I take comfort in the fact that simply viewing a page a whole heck of a lot seems completely within board rules (and does not even require an account).
People lacking the capability to run the above concurrent loops could, I suppose, post a link to a thread they’d like to mess with.
Hm. could add exit condition. Add exactly 777 views or somesuch.
Hail Eris.
My UNIX novice dark side tells me it might be a script to artificially generate multiple hits on any given thread here. I can’t quite see the point if this is the case, but who am I to argue?
Cool! Now you, too, can pretend that you have opened a hot thread, and all you have to do is tax the server holding the thread and deny all of your fellow members bandwidth!
Correct, however, since I kill the connection, very very little bandwidth is wasted. (no page download)
Let’s not forget I am running this on a 33.6K connection. The amount of bandwidth I could ever tax will only be at a maximum that of an obsessive board reader. Bandwidth usage seemed to range between 800 bytes to 1.4 kilobytes per second. Trivial.
All it does is mess with a stat in a simple fashion.
BTW, killall wget;sleep 1; was necessary for me, simply 'cause it takes a second to open a connection (again, may be due to my pathetic net access).
