The Waffle.fm Thread (put everything here)

[bananaca]

From now on, I'll be taking montlhy screenshots of my ratios in all site I am member

[Sylar666]

I'm really pissed because i have no real proof that i was at oink, my invitation e-mail is gone, and all screens I ever took are gone of the hosting servers as well
All i have are some Oink torrents with my passkey, so would that be legitamate if I gave my account info with it or not?

What are good friends for? Why didn't U ask me? Are U angry with me?
If U want I count U in with waffles - as soon as invites reenabled. I almost hit PU - level (25 Giga).

[turbotalon21]

are waffles invites still down.

[rmartin]

It's been up for a couple of days, but they haven't enabled invites yet.

[turbotalon21]

ok thanks

[SgtMajor]

The "secret" is out!

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/200...annabe---.html

[JA]

"We're not doing this for the pirated material. You can get that anywhere," Dead1 says. "We're doing it to increase the popularity of artists everywhere no matter who they are."

I so don't buy that...

[briand5379]

There's been talk they should be back up by the end of the weekend. I don't know if that'll happen though.

[Galva]

"Note, until we upgrade our hardware (in a day, possibly two) your invite counter will read zero. When we get new hardware, every user will have their total invites set to 3 (not 3 on their current total). This is because we had some glitches which meant people signed up but their account was never created. This issue should be resolved"

[rvt]

The "secret" is out!

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/200...annabe---.html

The site, running on servers in Amsterdam's Ripe Network Data Center

How are so many tech blogs becoming overrun with morons?
The writer obviously doesn't even have a basic grasp of IPs, as RIPE is Réseaux IP Européens, AKA the European IP network. They are responsible for issuing IPs in europe, not running datacenters.
Reading beyond the very first comment line in the whois lookup would have shown the guy that the IP is assigned to leaseweb.
A simple traceroute shows that in fact, waffles is hosted in the schuberg phillis DC in amsterdam.

Even better is the fact that none of the comments there mention either RIPE or leaseweb, suggesting the commenters are just as technically illiterate.

When the site went live Thursday, it crashed after its servers were clogged by a barrage of 300 registration requests a minute. "It's unbelievable," Dead1 says.

Yes it is. No modern server with half decent code is going to be killed by 5 hits per second.
Considering the claims that the site is currently running on 2 dual core servers @ 3GHz with 4GB RAM (not stated each or total), the claim that 5 hits a second killed it is absolute bollocks. That amount of traffic would struggle to kill the lowliest sempron with 512MB.

Sorry for the rant, but techno-retards just piss me off