All clear

queue got famous on lj_nifty for writing a Perl script that mass-resets the security levels of one's past posts. It quickly got so popular that jmac.org became well and truly slashdotted within hours, bogged down so much that an ssh login took about 5 minutes to accomplish. Problem "solved" by shutting down the webserver and renaming the scripts for the time being.

I sent q both my congratulations on creating a runaway success, and a brief code-critique towards making version 2.0 not run away quite so far.

I got all paranoid about the box getting cracked again and let some of this concern leak at q, but according to John@Arcus, all is well. (Except for the fact that I'm still running Debian-unstable. Sigh.) So I am relieved and a little embarrassed.

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It wasn't until I watched a trailer on my laptop that I figured out that this month's striking T pass color scheme was obviously designed by a Matrix fan.