Slashdot Mirror

The myriads of hackers on KDE and GNOME applications. I'm particularly fond of Kate, KDE's text editor, which is also a component in many other KDE applications.

Ward Cunningham, the creator of the original wiki idea, and Clifford Adams, the maintainer of one of the first usable wiki engines, UsemodWiki.

Rusty Foster, Dries Buytaert and Rob Malda, who created Scoop, Drupal and Slash, respectively, three very powerful weblog engines I use every day.

Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis for starting the GIMP. Ton Rosendaal and the rest of the Blender team for proving that proprietary applications can become open source through distributed funding.

Anthony Jones, creator of iRATE, for exploring new ways to discover free music.

Dave Winer of UserLand for developing a simple content syndication format (now RSS 2.0), the MetaWeblog API and the XML-RPC protocol.

Keith Packard of HP for his many improvements to X.

Guido van Rossum for creating Python, Larry Wall for creating Perl and the many people involved in making PHP, and making it useful.

And of course, the many other people involved in all of these programs, and those who built the software infrastructure that made them possible.

If only there were some way for people outside the US to get a web server and set up a Slashdot like site dedicated to the politics of their country, rather than whining about how all other countries are somehow entitled to have coverage in a section dedicated to US politics.

I think the editors just do not care anymore. It's sad considering what /. used to be and what it could be if it was managed better. Hell http://www.slashcode.com/ has not been updated since 2004-06-11 (June 11th).

Its a good idea, but probably more part of the development side of slash rather than the forum. IANASCC (I am not a slash code contributer) but have a poke around here for somewhere to submit your ideas.

This needs to be a revision to S.L.A.S.H., any mention of those words auto-links to either Google or to the Wikipedia of that subject.

If you haven't heard of slashcode, get out from under that rock!.

From the discussion there is an intersting link to a site that shows Slashdot.org converted to XHTML 1.0 Strict, and discusses all the advantages (including like 10Gig/day of bandwidth savings).

Agreed, you truly have to wonder about a slopped together perl and the ineptness of a "professional" news service when this 503 crap is going on.

Because you haven't done it yet.

I don't know what you use for default settings for reading Slashdot comments, but I read at threshold 3, nested, and highest comments first... the nested option makes it a lot easier to read.

A place to submit feature requests is at Slashcode sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/

More slashcode stuff at the Slashcode site. Dunno if you can submit bug reports and feature requests there though.

Cheers.

And what do you do everytime you change a websites background color? Change the image?

I trust you've never tried running Slash on your website. I'm still using the default color scheme, mostly because I don't have time to dick with the hundred million (give or take a few orders of magnitude) images that populate the site.

This is the most interesting claim:

Most Slashdot visitors would have the CSS file cached, so we could ballpark the daily savings at ~10 GB bandwidth. A high volume of bandwidth from an ISP could be anywhere from $1 - $5 cost per GB of transfer, but let's calculate it at $1 per GB for an entire year. For this example, the total savings for Slashdot would be: $3650! All of that for just a couple of KB.

Of course if you wanted to be more old-school you could set up a public-access *NIX login, or even run an old-school BBS type deal via telnet. It would still be a good idea to route people to a website explaining how to get in. For that check out here and here, and here

It looks like they were able to hire some competent web designers.

Actually, the code is maintained by Carl, who I beleive began with the Slashcode, as you can see after wandering around on the site a bit, he has changed it quite a lot from what he started with.

It's a bit more difficult to garner Karma than on /. and you need a lot more of it in order to benefit or fully participate (negative modding, story posting, etc), but those seem to make Plastic a reasonably civil place.

There's an article about Plastic and Carl available here.

(posting as an AC to avoid "modappeal" ratings on my posts over at Plastic

They run Slash too, so you'll know the user interface.

Wow. Here we have a bunch of blogging software being reported about, and there is one being overlooked.

Hmm...

How about Slash? It runs the little site you are on right now... (There are others too. Take a good look through Google.)

Good design. Check out the slashcode, revise it with your feature, and submit the patches to the slashcode project. Send Rob a notice, and he might roll it out as Slashdot++.

You should know better... have a look at the YASS section of slashcode.com (Yet Another Slash Site) and try to find a unique looking site... quite difficult (but not impossible, I agree).
I really like the work this guy (just click through the core styles to select the different CSS stylesheets) has done for Slash in CSS/XHTML.
PS: I'm running the German Slash Site Symlink.

You should know better... have a look at the YASS section of slashcode.com (Yet Another Slash Site) and try to find a unique looking site... quite difficult (but not impossible, I agree).
I really like the work this guy (just click through the core styles to select the different CSS stylesheets) has done for Slash in CSS/XHTML.
PS: I'm running the German Slash Site Symlink.

...or those running the "business" classes no little more...

Of course I meant "know."

I don't know what it is about this "Submit" button that tempts me so! If I were king, the next version of Slash would have a "Proofread" button.

http://www.slashcode.com
Is this not the slashdot source code?

Can I sue the Slashcode people for pain and suffering of my web browser? ;)

although: Slashcode has a recent article on the subject...

For the curious, Slashdot (as of September 2001) runs on nine machines: nine webservers (each is Pentium III/600, 1GB RAM, 9GB hard drive), one NFS server (600MHz PIII, 1GB RAM), and three database servers database server (quad 600MHz PIII, 4GB RAM).

So, 24: one for each webserver (9), one for each webserver (to make dupes)(9), one for each of the NFS/database servers(4), one to moderate them (1), and one to metamoderate(1). That makes 24.

We here at Spyware Inc are deeply troubled that
nearly 95% of all computers DON'T have Spyware!
To help capture a greater market, our newest
service will automatically install Perl(tm) spyware on any host posting to Slashdot, and even make it open source
We think OSS spyware is the future!

(Yes... this IS a joke)

With the amateur idiots running this site they're likely making untested code changes directly on the production server(s). What, you were expecting solid, stable code? Combine shit blogware with moron admins and you get Slashdot.

HTML standards-compliant Slashcode. ;)

Why not use slashcode?

We all know it obviously does discussions, handles user logins, can do SSL too. And user ACL's for permissions if you want it to.

In theory, I strongly agree with what you're saying. In practice, however, having set up my own Zope/CMF/Plone side on Debian unstable (yes, unstable) and Apache, I'm gonna have to disagree.

It took me a while to set up Zope/Plone. There's a nasty bug in Debian's distribution of Plone, but thankfully there's a super easy workaround in the BTS. It also took a couple visits to #plone@irc.gnu.org to set up an actual Plone instance, but in retrospect it wasn't that hard. I got the Apache passthrough working too. Now, Plone's setup phase is done. Anything I need to change is done via GUI, and the Structured Text system is perfect for marking up content without obfuscating it. Oh yeah, and the Structured Text was the only thing I actually had to look at the Plone docs for. It's probably even easier when you use them start to finish.

I've used e107, PostNuke, XOOPS, Slash, Scoop and probably a few others. They're all neat, but I've had way more problems with them all, from just plain failure to strange errors to lack of features. e107 does have a TON more themes available, though.

You say Zope is going in the wrong direction, but I fail to see how. With Zope, you can build webapps into your Plone site - just don't ask me how. With most PHP-based CMS's you still have to install an SQL server of some flavor, and I doubt if you can build webapps in. You complain about Zope/CMF/Plone being three-tiered, but really CMF is just an addon to Zope - it doesn't add complication. And I think it's pretty sweet to be able to manage all your Zope stuff through one interface - including all your Plone sites and whatever else you've got going. You also complain that Zope is a "closed world" because of the object database. Yeah, it's about as "closed" as any other website that has an FTP backend - i.e. NOT.

And as far as speed, I haven't noticed a bit of difference between Plone and e107 (the only other CMS I've ended up using for real). I'm not pretending I get any real traffic, though. But to balance that, I've got a horrible setup - at the moment a P4-1.4 with 256/RAM and a cable modem with an upload cap of 256Kb.

In short, Plone rules. Not sure how it does it, but it does.

Yes, it is...

I've just skimmed over the comments, and seen that a few people mention that MySQL is not yet ready for use on a critical server in the real world.

Now, I'm no database expert at all, and I've only ever used MySQL for databases. But as far as I know, slashdot itself runs on MySQL (supporting evidence?). Now, this is a site that gets a hojillion comments per article, several articles per day, with enough viewers to crush lesser sites at will. Surely this suggests that MySQL must be ready for "mission critical" use, at least in some circumstances.

Just an observation from a database newbie. :)

See comments.pl

sub moderateCid
...
# Can't modearate any anonymous comments from same IP.
return if $host_name eq $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} && $cuid == -1;

Rumor has it that he was fired (or was going to be, so he "resigned"). I'd wait a couple weeks to make sure no backdoors are found.

There are more suggestions here that you might be right.

Is this like Frequently-Asked-Magic-8-Ball?

I don't know... see for yourself, then come and tell us... The comment on this page suggests that you are right...

I don't know... see for yourself, then come and tell us... The comment on this page suggests that you are right...

I don't know... see for yourself, then come and tell us...

The <a href="http://ask.slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=02/0 2/09/183217&mode=thread&tid=4" >comment on this page</a> suggests that you are right...

You could use Slashcode, IIRC they have a half-decent demo of it in production.

#8. slash has been converted to TT2 so this should be easier. Is /. using it though?

I'd add:

• ability to search.
  Is there any way for instance to search for posts by userID, date? ie: get your first post or 100?
• (un)subscribe to stories by editor/topic
  
• moderation metadata
  
• increase in friends > 200

Threshold: 0: 6 Comments
Threshold: -1: 27 comments

Boy, that looks like moderation is working for me. But, perhaps there was some lag in this effect. Also, I give a -1 Anonymous modifier. You might try it. (Granted, it would be valuable if modifiers and thresholds could be made per section or dependent on the number of comments, but beggars can't be choosers.)

The issue, I believe, is that troll patrol is done in large amounts by the slashdot admins who have infinite moderator points. As was shown in the early days of Slashdot, one admin with infinite mod points per 100 users spread across 10 articles is sufficient. The same works for the small sections like Developer and BSD. It just takes more lag time for admin to notice these things in small sections because they're concentrating on more highly commented stories. Once more, as you noted, there are less people with mod points reading. So, as near as I can tell, the system works, albeit maybe a little more slowly than you like.

Now, then there's your reaction. To be honest, the grandparent post was mildly humorous. Since I don't see many troll posts, I don't know if these is a unique post, or just another unoriginal copy and paste. The reason it was made, however, in either case, is because of people -- well -- like you. You're reacting strongly to a stupid post of relatively little significance which most people won't see. The post offends you and raises your ire. But consider the lack of talent required to make such a post and how little effect it truly has. It's a dying joke that anyone who reads Slashdot has seen before in some form or another.

If that doesn't help you, consider this strategy: give anonymous posters -6. Give foes -6. Foe logged in trolls. You won't see trolls. But, as always, please don't feed the trolls.

2) Moderation is self-regulating.

The fallacy of this belief was brought home to me not long ago when I was metamoderated "unfair" twice in succession for down-moderating obvious trolls in the BSD section.

You really want to be paranoid? For EVERY time someone metamods you as unfair, even if everyone else mods you as fair, you lose karma. Don't believe me? Check out metamod.pl in the CVS. Now if that makes you uncomfortable, I think you lack perspective. If you're not a troll yourself and have useful things to say, your karma will recover. And that second part isn't wholly necessary.

Trolls exist because some guys just plain don't have the right chemical balance in their brains, and they will always be that way. They can destroy a community if not properly regulated because to be a troll is to simply not see value in that community. But it looks to me that they are being properly regulated on Slashdot. Consider that it only takes one active non-troll moderator on average to cancel the effects of an active troll moderator. How many active troll moderators do you think there are? How about non-trolls like you and me? The bad thing is that in individual cases, someone might be poorly treated by the system, but I don't see any reason for your prediction of chaos. System works fine for me, on average.

Synopsis:
Major Tom goes to the bathroom and shoves a Yoda doll up his ass, and then gimps back to his desk to post AC Trolls on Slashdot.

Soddity

Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Take your ex-lax bars and put my do-rag on.
Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Commencing countdown, rope is on.
Begin insertion and may Goatse's love be with you.

This is Yoda Doll to Major Tom,
You've rectally been flayed!
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear.
Now it's time to leave the crapper if you dare.

This is Major Tom to Yoda Doll,
I'm stepping through the door.
And I'm farting in a most peculiar way!
And my ass looks very different today.
For here...
Am I shitting in the tincan?
Far...too busy posting trolls.

Slashdot censors you and there's nothing I can do.

Uploading one hundred thousand files,
I'm feeling very ill.
I don't think my feces know which way to go.
I can't tell my intestines from spaghetti-
code.

Yoda Doll to Major Tom, your prostrate's dead, there's something wrong,
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear...

Am I shitting in the tincan?

My ass like a baboon's

Slashdot censors you and there's nothing I can do.

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Synopsis:
Major Tom goes to the bathroom and shoves a Yoda doll up his ass, and then gimps back to his desk to post AC Trolls on Slashdot.

Soddity

Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Take your ex-lax bars and put my do-rag on.
Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Commencing countdown, rope is on.
Begin insertion and may Goatse's love be with you.

This is Yoda Doll to Major Tom,
You've rectally been flayed!
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear.
Now it's time to leave the crapper if you dare.

This is Major Tom to Yoda Doll,
I'm stepping through the door.
And I'm farting in a most peculiar way!
And my ass looks very different today.
For here...
Am I shitting in the tincan?
Far...too busy posting trolls.

Slashdot censors you and there's nothing I can do.

Uploading one hundred thousand files,
I'm feeling very ill.
I don't think my feces know which way to go.
I can't tell my intestines from spaghetti-
code.

Yoda Doll to Major Tom, your prostate's dead, there's something wrong,
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear...

Am I shitting in the tincan?

My ass like a baboon's

Slashdot censors you and there's nothing I can do.

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Synopsis:
Major Tom goes to the bathroom and shoves a Yoda doll up his ass, and then gimps back to his desk to post AC Trolls on Slashdot.

Soddity

Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Take your ex-lax bars and put my do-rag on.
Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Commencing countdown, rope is on.
Begin insertion and may Goatse's love be with you.

This is Yoda Doll to Major Tom,
You've rectally been flayed!
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear.
Now it's time to leave the crapper if you dare.

This is Major Tom to Yoda Doll,
I'm stepping through the door.
And I'm farting in a most peculiar way!
And my ass looks very different today.
For here...
Am I shitting in the tincan?
Far...too busy posting trolls.

Slashdot censors you and there's nothing I can do.

Uploading one hundred thousand files,
I'm feeling very ill.
I don't think my feces know which way to go.
I can't tell my intestines from spaghetti-
code.

Yoda Doll to Major Tom, your prostate's dead, there's something wrong,
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear...

Am I shitting in the tincan?

My ass like a baboon's

Slashdot censors you and there's nothing I can do. Suspendisse viverra, metus eget dapibus vestibulum, mauris ipsum porta diam, sit amet congue sem augue et pede. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Nullam eu massa sed leo malesuada pellentesque. Nunc luctus hendrerit sem. Suspendisse tincidunt convallis nunc. In id justo et tortor malesuada hendrerit. Proin ac augue vitae lectus sagittis vulputate. Integer a magna. Aliquam erat volutpat. Suspendisse in velit. Duis eleifend congue odio. Maecenas at est. Suspendisse porta, mauris sit amet blandit suscipit, sem leo faucibus mi, sit amet molestie sem velit vel nulla. Aenean neque velit, faucibus vel, luctus sed, vulputate sit amet, eros. Integer tincidunt interdum mauris. Phasellus augue. Nam luctus, massa ac hendrerit gravida, nibh ante vestibulum leo, sit amet dapibus pede purus at nisl. Sed est libero, gravida sed, vulputate sed, semper quis, lorem. Ut tincidunt. Vestibulum mauris turpis, consectetuer non, scelerisque et, vestibulum eget, felis.

Synopsis:
Major Tom goes to the bathroom and shoves a Yoda doll up his ass, and then gimps back to his desk to post AC Trolls on Slashdot.

Soddity

Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Take your ex-lax bars and put my do-rag on.
Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Commencing countdown, rope is on.
Begin insertion and may Goatse's love be with you.

This is Yoda Doll to Major Tom,
You've rectally been flayed!
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear.
Now it's time to leave the crapper if you dare.

This is Major Tom to Yoda Doll,
I'm stepping through the door.
And I'm farting in a most peculiar way!
And my ass looks very different today.
For here...
Am I shitting in the tincan?
Far...too busy posting trolls.

Slashdot censors you and there's nothing I can do.

Uploading one hundred thousand files,
I'm feeling very ill.
I don't think my feces know which way to go.
I can't tell my intestines from spaghetti-
code.

Yoda Doll to Major Tom, your prostrate's dead, there's something wrong,
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear...

Am I shitting in the tincan?

My ass like a baboon's

Slashdot censors you and there's nothing I can do.

Suspendisse viverra, metus eget dapibus vestibulum, mauris ipsum porta diam, sit amet congue sem augue et pede. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Nullam eu massa sed leo malesuada pellentesque. Nunc luctus hendrerit sem. Suspendisse tincidunt convallis nunc. In id justo et tortor malesuada hendrerit. Proin ac augue vitae lectus sagittis vulputate. Integer a magna. Aliquam erat volutpat. Suspendisse in velit. Duis eleifend congue odio. Maecenas at est. Suspendisse porta, mauris sit amet blandit suscipit, sem leo faucibus mi, sit amet molestie sem velit vel nulla. Aenean neque velit, faucibus vel, luctus sed, vulputate sit amet, eros. Integer tincidunt interdum mauris. Phasellus augue. Nam luctus, massa ac hendrerit gravida, nibh ante vestibulum leo, sit amet dapibus pede purus at nisl. Sed est libero, gravida sed, vulputate sed, semper quis, lorem. Ut tincidunt. Vestibulum mauris turpis, consectetuer non, scelerisque et, vestibulum eget, felis.

Synopsis:
Major Tom goes to the bathroom and shoves a Yoda doll up his ass, and then gimps back to his desk to post AC Trolls on Slashdot.

Soddity

Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Take your ex-lax bars and put my do-rag on.
Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Commencing countdown, rope is on.
Begin insertion and may Goatse's love be with you.

This is Yoda Doll to Major Tom,
You've rectally been flayed!
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear.
Now it's time to leave the crapper if you dare.

This is Major Tom to Yoda Doll,
I'm stepping through the door.
And I'm farting in a most peculiar way!
And my ass looks very different today.
For here...
Am I shitting in the tincan?
Far...too busy posting trolls.

Slashdot censors you and there's nothing I can do.

Uploading one hundred thousand files,
I'm feeling very ill.
I don't think my feces know which way to go.
I can't tell my intestines from spaghetti-
code.

Yoda Doll to Major Tom, your prostrate's dead, there's something wrong,
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear...

Am I shitting in the tincan?

My ass like a baboon's

Slashdot censors you and there's nothing I can do.
Suspendisse viverra, metus eget dapibus vestibulum, mauris ipsum porta diam, sit amet congue sem augue et pede. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Nullam eu massa sed leo malesuada pellentesque. Nunc luctus hendrerit sem. Suspendisse tincidunt convallis nunc. In id justo et tortor malesuada hendrerit. Proin ac augue vitae lectus sagittis vulputate. Integer a magna. Aliquam erat volutpat. Suspendisse in velit. Duis eleifend congue odio. Maecenas at est. Suspendisse porta, mauris sit amet blandit suscipit, sem leo faucibus mi, sit amet molestie sem velit vel nulla. Aenean neque velit, faucibus vel, luctus sed, vulputate sit amet, eros. Integer tincidunt interdum mauris. Phasellus augue. Nam luctus, massa ac hendrerit gravida, nibh ante vestibulum leo, sit amet dapibus pede purus at nisl. Sed est libero, gravida sed, vulputate sed, semper quis, lorem. Ut tincidunt. Vestibulum mauris turpis, consectetuer non, scelerisque et, vestibulum eget, felis.

Synopsis:
Major Tom goes to the bathroom and shoves a Yoda doll up his ass, and then gimps back to his desk to post AC Trolls on Slashdot.

Soddity

Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Take your ex-lax bars and put my do-rag on.
Yoda Doll to Major Tom.
Commencing countdown, rope is on.
Begin insertion and may Goatse's love be with you.

This is Yoda Doll to Major Tom,
You've rectally been flayed!
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear.
Now it's time to leave the crapper if you dare.

This is Major Tom to Yoda Doll,
I'm stepping through the door.
And I'm farting in a most peculiar way!
And my ass looks very different today.
For here...
Am I shitting in the tincan?
Far...too busy posting trolls.

Slashdot censors you and there's nothing I can do.

Uploading one hundred thousand files,
I'm feeling very ill.
I don't think my feces know which way to go.
I can't tell my intestines from spaghetti-
code.

Yoda Doll to Major Tom, your prostrate's dead, there's something wrong,
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear...

Am I shitting in the tincan?

My ass like a baboon's

Slashdot censors you and there's nothing I can do.
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See for yourself. Stop trolling.

Excellent idea!

Why don't you go and implement it? Or at least suggest it to the maintainers?

Nothing personal against you here. Your post was just the final straw. I've had it with people saying Slashdot should do such-and-such, when the code is out there for all to see.

Do it yourself. It's called Open Source for a reason.

2. Why?

3. Not a bad idea...

4. Yeah, good point.

Go submit these ideas on Slashcode.com. Good luck getting it posted though.......:-(