In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chuck Harris writes: >Submit your letter to http://slashdot.org. It is a board that is populated >by millions of uber geeks, probably including most of D-Link's programming >staff.
I know slash-dot :-) Two or three people have already told me that they submitted the story... >Do *NOT* submit a link to your website, unless you want to see >your server turn to >rubble. It takes more than a T3 link just to handle the quick visits that >this group makes to links. Their influence to servers is so extreme that it >has caused the coining of the phrase "slashdot effect". The FreeBSD server in question has more bandwidth than that, last I heard it was pretty much on a GigE that had several Gig's of bandwidth backing it. We've taken several slash-dottings in the past with no trouble. (Yes, FreeBSD _is_ a good server OS :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
