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Aug. 13th, 2002 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
garoteWoops. My notebook got slashdotted. I didn't really think it would make it onto the front page... Damn. Anyway, 36 hours later, and the site is finally back up. Kudos to mix-master Android606 for putting out the blaze and rebuilding the firewall so fast. Here's what he posted in the forum:
Hey, everyone. This is the guy that runs bdmonkeys.net.
You might be entertained to know that Slashdot managed to completely annihilate my firewall in just about 2 1/2 hours!
The firewall box was a little 486-66 with 24 megs running Linux out of a RAMdisk.
The data on the hard drive (The boot media) has somehow been corrupted. I can mount it on another machine, but I can't boot from it at all. Interesting, considering that the drive wasn't even mounted at the time it died...
Also, the machine is totally flaky now. Memory errors out the wazoo. I can boot from a floppy, but it'll only stay up 5--30 minutes. I think you guys actually managed to completely trash this machine! :-)
When I first found it, it was just spewing a bunch of hex numbers to the screen. Probably BIOS error codes or something, I don't know.
No big deal. It completely cracked me up yesterday when I saw that my machine was actually physically damaged by the Slashdot Effect. :-)
So, I picked up a P-150 with 64 MB today for $20. I finally got it configured about 20 minutes ago.
The instant I brought it up, the "ACTIVITY" light went solid.
Anyone wanna make any guesses how long this one will last?
Hey, everyone. This is the guy that runs bdmonkeys.net.
You might be entertained to know that Slashdot managed to completely annihilate my firewall in just about 2 1/2 hours!
The firewall box was a little 486-66 with 24 megs running Linux out of a RAMdisk.
The data on the hard drive (The boot media) has somehow been corrupted. I can mount it on another machine, but I can't boot from it at all. Interesting, considering that the drive wasn't even mounted at the time it died...
Also, the machine is totally flaky now. Memory errors out the wazoo. I can boot from a floppy, but it'll only stay up 5--30 minutes. I think you guys actually managed to completely trash this machine! :-)
When I first found it, it was just spewing a bunch of hex numbers to the screen. Probably BIOS error codes or something, I don't know.
No big deal. It completely cracked me up yesterday when I saw that my machine was actually physically damaged by the Slashdot Effect. :-)
So, I picked up a P-150 with 64 MB today for $20. I finally got it configured about 20 minutes ago.
The instant I brought it up, the "ACTIVITY" light went solid.
Anyone wanna make any guesses how long this one will last?
