[Noisebridge-discuss] Human powereed DDOS idea

[Michael Shiloh]

i didn't even bother trying. i'm happy to support sparkfun with my 
business and by telling others how wonderful they are, and i feel i 
benefit from all the great things they do in general.

that and i was too tired to wake up at 7am.

by the way, they have coming up a local grand challenge that might 
interest some of you: make a robot that drives around their building. an 
added aspect is that the ground might be snowy.

m

Glen Jarvis wrote:
> 
> 
>> actually, they just installed new servers a couple of weeks ago, and 
>> figured this was a fun way of stress testing them :-)
> 
> They were modifying code an hour before as well and took the site down 
> for a bit in preparation...  Not the best QA I've ever seen :(  
> 
> And, I wouldn't have minded if all sales were completed within a few 
> minutes and I missed out. I'd known it was truly 
> first-come-first-served. But, instead, it was whoever was lucky enough 
> to get through... and, inefficient on all fronts (ours and theirs)..
> 
> To be fair, though, I don't think they thought this would be as popular 
> as it was. It hit slashdot around an hour before and was also on the #1 
> Google trend. 
> 
> With that said, however, it still worked out. They have a lot of 
> advertising/traffic coming in (even now) from the promotion.. So, quite 
> a few people were disappointed, but I bet they still made a lot of new 
> people happy. Who knows, maybe they'll make so much money that they'll 
> go back, look at people who couldn't get through (i.e., still have 
> things in their baskets but were trying to check out), and give us a 
> discount or another promotion..
> 
> Glen