Charles Stross' Diary (RSS Feed)
05-17-2007, 07:18 PM
Just to observe that I'm back home after appearing at Picocon in London and doing a bunch of publicity-related stuff with my UK publishers. No props whatsoever to our hotel who had no internet connectivity of any kind (modem line in room included) and blocked mobile phone signal so efficiently that I couldn't even get online via GPRS.
Yes, I'm aware the site may have been inaccessible; we've been hit by trackback spammers so badly that it took a couple of reboots and some emergency duct tape to get everything working again (which I prefer not to do after a night of being gently bounced off the walls and ceiling of a compartment on a sleeper train).
Normal service will be resumed when I've caught up on my sleep deficit. Meanwhile, the Linux-cognoscenti among you might find the following screenshot amusing:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/gifs/overloaded-server.jpg
More... (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/02/back_home_latest_instance.html)
Yes, I'm aware the site may have been inaccessible; we've been hit by trackback spammers so badly that it took a couple of reboots and some emergency duct tape to get everything working again (which I prefer not to do after a night of being gently bounced off the walls and ceiling of a compartment on a sleeper train).
Normal service will be resumed when I've caught up on my sleep deficit. Meanwhile, the Linux-cognoscenti among you might find the following screenshot amusing:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/gifs/overloaded-server.jpg
More... (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/02/back_home_latest_instance.html)