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Unexpected Slashdot Downtime
Netcraft confirmed it ... Slashdot was dying for several hours (along with SourceForge, which shares a corporate overlord and router). Some planned downtime from our provider apparently didn't come back up quite as planned. Sorry for the inconvenience. On the upside, we're moving to a new network and hardware soon, so the site should be much faster and more stable rsn.
I started to shake uncontrollably and found breathing difficult. My roommate heard a strange moan and poked his head in through my door "Are you ok, dude?" I grabbed the closest thing to me, my Limited Edition Ceramic Invader Zim figurine and flung it at him. It shattered into a million pieces.
I wrenched the monitor to face the corner of my room and set the drinking bird to hit F5 repeatedly. I grabbed my torn and tattered copy of this quarter's 2600 and curled up in the fetus position sucking my thumb and sobbing quietly. I picked up my cell phone to call work, I would not be coming in today
My work here is dung.
At first, I was thinking there was a wider internet outage because Google was having problems this morning and so was MSN.. But I guess not.
If you look at this website it shows that there is some issue between SBC and Cogent.
How convenient. I suppose now you are mysteriously missing five million posts that can't ever be recovered due to this "upgrade"?
I hear the FBI was installing software to track Slashdot posters. Is that true?
Well, they used both the memes I was going to use...
Hey, no worries though, upon further reflection it was probably just the Slashdot effect.
I'm waiting for a "-1 somepeoplejustshouldn'tgetmodprivileges" meta-moderation.
Like many others - I missed my "dose" of Slashdot this morning.
:-)
You can tell I'm an addict because my first reaction was "How on earth did Slashdot manage to inflict the "slashdot effect" on themselves?
The second reaction was "However they did it was really clever/stupid - not sure which!"
Good to see it back up
That reminds me, yesterday I was configuring my new ubuntu install for the net, and I just couln't connect: none of my queries (typed in the firefox address bar) worked, and pinging google also didn't work.
:)
And then, after testing pretty much every other possible cause I could think of, I tried an other server. And, it was google that was down
I guess we always get surprised when that big a site goes dead, even for ten minutes.
Don't take my posts literally; it's just code to control my botnet.
The quality of stories on /. has been down for the past few years. /.(No particular order)
Things I hate about
1. Goddam CSS design
2. dupes
3. slashadvertisement
4. bad summaries
5. lazy editors
That slash got dotted.
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
If you eliminate the "Web 2.x" junk and embrace a spartan layout/format you won't need to upgrade your network.
/. page.
I have my preferences set to 'low-bandwidth', no icons, etc.. but the formatting goes to shit when I hit "Reply". It re-renders the entire
And yes, I miss the BBS 'offline-mail-reader' C=64 styles that Renegade and C-Net allowed.
I would stick to using lynx but tab-browsing is a killer-feature.
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)
...I'm sure a percentage of the handful of slashdot timeouts I've experienced were caused by DDOS attacks... How often does slashdot get DDOSed?
How does this affect my life?
The answer to your question isGACK*THUNK*NO CARRIER
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
You know... like Cheney's love letters to Satan, Bush's collection of Nigerian chain letters.....
- Despite popular opinion, I am not perfect.
Website is not up. :(
Did Slashdot get slashdotted?
Where are my overlords?
I had to spend several hours slacking on BoingBoing and Digg instead. I even laughed heartily at a joke that involved a guy giving himself "deadfecesguy" as a nickname. Who do I sue for mental distress?
I've been calling the site "Crashdot.org" all morning...
I slashdotted slashdot by linking to a slashdot article on slashdot.
Sorry.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
but no, apparently now downtime is an upgrade!
So, just how is being down getting on?
Words to men, as air to birds.
N/T
I nearly did some work this morning. If it wasn't for LifeHacker and xkcd, I don't know what kind of a mess I would be in.
Genesis 1:32 And God typed
I thought slashdot got slashdotted!
They're using their grammar skills there.
'les nessmen hitting his chest to do chopper noises'
/. HQ !
IT's a RAID on
Run for your Lives !!!!!
Guns are for wimps... Use a crossbow.. this way you can pin them to their chair when you go postal.
... why wouldn't you just post a story about it? That way we don't all panic when Slashdot won't load (and hit the site nonstop when it comes back).
I couldn't access Think Geek or Freshmeat either :'(
You made me actually do WORK ... what am I supposed to do during office hours if not reading slashdot?
Damn you!
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of nerds suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
Glad to know I wasn't the only one suffering withdrawal symptoms. Out of curiousity, what are the stats for Slashdot's uptime? It must be pretty damn good as this is the first outage I can remember for a long time...
... Slashdot got Slashdotted.
Without /., I've gotten so much done. I might just have to go home early today. No sense in setting a bad precedent.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Where was I supposed to get my half-baked, mis-informed and inaccurate opinions from all morning, eh?
Yeah, woot's been down all day too.
Are you sure they weren't just slashdotted?
I thought slashdot was being ... slashdotted!
Just go to Digg!
I had a moment of panic that my corporate firewall was going to block slashdot. Strangely my rss feed was still up. huh?
Calvin:Do you believe in the devil? Hobbes:I'm not sure man needs the help.
and the entire IT industry ground to a halt as millions of admin staff were sat bleary eyed at there computers clicking refresh on slashdot.org, hundreds of thousands of windows users were running malware and virus checks just to make sure some shonk software other than windows was preventing them from viewing slashdot, thousands of keyboards and mice now lay beaten in skips across the planet as vented frustration turns them into the scapegoat, like a wild forest fire like nothing ever seen before the internet echos 'slashdot is down slashdot is down' i'm sure some people decided it was the end and jumped out the window, no slashdot = no life. thousands crawled back into their holes, no point, there is just no point in anything! slashdot is down!
I had just read Groklaw's coverage on the SCO saga and was heading to Slashdot. No luck. I suspected some SCO-work, or some SCO-attack, or some major skunky SCO-headlines in general. No, I wouldn't have guessed a self-goal - "Slashdot slashdots itself!". ;)
I just assumed some boat had anchored off the coast somewhere.
Productivity unexpectedly improved for a couple of hours. Fed will be releasing a report at about 2:15 EDT today talking about the impact this will has on the GDP.
What does "rsn" mean?
Hey, CmdrTaco!
Great to hear the news that you're going to be upgrading the tech that supports this site. /. has been a daily part of my life for well-nigh 10 years. Having seen many changes over the years, I'm especially interested in what will be supporting the site when you finish with the upgrade... so,
PLEASE update the FAQ - Tech page? ("Last Modified: 6/13/00")
Thanks in advance and please accept my gratitude for (the often thankless job of) keeping this site running so well.
(yeah, there's always an ISR joke) ...we Slashdot Slashdot!
I figured the world wasn't going to end....because I checked zombo.com after noticing that /. was down..... zombo was up and I said Ok it's just some downtime.
RUPERT! I TOLD YOU TO WATCH THE BAGS! You were looking at the boys again, WEREN'T YOU.
Will the SlashDot story of SlashDot's downtime cause SlashDot to be SlashDot'ed? There by causing another story of how SlashDot was Slashdot'ed. Causing SlashDot to be SlashDot'ed again... My head hurts.......
Laters Sol "Have you found the secrets of the universe? Asked Zebade "I'm sure I left them here somewhere"
That will help next time!
"MS Beta Software To Manage Unix/Linux Systems" and doing Upgrades that result in deletion of of incriminating e-mail.
Slashdot,er, slashdots you?
Netcraft confirms it!
My first thought: Oh, my....has /. been....../.ed?
No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood.
You're new here, aren't you?
:-)
Hahahaaaaa haha.
ROFL..
Thanks for the laugh, I needed that
Insert
Has anyone noticed that the Slashdot effect has been basically non-existent for at least the last several months?
Has the impact of Slashdotters on the net declined greatly, or has the content of Slashdot simply changed such that it doesn't generally link to servers likely to crumble under the effect?
We got a "netcraft confirms it" in an admin posting! Give me an "In Soviet Russia dying slashdots you" and a "We fixed the issue with a beowulf cluster" and I will die a happy man.
On the upside, we're moving to a new network and hardware soon, so the site should be much faster and more stable rsn.
./ remain in the 20th Century?
Will this new network include IPv6 access, or will
You'll be targeted by the sharpshooters either way. Upgrade the system and they'll complain that you should cater to the lynx-using crowd (all five of 'em), and so avoid the necessity of an upgrade. Don't upgrade it and they'll complain that the site doesn't load like greased lightning. Again, a pure text, no graphics site would fix all your problems, they'll say.
Then there will be the sharpshooters who will feign disinterest. Nategoose, for example, will say: "How does this affect my life?" as if he could take Slashdot or leave it.
This is all just proof that those who actually get their hands dirty and create something wildly successful will always incur the wrath of a few cranks.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
Oh the irony.
HEheheheheHEHehh but really
slashdotted!!!
Dunno about Netcraft, but http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ confirmed it for me!
AT&ROFLMAO
not only its an unnecessary addition to the frontend just for 'coolness', but also it creates huge problems in regard to your code getting hampered by various security settings in clients' computers. you have to run much more tests with any ajax loaded page than a php/mysql or asp/mssql or cgi/anysql page, to ensure that it will not be shunned by any major security software and whatnot. client side coding is always a problem. something that can be used to do some ui on client side can be used to do malicious stuff. server side heavy scripting with popular scripting languages (php, cgi, asp, you name it) and then sending a totally compiled and ready html document to the client is the best way to ensure your page gets viewed by anyone, everyone.
also the pushing of the unnecessary xml stuff is annoying many developers.
Read radical news here
you should be commuting an 1 hour ride to work everyday, work your butt off for 8 hours, commute back to home to watch some cable programming after eating some greasy dinner for around 3 hours, and then have some kind of sex and go to bed. and rinse and repeat that for 30 years until the hair on your butt goes grey, then retire and start waiting for death by busying yourself with fishing etc.
the "get a life" jargon idiocy seems to be heavily used in u.s.. what the fuck that is, whats the definiton of a 'life', i really do not understand as a european. you people sure have many stupid stereotypes for any kind of shit.
Read radical news here
Gah... for ages now I have been trying to get sourceforge to put some decent monitoring software in to get ahead of these things. I am a self-confessed net-junkie, I need my RSS feeds, my sourceforge stats, and a general trust in when I need to get to a URL - it should just be there! Without it, I the net-bends - where my blood starts to boil with internet frustration.
./ has the same problem... oh my. It'll take extra coffee and likely some chocolate to console myself that the earth will be right again....
To see that
I'll make the same self-serving (shameless) offer to you as we did to sf.net - free monitoring software so you can keep us net nerds happy. http://www/hyperic.com/ - we specialize in keeping web sites running, and while we can't overcome craptastic hardware, we can help you know when your site is about to implode, and hopefully mitigate it. Some of the biggest sites on the web use it - CNET, hi5, Ask.com, Microsoft... Let us know who you are and we'll make sure you get all the support you need in the forums.
In the meantime... keep on truckin'.
New editor foolishly posted a story with the /. comment thread as the main link. The slashdot effect took hold, and the editor has been sacked.
Slashdot was dying...
Long Live Slashdot!
The Hacker's Guide To The Kernel: Don't panic()!
. . . welcome our corporate overlord and router.
As all the Slashdot readers confirm that Slashdot is dying.
;-)
Only to confirm that Netcraft is dying instead
... in my experience when an ISP says something about an upgrade it usually turns out to be a downgrade in the exact opposite of what they said.
I demand a refund!
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Clearly related to the use of Microsoft products!!! Right Slashdotters???
Moving into the 134.17.0.0/16 netblock, are we?
I had a couple of 404 errors loading this story. Anybody else?
You can tell us. Virus hit you? Forgot to fork out the $15 to re-register? CMOS battery failure? You're among friends who'd uh look down or away, and nod sympathetically.
It was, though the most agonizing graveyard shift I've ever had to pull. I actually had to work.
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
The ICT sector around the world reported an 50% increase in productivity today...
Not a big Savvis fan here, they took us off the map too a while back on multiple occasions. Can't seem to keep those Cisco/Foundry iBGP peers meshed. I'd move out of SC8 as soon as feasibly possible.. Equinix is in the same area, I'd look there.
For the parent poster: one has to wonder where all the low uid people have gone? Still, the lower ID users are here, if you don't like an item, don't read it, ignore it...
It's not any more simple than this. A lot of noise on
If you really don't like this news system, create one yourself? You'll notice you will not be doing the best of all worlds for everyone.H
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
I've got a four-digit userid you insensitive clod!
Nice UID by the way, random or chosen?
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
Not like I was around to witness the downtime. Some of us do have lives [I should hope].
If each mistake being made is a new one, then progress is being made.