the law of averages » annoyance http://yergler.net/blog ...because eventually i'll be right... Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:45:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ For Some Definition of “online” http://yergler.net/blog/2007/03/06/for-some-definition-of-online/ http://yergler.net/blog/2007/03/06/for-some-definition-of-online/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:08:27 +0000 Nathan Y. http://yergler.net/blog/2007/03/06/for-some-definition-of-online/ Starting yesterday afternoon I found that I couldn’t commit code to Creative Commons’ Subversion repository at Sourceforge. “Just another intermittent outage,” I thought. I even took a look at the site status page, saw that Subversion was “online” and figured it’d be resolved by the morning.

Well this morning it’s still down, so I took another look. Yup, still online:

SF.net Lies

And then you scroll down and find the truth:

SF.net Truth

So can someone explain to me how “completely inaccessible due to a massive DDOS attack” (my words) is in any way equivalent to “online”?

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