FYI, povray.org has just been slashdotted (should I laugh or cry ? :)

I am re-compiling the kernel right now to re-enable the extra 256 megs of
RAM that the machine has (it's limited to 128mb right now). The problem with
that is that the extra RAM makes it unstable, and it will tend to crash every
now and then. But for a short time it may be OK ... if it vanishes every now
and then you will know why ;)

-- Chris

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Chris Cason wrote:

> FYI, povray.org has just been slashdotted (should I laugh or cry ? :)

Yes. Both.



Congratulations.


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> FYI, povray.org has just been slashdotted (should I laugh or cry ? :)

Flip a coin and decide... :)

> I am re-compiling the kernel right now to re-enable the extra 256 megs of
> RAM that the machine has (it's limited to 128mb right now). The problem with
> that is that the extra RAM makes it unstable, and it will tend to crash every
> now and then. But for a short time it may be OK ... if it vanishes every now
> and then you will know why ;)

And there was me thinking that the slow speed of newsgroup download this 
evening was due to excessive numbers of people grabbing POV 3.5 :)

Jamie.

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Chris Cason wrote:
> FYI, povray.org has just been slashdotted (should I laugh or cry ? :)

look what it did to me! - this is all from the banner ad you have for
povray.co.uk

http://v1.nedstatbasic.net/s?tab=1&link=1&id=282010&name=povray

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In article <3d2d5876@news.povray.org> , "Rick [Kitty5]" <ric### [at] kitty5com> 
wrote:

> look what it did to me! - this is all from the banner ad you have for
> povray.co.uk
>
> http://v1.nedstatbasic.net/s?tab=1&link=1&id=282010&name=povray

Wow, looks just like the povray.org stat graphs...

Be glad that the hit rate on banner ads is so "low", if everybody who
visited povray.org had clicked it you would have had to add two more zeros
to your number of visits ;-)

    Thorsten

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On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:46:26 +0100, Rick [Kitty5] wrote:
> Chris Cason wrote:
>> FYI, povray.org has just been slashdotted (should I laugh or cry ? :)
> 
> look what it did to me! - this is all from the banner ad you have for
> povray.co.uk

Actually, some of it might be from the couple of times you were mentioned
in comments on the slashdot article.

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> >> FYI, povray.org has just been slashdotted (should I laugh or cry ? :)
> > 
> > look what it did to me! - this is all from the banner ad you have for
> > povray.co.uk
> 
> Actually, some of it might be from the couple of times you were mentioned
> in comments on the slashdot article.

Yeah, and I noticed you jumping up and down a couple of times on people 
who objected to the license, seemingly on religious grounds in a couple 
of cases :)

Jamie.

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On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 21:00:44 +0100, Jamie Davison wrote:
>> >> FYI, povray.org has just been slashdotted (should I laugh or cry ? :)
>> > 
>> > look what it did to me! - this is all from the banner ad you have for
>> > povray.co.uk
>> 
>> Actually, some of it might be from the couple of times you were mentioned
>> in comments on the slashdot article.
> 
> Yeah, and I noticed you jumping up and down a couple of times on people 
> who objected to the license, seemingly on religious grounds in a couple 
> of cases :)

Well, somebody had to, right?

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> >> Actually, some of it might be from the couple of times you were mentioned
> >> in comments on the slashdot article.
> > 
> > Yeah, and I noticed you jumping up and down a couple of times on people 
> > who objected to the license, seemingly on religious grounds in a couple 
> > of cases :)
> 
> Well, somebody had to, right?

Of course, and you did it whilst wearing soft house slippers rather than 
hobnailed boots, too :)

Jamie.

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Ron Parker wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 21:00:44 +0100, Jamie Davison wrote:
>>> >> FYI, povray.org has just been slashdotted (should I laugh or cry ? :)
>>> > 
>>> > look what it did to me! - this is all from the banner ad you have for
>>> > povray.co.uk
>>> 
>>> Actually, some of it might be from the couple of times you were
>>> mentioned in comments on the slashdot article.
>> 
>> Yeah, and I noticed you jumping up and down a couple of times on people
>> who objected to the license, seemingly on religious grounds in a couple
>> of cases :)
> 
> Well, somebody had to, right?

  Hmmm.... perhaps not? Is nice to have a lisence that confuses stupid 
people: that prevents them from using POV-Ray and haging here with even 
more stupid questions. Nice, isn't? :)


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