OK, so, this morning I got an e-mail from an old university classmate, Andrew J. Lundberg, who was a grad student at JHU back when it was tiny (7 faculty, 45 undergrads) and I was one of said smart-alecky undergrads.
"Well, that's nice," I thought, "it's always good to hear from old college friends."
Three hours later, on my web server:
"What the frell?" I wondered.
Did a
Fifteen simultaneous httpd requests? Not likely even with the imminent BNJ release announced on USENET and in
bayesnets.
So I went downstairs to the sysadmin to see whether it was a denial of services attack.
He directed my attention to
The lightbulb went on as I re-read Andrew's e-mail and checked Slashdot - sure enough: we'd been Slashdotted here. It wasn't even a full article, just a follow-up to a "celebrity LoTR movie casting" thread on Slashdot.
The movie parody is by O. Sharp, famous creator of the Tolkien sarcasm page, and it's been there for over three years! I give it to you again, because I miss my server hanging and smoking. :-D
:g: See? Tronkies know.
Oh, and one more thing: when you get Slashdotted, don't go proclaiming "Yay! I got Slashdotted!" to all your friends. Seems the Slashdot effect still isn't the most commonly understood referent in the vernacular known to many folks on IM and LJ. To wit:
(from the user icons of
deire - attribution unknown but sought)
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From: "Andrew Lundberg"
To: William Hsu
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 12:53 PM
Subject: Hi Bill, this is Andrew Lundberg (from jhu)
> I was pointed to you page today from a Slashdot response (regarding your
> Lord of the Rings movie). I thought I'd send you and email and ask how
> you've been doing.
> ..."Well, that's nice," I thought, "it's always good to hear from old college friends."
Three hours later, on my web server:
3:55PM up 1:27, 1 user, load averages: 10.88, 16.43, 20.41"What the frell?" I wondered.
Did a
top resulting in:80 processes: runnable, 7 sleeping, 1 on processor
CPU states: % user, 0.0% nice, % system, % interrupt, % idle
Memory: 55M Act, 8K Inact, 636K Wired, 1888K Exec, 41M File, 41M Free
Swap: 2000M Total, 2000M Free
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
370 nobody 6 0 2220K 1988K RUN 0:17 8% httpd
252 nobody 0 2236K 2028K RUN 1:38 8.9% 8.9% httpd
nobody 0 2220K 19% httpd
nobody 4 0 2220K 19K RUN 0% httpd
nobody 0 2220K 1980K 0% httpd
613 nobody 2 0 2220K 1992K 0:29 4% httpd
298 nobody 2 0 2220K 1980K select 0:50 3% httpd
...Fifteen simultaneous httpd requests? Not likely even with the imminent BNJ release announced on USENET and in
bayesnets.So I went downstairs to the sysadmin to see whether it was a denial of services attack.
He directed my attention to
/web/httpd/log/accesslog and /web/httpd/log/refererlog. Sure enough, almost every entry (out of about 1000 in a 2-hour period) consisted of:<IP address> - - [26/Jul/2004:16:13:33 -0500] "GET /Tolkien/Movie/lotr.mov HTTP/1.1" 200 19405754The lightbulb went on as I re-read Andrew's e-mail and checked Slashdot - sure enough: we'd been Slashdotted here. It wasn't even a full article, just a follow-up to a "celebrity LoTR movie casting" thread on Slashdot.
The movie parody is by O. Sharp, famous creator of the Tolkien sarcasm page, and it's been there for over three years! I give it to you again, because I miss my server hanging and smoking. :-D
[16:44:27] banazir: We got a reference on Slashdot today
[16:44:39] burkhardt: ooo
[16:44:46] burkhardt: your server crashed yet?:g: See? Tronkies know.
Oh, and one more thing: when you get Slashdotted, don't go proclaiming "Yay! I got Slashdotted!" to all your friends. Seems the Slashdot effect still isn't the most commonly understood referent in the vernacular known to many folks on IM and LJ. To wit:
(from the user icons of
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Need to see about that Isaac Hayes rendition of "The BOFH Song" (I'd personally settle for one of "The Ballad of Serenity"... I think Chef would make a good Firefly cookie, but that's just my warped sponge talking).
OMG! They hung Ringil!
We should just have www.kddresearch.org throw up a "screw yew gahs, I'm rebooting!" :g:
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It's the mystery spikes that always confuse me. Where usage triples, and you know something got on someone's list, but for the life of you, you can't figure out where.
(Actually, I was (technically) slashdotted at one point, but it was one solitary link among many. So no visible usage spike. *sigh*)
I found your link, though.
(Meep!)
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Slash can also be sometimes horrifing
yet oh so wonderfully horrifying.
Although I love it at media that all the slash people are middle aged white women.
err...nevermind that that is the general population of the con...
Slash can also be sometimes horrifing
yet oh so wonderfully horrifying.
Eh, I wouldn't know, having had neither the inclination nor the time-curiousity.
Although I love it at media that all the slash people are middle aged white women.
So I noticed!
I was outed as a first-timer when I gaped a little too long in the elevator (though it wasn't a full glassy-eyed stare; that wasn't until I hit the door decorations).
err...nevermind that that is the general population of the con...
LOL! Yeah, I noticed that, too.
Though there were more couples and babies this year, or so I am told.
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I think I'm going to go this year...I've skippped the past two just because I haven't really had a fandom, but now I want to sit in on a few / panels.
LOL, I saw some of those folks, and they had their heads down as if urged by some inner impulse to flee. Me, I was curiously looking at all the other con notices (Shore Leave, etc.) and taking fliers for various interesting-looking zines.
I think I'm going to go this year...I've skippped the past two just because I haven't really had a fandom, but now I want to sit in on a few / panels.
Our group doesn't do
many panels at Media, and most its members probably won't be there next spring. It's an interesting con, though. I got a kick out of the art room. Lots and lots of LoTR and HP stuff, and of course crossover is always fun.--
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Were they yours?
Where were they in the room, roughly?
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:snorts coffee:
Damn you! Can I put this up with a link to you?
:snorts coffee:
Heh. Funny, innit?
Damn you!
They always blame me!
Can I put this up with a link to you?
Well, you may certainly say "last seen with
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