Haiku mentioned on XKCD; website stressed

Blog post by mmu_man on Fri, 2010-10-15 19:43
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This morning I was welcome by a nice XKCD cartoon mentioning Haiku (as an experimental OS).
Several of us started twitting (rather, identi.ca-ing) about it, proud as we were.
Then when getting back tonight we noticed the website was unreachable.
It really seems like it brought us quite a lot of unwaranted advertising! It's quite visible on the server stats:

Here is a screengrab of the twitter search for "haiku xkcd":

The server load really synchronizes well with the twitter search...

Or it might be due to our GSoC wrap-up report mentioned on Google blog :-)

Comments

Re: Haiku mentioned on XKCD; website stressed

by The Ringmaster - 2010-10-16 04:11

Today was a good day for haiku. Still can't get it to build on the latest revisions, but good day none the less.

Re: Haiku mentioned on XKCD; website stressed

by Sheryl - 2010-10-20 05:47

xkcd is a webcomic created by Randall Munroe. The comic's tagline describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Unfortunately, even in the XKCD comic, shibboleet was just a dream. Tech support most often relies on scripts and troubleshooting by people who barely get paid enough for a no fax payday loan, not dreamt-in-a-comic backdoor passwords.

Re: Haiku mentioned on XKCD; website stressed

by Anarchos (not verified) - 2012-07-26 14:28

Just the day i update my article about Latex on Haiku, i found that : http://xkcd.com/816/, a xkcd cartoon speaking about Knuth :)