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Re: Oh well :)



On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 18:27, Marek Habersack wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:55:06PM -0600, Cesar Rincon scribbled:
> > My guess would be that it was an conscious attempt to get the thing on
> > Slashdot.  I'd say slashdotting yourself is not bad at all, if your
> That might be, although I wonder what is better - to get some cash in one's
> pocket from banner impressions or to make a fool out of oneself? I'm sure
> there are better ways of drawing attention - for example to make a honest
> comparison of the bugs found in all the products he mentions that reaches
> back to the beginnings of each product :) THAT would be a huge work (if
> possible at all) and it would surely get recognized ;)

You said it yourself: huge work.  Not compatible at all with the "quick
cash" concept.

> Actually, the load after slashdotting isn't that high. I saw a test
> somewhere that stated the load to be ~1Mb/s. I was slashdotted my self
> several years ago when I wrote a web server in shell script - believe it or
> not, the little thing was able to handle the visits from the /. readers :)

That sounds extremely cool.  Can I get it?

You should package it for Debian :-)

 -CR




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