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Nice going Mac OS X hints...
I just tried going to the Terascale Cluster web page to view the pics and got this message:
Nice going Mac OS X hints...
Slashdot probably had a little more impact...
Previously trashed...
The Terracluster image site was Slashdotted all weekend; I wasn't able to see any images until the mirror (http://tartarus.uwa.edu.au/~trs80/Terascale/) was posted. That mirror is, as far as I can tell, still up and working fine.
The link to the main G5 Cluster site from macosxhints won't cause any bandwidth issues for them (it's mainly a text page), especially not compared to what they got from Slashdot on Saturday. The big problem was their image pages; they put up full-size images, and used thumbnails which were simply scaled down via HTML -- so loading a page of 10 preview thumbnails required loading 10 260KB+ image files -- ouch! In terms of future use of URLs, there's only so much a site can do -- if something is hintworthy and posted to a public server, I'll do my best to check with the site owners if I have time -- but it's not always easy to do, as many times emails to 'webmaster@some_domain.com' go unanswered. Besides, we don't get that much traffic! :) -rob.
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Well, Slashdot may have mentioned the site, but it didn't encourage people to suck down the entire library of images all at once now did it? ;-)
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Actually, the magnitude of the Slashdot Effect is well documented. Mere mention of a site on Slashdot is often enough to overload the server.
Think b4 p0st...
That message, which btw I found no sign of while just browsing their G5 image gallery, has nothing to do with the visitors coming from this site compared to the number from Slashdot. (Sorry, Rob) ;)
Think b4 p0st...
The problem isn't the number of visitors, it is the amount of data they are requesting. The Slashdot article merely mentions the site exists whereas Max OS X Hints used the web site address as an example which had lots of people trying it just for the sake of trying the command out to see if it works.
Mirror...
Please read the original hint carefully and check the links and the wget example -- I did not do a wget on the original Virginia Tech site. I did a wget on the full mirror, where the top of the page reads:
This is a mirror of the pictures of the Terascale cluster which is made up of 1,100 PowerMac G5s. The original site was firewalled, apparently due to the Slashdot effect. Bring it on!Note: The emphasis on "Bring it on!" was not added by me; it's there (still there today) on the original page. Based on that comment, I felt fine posting a wget to the mirror (and it's not like sucking down a site is a big secret -- as others have pointed out, there are quite a few GUI tools that do it more easily than wget or curl). The only link in the hint that goes to Virigina Tech goes to their main information page, and I hope you're not advocating that I don't post those any more... -rob. |
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