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Ok, this was dumb...

Remember the MPG of the piano being dropped on the 911?

Like a moron, I decided to copy it to my http://vintagebus.com site and posted it in the gallery. The next thing you know, everyone and their brother has posted a link to it on forums like pelican. One of the other admins on my server sends out a paniced "WTF" message - in 2 days we'd sucked up 142GB of bandwidth - normally it's 19GB a month.

The bill for the overage is $2600+

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Ouch! Sorry to hear about that.
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Old 08-21-2003, 09:53 AM
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I noticed they were spareing the duckage.
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Re: Ok, this was dumb...

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Remember the MPG of the piano being dropped on the 911?
No, I missed that one. now I'm curious. Have a link that works?
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LOL, what's that link again...
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That happened to a friend of mine recently, but not to US$2600!
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I know it's not right to laugh out loud at someone else's misfortune but I just couldn't help myself.

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$2,600.00 is rather a lot of money. Sorry but it equals a holiday in Fiji, completely new exhaust system made of stainless steel, new seats and carpet set....
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I think it's time you found a new plan. $2600 for 142 GB is usuary man! Fer cryin' out loud!
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2600$??

Jeezz...i have my server "piggybacked" on 10Mbit broadband connection at friends mom. (We can get 10Mbit Ethernet broadband here in sweden for 35$ / month).

It costs nothing and will survive quite a lot trafic.
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Welcome to the /. (slashdot.org) effect. http://ssadler.phy.bnl.gov/adler/SDE/SlashDotEffect.html

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