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HDD Assault Cannon

Posted by timothy on from the use-at-own-risk dept.

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!"

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  1. WHY BOTHER? by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

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    1. Re:WHY BOTHER? by merlin_jim · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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?

      Ironically, "Anonymous Coward" who posted this story left as his e-mail address "hddassaultcannon@hotmail.com"... So even though the submission is in the third person, it was obviously written by the guy that did this.

      I mean come on, he had to have some kind of idea what would happen, right?

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    2. Re:WHY BOTHER? by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Insightful

      So what did he do?

      Build a catapult or air cannon that fires hard drives?

      Modify a hard drive to fire some sort of projectile?

      Make a scale replica of a WWII era Howitzer using old hard drives?

      Who knows?

      It annoys me cuz this is the kind of geeky shit I actually like reading about and discussing. Who cares about the latest round of RIAA threats or MSFT hiring some goober? This could well be a neat lil project dude has going, but I'll never know.

      When people submit something like this, why can't they submit a descriptive little write up, and why can't slashdot hold a jpeg or two in the story text?

      And why can't editors just flat out refuse non-descript submissions like this, which consist of nothing more than a hyperlink to some guys little home server?

      I mean, it's not hard to scope out a webserver and come to the conclusion that it's hosted on junk that isn't up to the task.

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  2. HOW TO FIX THIS PROBLEM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.