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Post number 3466

rcade — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:54:32 -0800

Slate launches a redesign ... but I think it's a little thin, content-wise.

By: hijinx

hijinx — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:01:37 -0800

Well, I dunno. While it may be low on content, the new "red X" style graphics are rather nice. I'd love to see this type of thing spread across the net.

By: gyc

gyc — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:53:11 -0800

I thought Slate said they would never be a mouthpiece for Microsoft... I guess they lied ;)

By: dhartung

dhartung — Fri, 29 Sep 2000 21:56:01 -0800

So, their graphics server was down? Is this the launch of a new MeFi department?

By: rcade

rcade — Sat, 30 Sep 2000 08:25:30 -0800

Their whole site appeared to be down for more than five hours yesterday, displaying a default Microsoft IIS Web server page in its place. As it turned out, the problem was due to a DNS error, and fixing those usually takes time because the change has to propigate throughout the Net. ECompany wrote a story about the downtime.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sat, 30 Sep 2000 12:46:34 -0800

Okay, see, the problem with that is that by the time I read the article ...