OldMiner's Journal: warez.slashdot.org

Just an odd thing I noted earlier today. warez.slashdot.org used to be a kind joke. It resolved to 127.0.0.1. No longer. It takes one to Slashdot's homepage. Was this instituted recently when Pound was added for load balancing, or was this done a long time ago, and I just didn't notice?

Speaking of which, Pound seems to be doing a crappy job, or someone got cheap and removed several of Slashdot's servers. I'm finding more and more often I have to go to https://slashdot.org (subscriber plum) just to get Slashdot to load midday. Once more, when I'm using http, I've frequently found 500 errors popping up, mostly when loading messages.pl. What gives?

On a related note, Jamie has shown him/herself to be a class act on multiple occasions, including this one. Slashdot gets a lot of flamage thrown at its admin, much of which it doesn't deserve, and some of which it does. Most of the time, it looks like Jamie responds to this feedback and does so calmly and in a business-like manner. Even when throwing my own flames at Slashdot, I was quite taken with the soft handed response I received. Once more, I found it a little surprising that, after what happened to the censorware project, we have both Michael Sims and Jamie on the same team. That takes some tolerance.