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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
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>
> 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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