foot by dropping a 100-lb loading ramp 2 feet onto it.
But those were good times.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
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i fucking dint know this ! thanks dude
The lovely XML feed says there is an article called Mathematica and BattleBots, but it doesn't seem to exist.
A glitch in the move?
Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.
... as Rob said, same as was on east coast: 4 quad-pentium VA 4450 DB servers running MySQL and Red Hat 7.x, plus 9 VA 2251 web servers running Debian and Apache + mod_perl + slash. Load balancing across web servers via Arrowpoint CS800 switch (which is now a Cisco product). The move was in order to consolidate our network operations on west coast. Choice of Exodus over other colos was that we've been overall satisfied with Exodus service and costs, and the datacenters we occupy are owned by Exodus parent, Cable&Wireless, by all appearances they have a stable parent company, but you can never guess what financial status a telco will be in 12 months from now the way the telco market has been in the past 2 years: look at WorldCom 18 months ago as compared to today... who knew? but they're not about to close their doors but still, every telco has bad-looking finances these days but doesn't mean their datacenters will go dark next week. (These are only my own opinions by the way, not official opinions of OSDN, and IANATFABJASATYVM: I am Not A Telco Financial Analyst but Just a Sys Admin, Thank You Very Much)
Could they not just go to brak.slashdot.org and read the posts? It seems that at least one person has already done that.
Cogito ergo sum in Slashdot.
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When I tried brak.slashdot when it was posted for load testing the server had been slashdoted
Yes, we fell behind moving schedule, we asked movers if we could postpone sending machines out until slashdot was stable on west coast, they said "No, sorry, our movers will be there Thursday morning to take your servers west." So here we are group of happy sys admins pulling an all-nighter to shove this entire site out west before the moving van arrives. YAY! Sorry about the DNS sloppiness everyone, we should've primed that earlier.
I guess the skinny dipping is better on the east coast. No wonder they wanted to move
check it out on my site earth2willi.com if you like, the feeds are returning this error from my scripts:
/home2/www/sejus/earth2willi/RSSslashdot.php on line 60
Warning: fopen("http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss","r") - Success in
Error reading news headlines from this site.
full length albums complete with print resolution artwork -- earth2willi.com
If I click on "Wednesday 30 October", I get a page with columns on both sides, but the content is missing. There's a big white rectangle in the middle. Have you been slashdotted perhaps?
The real reason for the move is that they wanted their disk drives to be in a building that looked like a disk drive.
Hm,
/. ppl did not take over the "unban" list from the east cost. Just found out that our entire university got banned from the /. site :( since the proxy got banned, ...
:x
the
Luckily there is squid and I have my box at home >:)
It was touch and go there when I was not able to access the geek news in the morning
Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say, "Today I will be brilliant."
So now that the site has move a few timezones, we won't see anyone pull a Lone Gunmen anymore? :)
Oh wait, it doesn't work that way, and they moved in the wrong direction.
my sig
just wondering... I was having problems meta-moderating until I switched to yro.slashdot.org (and am now using yro to post this)
since the links are absolute and all, I kept getting redirected back to the form, sans data.
Did you notice the search button now says "Google Slashdot?"
One of the articles (besides the total nonsense "test test blablabla" kind) on brak.slashdot.org was "What search features would you like on Slashdot?" The tread gone now, as they mirrored slashdot.org to brak.slashdot.org. But the use of Google as search engine was one of the suggestions in this thread. And it seems they are testing that suggestion now.
Where is bsd.slashdot.org?
me three
Read slashdot last night. Reading slashdot now. On new servers. Didn't notice. Go grab yourself some cocoa and don't beat yourself up about how well you are providing a free service to slashdot geeks :p
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
The "Slashdot is Moving" story is posted on 10:25PM, and the "Welcome to the New Cluster" story is posted on 11:35PM.
What kind of time are they? Are they east coast time or west coast time?
-- Weiqi Gao weiqigao@speakeasy.net
Not that I can tell the difference, but why this sudden move from East to West? Was this done for corporate reasons? Where are you located now? May be I can come visit sometime
Hey, AC, how're ya doing with your MCSE? Still workin'?
Anyway, I couldn't post last night due to the brak.slashdot.org
Ever dream you could fly? Get up from the Flight Sim. I Fly
Tis true, Brak was fun while it lasted... 30 mod points I never did get around to using all of... [sigh] Days gone by. I call for a permanent Slashdot stress-test server :)
Congratulations on leaving The Cluster. Perhaps in the dark Universe, you will be light.
sic transit gloria mundi
please continue swimming naked
That visual is definitely one I did not need this early...
Is it just me, or is the RSS headline list currently way behind? Did the updating of this break in the move?
All I want is a kind word, a warm bed and unlimited power.
I think after you guys moved servers the other day you broke the subscription stuff. I am seeing ads on the homepage and I still have literally thousands of ad-free views left on my subscription.
I'm a 2000 man.
My school runs a filter which blocks slashdot that is IP based. Since the IP changed, the filter won't update for a while so I have access to slashdot again! Praise brak!
Brak r0x0r5 my s0x0r5! It's cool and it's always been cool! ROCK ON, BRAK!
Both clicking on the sidebar link for science and typing in http://science.slashdot.org/ both send me to http://brak.slashdot.org/
Must...have...Science!
The Humblest Mollusk on the Net
I like monkeys.
The pet store was selling them for 5 a piece. I thought that odd since they were normally a couple thousand each. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like monkeys.
I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals. I laughed. Then they punched my genitals. I stopped laughing.
I herded them into my room. They didn't adapt very well to their new environment. They would screech, hurl themselves off of the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour.
Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive: they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sorta' dropped dead. Kinda' like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. Damn cheap monkeys.
I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my room, on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked like I had 200 throw rugs.
I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet monkey and 199 dead, dry monkeys.
I tried pretending that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real bad.
I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in the toilet and I didn't want to call the plumber. I was embarrassed.
I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately there was only enough room for two monkeys at a time so I had to change them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so it didn't all go bad.
I tried burning them. Little did I know my bed was flammable. I had to extinguish the fire.
Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in my freezer, and 197 dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed. The odor wasn't improving.
I became agitated at my inability to dispose of my monkeys and to use the bathroom. I severely beat one of my monkeys. I felt better.
I tried throwing them way but the garbage man said that the city wasn't allowed to dispose of charred primates. I told him that I had a wet one. He couldn't take that one either. I didn't bother asking about the frozen ones.
I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My friends didn't know quite what to say. They pretended that they like them but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched them in the genitals.
I like monkeys
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My mother always used to tell me: If you can't find anything nice to say, say something bad about Windows.
New cluster? Just imagine one node from it!
Table-ized A.I.
At least that's what the errors on /. said last night...
"Your CPU came with a keyboard? What kind of ghetto deal is that?" -McSuede
For example, whenever clicking on Wednesday under older stuff, nothing appears! Argh...
Seriously, brak was way fun. Perhaps it would be the best way to do April Fool's - give some carefully selected trolls and jokers editor access for a day, and give everyone tons of mod points - it could be really fucking hilarious, certainly better than 4/1/02 (though the "anon has been disabled" trick was funny).
sulli
RTFJ.
Is this any different than how things were originally? In building "the Matrix" (some person's idea of a cool name for a datacenter installation for Andover at Exodus Boston 2), we were rushed and had similar issues. I had hoped things had changed, I wish you and Yazz lots of luck out on the left coast.
:)
Me, I'm just happy to be doing what I'm doing.
no more stress of OSDN, just stress of a newborn child
-Trish
FreeBSD The Power to Serve
After all the various complaints about Exodus on your own board, I'm very surprised you chose to stick with 'em.
What's their stock value now? 12 cents?
This is great news. It being the case that slashdot has roughly 90 ms less latency for me now, this will save me about one second every 11 times I load a new page!! This will surely allow me to get much more work done during the day, with how often I compulsively reload...
... ]
... ]
$ traceroute www.slashdot.org
traceroute to slashdot.org (64.28.67.150), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
[
14 csr03-ve240.wlhm02.exodus.net (64.14.70.130) 301.782 ms 88.878 ms 86.956 ms
15 64.28.66.204 (64.28.66.204) 90.151 ms 86.267 ms 133.649 ms
16 * * *
$ traceroute brak.slashdot.org
traceroute to brak.slashdot.org (66.35.250.150), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
[
12 csr01-ve242.sntc08.exodus.net (66.35.194.58) 15.048 ms 15.537 ms 15.59 ms
13 66.35.212.174 (66.35.212.174) 15.66 ms 16.52 ms 19.198 ms
14 * * *
A small puddle of slime, a pair of shoes and the frayed ends of a pair of pant legs.
And, perhaps, some police tape. ...
OS Software is like love: The best way to make it grow is to give it away.
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The "random letters" image is not loading on the new account form. Couldn't submit it as a bug report about it, because that requires a login.
that a search for DMCA on slashdot would return nothing!
Searching For: DMCA
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 01:36:56 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) OpenSSL/0.9.6g X-Powered-By: Slash 2.003000 Connection: close
OK
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.
Apache/1.3.26 Server at slashdot.org Port 80
Speaking of which, Mr. 'I follow .sig links'...
It's only natural to take a look at the TTLs when you're trying to make an informed flame.
At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly
contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre
or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny
of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep
nonsense. Of course, scientists make mistakes in trying to understand the
world, but there is a built-in error-correcting mechanism: The collective
enterprise of creative thinking and skeptical thinking together keeps the
field on track.
-- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection"
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