Taking down the dynamic thumbnails increased our capacity by about 25%.
I'm planning a/. prevention system on our site whereby we can easily replace all the stories with a low bandwidth version. This isn't the first time this has happened:-)
Nokia Communicators used to have a feature (don't know if they still do) where you could remotely update spreadsheets on multiple phones automatically via SMS
I've seen friends update thier blogs by SMS as well
Indeed. Here in the UK (where the cell service is more developed that everywhere else, apart from Scandinavia) its impossible to make a call for a few hours over New Year. SMS gets through just fine.
I guess it also depends on the content of the site.
When my server got/.ed it was a bandwidth issue for around 2 hours ('burst' to 2mb/s) and then the box gave up.
Since then we have deployed caching software and doubled the RAM in the box - ain't going to happen again.
Orange (phone company) in the UK have been doing this for years. They employed old ex-sailors in Bristol to drive around in small cars checking the signal strenght. They had four cars when I did work experience there in 97.
They also use this data to help generate the coverage maps you see in shops
Slashdot Mirror
Thats a trial price - subsidized by local government and probably the electricity company
Seems to be dead already. Google hasn't got a cache, anyone get a copy?
If they get the multiplayer right. Saying that - multiplayer rocks with vehicles on the Xbox, so I can't see it being worse on the PC/Mac
Little bit of A, little bit of B I'd say
Taking down the dynamic thumbnails increased our capacity by about 25%. I'm planning a /. prevention system on our site whereby we can easily replace all the stories with a low bandwidth version. This isn't the first time this has happened :-)
The caching on ASP.NET has let us last a little longer, but alas we seem to have fallen for the /. effect again
FYI : we've pushed over 200k page requests (banners are separate pages) in under 4 hours to about 18k unique users
I've seen friends update thier blogs by SMS as well
Indeed. Here in the UK (where the cell service is more developed that everywhere else, apart from Scandinavia) its impossible to make a call for a few hours over New Year. SMS gets through just fine.
If you aren't running Windows, you are safe
If you don't run Outlook, you're safe
Ironic seeing as the author is blasting the AV companies for using the news to push propaganda.
Should almost all home users use another email client or OS I am sure that virus writers would target that, probably with similar results.
http://www.airport-technology.com/projects/kansai/
Don't take out your sexual frustration on me
Doesn't look all that
3 posts and its dead. Is this a new record? Whos got a copy?
They should outsource it to Akamai
The country next door? Wow!
Unlike the World Series, the World Cup actually contains teams from around the world
If it ain't broken, fix it till it is
I guess it also depends on the content of the site. When my server got /.ed it was a bandwidth issue for around 2 hours ('burst' to 2mb/s) and then the box gave up.
Since then we have deployed caching software and doubled the RAM in the box - ain't going to happen again.
They also use this data to help generate the coverage maps you see in shops
I made the submission bias to get it posted :)