| Sunday, January 5, 2003 |
00:41 - The story behind that enigmatic half-joke after these messages...
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/01/05/2025254.shtml?tid=113
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It seems I've been Slashdotted.
A real, honest-to-goodness Slashdotting of one of my posts from a couple of weeks ago-- the one about MSIE and TCP/IP. As I type this, it's up to 759 comments, which CapLion assures me is on the high side.
I fear to read them; that's why I don't know whether the comments are positive or negative. The very first comment, however, makes note of the fact that having the post linked at Slashdot brought this server to its knees almost instantly. Which I believe means I'd better hop right on the task of making it a non-CPU/database-intensive procedure to link to an individual post, rather than the load-the-post-and-the-entire-prior-week that it does now. I'd never really thought that it would be tested to quite this level of acidity; silly security-through-obscurity me.
Anyway, the overload has been temporarily taken care of with a static page for the article and an Apache redirect. But that won't scale. Either I've got to stop posting things that people on Slashdot might find interesting, or... hmm.
...But at any rate. Several people have sent me (encouraging, to my pleasant surprise) e-mails to the effect that they'd found their way here via the Slashdotting, and might well stay if I remain halfway interesting. So, to any and all newcomers, welcome! I still feel like a guy trying to host an impromptu state dinner in a two-room apartment, but that's nothing new, so I'd better learn to cope...
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