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Authored by: acalado on Sep 23, '03 01:56:13AM

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? ;-)

I think there is a big difference in bandwidth usage if you are browsing the images one at a time through their web page vs. downloading all 150 in a row. That can add up real quick, especially because judging from the pics they had, most people just browsing them would probably get bored after 10 or 20 pics. the entire library has dozens of hi res images.

I didn't mean to say that you shouldn't post a link to web sites, but if that link is used as an example for a hint (where it doesn't matter what site you use as an example as was the case this time) then you may want to edit out the link and replace it with some generic non-existant site like www.some-web-address.com.

Just my 2ยข worth...



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Authored by: Judge Youngwood on Sep 23, '03 02:09:03PM
Actually, the magnitude of the Slashdot Effect is well documented. Mere mention of a site on Slashdot is often enough to overload the server.

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