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Think b4 p0st...
Authored by: acalado on Sep 23, '03 02:03:05AM

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.

Most slashdot readers simply visited the site and browsed the pictures one at a time. Most visitors from this site were probably copying and pasting the Terminal command that was given as an example which had the effect of downloading ALL the images in a short span of time.

In any case, even if this site was not responsible for the site being taken down, my point is still valid. I have a web site with pictures on it and I could just imagine what would have happened to my site if MY web site address was selected for the example. I wouldn't be too pleased.



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Mirror...
Authored by: robg on Sep 23, '03 07:52:52AM
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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