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Re: A new project...
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Sat, 25 Jun 2005 08:39:30 GMT
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nice article calum.

i just read it now.  and the rest of the mag is...... "interesting."


any reason why so MANY contributors are Canadian??


Chris


Calum Tsang wrote:

In lugnet.publish.brickjournal, Brendan Powell Smith wrote:

Brace yourselves:

You've been <http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/24/1851223&from=rss
slashdotted>!

Pros: excellent exposure to potentially interested readers

Cons: sudden huge demand for the pdf's will overload your server for a couple
of days


Well, whoever the retard was who posted that link should be shot.  I'm
personally going to go and hunt him down.  That and the dumbkoff who karma
whored direct links in a followup comment.  I'm going to hunt that person down
too and shoot him second.  :)

On the other hand, I now can say I've personally found out what a heavy traffic
load is like from the inside:  I was logged onto Peach while it happened today.
The disk was so busy, it took a minute to rename the brickjournal directory.

But remarkably it was handling the load really well.  There were a lot of active
connections but apache was threading properly and pfiles were doing okay.  I
pulled the plug about an hour in.  The major concern for me was the University's
network operations center raising a red flag, which they've done on
Brickfest/Brickcast broadcasts, fearing hacker attacks.

This was the impact of the link being posted to Slashdot...you can see the huge
peak around 3-4PM as throngs of bored geeks started downloading the PDF.

http://www.noc.utoronto.ca/im/jsp/IM_rmonIf.jsp?dev=mech&iid=115&title=Mechanical%20Engineering

Calum



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  Re: A new project...
 
(...) It kinda worked out that way. I was wanting international articles too. Joe Meno ed./pub, BrickJournal (19 years ago, 27-Jun-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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  A new project...
 
Hi all, it's with a great deal of pride that I announce the first issue of  (URL)   BrickJournal is a quarterly publication that will focus on the AFOL community with articles about:    • People - the personalities of the community  • Building - the (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jun-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX) !! 

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