Re: You've Been Slashdotted

2001-01-05 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I gather from the combination of what I read on Slashdot and what folks replied here that the mirrors are actually lightly loaded, but Slashdot readers don't know about them because they couldn't read the home page at http://www.kernel.org that directed them to the mirror list. So I posted the al

FW: You've Been Slashdotted

2001-01-04 Thread Dylan Vanderhoof
- -Original Message- From: Scott Laird [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 11:15 PM To: Michael D. Crawford Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: You've Been Slashdotted On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > You're proba

Re: You've Been Slashdotted

2001-01-04 Thread Scott Laird
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > You're probably not going to have much luck getting any source off any servers > tonight. Might I suggest you pop over to Slashdot and give the clueless some > clues on getting their new kernels working? They need help. Dunno -- my mirror (ft

You've Been Slashdotted

2001-01-04 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Even mighty ftp.kernel.org has fallen under the /. effect after they ran the annoucenement: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/05/0049246&mode=thread You're probably not going to have much luck getting any source off any servers tonight. Might I suggest you pop over to Slashdot and give t