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Re: Droid development kit picture at my web page!
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics, lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:59:01 GMT
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Alan Shutko wrote in message ...
"Huw Millington" <hmillington@cix.co.uk> writes:

It seems that my home page has died in the last hour or so! I can't even • get
on via FTP to check the contents.

You've been hit by the /. effect.  Your URL was posted on
http://www.slashdot.org, and probably got enough hits to completely
swamp the machine.  It's a common occurrence.


I'm back online on a new server. My ISP had to take action when site traffic
jumped from 2.4K bytes/sec. to 9.6K bytes/sec yesterday at 9pm! They were
amazed at the 'slashdot' effect!

The site is now at

http://web.pncl.co.uk/~huw

Interesting that the other pictures mentioned here appeared on the same day.

Huw



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  Re: Droid development kit picture at my web page!
 
(...) You've been hit by the /. effect. Your URL was posted on (URL) and probably got enough hits to completely swamp the machine. It's a common occurrence. (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.starwars)

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