User: Minna Kirai

Re:How can a site named "extrememhz.com"...

On: "Red is Dead" Optical Mice LED Change

That FAQ is bad. The answer is incomplete and outdated. Sure, there's "complicated issues to work out"- but Slashdot has paid employees, work em out already? This site is one of the highest traffic webpages, with an audience involved in the future of internet infrastructure. It would be a perfect place to experiment with solutions to some of these problems.

• There's this thing called hit forwarding. The cache can still serve the requested file, while informing the original server that someone is viewing it.
• Alternatively, slashdot editors could use an "opt-in" cache service. When an editor decides to post a story, he could send an email to the webmasters listed on the site. The mail contains instructions on how to automatically enable a slashdot-hosted cache of your linked pages (for a 12 hour period only). Many small web publishers would prefer this option.
• If neither of those is done, at least they could detect an overloaded site and stop presenting links. Basically, slashcode could recognize several different kinds of server error messages, and check the links every 10 minutes (during the first 24 hours of the story). If the site appears to go down, then the links could change from real links to ones giving a slashdot page where the actual URL is printed (but nonclickable).