I'm trying to figure out if a server I'm working on can withstand being linked to by very high traffic websites. Can anyone tell me the basic traffic characteristics of, say, a front page link from: Drudge Report, Yahoo! Buzz, Huffington Post, Slashdot, Reddit, or Digg? I'm using ab (ApacheBench) and I'd like to have some idea of how many requests, and at what level of concurrency, I should be trying to make this server capable of pushing out. Thanks! [more inside]
posted by evariste on Oct 24, 2008 - 5 answers

Can I make an RSS feed of one person's Slashdot comments? [more inside]
posted by Leon-arto on Apr 24, 2008 - 9 answers

What's a good CMS to make a slashdot/kuro5hin/plastic.com/digg clone? [more inside]
posted by philosophistry on Feb 10, 2008 - 16 answers

Can anyone help me create an RSS feed, using Yahoo Pipes, from a list on an HTML page? [more inside]
posted by krisjohn on Jan 17, 2008 - 6 answers

How is selection/positioning on the front page determined for Slashdot? [more inside]
posted by EnormousTalkingOnion on Aug 23, 2006 - 9 answers

Help us survive a major-but-short-term traffic spike. [more inside]
posted by blag on Sep 21, 2005 - 15 answers

My (old) sysadmin in what could only be described as a hissy fit deleted my entire account one friday night. Along with all my emails and other stuff went the only copy I had of AvantSlash. This is rather unfortunate, since I maintain it! Can you help me find a copy of v3.0 or 3.1? [more inside]
posted by ralawrence on Aug 3, 2005 - 5 answers

[SlashdotMemeFilter] What is the link between Natalie Portman and hot grits? I know it started on Slashdot, and I realize the obsession with Natalie Portman is a result of the more recent Star Wars films, but I have never been able to find what she has to do with hot grits. How did this meme get started? P.S. Google's got nothing and my questions to Ask Slashdot got bounced.
posted by furtive on Jan 16, 2005 - 8 answers

This entry from an EA Programmer's wife (via /.) details working for EA to complete exhaustion. I'm a young guy, maybe I don't know, but it seems to me that most of your 'dream jobs' like working on a video game, a magazine, advertising, etc. are completely exploited by management because it's seen as a cool job. Also, hundreds of people are waiting to take your 80-hour work week 'dream job.' Is this pretty much the sharp edge to doing what you love to do? Most jobs are pretty shitty, but it looks like anything remotely creative/cool sucks beyond measure as far as hours and stress goes. Do all of these 'cool' careers suck this bad? Is it just something that comes along with the industry, and you should just shut up about it?
posted by Stan Chin on Nov 11, 2004 - 31 answers

Slashdot is a hellhole. Can anyone recommend any decent and at least semipopular tech news sites with insightful comments, and ones that won't ban my ip after two unjust downmods?
posted by angry modem on Jun 8, 2004 - 9 answers