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Welcome to the New Slashdot Chicago Cluster

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the its-been-a-long-time-coming dept.

Thanks to everyone who tested on Friday, as well as to all of SourceForge's netops crew, our corporate overlords at SourceForge for paying the bill, and of course all the engineers on Slashteam- Jamie McCarthy, Tim Vroom, Chris Nandor, Chris Brown, and Scott Collins, we are now running on the new iron in a cage in Chicago. We'll run a story in a few days about the ridiculously overpowered new hardware we have now, but now is the part of sprockets where we dance.

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  1. Touch my monkey! by schon · · Score: 4, Funny

    now is the part of sprockets where we dance. Touch my monkey!
  2. OH NO! by Dr.D.IS.GREAT · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh no! Cowboy neal's porno cluster is up and running, its a damn shame to see 100tb of porn just laying around....

  3. SourceForge by friedo · · Score: 4, Funny

    So now that SourceForge has upgraded Slashdot's fancy-pants hardware, when are they actually going to make sourceforge.net not suck so much?

    Just kidding. I love you guys.

    But seriously, sourceforge.net sucks balls.

  4. I cannot reply by I+Like+Pudding · · Score: 4, Funny

    For I am but a head in a rusty metal box.

  5. Re:Sounds like a challenge by corsec67 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Add Natalie Portman as the spokesperson, and that would indeed be quite a test of new hardware.

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  6. False. by Kwirl · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the computer world, there is no such thing as 'ridiculously overpowered'.

    Can your servers run Crysis on max settings? :P lol

  7. Public safety comes first, I guess by Mostly+a+lurker · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... we are now running on the new iron in a cage in Chicago.
    While geeks have often struck me as a little weird, I have not previously seen them treated as actively dangerous. I hope they let you out soon.
  8. Re:Search? by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, the search feature isn't working.

    So everything's back to normal.

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  9. Re:Unimaginative, tawdry, pale and ineffectual pra by plover · · Score: 4, Funny
    Seconded! This has been my favorite link to the tech world (I don't get out much) and for all its warts, it's a great place to hang out.

    However, my employer would love to find your new cluster and beat it with a tire iron.

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  10. Re:Obvious question... by nospam007 · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Chicago servers get stolen, perhaps you should keep them a bit longer.

  11. Re:!news by The+Clockwork+Troll · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is absolutely news.

    Finally, Slashdot has the highly redundant replicated infrastructure worthy of their highly redundant, replicated article topics.

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  12. Re:Unimaginative, tawdry, pale and ineffectual pra by Solder+Fumes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your employer is Tanya Harding?

  13. Re:!news by nightglider28 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, how I wish I could use my mod points on this.

  14. Re:Paying the bills by Slashdot+Suxxors · · Score: 3, Funny

    100 Gold a month.

  15. Re:Obvious question... by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 4, Funny

    What you need to do is switch the faceplates so it looks like the old hardware has the new faceplates, so you can stand to lose the "new" hardware without really losing anything of value.

  16. Re:No more \.ing? by dotancohen · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, no more \.ing \.? No. Now we will hear about the update process on thedailywtf.
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  17. Re:!news by tepples · · Score: 4, Funny

    You owe me a new keyboard. And a coke. Can't help you with the keyboard, but here's the coke.
  18. Re:!news by ari_j · · Score: 4, Funny

    Screw that. Tag it touchmymonkey. Do it, you know you want to!

  19. Chicago Cluster? by houghi · · Score: 3, Funny

    So now even the dead accounts can mod. Neat.

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  20. Re:this would make a disturbing home video by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 2, Funny

    Red ones.

  21. Re:Obvious question... by az1324 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I heard Twitter might be in the market.

  22. Re:Obvious question... by Provocateur · · Score: 3, Funny

    So when will you break the news to The Robotic Overlord that he is NOT really new, but made of scrap parts, and we only had a new faceplate riveted in, and implanted 1 Gig's worth of fake memories, huh? Huh?

    So that when he asks, Is this all true? You reply with a sardonic tone, Remember all those dupes?

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  23. Re:Central is good. by JustOK · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its not the lag that causes problems, its the rotating the bits so that they're the right side up that causes the delay.

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  24. New Hardware by brianc · · Score: 2, Funny

    the ridiculously overpowered new hardware we have now That was posted nearly two hours ago! That's ancient technology
    by now...

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