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michael
on from the oh-christmas-tree dept.
BigFire writes "Professor Tanenbaum responds to the slashdot effect and a small critique of Ken Brown's forthcoming book in his followup. A small gem is where he disclosed that Ken Brown can't multiply simple positive integers."
I think he calculated Second
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Anonymous Coward
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instead of First [post].
Re:Article text
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gujo-odori
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Ummmm, hellooooo, McMod! Reposting the article to help the rest of us read it (because the site is already/.ed and there were only three posts, including the FP, when I started writing this) cannot, by any reasonable person, be considered redundant.
Someone please mod the parents informative, and throw an Unfair to the moderator if you get this in M2.
Re:the article...
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njcoder
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Actually, it's not slashdotted, it's just really slow.
He mentions it's running on a sun box with apache. He also mentions that the last time it was on slashdot it didn't go down. This has been my experience with apache on sun. It may sometimes be very slow... but you'll eventually get the page in most cases under heavy load. Sun's app server works in the same way. I don't know if it's their philosophy but the servlet engine comparison's I've seen, the other servlet containers I've seen, Sun's product starts slowing down a bit earlier than the others under stress, but it returned far fewer errors.
The point is, if you wait 20-30seconds, you'll get the page.
I need witnesses to this BBC page
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CrustyBread
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This is completely off-topic but, since time is of the essence and the slashdot readership is so large, here goes:
On its fron page news the bbc website is leading with a picture of Sharon with a Hitler moustache. However when you click on the story you get a 404 error. I find it extraordinay that a news organization would use this kind of tactic. Hence I'm calling on all/.'ers to preserve a record of this page before it, too, goes "404".
Re:I need witnesses to this BBC page
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CrustyBread
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Sorry in my hurry I forgot the URL :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/defau lt.stm
Re:I need witnesses to this BBC page
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Anonymous Coward
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Uhh, the picture you are referring to is of a sign that has sharon's picture on it with a hitler moustache filled in. BBC wasn't hacked.
Re:I need witnesses to this BBC page
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Anonymous Coward
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That image looks like it is on a protest poster or something.
I really doubt the BBC news org would have created an image
like that themselves.
Checked though, Sharon with a Hitler moustache and a broken link. Though is it that inflammatory? It looks like a protest sign from a demonstrator.
Andy T. part of plot to overthrow US govt.
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Anonymous Coward
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He's right about microkernels. QNX is a fantastic OS.
Anyone notice the link to the web site that is asking people to identify americans oversees so they can contact them and persuade them to vote against Bush?
Yeah - that's a great idea - lets build a database of all americans living overseas so they can be targets of intimidation and/or kidnapping and murder.
In any case his efforts put him in good company. The chinese govt. (hello -huge human rights violators and murderers of their own people by the millions) has given tons of $ to the democratic party in the past through various agents.
Slashdot Mirror
instead of First [post].
Ummmm, hellooooo, McMod! Reposting the article to help the rest of us read it (because the site is already /.ed and there were only three posts, including the FP, when I started writing this) cannot, by any reasonable person, be considered redundant.
Someone please mod the parents informative, and throw an Unfair to the moderator if you get this in M2.
Slrpr!
Tanenbaum! Tanenbaum! Tanenbaum!
He mentions it's running on a sun box with apache. He also mentions that the last time it was on slashdot it didn't go down. This has been my experience with apache on sun. It may sometimes be very slow... but you'll eventually get the page in most cases under heavy load. Sun's app server works in the same way. I don't know if it's their philosophy but the servlet engine comparison's I've seen, the other servlet containers I've seen, Sun's product starts slowing down a bit earlier than the others under stress, but it returned far fewer errors.
The point is, if you wait 20-30seconds, you'll get the page.
Open Source Java DAO Generator
This is completely off-topic but, since time is of the essence and the slashdot readership is so large, here goes: On its fron page news the bbc website is leading with a picture of Sharon with a Hitler moustache. However when you click on the story you get a 404 error. I find it extraordinay that a news organization would use this kind of tactic. Hence I'm calling on all /.'ers to preserve a record of this page before it, too, goes "404".
The URL is Here i.e. without the space.
Checked though, Sharon with a Hitler moustache and a broken link. Though is it that inflammatory? It looks like a protest sign from a demonstrator.
He's right about microkernels. QNX is a fantastic OS.
Anyone notice the link to the web site that is asking people to identify americans oversees so they can contact them and persuade them to vote against Bush?
Yeah - that's a great idea - lets build a database of all americans living overseas so they can be targets of intimidation and/or kidnapping and murder.
In any case his efforts put him in good company. The chinese govt. (hello -huge human rights violators and murderers of their own people by the millions) has given tons of $ to the democratic party in the past through various agents.