From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 12:53:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A0916A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-97.apple.com [17.250.248.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A48043D5F for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lomion@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i0GKrbQP019064; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.147] (bgp585760bgs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net [68.39.198.236]) (authenticated bits=0)i0GKrbU1017023; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:37 -0800 (PST) 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> <6.0.1.1.1.20040116204850.03f69680@imap.sfu.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v609) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <0A4E7A9C-4866-11D8-A069-000393A335A2@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Lawrence Sica Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:53:30 -0500 To: Colin Percival X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.609) cc: chat@freebsd.org cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" Subject: Re: Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:53:51 -0000 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