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Unexpected Slashdot Downtime

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the zomg-what-a-night dept.

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.

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  1. It Was a Bad Morning by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot was dying for several hours Like a heroin addict, I stumbled out of bed over to my desk and shook the mouse to wake up the monitor. Ah, the bathing goodness of #006666. I hit refresh only to find it taking an unusually long time. Was my internet connection down? No, Pidgin is still up ... wait a second, Slashdot is down! SLASHDOT IS DOWN!

    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 ...
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    1. Re:It Was a Bad Morning by Applekid · · Score: 4, Funny

      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. And nothing of value was lost. :)
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    2. Re:It Was a Bad Morning by jkrise · · Score: 3, Funny

      Out here in India, about 50% of my workday consists of reading Slashdot. With nothing to do, I started talking to a few colleagues and got cryptic responses and several enquiries of my well-being! It's going to be a long night catching up...

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    3. Re:It Was a Bad Morning by Smidge207 · · Score: 3, Funny

      In the US mainland it's more like 80%. :-D =Smidge=

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    4. Re:It Was a Bad Morning by More_Cowbell · · Score: 5, Funny
      In response to your initial question: "are we becoming slashdot addicts?"

      Here's the acid test. If you found the GP (It Was a Bad Morning) post funny, probably you are fine.
      If you actually found it insightful- seek professional help.

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  2. I thought it was a wider net outage by suso · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:I thought it was a wider net outage by Ihmhi · · Score: 3, Funny

      tracert 127.0.0.1

      Alternatively, if you can get your hands on sonar...

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  3. Fool us once... by Aeonite · · Score: 4, Funny

    How convenient. I suppose now you are mysteriously missing five million posts that can't ever be recovered due to this "upgrade"?

    1. Re:Fool us once... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      How convenient. I suppose now you are mysteriously missing five million posts that can't ever be recovered due to this "upgrade"?

      What else would you expect when your data centre is run by Scientologists...

  4. We'll all remember the day... by neokushan · · Score: 3, Funny

    That slash got dotted.

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  5. My bad by sm62704 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I slashdotted slashdot by linking to a slashdot article on slashdot.

    Sorry.

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  6. I will be suing! by PinkyDead · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  7. Re:How about moving to a better news system? by TheLostSamurai · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The quality of stories on /. has been down for the past few years. Things I hate about /.(No particular order) 1. Goddam CSS design 2. dupes 3. slashadvertisement 4. bad summaries 5. lazy editors And yet here you are.
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  8. Re:Feds installing user tracking software on /. by sm62704 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hear the FBI was installing software to track Slashdot posters. Is that true?

    No, if that was the case uncyclopedia would be down. They host quite a few slashdot posters, here are some:

    Good-evening,-Mr.-Gates
    Microsoft Hates Apple
    Bill Hitler
    Microsoft's latest product after researching the black market
    A Microsoft campaign to persuade people to install Vista
    A screenshot of GNU/Linux® in use, with the GNU/X-Windows GNU/Ubuntu desktop
    Rotating Gears, a game which comes preinstalled with Linux®. It is considered to be the best open-source game ever created, next to Russian Roulette.
    Pimp Your Linux® ~ Use Fedora Core
    Natalie Portman
    Hot Grits
    A Beowolf cluster
    In Soviet Russia...

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  9. Re:Easily fixed by Miseph · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lobotomies aren't that cheap.

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  10. Please update the FAQ, too! by martyb · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  11. Modernization? by idiotnot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    On the upside, we're moving to a new network and hardware soon, so the site should be much faster and more stable rsn.

    Will this new network include IPv6 access, or will ./ remain in the 20th Century?