No. And if you ask again, thereby showing what poseurs the proprietors of this web site really are, you'll be IP-banned for two weeks. Do you doubt that? Just make a disparaging remark about Michael Moore and see how long you're banned.
Seriously. I thought maybe I'd missed some important announcement, but I can't find anything. What's the deal? I thought I heard at one point that it was caused by RSS load, but I haven't heard any more on that subject.
Oddly enough, the links in the RSS feed are the only way I've been making it to Slashdot lately. For some reason, I only have a problem getting to the main page, but individual story pages are fine. The RSS feeds lets me go straight to the story feed.
Well, I'm sure that no one wants to admit it, but I know the truth about why there have been so many 503 errors recently. CmdrTaco and friends are trying to get their machines ready to run Doom 3, and realizing that they need more horsepower in their gaming machines, have been taking parts from the servers that host Slashdot.
Unfortunately, we will likely have these errors for quite a while, because now that they all have machines capable of running Doom 3, and since Doom 3 is now out (and undoubtedly in CmrdTaco and friend's hands), they'll be far too busy with that to even remember than they run a website.
The recommended way to deal with this is to go out and purchase Doom 3 yourself. It won't bring Slashdot back, but you'll be too busy fighting demons to care.
first mod me -1 offtopic. then, explain to me why this is listed as "informative"? i'm assuming this is a joke (please?). i'd likely have given it a +1 funny, too. what's up?
Just use the RXX feeds: http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf [slashdot.org] or http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss [slashdot.org]. Both are statically generated, and thus don't Perl out. Moreover, you can copy/paste the comments.pl URL without getting 503s. I'd noticed my hourly curl|grep|sed feed was working without problem, so I suspected the RXX feeds were working though index.pl wasn't.
This 503 stuff is getting nuts (Score:5, Interesting)
Sunny Dubey
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Here's the bug entry on sourceforge.net (Score:5, Informative)
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Unfortunately, we will likely have these errors for quite a while, because now that they all have machines capable of running Doom 3, and since Doom 3 is now out (and undoubtedly in CmrdTaco and friend's hands), they'll be far too busy with that to even remember than they run a website.
The recommended way to deal with this is to go out and purchase Doom 3 yourself. It won't bring Slashdot back, but you'll be too busy fighting demons to care.
mods on crack? (Score:2)
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