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From: Rod Speed on 28 Jan 2010 16:12
Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF " <""noujwas\"@yahoo.com is a stupid
muzzie troll . wrote:
> Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF > wrote:
>> My School website glitches: overload or flaw?
>>
>> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/my-school-website-glitches-overload-or-flaw-20100128-n01r.html
>>
>>
>> The Government's claims that its controversial My School website
>> failed under a load of more than 2350 hits a second is implausible,
>> internet experts say.
>>
>> The site continued to be intermittently available today after
>> problems soon after its launch.
>>
>> Mark Newton, an engineer at internet service provider Internode, who
>> stressed he was not speaking on behalf of the ISP, said there were no
>> excuses for the Government being unable to keep the website online
>> this morning.
>>
>> The site, which lists information about every Australian school,
>> including national literacy and numeracy tests, went live at 1am but
>> crashed shortly after.
>>
>> Access to the website was still slow and patchy at 10.30am today but
>> load times were improving.
>>
>> A spokesman for the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting
>> Authority (ACARA), which developed the My School website, blamed the
>> problem on an "overwhelming volume of traffic".
>>
>> This morning, in an interview with 2UE, Deputy Prime Minister Julia
>> Gillard reiterated that it was high demand that crashed the site,
>> saying it could handle 2350 hits a second.
>>
>> "This website's got the capacity to take 1.7 million hits in 24
>> hours, that means it can take 2350 hits a second and even in the wee
>> hours of the morning ... there was some time that it appears that
>> more people than 2350 a second were trying to jump on," she said.
>>
>> Ms Gillard said within hours some 1.5 million people had tried to
>> access the site this morning.
>>
>> Her office released statistics which showed the site received 80,000
>> hits between midnight and 1am. This ramped up to 290,000 between 1am
>> and 2am and 400,000 between 6am and 7am.
>>
>> ''We know that parents are hungry for this information," Ms Gillard
>> told reporters in Sydney today. ''Indeed they are so hungry for this
>> information that the demand this morning has caused some problems.
>>
>> ''It's a website capable of handling 1.7 million visitors a day and
>> capable of 2350 hits a second. Demand in the early hours of of this
>> morning was more than that.''
>>
>> But Newton said it was not plausible for such a heavy load to occur
>> so early in the morning.
>>
>> "I don't think it would be plausible at that time of day and I think
>> generally the trough of the load curve is about five in the morning,
>> and if it was still out of action then, then conditions are never
>> going to be any better for it than that," Newton said.
>>
>> "In these days where you can go out and spend a few bucks with Amazon
>> and get an EC2 instance [Amazon's hosting service], which will just
>> never go down regardless of how much load you throw at it, there's
>> really no excuse for a website to fail under load these days."
>>
>> Newton said the Government should have been able to anticipate any
>> load and provide enough capacity for the website on launch day.
>>
>> He said if the private sector was competent enough to keep websites
>> running smoothly, the Government should be too.
>>
>> Newton compared today's My School website issues to the recent major
>> disruptions to the Country Fire Authority website, just as Victorians
>> needed it the most on a high fire danger day.
>>
>> "Imagine the reaction if Westpac's online banking system was out
>> between 1am and 10am, and no one could do online banking," he said.
>>
>> "It seems like Governments can put up websites and they can just fail
>> ... I can't see why they should get a free pass with things like this
>> when the private sector manages to see load all the time and have a
>> capacity plan for it."
>>
>> A spokesman for ACARA said its technicians were still trying to work
>> out exactly why the My School website crashed.
>>
>> "We would like to be able to give more information than we have at
>> the moment but we're still trying to analyse it," she said.
>>
>> The hosting provider of the website, Hostworks in Australia, did not
>> return calls.
>
> The website is http://www.myschool.edu.au/

Still working well.

The results are quite interesting too, with the govt schools
here doing much worse than the catholic schools.

Corse the catholic schools have almost no boongs, there isnt any way
to separate the out of the results and see what difference that makes.


From: Rod Speed on 28 Jan 2010 16:16
Rod Speed wrote:
> Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF " <""noujwas\"@yahoo.com is a stupid
> muzzie troll . wrote:
>> Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF > wrote:
>>> My School website glitches: overload or flaw?
>>>
>>> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/my-school-website-glitches-overload-or-flaw-20100128-n01r.html
>>>
>>>
>>> The Government's claims that its controversial My School website
>>> failed under a load of more than 2350 hits a second is implausible,
>>> internet experts say.
>>>
>>> The site continued to be intermittently available today after
>>> problems soon after its launch.
>>>
>>> Mark Newton, an engineer at internet service provider Internode, who
>>> stressed he was not speaking on behalf of the ISP, said there were
>>> no excuses for the Government being unable to keep the website
>>> online this morning.
>>>
>>> The site, which lists information about every Australian school,
>>> including national literacy and numeracy tests, went live at 1am but
>>> crashed shortly after.
>>>
>>> Access to the website was still slow and patchy at 10.30am today but
>>> load times were improving.
>>>
>>> A spokesman for the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting
>>> Authority (ACARA), which developed the My School website, blamed the
>>> problem on an "overwhelming volume of traffic".
>>>
>>> This morning, in an interview with 2UE, Deputy Prime Minister Julia
>>> Gillard reiterated that it was high demand that crashed the site,
>>> saying it could handle 2350 hits a second.
>>>
>>> "This website's got the capacity to take 1.7 million hits in 24
>>> hours, that means it can take 2350 hits a second and even in the wee
>>> hours of the morning ... there was some time that it appears that
>>> more people than 2350 a second were trying to jump on," she said.
>>>
>>> Ms Gillard said within hours some 1.5 million people had tried to
>>> access the site this morning.
>>>
>>> Her office released statistics which showed the site received 80,000
>>> hits between midnight and 1am. This ramped up to 290,000 between 1am
>>> and 2am and 400,000 between 6am and 7am.
>>>
>>> ''We know that parents are hungry for this information," Ms Gillard
>>> told reporters in Sydney today. ''Indeed they are so hungry for
>>> this information that the demand this morning has caused some
>>> problems. ''It's a website capable of handling 1.7 million visitors a day and
>>> capable of 2350 hits a second. Demand in the early hours of of this
>>> morning was more than that.''
>>>
>>> But Newton said it was not plausible for such a heavy load to occur
>>> so early in the morning.
>>>
>>> "I don't think it would be plausible at that time of day and I think
>>> generally the trough of the load curve is about five in the morning,
>>> and if it was still out of action then, then conditions are never
>>> going to be any better for it than that," Newton said.
>>>
>>> "In these days where you can go out and spend a few bucks with
>>> Amazon and get an EC2 instance [Amazon's hosting service], which
>>> will just never go down regardless of how much load you throw at
>>> it, there's really no excuse for a website to fail under load these
>>> days." Newton said the Government should have been able to anticipate any
>>> load and provide enough capacity for the website on launch day.
>>>
>>> He said if the private sector was competent enough to keep websites
>>> running smoothly, the Government should be too.
>>>
>>> Newton compared today's My School website issues to the recent major
>>> disruptions to the Country Fire Authority website, just as
>>> Victorians needed it the most on a high fire danger day.
>>>
>>> "Imagine the reaction if Westpac's online banking system was out
>>> between 1am and 10am, and no one could do online banking," he said.
>>>
>>> "It seems like Governments can put up websites and they can just
>>> fail ... I can't see why they should get a free pass with things
>>> like this when the private sector manages to see load all the time
>>> and have a capacity plan for it."
>>>
>>> A spokesman for ACARA said its technicians were still trying to work
>>> out exactly why the My School website crashed.
>>>
>>> "We would like to be able to give more information than we have at
>>> the moment but we're still trying to analyse it," she said.
>>>
>>> The hosting provider of the website, Hostworks in Australia, did not
>>> return calls.
>>
>> The website is http://www.myschool.edu.au/
>
> Still working well.
>
> The results are quite interesting too, with the govt schools
> here doing much worse than the catholic schools.
>
> Corse the catholic schools have almost no boongs, there isnt any way
> to separate the out of the results and see what difference that makes.

No way to see which schools are infested with recent immigrants either, only boongs are listed.


From: Swampfox on 28 Jan 2010 17:15
Rod Speed wrote:
> Rod Speed wrote:
>> Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF " <""noujwas\"@yahoo.com is a stupid
>> muzzie troll . wrote:
>>> Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF > wrote:
>>>> My School website glitches: overload or flaw?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/my-school-website-glitches-overload-or-flaw-20100128-n01r.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The Government's claims that its controversial My School website
>>>> failed under a load of more than 2350 hits a second is implausible,
>>>> internet experts say.
>>>>
>>>> The site continued to be intermittently available today after
>>>> problems soon after its launch.
>>>>
>>>> Mark Newton, an engineer at internet service provider Internode,
>>>> who stressed he was not speaking on behalf of the ISP, said there
>>>> were no excuses for the Government being unable to keep the website
>>>> online this morning.
>>>>
>>>> The site, which lists information about every Australian school,
>>>> including national literacy and numeracy tests, went live at 1am
>>>> but crashed shortly after.
>>>>
>>>> Access to the website was still slow and patchy at 10.30am today
>>>> but load times were improving.
>>>>
>>>> A spokesman for the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting
>>>> Authority (ACARA), which developed the My School website, blamed
>>>> the problem on an "overwhelming volume of traffic".
>>>>
>>>> This morning, in an interview with 2UE, Deputy Prime Minister Julia
>>>> Gillard reiterated that it was high demand that crashed the site,
>>>> saying it could handle 2350 hits a second.
>>>>
>>>> "This website's got the capacity to take 1.7 million hits in 24
>>>> hours, that means it can take 2350 hits a second and even in the
>>>> wee hours of the morning ... there was some time that it appears that
>>>> more people than 2350 a second were trying to jump on," she said.
>>>>
>>>> Ms Gillard said within hours some 1.5 million people had tried to
>>>> access the site this morning.
>>>>
>>>> Her office released statistics which showed the site received
>>>> 80,000 hits between midnight and 1am. This ramped up to 290,000 between
>>>> 1am and 2am and 400,000 between 6am and 7am.
>>>>
>>>> ''We know that parents are hungry for this information," Ms Gillard
>>>> told reporters in Sydney today. ''Indeed they are so hungry for
>>>> this information that the demand this morning has caused some
>>>> problems. ''It's a website capable of handling 1.7 million
>>>> visitors a day and capable of 2350 hits a second. Demand in the
>>>> early hours of of this morning was more than that.''
>>>>
>>>> But Newton said it was not plausible for such a heavy load to occur
>>>> so early in the morning.
>>>>
>>>> "I don't think it would be plausible at that time of day and I
>>>> think generally the trough of the load curve is about five in the
>>>> morning, and if it was still out of action then, then conditions are
>>>> never
>>>> going to be any better for it than that," Newton said.
>>>>
>>>> "In these days where you can go out and spend a few bucks with
>>>> Amazon and get an EC2 instance [Amazon's hosting service], which
>>>> will just never go down regardless of how much load you throw at
>>>> it, there's really no excuse for a website to fail under load these
>>>> days." Newton said the Government should have been able to
>>>> anticipate any load and provide enough capacity for the website on
>>>> launch day. He said if the private sector was competent enough to keep
>>>> websites
>>>> running smoothly, the Government should be too.
>>>>
>>>> Newton compared today's My School website issues to the recent
>>>> major disruptions to the Country Fire Authority website, just as
>>>> Victorians needed it the most on a high fire danger day.
>>>>
>>>> "Imagine the reaction if Westpac's online banking system was out
>>>> between 1am and 10am, and no one could do online banking," he said.
>>>>
>>>> "It seems like Governments can put up websites and they can just
>>>> fail ... I can't see why they should get a free pass with things
>>>> like this when the private sector manages to see load all the time
>>>> and have a capacity plan for it."
>>>>
>>>> A spokesman for ACARA said its technicians were still trying to
>>>> work out exactly why the My School website crashed.
>>>>
>>>> "We would like to be able to give more information than we have at
>>>> the moment but we're still trying to analyse it," she said.
>>>>
>>>> The hosting provider of the website, Hostworks in Australia, did
>>>> not return calls.
>>>
>>> The website is http://www.myschool.edu.au/
>>
>> Still working well.
>>
>> The results are quite interesting too, with the govt schools
>> here doing much worse than the catholic schools.
>>
>> Corse the catholic schools have almost no boongs, there isnt any way
>> to separate the out of the results and see what difference that
>> makes.
>
> No way to see which schools are infested with recent immigrants
> either, only boongs are listed.

Fuckwit.
This school is directly adjacent to the high rise public housing flats in
Flemington.

http://www.myschool.edu.au/Main.aspx?PageId=0&SDRSchoolId=VICG0071025001&DEEWRId=7660&CalendarYear=2009

How do you explain that Einstein?


From: Rod Speed on 28 Jan 2010 17:44
Swampfuckwit wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Rod Speed wrote
>>> Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF " <""noujwas\"@yahoo.com is a stupid muzzie troll . wrote:
>>>> Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF > wrote

>>>>> My School website glitches: overload or flaw?
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/my-school-website-glitches-overload-or-flaw-20100128-n01r.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The Government's claims that its controversial My School website
>>>>> failed under a load of more than 2350 hits a second is
>>>>> implausible, internet experts say.
>>>>>
>>>>> The site continued to be intermittently available today after
>>>>> problems soon after its launch.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark Newton, an engineer at internet service provider Internode,
>>>>> who stressed he was not speaking on behalf of the ISP, said there
>>>>> were no excuses for the Government being unable to keep the
>>>>> website online this morning.
>>>>>
>>>>> The site, which lists information about every Australian school,
>>>>> including national literacy and numeracy tests, went live at 1am
>>>>> but crashed shortly after.
>>>>>
>>>>> Access to the website was still slow and patchy at 10.30am today
>>>>> but load times were improving.
>>>>>
>>>>> A spokesman for the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and
>>>>> Reporting Authority (ACARA), which developed the My School
>>>>> website, blamed the problem on an "overwhelming volume of traffic".
>>>>>
>>>>> This morning, in an interview with 2UE, Deputy Prime Minister
>>>>> Julia Gillard reiterated that it was high demand that crashed the
>>>>> site, saying it could handle 2350 hits a second.
>>>>>
>>>>> "This website's got the capacity to take 1.7 million hits in 24
>>>>> hours, that means it can take 2350 hits a second and even in the
>>>>> wee hours of the morning ... there was some time that it appears
>>>>> that more people than 2350 a second were trying to jump on," she
>>>>> said. Ms Gillard said within hours some 1.5 million people had tried to
>>>>> access the site this morning.
>>>>>
>>>>> Her office released statistics which showed the site received
>>>>> 80,000 hits between midnight and 1am. This ramped up to 290,000
>>>>> between 1am and 2am and 400,000 between 6am and 7am.
>>>>>
>>>>> ''We know that parents are hungry for this information," Ms
>>>>> Gillard told reporters in Sydney today. ''Indeed they are so
>>>>> hungry for this information that the demand this morning has caused some
>>>>> problems. ''It's a website capable of handling 1.7 million
>>>>> visitors a day and capable of 2350 hits a second. Demand in the
>>>>> early hours of of this morning was more than that.''
>>>>>
>>>>> But Newton said it was not plausible for such a heavy load to
>>>>> occur so early in the morning.
>>>>>
>>>>> "I don't think it would be plausible at that time of day and I
>>>>> think generally the trough of the load curve is about five in the
>>>>> morning, and if it was still out of action then, then conditions
>>>>> are never
>>>>> going to be any better for it than that," Newton said.
>>>>>
>>>>> "In these days where you can go out and spend a few bucks with
>>>>> Amazon and get an EC2 instance [Amazon's hosting service], which
>>>>> will just never go down regardless of how much load you throw at
>>>>> it, there's really no excuse for a website to fail under load
>>>>> these days." Newton said the Government should have been able to
>>>>> anticipate any load and provide enough capacity for the website on
>>>>> launch day. He said if the private sector was competent enough to
>>>>> keep websites
>>>>> running smoothly, the Government should be too.
>>>>>
>>>>> Newton compared today's My School website issues to the recent
>>>>> major disruptions to the Country Fire Authority website, just as
>>>>> Victorians needed it the most on a high fire danger day.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Imagine the reaction if Westpac's online banking system was out
>>>>> between 1am and 10am, and no one could do online banking," he
>>>>> said. "It seems like Governments can put up websites and they can just
>>>>> fail ... I can't see why they should get a free pass with things
>>>>> like this when the private sector manages to see load all the time
>>>>> and have a capacity plan for it."
>>>>>
>>>>> A spokesman for ACARA said its technicians were still trying to
>>>>> work out exactly why the My School website crashed.
>>>>>
>>>>> "We would like to be able to give more information than we have at
>>>>> the moment but we're still trying to analyse it," she said.
>>>>>
>>>>> The hosting provider of the website, Hostworks in Australia, did
>>>>> not return calls.
>>>>
>>>> The website is http://www.myschool.edu.au/
>>>
>>> Still working well.
>>>
>>> The results are quite interesting too, with the govt schools
>>> here doing much worse than the catholic schools.
>>>
>>> Corse the catholic schools have almost no boongs, there isnt any way
>>> to separate the out of the results and see what difference that makes.

>> No way to see which schools are infested with recent immigrants either, only boongs are listed.

> Fuckwit.

Your sig is sposed to be last with a line with just --- on it in front of it, cretin.

> This school is directly adjacent to the high rise public housing flats in Flemington.

> http://www.myschool.edu.au/Main.aspx?PageId=0&SDRSchoolId=VICG0071025001&DEEWRId=7660&CalendarYear=2009

> How do you explain that Einstein?

Nothing to explain. I was just interested in how those schools do, and there isnt
any way to work out which schools they are from the web site, as I said, cretin.


From: Swampfox on 28 Jan 2010 17:57
Rod Speed wrote:
> Swampfuckwit wrote
>> Rod Speed wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>> Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF " <""noujwas\"@yahoo.com is a
>>>> stupid muzzie troll . wrote:
>>>>> Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF > wrote
>
>>>>>> My School website glitches: overload or flaw?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/my-school-website-glitches-overload-or-flaw-20100128-n01r.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Government's claims that its controversial My School website
>>>>>> failed under a load of more than 2350 hits a second is
>>>>>> implausible, internet experts say.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The site continued to be intermittently available today after
>>>>>> problems soon after its launch.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mark Newton, an engineer at internet service provider Internode,
>>>>>> who stressed he was not speaking on behalf of the ISP, said there
>>>>>> were no excuses for the Government being unable to keep the
>>>>>> website online this morning.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The site, which lists information about every Australian school,
>>>>>> including national literacy and numeracy tests, went live at 1am
>>>>>> but crashed shortly after.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Access to the website was still slow and patchy at 10.30am today
>>>>>> but load times were improving.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A spokesman for the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and
>>>>>> Reporting Authority (ACARA), which developed the My School
>>>>>> website, blamed the problem on an "overwhelming volume of
>>>>>> traffic". This morning, in an interview with 2UE, Deputy Prime
>>>>>> Minister
>>>>>> Julia Gillard reiterated that it was high demand that crashed the
>>>>>> site, saying it could handle 2350 hits a second.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "This website's got the capacity to take 1.7 million hits in 24
>>>>>> hours, that means it can take 2350 hits a second and even in the
>>>>>> wee hours of the morning ... there was some time that it appears
>>>>>> that more people than 2350 a second were trying to jump on," she
>>>>>> said. Ms Gillard said within hours some 1.5 million people had
>>>>>> tried to access the site this morning.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Her office released statistics which showed the site received
>>>>>> 80,000 hits between midnight and 1am. This ramped up to 290,000
>>>>>> between 1am and 2am and 400,000 between 6am and 7am.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ''We know that parents are hungry for this information," Ms
>>>>>> Gillard told reporters in Sydney today. ''Indeed they are so
>>>>>> hungry for this information that the demand this morning has
>>>>>> caused some problems. ''It's a website capable of handling 1.7
>>>>>> million visitors a day and capable of 2350 hits a second. Demand in
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> early hours of of this morning was more than that.''
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But Newton said it was not plausible for such a heavy load to
>>>>>> occur so early in the morning.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "I don't think it would be plausible at that time of day and I
>>>>>> think generally the trough of the load curve is about five in the
>>>>>> morning, and if it was still out of action then, then conditions
>>>>>> are never
>>>>>> going to be any better for it than that," Newton said.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "In these days where you can go out and spend a few bucks with
>>>>>> Amazon and get an EC2 instance [Amazon's hosting service], which
>>>>>> will just never go down regardless of how much load you throw at
>>>>>> it, there's really no excuse for a website to fail under load
>>>>>> these days." Newton said the Government should have been able to
>>>>>> anticipate any load and provide enough capacity for the website
>>>>>> on launch day. He said if the private sector was competent
>>>>>> enough to keep websites
>>>>>> running smoothly, the Government should be too.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Newton compared today's My School website issues to the recent
>>>>>> major disruptions to the Country Fire Authority website, just as
>>>>>> Victorians needed it the most on a high fire danger day.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Imagine the reaction if Westpac's online banking system was out
>>>>>> between 1am and 10am, and no one could do online banking," he
>>>>>> said. "It seems like Governments can put up websites and they
>>>>>> can just fail ... I can't see why they should get a free pass
>>>>>> with things like this when the private sector manages to see load all
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> time and have a capacity plan for it."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A spokesman for ACARA said its technicians were still trying to
>>>>>> work out exactly why the My School website crashed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "We would like to be able to give more information than we have
>>>>>> at the moment but we're still trying to analyse it," she said.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The hosting provider of the website, Hostworks in Australia, did
>>>>>> not return calls.
>>>>>
>>>>> The website is http://www.myschool.edu.au/
>>>>
>>>> Still working well.
>>>>
>>>> The results are quite interesting too, with the govt schools
>>>> here doing much worse than the catholic schools.
>>>>
>>>> Corse the catholic schools have almost no boongs, there isnt any
>>>> way to separate the out of the results and see what difference that
>>>> makes.
>
>>> No way to see which schools are infested with recent immigrants
>>> either, only boongs are listed.
>
>> Fuckwit.
>
> Your sig is sposed to be last with a line with just --- on it in
> front of it, cretin.
>> This school is directly adjacent to the high rise public housing
>> flats in Flemington.
>
>> http://www.myschool.edu.au/Main.aspx?PageId=0&SDRSchoolId=VICG0071025001&DEEWRId=7660&CalendarYear=2009
>
>> How do you explain that Einstein?
>
> Nothing to explain. I was just interested in how those schools do,

So now you know, and you can stop posting your usual pig ignorant drivel.
Or is that too much to ask?

> and there isnt any way to work out which schools they are from the
> web site, as I said, cretin.

It's not too hard to work out if you've got a modicum of intelligence.
Find out where migrant communities are concentrated, do a search for a
government school in the area, you can even check the proximity if you feel
the need.
Anyway it seems that at least one school heavily infested with recent
immigrants does OK for itself, maybe you should have gone there.


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