Slashdot Mirror

he probably took the server down because of all the extra bandwidth charges and all. being a hardware hacker, he probably posts his stuff on the web for fun and never intended to get 2000 hits in 5 minutes because someone at a high trafic site decided to link directly to his server instead of a mirror somewhere. BTW, there are mirrors or caches server availible that all you need to do is place the cache servers name in front of the website wishing to be mirrored.

Something like http://freecache.org/http://www.mysite.com will instantly mirror mysite.com for the purpose of visiting that link. This would allow the server to stay running when someone puts a link originaly intended to be viewed by a few people on a site capable of running sending thousands of requests a minute without informing the website owner or webmaster.

I dunno, maybe it is a curtisy some people would just do or maybe some people want the ability to bitch about small website not being able or willing to handle huge requests.

Why don't people post freecache.org links to these large files?

Not surprising that they got slashdotted when we all start sending such looooong URLs. :) OK, here are Google mirrors:

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:3rQXlWPbCtwJ: www.hexus.net/content/news/news_archive_month.php% 3FdXJsX2FyY2hpdmVfbW9udGg9YXJjNi0yMDA0LnR4dA%3D%3D +AMD+Sempron+2800%2B+,+Sempron+3100%2B+and+Intel+C eleron+D+335+site:hexus.net&hl=en

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:onXCbx6BBR4J: www.hexus.net/content/news/news_archive_month.php% 3FdXJsX2FyY2hpdmVfbW9udGg9YXJjNy0yMDA0LnR4dA%3D%3D +AMD+Sempron+2800%2B+,+Sempron+3100%2B+and+Intel+C eleron+D+335+site:hexus.net&hl=en

http://freecache.org/http://www.hexus.net/content/ reviews/review.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD04Mjc=

http://freecache.org/http://www.hexus.net/content/ reviews/review.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD04MjcmdXJsX3B hZ2U9MTA=

Not surprising that they got slashdotted when we all start sending such looooong URLs. :) OK, here are Google mirrors:

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:3rQXlWPbCtwJ: www.hexus.net/content/news/news_archive_month.php% 3FdXJsX2FyY2hpdmVfbW9udGg9YXJjNi0yMDA0LnR4dA%3D%3D +AMD+Sempron+2800%2B+,+Sempron+3100%2B+and+Intel+C eleron+D+335+site:hexus.net&hl=en

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:onXCbx6BBR4J: www.hexus.net/content/news/news_archive_month.php% 3FdXJsX2FyY2hpdmVfbW9udGg9YXJjNy0yMDA0LnR4dA%3D%3D +AMD+Sempron+2800%2B+,+Sempron+3100%2B+and+Intel+C eleron+D+335+site:hexus.net&hl=en

http://freecache.org/http://www.hexus.net/content/ reviews/review.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD04Mjc=

http://freecache.org/http://www.hexus.net/content/ reviews/review.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD04MjcmdXJsX3B hZ2U9MTA=

- Videos -
Oct 01 11am - VIDEOS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE (sorry slashdot.org visitors, overloaded...start a bittorrent feed?)

So instead of just everyone jumping all over their site directly, why not use FreeCache first, especially when you know the video is 5.7 megs and it'll be popular...

(sig)^-1 ... is that sag?

...with FreeCache or Coral.

Or just make it Slashdot-policy to use the past-tense when describing off-site content, like this:

Before: "There is a very cool video..."
After: "There was a very cool video..."

Kind of pre-empts the whole /. effect, don't you think?

It would be great to start moving away from the whole organised-DDOS attack thing...

Not as good as these security measures

Free Cache Link
Direct Link

http://freecache.org/http://opensource.arc.nasa.go v/archives/worldwind-1_2.zip
Also cached of course.

You can find an excellent description of the differences between green screen and blue screen here.

I wasn't able to get this link working, but here's a freecache link. Hope I don't get kicked off; supposedly good up to 1GB.

Although it may be too late ...

Coralized
Crusader writes "Two LinuxGames staff members have launched Liberated Games, a site devoted to cataloguing full commercial titles that have been released for free by the developer or publisher, either with the full source code or without. The current list is available here; the site tracks releases for all major computer platforms (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux), so feel free to submit any missing games to the list."

Freecached
Crusader writes "Two LinuxGames staff members have launched Liberated Games, a site devoted to cataloguing full commercial titles that have been released for free by the developer or publisher, either with the full source code or without. The current list is available here; the site tracks releases for all major computer platforms (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux), so feel free to submit any missing games to the list."

Although it may be too late ...

Coralized
Crusader writes "Two LinuxGames staff members have launched Liberated Games, a site devoted to cataloguing full commercial titles that have been released for free by the developer or publisher, either with the full source code or without. The current list is available here; the site tracks releases for all major computer platforms (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux), so feel free to submit any missing games to the list."

Freecached
Crusader writes "Two LinuxGames staff members have launched Liberated Games, a site devoted to cataloguing full commercial titles that have been released for free by the developer or publisher, either with the full source code or without. The current list is available here; the site tracks releases for all major computer platforms (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux), so feel free to submit any missing games to the list."

Although it may be too late ...

Coralized
Crusader writes "Two LinuxGames staff members have launched Liberated Games, a site devoted to cataloguing full commercial titles that have been released for free by the developer or publisher, either with the full source code or without. The current list is available here; the site tracks releases for all major computer platforms (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux), so feel free to submit any missing games to the list."

Freecached
Crusader writes "Two LinuxGames staff members have launched Liberated Games, a site devoted to cataloguing full commercial titles that have been released for free by the developer or publisher, either with the full source code or without. The current list is available here; the site tracks releases for all major computer platforms (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux), so feel free to submit any missing games to the list."

Although it may be too late ...

Coralized
Crusader writes "Two LinuxGames staff members have launched Liberated Games, a site devoted to cataloguing full commercial titles that have been released for free by the developer or publisher, either with the full source code or without. The current list is available here; the site tracks releases for all major computer platforms (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux), so feel free to submit any missing games to the list."

Freecached
Crusader writes "Two LinuxGames staff members have launched Liberated Games, a site devoted to cataloguing full commercial titles that have been released for free by the developer or publisher, either with the full source code or without. The current list is available here; the site tracks releases for all major computer platforms (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux), so feel free to submit any missing games to the list."

No, no, no! You're not allowed to use the site itself! Here's a better mirror for slashdot if Coral gets slashdotted...

Right here in case of slashdotting.

http://freecache.org/http://alphagrip.com/features .html

Not only do I have a mirror on my site, but I am using FreeCache for the SP. Remember, all you have to do is add 'http://freecache.org/' to the beginning of the link. So now you can click here to download directly from Microsoft

Not only do I have a mirror on my site, but I am using FreeCache for the SP. Remember, all you have to do is add 'http://freecache.org/' to the beginning of the link. So now you can click here to download directly from Microsoft

Not only do I have a mirror on my site, but I am using FreeCache for the SP. Remember, all you have to do is add 'http://freecache.org/' to the beginning of the link. So now you can click here to download directly from Microsoft

http://freecache.org/http://cable.pchome.net/syste m/patch/WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe

This is working as of now.

Thank god; this is the only working URL I've found thus far.

Here it is again, this time linked and with a bonus so that most people can actually see the message:
http://freecache.org/http://blender3d.com/~bart/si ggraph_movie.avi

I don't think there's any concern of Slashdotting Freecache.

here's a freecache link in case the site gets slow (unlikely).

Go easy on my little server.

http://freecache.org/http://k2wrpg.org/~leader/thi sland.swf

This guy already has a t-shirt http://freecache.org/http://www.np2k.com/forums/up loads/post-11-1090705417.jpg

I really hate coming to Slashdot and seeing a story only to find a multimedia file that has been linked to cannot be reached due to the "Slashdotting" effect.

I think this could easily be alleviated (if not solved) by linking files with the prefix "http://freecache.org" If you're not familiar with FreeCache, check them out.

Just for fun, here are the three links included in the story, with FreeCache's bandwidth help: 1, 2, 3. It may be too late to speed these up, but let's see!!

And remember, use http://freecache.org/http://link.to.file/file.xxx!

It looks as if FreeCache's timeout is shorter than a web browsers, but if this had been used from the beginning, I'll it would have made a difference.

I really hate coming to Slashdot and seeing a story only to find a multimedia file that has been linked to cannot be reached due to the "Slashdotting" effect.

I think this could easily be alleviated (if not solved) by linking files with the prefix "http://freecache.org" If you're not familiar with FreeCache, check them out.

Just for fun, here are the three links included in the story, with FreeCache's bandwidth help: 1, 2, 3. It may be too late to speed these up, but let's see!!

And remember, use http://freecache.org/http://link.to.file/file.xxx!

It looks as if FreeCache's timeout is shorter than a web browsers, but if this had been used from the beginning, I'll it would have made a difference.

I really hate coming to Slashdot and seeing a story only to find a multimedia file that has been linked to cannot be reached due to the "Slashdotting" effect.

I think this could easily be alleviated (if not solved) by linking files with the prefix "http://freecache.org" If you're not familiar with FreeCache, check them out.

Just for fun, here are the three links included in the story, with FreeCache's bandwidth help: 1, 2, 3. It may be too late to speed these up, but let's see!!

And remember, use http://freecache.org/http://link.to.file/file.xxx!

It looks as if FreeCache's timeout is shorter than a web browsers, but if this had been used from the beginning, I'll it would have made a difference.

Surface water on Mars existed across a significant span of time, not just for years but eons, suggest new findings made by NASA's Mars rover Opportunity.

Within a few weeks of its landing on Mars in January 2004, Opportunity revealed what was uppermost on the twin rovers' agenda: that bodies of liquid water once existed on the surface of Mars. But the evidence proved what could have been only a solitary event - a single wet episode.

The new discovery, reported by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Friday, pushes the boundaries significantly further back, into geological timescales.

After motoring down several metres into a the large Endurance crater, Opportunity has found what science team member Jack Farmer of Arizona State University calls "razorback," a ridge of thin, jagged vertical plates sticking up at the edge of a flat expanse of bedrock.

The team suspects that the ridge is a layer of rock that formed when earlier layers of rock cracked, and mineral-laden water percolated through the cracks leaving deposits behind, forming veins, or "fracture fill". Those deposits formed rock harder than the surrounding material, so as the rock eroded away it left this harder ridge behind. The fractures, Farmer says, may have been caused by the impact that produced the crater.

Salt crystals

The surrounding rock is the very bedrock that Opportunity has been studying ever since its arrival on Mars, first in a tiny crater called Eagle, and for the last month in the much larger Endurance crater.

In both places, the layered bedrock has provided multiple lines of evidence - unusual minerals, voids left by dissolved salt crystals, and hematite spheres - showing that liquid water once flowed there. And at the Endurance site, this evidence for water extends through five successive geological layers, or units, extending back in time from the original layer.

But the new "razorback" find dramatically extends this record. Formation of such crack filling material requires liquid water, but at a time so much later that these different layers of marine sediment had time to be compacted into stone, hard enough to form sharp cracks rather than crumbling.

The actual time span has not been estimated, but it reveals enough time to strengthen the possibilities that life could have evolved on Mars. The team is expects to spend most of this week analysing the razorback with the rover's various spectrographs.

Meanwhile, there was great excitement on the other side of Mars. The rover Spirit, skirting the edge of a hill called West Spur on the edge of Columbia Hills and preparing to drive up it, has now driven over an outcrop of bedrock - something that had never been seen before at Spirit's site in Gusev crater.

"Eureka! We have found it!" exclaimed Matt Golombek of NASA-JPL, a science team member. "Spirit has an outcrop under the rover wheels. And an outcrop is the currency for geologists." Studying it should help reveal the geological history of the Gusev site.

Both rovers are in the most scientifically interesting and technically challenging terrain yet, though both are also somewhat limited by the dwindling sunlight and plummeting temperatures as midwinter approaches in September. And both remain healthy, despite one balky wheel on Spirit, having more than doubled their 90-day design lifetimes.

If google's cache of google is down you can still use freecache's cache of google's cache of google: http://freecache.org/http://216.239.41.104/search? q=cache:zhool8dxBV4J: www.google.com/+&hl=en

Download the video!

Better link, maybe?

Save them some bandwidth:

Volume 2, Issue 1
Volume 2, Issue 2

Both are over 5MB, so freecache is perfect for this.

Save them some bandwidth:

Volume 2, Issue 1
Volume 2, Issue 2

Both are over 5MB, so freecache is perfect for this.

Try these:
http://freecache.org/http://www.cpjava.net/photonp roj.html (site)
http://freecache.org/http://www.cpjava.net/tracer_ 1_3.zip tracer_1_3.zip (115 KB)
http://freecache.org/http://www.cpjava.net/tracer_ 1_1.tar.Z tracer_1_3.tar (1.2 MB) (sorry, no compression this time.)

Try these:
http://freecache.org/http://www.cpjava.net/photonp roj.html (site)
http://freecache.org/http://www.cpjava.net/tracer_ 1_3.zip tracer_1_3.zip (115 KB)
http://freecache.org/http://www.cpjava.net/tracer_ 1_1.tar.Z tracer_1_3.tar (1.2 MB) (sorry, no compression this time.)

Try these:
http://freecache.org/http://www.cpjava.net/photonp roj.html (site)
http://freecache.org/http://www.cpjava.net/tracer_ 1_3.zip tracer_1_3.zip (115 KB)
http://freecache.org/http://www.cpjava.net/tracer_ 1_1.tar.Z tracer_1_3.tar (1.2 MB) (sorry, no compression this time.)

It's a shame that people still have to resort to the Google cache when there is a great caching service, FreeCache provided by the Internet Archive. Just make your link like http://freecache.org/http://whatever...

Sweet Cornell Team Video (14.1Mb)

No Driver
Driver Hands Free
Driver Brake Control Only

No Driver
Driver Hands Free
Driver Brake Control Only

No Driver
Driver Hands Free
Driver Brake Control Only

• Passwords
• Instructions
• Test

• Passwords
• Instructions
• Test

• Passwords
• Instructions
• Test

You really should have submitted the screenshot link using Freecache ..

Only now it's too late, ofcourse..

Cue the jokes about the server getting slashdotted already... FreeCache

All my readers, please note that this is constructive criticism (as well as a fix!) for the new theme, not an emotional rant or complaint. Ben Goodger has done an awesome job in getting Firefox ready for 0.9.

The first time I fired up Firefox 0.9, I wasn't too happy with the new, default Firefox theme. However, It turns out that it mostly the awkward spacing that was making the icons look out-of-place. As strange as it seems, reducing the spacing makes the entire theme look a lot better.

I managed to reduce the spacing on the toolbar buttons by hacking the skin chrome. You'll need to place this in a file named "userChrome.css" under your Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\profile\chrome directory.

<pre>
.toolbarbutton-1,
.toolbarbu tton-menubutton-button
{ padding: 3px !important; }

.toolbarbutton-1[checked="true"],
.toolbarbu tton-1[open="true"],
.toolbarbutton-menubutton-bu tton[checked="true"],
.toolbarbutton-menubutton-b utton[open="true"]
{ padding: 4px 2px 2px 4px !important; }

Well, I have not been graced by the good fortune of a gmail account, but here is a screenshot of my newly-upgraded Yahoo account. The interface does seem just a bit rounder, slicker, and more modern; and it's great to see my used space jump from ~80% to 3%.

Try the FreeCache link, you can at a min. view the first page