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Re: [vox] Indirect Slashdotting of LUGOD.org
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Re: [vox] Indirect Slashdotting of LUGOD.org



I was wondering why lugod.org suddenly got so popular.  :-)

As I type this it's looking like about 70-80% (of my 256
Kb/sec outbound capacity) utilization.  We're definitely not
toast, but it's heavy.

Good work, Bill.  :-)

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

On Friday 03 January 2003 11:49 am, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> Yikes! :^)
>
>
> Microsoft's Reaction to OSS Adoption
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/03/195206&mode=nocomment&tid=109
>
>   Eric S. Raymond has the eighth "Halloween" memo available here.
>   [ http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween8.php ]
>   It looks like Microsoft is really beginning to notice the national
>   and corporate movement towards FS/OSS, and is reacting accordingly.
>
>
> The "Halloween 8" page at opensource.org links to LUGOD's
> "Reasons to Avoid Microsoft" page. :^)  Nice!
>
>   Out here in open-source land, we genuinely enjoy helping our fellow
>   sophonts out of plights like this one. Might we suggest that daily
>   monitoring of the Linux User Group of Davis's Reasons to Avoid Microsoft
>   page [ http://www.lugod.org/microsoft ] would be helpful?
>
>
> Rod - How's your server taking it? :^)
>
> -bill!
> (Thanks to Ken Herron for pointing this out)

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