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Lanlink Linking The Coasts
Dan Bricker writes "A guy in Parma Heights, Ohio has a website to promote an idea of linking the east coast to the west coast using standard off-the-shelf 802.11 equipment. He is aiming for a July 4th, 2006 first coast-to-coast ping. This project appears to be totally volunteer based, With no other stated reason than fun with pringle cans and bad weather, and do it just to do it. Can this be done? What real world applications does this have?"
I don't think this project will be a success.
My current project (located in the midwest)
release tons of energy, which will most likely
interfere. Sorry 'bout that!
; )
Speaking of slashdotting, has anyone ever tried to slashdot Slashdot? I mean, how many websites have been brought to their knees by Slashdot readers? Isn't it about time to show Cmdr. Taco and all the others what it feels like? I propose a planet-wide convergence of geeks with large bandwidth to slashdot Slashdot! Who's with me?
are you proposing we plan a DoS attack against slashdot intentionally? ummmm
WTPOUAWYHTTOTWPA
What's the point of using acronyms when you have to type out the whole phrase anyways?
Well, I think Slashdotting as it is now, is still in the realm of:
"Sucks to be you. Your servers should have been better prepared."
If you solicit geeks to help you crash a well-loved website, then I think it enters the realm of a DoS attack. Not to mention what calls of mutiny must do to your karma.
How about you solicit geeks to write a how to on how to avoid a slashdotting with apache or something. Load-balancing sounds pretty tricky to me, but maybe I've just never tried it before.
Somebody in Parma actually knows what a computer looks like, let alone knows how to use one?? I thought all they did in Parma was bitch about the Tribe/Browns and drink beer.
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. - Cmdr. Susan Ivanova
fundamentalist christian groups who consider that a woman can't choose whether or not to carry a child
or christian fundamentalist groups who consider that a woman should kill the child she conceived...
If the woman didn't want a child (barring rape), she should have used birth control.