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HDD Assault Cannon
Anonymous Coward writes "Check out what these crazy fools have done. One has to ask, exactly how much time these people have on their hands? Got a couple of old 2GB Hard drives. You too could join in on their madness. Hard Drive Assault Cannons for all!"
OK, you know that some guys private webspace on his dsl connected linux server is going to be slashdotted within seconds.
So why not actually put SOMETHING in the submission that describes, in some way, WHAT THE SITE IS ABOUT?
"Check out what this crazy guy did with his computer!!!11!!!!11ROFLOL!"
It's an absolute waste of everyones time. Why even put shit like that on the front page?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Tsk. What a waste of hard drives. Someone could have put Linux on them and set up a firewall.
Could slashdot just add a link next to articles called "mirror" and pre-cache these smaller sites *before* they get hammered? I'm constantly scrolling through comments to find mirrors to slashdotted sites. Seems like a no-brainer. You could even do a 15-sec stress test on the site to determine it's ability to be directly linked.
Several times, i've seen sites that have had to shut down their site with a "please check back later" message. An inconvenience to us, but surely a REAL inconvenience to their normal viewers.
Thoughts? Thank you.
Finally! The missing option!!
Farked...erm...I mean Slashdotted...at only 4 comments.
Actually, this site was already slashdotted before it even went live. I am a subscriber and couldn't even get to it. Maybe the guy has some sort of grudge against his ISP, posting a DSL hosted site like that. Or maybe he is a troll - posted just to see the bitching in the thread. Or perhaps he is just an attention starved fool, pretending to be submitting someone elses site when it is really his own.
Yeah they either shut off their webserver or they got kicked off that IP address due to the flood and some other poor bastard was assigned it. If this is the case then I really pity that guy.
(109):tim@pigeon:{11:49}:~# telnet 202.0.40.113 80
Trying 202.0.40.113...
telnet: connect to address 202.0.40.113: Connection refused
(110):tim@pigeon:{11:49}:~#
Again I say this was a publicity stunt (look at the e-mail address from the "Anonymous Coward" that submitted the article). Guess it's a slow news day and we need something to occupy our time with -- (Deity) knows we wouldn't be actually working on company time now would we? ;) (myself as guilty as the rest of you)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Um, I think the word you are thinking if is frell not fark. www.fark.com is a news/link farm site like Slashdot.
Mod parent up [+1 funny]
If you mod this up, your slashdot background will turn into a beautiful sunset!
Is that not one post has been mod'ed up about the actual project - just the /. effect ;^)
That's the most awesome part - that some guy actually gets irritated when he thinks someone else is copying from a horrible show. Like everyone watches "Farscape", and everyone likes it *sooo* much that they'd start using made-up words from said show.
.sig that mentions burning Tacos somehow... Yeah.
Tacos. Burning Tacos. I need a
Just stop posting all these lame, trollish articles. Don't worry slashdot, we'll keep reloading even with just 3 quality articles per day. At least that way the 3 good articles won't scroll off the main page and we can have even higher quality discussions on them.
If you're still compelled to post these simplistic tidbits, bring back the Quickies. I miss those!
Or, in Keanu-speak, it is merely a response to any event happening around onesself, expressing shock, dismay, humour, joy, or any of a bunch of things which can happen to a person.
=)
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Sigh...
Is it fascism yet?
Yes, not all happiness comes from money and not everything can be bought with money. However, money can buy you happiness because it buys you freedom and choice. Say your girlfriend phones you up at work and dumps you. You can go home to a shitty one bedroom apartment with a leaky roof or go home to a nice warm house with nice food to cook for dinner and maybe a few beers. The only difference here is money. Propose that situation to all those 'money can't buy you happiness' people and see if they say that they would be happy either way. After all, it's only money right? If money isn't related to happiness then why do people play the lottery, or why do they get excited over a 5 dollar discount? I'll say again, although money isn't the be all and end all, I'll be damned if it doesn't make life a lot easier. These people can keep telling themselves that working 12 hours a day just to exist on bread and water is 'a living' and eventually they'll start to believe it.
Wow, way to go. You see, what you've done is take a subtle joke that most of us already got and explained it to death so that it's no longer funny. Very interesting. Do you do this often?
2GB disks command about $10 on ebay. The time it takes to prepare the auction, run it (communicate with buyers usually), pack then ship the item is probably about 60-120 minutes of work depending on how close you are to a post office. It's less work if sold in a lot, but when sold one by one, I found it was a waste of time unless you have a lot of volume and are set up for it.