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Subject: Re: Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)
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At 20:22 16/01/2004, Lawrence Sica wrote:
>On Jan 16, 2004, at 12:56 PM, Colin Percival wrote:
> > I think the /. effect is overrated these days.  Network connections and
>>processors have gotten faster much more rapidly than the slashdot
>>readership has grown; the only time slashdot kills anything now is when
>>people use excessively dynamic pages.
>
>I have to disagree here.  As I have been slashdotted in the recent past.  It
>still has a serious affect.

   Well, it didn't have very significant effect on December 30th, when my
depenguinator was slashdotted. :)

Colin Percival