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Date:      Sat, 17 Jan 2004 03:20:51 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)
Message-ID:  <20040117092051.GF87276@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040116175159.03f4dd48@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>

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On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 05:56:54PM +0000 I heard the voice of
Colin Percival, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
>   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.

My network connection isn't all that fast for serving, and /. DID, in
fact, nail it to the wall solid for quite a few hours.  Impressive.


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/

"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"



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