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Date:      Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:53:30 -0500
From:      Lawrence Sica <lomion@mac.com>
To:        Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Cc:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Subject:   Re: Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)
Message-ID:  <0A4E7A9C-4866-11D8-A069-000393A335A2@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040116204850.03f69680@imap.sfu.ca>
References:  <20040116160124.GF41788@over-yonder.net> <20040116081448.I78161-100000@moo.sysabend.org> <6.0.1.1.1.20040116175159.03f4dd48@imap.sfu.ca> <C4AAC7AE-4861-11D8-A069-000393A335A2@mac.com> <6.0.1.1.1.20040116204850.03f69680@imap.sfu.ca>

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On Jan 16, 2004, at 3:51 PM, Colin Percival wrote:

> 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. :)
>

Well i was working for a "christian" hosting company.  And we were 
slashdotted very heavily heh, we also drew some attacks as a result at 
the same time.  it is real fun dealing with a syn flood then a slashdot 
then another attack ;)

--Larry



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