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Slashdot's One Hundred Millionth Page
It's Official: Slashdot served
up its One Hundred Millionth page at 6:57pm Eastern.
(It was a Mac user from cs.purdue.edu loading the homepage
if you're curious). Thanks to the authors, story submittors,
comment posters, and especially to the thousands
of you who just keep reloading day after day.
(for intel) :)
Surely you must have prepared some special prize for Slashdot visitor #100000000 ?!?
Since his is using a Mac!
I've been thinking this for a while now. How hard
is linux really? I mean sure I use it for a workstation and a couple small server without to much load on them, but what can linux really take?
./ machine is a huge machine and sure it has served out 100 million hits... ok is really the best linux can do?
100 million hits, HA I say we put the beat down, on linux, see what it really has. Try 5 million hits a day, can it take that? What about 25 million a day, can it take that? What about 100 million a day can it take that, what about 200 million how does it like that, huh how does it like that punk, HOW THE F DOES IT LIKE THAT UP IN IT'S FACE!! CAN IT TAKE THAT, HUH?!?! COME ON TAKE IT, TAKE THAT, YOU REALLY THINK IT CAN!?!?
I'm just asking can it? Anyone have any documenation of linux taking a massive amount of load?
I would like to see a pimped out x86 chalk full of RAM and enough bandwidth to download the bible 72 times per nano second.
Kinda like slashdot.org server a monster of a machine.
Then have this monster of a machine process requests till it dies, if it dies.
I want to know what is the MOST linux can take before spitting up like a little kid
but it lives under a famous domain with a "Y!".
Wow, seems like just yesterday I had gotten within the first hundred hits on slashdot. (Whee, Chips 'n Dips ;))
I applaud your work to no end! Especially lately. Before the new moderating system went into use I was half tempted to just stop reading the comments altogether. This new, selfdarwinating plan is superb. =)
Now all I need to do is get around to getting an account...
-- Patrick McCarthy
oke, how 'bout once in a while all the slashdot crews write a little show and tell story..
you know...
like what happen in a good day, bad day...reallly bad day...
just to feed all the overly curious fans out here...*g*
shouldnt that be in exponents of 2? ie 1,048,576?
Looking ahead, there should be a prize for the person who downloads the 314,159,265th page. T-shirt? :)
Let's take a moderate 0.02 cost per impression,
if 0.02 * 100,000,000 = $2mil. Kinda nice, so are you gonna reward the 100mil hitter?
Share the wealth Rob! Don't be a Billy G, gee.
=)
My ranting.
Very very well done. Keep up the good work.
Simply Senzuri (not bothering to log in)
Sir, one hundred hundreds is not one thousand.
I use JunkBusters proxy, so it looks like I am a mac running an old copy of Netscape. I am also chained through cs.purdue.edu for anonymity. For your information I am a linux user(newbie), who hasn't been able to get ppp to work(maybe a winmodem?) and is forced to surf using win95:(
Oh no, not this argument again. Why is it so hard to comprehend that the Americans assign a new designator for each set of three zeroes behind a number...
1 - One
10 - Ten
100 - One Hundred
1,000 - One Thousand
1,000,000 - One Million
1,000,000,000 - One Billion
1,000,000,000,000 - One Trillion
1,000,000,000,000,000 - One Quadrillion
So is a trillion supposed to be a million billions?
I thought the new /. server was a dual PII-450 with 512MB RAM. In other words, maybe a $5-8K machine, which is pretty low-end by corporate standards. So, Rob, would you care to tell us how much your baby cost?
It's amazing what can be done these days with free software and fairly inexpensive hardware.
... ruin the punch line (or something like that).
This is a great idea, and one line some where on the first page. Example:
XXXXXXX pages served since 1997 (or whenever it was that slashdot went on the net).
Well, you took the words out of my mouth! (I doubt that proper english, but what the hell...) Keep up the good work!! (I have no doubt!)
dave^3> I meant that when one gets to 999 where
dave^3> does one go? "One thousand", not "one
dave^3> hundred hundreds"
Rather, that would be "ten hundred."
Look, English (and its derivatives, including American English) is a weird, inconsistent language that developed with the gradual, haphazard engineering of C++. If this were a perfect world, I'd be posting this in Latin instead of English, and be working on my project in LISP instead of C++.
[Anonymous posting creates honest posts.]
They were probably donated by Intel (hardware) and Microsoft (NT, Visual Studio). Ours were, and no one uses them except for a couple of classes who are forced to (at least they aren't doing Windows programming).
Don't forget www.macfixit.com and www.versiontracker.com !!!
Simon.
Ah, the immortal words of Jerry Garcia. It's nice to see computer nerd hippies :)
/.
"Livin' on reds, vitamin C, and cocaine / all a friend can say is 'aint it a shame?' "
Good luck for many more millions,
Jory Stiefel
Ten hundred? Maybe informally, but properly, it's one thousand.
Perhaps the whole problem can be solved by using scientific notation! So the origial post should read:
"come on we can make it [to 1x10^9] before 2001"
You should put up a sign like at the old McDonald's.
CM> Thanks to the authors, story submittors,
CM> comment posters, and especially to the
CM> thousands of you who just keep reloading day
CM> after day.
Dammit Rob, you don't know how desperately true that is. SysV IPC shit won't compile? Time to debug. But first, I think I'll check on slashdot! Hey, look, a segfault. Time to hit reload on slashdot! At least I'm learning something; but it's still less fun than heroin. Meanwhile my project festers . . . but they paychecks keep rolling in as I seem like a Linux expert . . .
I normally don't presume to speak for anyone but myself, but I think I'm safe here, when I say, on behalf of everybody, many many thanks for all the hard work.
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Just lurking, thanks!
come on we can make it before 2001 :)
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Posted by kenmcneil:
/. demonstrate what can happen in this global village that we call the net. The power of the network allows the entire world to meet on these forums (not all at once please). Few realize how amazing it is that a small group of very dedicated people can create such an amazing thing. As long as innovative and captivating services like /. continue to grow the future of the net, and the world, looks very bright. Thank you soooo much!
This is fabulous! Sites like
Posted by HolyMackeralAndy:
Congrats guys, looking forward to another one hundred million. Thanks for bringing your services to us--Slashdot is my browsers start page....
Posted by Mike@ABC:
Just wanted to add my congrats to CmdrTaco, Hemos and the crew. Slashdot is a great site, and for me, it's a great resource. My FUD-spotting abilities have increased tenfold since I started reading this site. And it's a great way to see what the true hackers and techies are thinking. In other words, you make my job as a technology reporter a whole lot easier. Thanks, guys. Beers are on me if you ever get out to Seattle!
Congrats /. crew and users! Best damn website I visit each couple 'o minutes each day.
"shop smart:shop s-mart" ash
Without /., I might actually get some work accomplished. As it is I just reload about 30 times a day.
This is by far the best site on the web, and I'm proud to be even a tiny little part of it. I just wish I'd gotten off my ass sooner and gotten an account. As it happened I was 70 to late to get a 3-digit one.
I say one billion on or about 9/2/01.
Don Negro
Don Negro
Perl 6 will give you the big knob. -- Larry Wall
Obviously using Apache/mod_perl, FreeBSD, lots of Perl stuff, MySQL and other nice open source packages.
- ask
--
ask bjoern hansen
How about some proper stats, like say run on the site every night. I'd love to see more up to the minute stats, detailing things like hourly access and stuff like that. Analog is an amazing log analysis tool - check it out Rob.
,hacker Perl another Just)'
Matt.
perl -e 'print scalar reverse q(\)-:
Matt. Want XML + Apache + Stylesheets? Get AxKit.
How about some proper stats, like say run analog on the site every night. I'd love to see more up to the minute stats, detailing things like hourly access and stuff like that. Analog is an amazing log analysis tool - check it out Rob.
,hacker Perl another Just)'
Matt.
perl -e 'print scalar reverse q(\)-:
Matt. Want XML + Apache + Stylesheets? Get AxKit.
As a CS Purdue Grad it's nice to see that it was my alma mater that got the distinction. Incidentally, I'm also a native of West Lafayette.
sri
Actually the "ticker apps" don't read the standard webpage... they get an RDF file that *is* located on the server [and can be accessed via port 80, and therefore register in the apache log files...]
/., but it's cached information
so in theory the count is correct [of course you have to account for things like proxies, etc. so you may have more people reading
Blocklevel: Practical Information Architecture
Absolutely!
SlashDot is the first thing I do when I power up my computer at work, and the first thing I do when I greet my workstation at home!
SlashDot.org 'kicks 'ash..
-- NeTMoNGeR
BTW isn't this just hits on the *NEW* slashserver?
Thanks for
a) introducing me to UserFriendly
b) letting me know when to *avoid* ftp mirrors
c) the occasional *amazing* technical discussion
Heres to the next 1E8 hits
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Come the revolution, we'll need a bigger wall.
I know I've been guilty of atleast a couple reloads (more like 10-20 :) a day...
Keep up the good work guys...
"We want to take over the world, but we don't want to do it tomorrow, it's OK if it's next week"-- Linus Torvalds
Congrats, nice number, but
what is the total sum of
slashdot uptime (age of site
in total online time)
First off, congrats... I'm green with envy...
I'd like to see a lifetime hit count / traffic / client count summary, perhaps broken down by month or even by weeks, for the lifetime of the site. I know ya'll all have much better things to do, but I'd like to see what the growth pattern has been and such.
Slashdot is one of only two sites I monitor daily. The other is Mac OS Rumors (macosrumors.com). So, it was especially gratifying that a fellow mac user made the score!
Keep up the good work.
...Slashdot can claim "over one billion served"?
--JT
Congradulations Slashdot, and to the Linux community, who made all this possible; especially the guys and gals who coded: Linux, Perl, gcc, Apache .............
Break out the champaigne!
Finding God in a Dog
There is simply no substiture for Slashdot. Sure, there are other news sites but I don't know what I would do if I couldn't read /. in the morning...it would be like going to work without having coffee or taking a shower. Thanks to all of the crew at /. , you guys get serious props for making it all happen.
Mike
But what about those of us who just read it via gtkslash or other frontend ?? Apps like such don't register hits, but I suppose that many use them instead of loading a webbrowser.
Hooray for the Mac user... and here I thought that I was the only one. :-)
No, really, my congrats go out to all of the Slashdot crew for these pages... you have given me many joyful moments of sheer procrastination. Nothing else on the web has captured my attention more than Slashdot.
-Sol
That's really odd...all of the machines in CS here at purdue are NT or unix boxes...except for maybe a couple in sirius, the security research facility...other than that, I don't think I've ever seen any in there. Just think folks, it may have been the famous Gene Spafford who got the millionth one. :) I know he's a mac guy...
-lx
So what did this Mac user win?
A shoppping spree at copyleft?
Who owns your data?
just kiddin, ;-)
tell me when you got a billion, then I'll be impressed
-earl
There is kinda, just select the Slashdot Stats slashbox, woa thats a mouth full, try it 3 times fast! ;)
End Transmission....
I'm just curious. How many other sites can make that claim? (Hosted sites counting as separate sites, of course, which rules out Geocities.)
To the editors: your English is as bad as your Perl. Please go back to grade school.
I only reload umpteen times a day because I don't have time to put my own vehement opinions into words.
;-)
Yet, oddly, I seem to have time to read others' opinions for 45 minutes at a time.
Congadjimayshuns, Rob, et al! Keep it up for a few hundred million more.
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Okay, I got Linux installed. So where's the free beer everyone keeps talking about??
has been, is, and will be. :-)
...at least as long at it stays as good as it is today.
What about making a stat-page counting the different clients, OS, and top domains?
That is quite a quantity of pages to serve up, wow! I think it would be *really* interesting to see the amount of data that was transferred to serve up that huge number of pages... do you have access to any log that might reveal that?
:)
It would have to be a huge number.
Congrats,
--SONET
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. --Benjamin Franklin
I never got around to checking the stats when slashdot was getting slashdotted over the Hellmouth threads. Have you had a million-hit day yet?
Laura
No one seems to be replying to posts on the second page of a popular article. I think this may be because the (1|2) at the top of the page does not stand out.
Just a thought...
Kudos Rob, Hemos et al. Slashdot is my daily read, and I've also introduced a few paeople into it who, as I do, realise the value of this place. Here's to another 100 million more :> PS. Pity it had to be a Mac user.... JUST KIDDING.
...if I hadn't quit the computer at 6:55 precisely (I remember looking at the clock while closing my browser)...
Just to say again what others have said and many more think...thanks Rob and the whole /. Crew for making this one of the best sites on the world :)
Vox
Pain is the gift of the gods, and I'm the one they chose as their messanger...
What about making a stat-page counting the different clients, OS, and top domains?
That kind of stuff used to be on the "About" page, but it's been taken down for some reason. I say we bring it back!
Kinda wierd, I live at purdue...
./, my home town of about 60k people got the 100mil. :)
Of all the places that people read
I also want to say thanks to everyone that has even loaded once, and espetialy (?) to the writters, and contributers!
I wasn't lost... I was only momentaraly confused of my spacial orientation relative to my prime destination.
You misspelled "weird", "especially", "writers" and "contributors". Is that a new record or what?
:)
nope, not even close for me!
I wasn't lost... I was only momentaraly confused of my spacial orientation relative to my prime destination.
I'm not surprised...
Keep it up guys -- this is one of the best site on the internet. I love it, and it would seem that everone else does too.
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Congratulations and thanks, you guys are a great contribution and staple for the geek community.