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The Web Braces For Inauguration Traffic
1sockchuck writes "Web sites and social networks are scaling up for huge traffic during today's Inauguration. Photo sharing sites are expecting a surge in volume around the noontime swearing-in, while Twitter has doubled its capacity. Some net watchers say peak volume may not match the record levels seen on Election Night 2008 (as reported by Akamai's Net Usage Index). As noted yesterday, DC-area wireless networks are the most likely bottleneck for messaging and photo sharing. "
It's pretty freaking cold! Lots of energy and excitement here in the crowd.
There are so many people here, it's hard to believe that this crowd is overshadowing the Million Man March as far as numbers of people goes.
I took a leak earlier. It was so cold, the urine stream was sublimating to steam before it hit the bottom.
I can't wait to see Obama on the dais!
I would think it's a good move considering, this is an event that is going to go down in history- Imagine how all the librarians feel around the world when books and newspapers come in the thousands next month- They can't just double their capacity.
As Obama is sworn in, I will swear out loud because I will lose teh intarwebs...
Victims of 9/11: <3000. Traffic in the US: >30,000/y
Hmmm... I tend to disagree.
-WWW
Whether you voted for the guy or not, one cannot deny the magnitude of Barack Obama's clinching of the U.S. Presidency. This past election has seen a level of participation from a large cross-section of our nation, showing America's concern for it's future, both home and abroad. While the tea leaves aren't revealing much about what the future holds, one can see that we have chosen to go down a different path than we have been going for the past eight years.
It will be interesting in Obama's freshman year to see the challenges that confront him, how he'll deal with them, and how the public will react. I think more than anything, Barack will have trouble living up to the image of a 'Cristo Negro de Esquipulas', as many look at him as a messiah of sorts for the nation. That aside, we have a unique moment in history in which we will be asked what it was like when the first African American president was inaugurated, to which we'll reply that it was both exciting and uncertain. Exciting because it seems that we have grown from our bigoted and biased past, but uncertain, not because he's black, but because of the economic and foreign calamities and troubles that have been layed before us.
We're all hypocrites. We all have hidden parts, it's the contrast between them that make us more a hypocrite than others
CNN saying there are close to 2 million live in Washington. One of the biggest turn outs ever. You better believe web traffic is going to be busy!
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where else could a woman have a senate seat gift-wrapped for her for the simple facts that she's a Kennedy and her uncle is a murdering drunkard with a fat pancake face?
Boy, I hope Obama does a good job. There's already things that make me kinda frowny, like bailout expenses, telecom immunity, and choices of people for office. Again, it seems like business as usual for our government, but I can't help but to -- hope.
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...Most likely because it's back-end appears to be running on a MS Access database.
"During My Service In The United States Congress, I Took The Initiative In Creating The Internet." -Al Gore
We should move the whole election / inauguration business so that our* president gets sworn in during summer and at a time when people aren't at work. Seriously, he will be sworn in at 9am pacific time on a Tuesday. If it was me, we'd all vote for president in May and swear the person in at 6pm eastern (9pm pacific) in mid-June.
Any reason for this being in January besides aligning with the new year?
* apologies to those not in the united states.
Ok, there will be pictures and videos that don't exist now but beyond that, what information does the actual inauguration add?
Does someone expect it to fail? Do you expect a magnicide? Someone to reveal breaking information about a miscount? What?
Do you think he'll do something unexpected? Dance? Sing?
Whatever people are going to say then, they can say right now. It's not an information adding event as the end of an election, or the result of an olympic competition.
Maybe I'm wrong and the president waits to inauguration day to really reveal his evil plans.
"MUWWAAHAHAAaaa. Gotcha! Not only I won't stop the war but I'm gonna invade 1d20* more countries! Yeah Baby!"
*: Indeed, the worst part would be discovering you're being presided by a D20 fanboy.
Obviously any attempt to move the date would also move the election. If anything, I'd say the 3 month gap between election and inauguration is proving to long.
This whole two year long election season has proven one thing to me--the system is showing its age and needs to be revised to meet the needs of our quick-fix, one-hour photo, instant-oatmeal society. Make the primary season shorter, remove the gap between the conventions and the general election, move the general election to the spring and give a month and a half for a transition instead of three.
Of course, there is a heck of a lot of inertia behind the system as-is, and I don't see any politician burning their political capital getting it improved.
Did you eat toast this morning? Was it burnt? Did your cat ignore you like he always does? Nobody loving you? Is your nails painted black like the sun?
Come on man, this is the internet. You are getting peoples hopes up with this happy talk.
Miguel de Icaza posted a note this morning saying that after working with MS last night they now have a Moonlight add-on for 32/64-bit and PowerPC Firefox to stream the inauguration live from the official pic2009.org site. The install was quick, although the stream seems to stop and stutter frequently.
But why do USAsians keep saying "African American"? The guy is black, okay? Saying that someone is black isn't racism. Saying the N word, however, is a different story.
Do you call your white people "European Americans"? Because real "Americans" are the natives, i.e. the Amerindians.
I'll bet a huge steaming load of crap in your drawers will warm things up a bit, too. Or maybe you can cuddle naked with that cuddly teddy bear Rep. Bahney Fwank!
I'm positive there are those "countdown until the end of the Bush Era" javascripts, java apps, billboards, phone apps, whatever. What happens when those counters hit zero? How many easter eggs you think are buried in those countdown programs?
Will this be like a mini-Y2K where planes fall from the sky because their bush-countdown clock used an unsigned int and crashed?
Inquiring minds want to know.
For the past few hours my net connection here in Nagoya has been getting network timeouts from US based servers. Normally things would be going pretty well seeing as I'm surfing on 100Mbps fiber, but today things are sucking pretty bad.
So I know its just a small thing to ask but can we have a president who doesn't desecrate our own flag
Flag etiquette
Why is this modded troll? It's never been more relevant.
http://www.pic2009.org/page/content/linuxplayer
Never thought about the recounts and stuff. I guess there has to be a minimum lag between election and inauguration.
Twitter is already down and it is not even 11AM EST yet.
Granted twitter goes down ALL the time so that is not saying much.
- SR
He should give his first executive order during his first speech. He should order Dubya and Cheney to be arrested and charged for crimes against humanity.
The hard job today belongs to the moving crew. Bush just left the White House for the last time (whew!). As soon as the limos roll out the White House gates, the moving vans roll in. During the next two hours, all of Bush's stuff is packed, and the moving vans roll out. There's some quick carpet replacement and paint touch-up. The Oval Office gets some minor redecoration. Some art moves out, different art moves in. Then Obama's stuff is moved in and unpacked. By 5 PM, it's all supposed to be done.
I'm trying to find a site to stream the video from on Firefox in Linux.
Somebody recommended Cnet.com, but I don't see any live video there. I thought C-SPAN would be a good bet since their streams are usually terrific (and playable with MPlayer, etc) but their site is too swamped right now to bring up anything but a blue page.
http://www.pic2009.org/page/content/linuxplayer
Watch the White House site for the changeover at noon EST.
The Obama White House site has a single-pixel GIF web bug:
<img alt="DCSIMG" id="DCSIMG" width="1" height="1" src="http://statse.webtrendslive.com/dcs0l9nq800000ctek411lue6_2c8b/njs.gif?dcsuri=/nojavascript&WT.js=No&DCS.dcscfg=1&WT.tv=8.6.0"/>
This seems to be the tracking method for non-Javascript users. For Javascript clients, it creates a WebTrends() object from Javascript.
Supposedly, Government sites aren't supposed to link to or draw assets from non-Government sites.
All of the streams have failed for me today, quite disappointing.
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I don't see what the big deal is. America has hired a contractor, with an option to renew if he meets his performance objectives and has a positive performance appraisal. When I got my last contract, I didn't get this kind of attention!
:)
-Lok
I had to keep resetting the Hulu feed of the Fox broadcast. It was really annoying. It seemed to happen every 20-30 minutes, sometimes sooner.
YES WE CAN!
It was sad to see that every major video outlet fell on its face with this thing. I had to listen to CNN Radio because every video feed I could find was stuttering unlistenably, at best (most were just dead).
The closest to usable was Hulu, but they were still craptacular and unwatchable. How can they even pretend they could replace television?
At least with 9/11 I had Slashdot. No luck today though.
-l
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"Twitter has doubled its capacity"
Why haven't they done it before now?
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I'm the network admin for a company of about 300 or so people. We have a 45Mbps rate-limited 100BASE-T Ethernet circuit through Cox Communications.
Today we were hitting a steady inbound speed of about 35-37Mbps, all definitely video and random stuff traffic, probably people reading websites.
This, combined with a little walk around the office and the number of streaming video feeds of the days news that I could see on desktops made it pretty clear what was going on.
I did nothing and let people watch their news. It wasn't hurting others who were doing legit business and there was even some very relevant info, given Obama's statements regarding science funding and the nature of our particular business.