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if you have a "corporate environment", then you've already lost the battle. likewise, if anyone ever refers to you or anyone you work with as "professional", then the coolness has left the building.

It doesn't hurt the atmostphere becase, like it or not, swearing is pervasive in today's society. It's just background that most people don't even notice.

You're example of someone feeling bad because they heard someone swear ("Oh my freakin' ears!" as Todd Flanders said) is completely meaningless, because that's a personal problem of "Todd Flanders." If he's that emotionally fragile he should stay home, since: 1) The comments aren't directed at him; 2) Why should he even care in the first place if someone swears? He should grow up and ignore it like the rest of society. Build up some psychological calluses and move on.

And about the "professional" comment: (I also suspect that you at least agree with whoever tagged the article "unprofessional") I always think of this quote from JWZ regarding swearing and Netscape's Really Bad Attitude mailing list:

"If anyone ever refers to you or anyone you work with as 'professional', then the coolness has left the building."

http://www.slashnet.org/forums/Slashdot-20001005.html

Just do a control-F and type in "ebay".

Interesting history...

<CmdrTaco> Wiki is silly. Not scalalble.

A few months later, Wikipedia surpassed slashdot in popularity. And while slashdot (and everything2.com) struggle with slow response time and strange errors, wikipedia has uptimes that would make a viagra-popping porn star envious. Wikis are scalable, Malda is just a shitty programmer.

I'll stick to SlashNET, thanks.

CowboyNeal (according to slashnet irc network info) had his 30. birthday on 20. March 2006!

Of course not ... EFnet is a huge IRC network. I don't think even the power of slashdot could hurt it. Or all the questions and mettings on even a smaller network like slashdots sister network slashnet and the channels will get big but I don't think "slashdotted". Maybe a shitty network like my own would get killed but I don't think a big network like EFnet. There is only about 80,000 people on EFnet now. Back in 1999 I remember EFnet having over 100,000 people.

I remember DALnet even having more then that. But times have changed ... my god im getting old

I just imagined /. in real time (an open chat room)

You don't have to imagine. Go there.

In case you don't know, that's a quote from hemos, followed shortly by CmdrTaco saying "I wish people wouldn't steal."

[20:18:36] <Questions> theLinGer asks: What percent of website hits originate from Internet Explorer?
[20:18:49] <CmdrTaco> Shit, I just looked this up an hour ago.
[20:18:58] <CmdrTaco> 50% MSIE ish.
[20:19:22] <hemos> CmdrTaco: I'll find it a second.
[20:19:24] <CmdrTaco> 35% Moz, 2% Konq

Here's the IRC log:
http://www.slashnet.org/forums/Slashdot-20030612.h tml

<hemos_> Alterslash is illegal.
And is violating copyright.
And unfortunately, under the way US copyright law works
they will probably get a cease and desist soon.
Becuase if we don't - then we give up the right to defend ourselves.
So, I don't want to be hostile
but because of the law, we have to.

Questions: CrackMonkey asks: Will slashdot ever support message pointers, so that users don't need to search through verbose discussions just to figure out which postings are new?
CmdrTaco: Mmm. Scotch.
hemos: Man, I'm getting a G&T.
CmdrTaco: Thats a feature that we could do.
Again, it's a little trickier than just a date stamp, but we could do it.
Someone could submit a patch.
Had to get a beverage. Sorry for the lag.
hemos: Yeah, the patch situation is a fun one.
Because the reality is that hardly anyone submits pathces.

how about slashnet?

It doesn't matter whether people want it or not. The real point is: will you submit a patch to make it happen?

"I'd rather volunteers submit patches than anything else." -- Rob Malda, June 12, 2003 Slashdot Forum, on feature requests

You heard the man. Submit a patch!

Slashdot doesn't have editors.

That's funny, the "editors" seem to like the term.

How about IRC though? I mean, this is a fine consumer product with AIM and all that, but how about the geek cred?

I mean, even my dreamcast can run an IRC client.

The last mention we had from the Slashdot admins was that Slashdot was 90% Internet Explorer, is this on the decline?

Hell no - there was a slashnet chat with CmrTaco and Hemos a little over a year ago now, where they said that IE had barely 50% (Mozilla was at 35% at that point iirc).

*googles* There we go:

<CmdrTaco> Shit, I just looked this up an hour ago.
50% MSIE ish.
<CmdrTaco> 35% Moz, 2% Konq

I really liked his articles. Some of them may have been trolls, but at least they did not leave me with a feeling of indifference. It must have been tough for him to take all the flaming, but at least it looked like the flamers has good fun, and it spawned a discussion that was fun to read. Anyway he has been writing books on dogs . See also this log on slashnet. In a few years I hope that they will make a slashdot interview with him. That would be fun. My girlfriend and I miss his articles.

Speaking of which, is there a /. specific channel on Freenode?

Um SlashNet

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

Sean spent all his waking hours on IRC; he was a well known "operator" of the homosexual "chat room" #slashdot. In fact, Sean possessed great power over his IRC subjects, for not only did he operate #slashdot, he was an IRC operator as well. Sean smirked gleefully when he thought about his power over the IRC rabble, and took great pleasure in kicking them off and "K-lining" them. K-lining had become a masturbatory ritual for Sean--the banning of an innocent user coupled with subsequent jacking off gave him sexual thrills of the highest variety.

Sean had spent the past few hours in his daily ritual of scouring the internet for child pornography while desperately trying to seduce young boys on Yahoo Chat. Suddenly his computer beeped at him.

"What the fuck," he stuttered in his high-pitched, feminine voice, tinged with his genetic speech impediment.

His IRC window was blinking. He moved his kiddie porn half way down the screen and looked to see a message from a gay lover.

drwiii>> there's problems over in #kuro5hin right now

drdink> omg wtf
drwiii> some asshole "qpt" is piping messages from #crapfloodchan1, 2, 3 and #kuro5hin.org into the channel
drdink> i don't FUCKING care. can't you tell i'm trying to download kiddie porn to share with you? #kuro5hin is a bunch of metros anyway. fuck that shit.
drwiii> c'mon dinkie-poo, i got a big surprise for you if you'll deal with it... (slurp)
drdink> ok fine goddammit

Sean quickly deleted the #crapfloodchan group, and went into to #kuro5hin.org, the official Kuro5hin channel.

drdrink> ok faggits what the FUCK is going on here!?!?!?!

Michael_Jackson> nothing drdink, how are you on this fine, sunny afternoon?
drdink> god-fucking-dammit Michael_Jackson did i ask for your opinion you SHITHEAD!!!
Michael_Jackson> please accept my humble apologies drdink, i did not mean to offend you.
drdink> THAT'S IT ASSFUCKER YOU DIE NOW
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.michealjacksonisp.com (nullo)
gangsta> dude that wasn't very nice
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.gangstaisp.com (stfu and die)
Weenus> ror
* drdink set +b *!*@*.s.weenusisp.com (fagort)
jizmak> hey drdink we're still friends, though right?
drdink> FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I AM A GIMPY PEDO-FAG AND I LOVE IT

And with that, Sean deleted and banned #kuro5hin.org. This excitement made Sean very aroused, and he quickly pulled his pants down to his ankles with his bony disfigured arm. His penis stood at full attention, a scant 3 inches, thin and curving violently to the right. He began to rub it with his withered, deformed hand, whispering a litany of curses against kurons and their ilk. His excitation grew and grew; as he reached his climax a pitiful droplet of semen dribbled onto his finger.

Then, Sean's boss walked in.

"Oh Sean, can you take this to the.. OH CHRIST! NOT AGAIN!!!!!" His face turned red and he immediately turned to face the wall once he saw what Sean was doing.

"GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! YOU'RE FIRED! YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T DO THA

For some reason, nobody ever bothers to mention where the logs of the Slashdot IRC forums get posted. After the IRC interview with CmdrTaco and Hemos a few months ago, it took me some digging to figure out where the log wound up.

For those who can't make the chat, the log will eventually be at http://www.slashnet.org/forums/

Editors: After the chat is over, any chance of having the log URL linked to the story text as an update?

Found it: "Windows is 72% of traffic on Slashdot"

It's going, it's healthy, give them at least a few more months before you can expect a "consumer"-ready release. (Or even a "consumer"-ready preview. Doing a far-reaching overhaul of the FreeBSD kernel is 'easy,' especially since the work is about getting rid of stupid ways for things to break. Adding the userland sugar - the new installer, package/port management features, etc - will take a little more time, as human interfaces are naturally tricky to get right.)

Obviously, if you're familiar with the BSDs already, you can run with what they've got now. Follow the action over here, read the Slashnet Q&A, and dive in on the newsgroups or mailing lists (messages are mirrored between mail and news) if you're ready to help out!

For some reason, nobody ever bothers to mention where the logs of the Slashdot IRC forums get posted. After the IRC interview with CmdrTaco and Hemos a few months ago, it took me some digging to figure out where the log wound up.

For those who can't make the chat, the log will eventually be at http://www.slashnet.org/forums/

Editors: After the chat is over, any chance of having the log URL linked to the story text as an update?

First, to jark (the grandparent), take it in stride. As you can see by my Journal, I've been in the same boat (posting stories that get rejected, only to have the story show up within the next day or two.)

Second, solferino, you and I and a bunch of other people know that, in fact, the submitters of stories, and those who post in them, are the lifeblood of slashdot. We're the ones who create the content that Taco and crew sell access to via subscriptions.

Third, (while I'm ranting), according to the last IRC chat, several readers suggested features, to which Taco replied with "Patches are welcome." If slashdot was still being run out of Rob's basement in Michigan, I could see pimping for patches. However, these guys get paid from OSDN. It's their job to keep the site up to date, and add features.

i think the highest /. id is around 700k right now.
in the latest irc forum, hemos said /. serves around 2.5 million pages on good days. even if you take out all the people hiting reload every few minutes, thats still quite a few poeple reading /.
the log is here, and hemos talkes about trafic at 20:11

<Questions> limerickey asks: What happened to John Katz?
<CmdrTaco> We had to let him go during a round of layoffs last summer. We miss him, and were sad to see him go. He added a lot to Slashdot, and it was really unfortunate.
<hemos> Well, that and he wanted to write more about dogs.
<CmdrTaco> Yes, also the dogs.
<hemos> Since Running To the mountain, he's written two more books about dogs. Jon and I still talk semi-regular. To be frank,
<CmdrTaco> He's a really cool human.
...
<hemos>the acerbic nature of some of the people also turned him off. both in terms of writing, and in terms of people's impressions.

Sorry I was wrong and should've included a link.

It's really closer to 35%

[20:18:36] <Questions> theLinGer asks: What percent of website hits originate from Internet Explorer?
[20:18:58] <CmdrTaco> 50% MSIE ish.
[20:19:24] <CmdrTaco> 35% Moz, 2% Konq

It gets discussed once in a while. Last count was 72% Windows, 50% IE, 35% Mozilla. That's from http://www.slashnet.org/forums/Slashdot-20030612.t xt

By and large, slashdotters are probably not in the herd...

[21:11:50] <CmdrTaco> I no longer hold any value in a petition.
[21:11:54] <hemos> But, yeah, petitions stories have no valuye.
[21:11:56] <hemos> None.
[21:12:00] <CmdrTaco> Web petitions are stupid. I delete them all.
[21:12:14] <hemos> They have no meaning to a company/organization/political party.

I don't think this is so much about end user savings. They obviously have to pay for bandwidth, like anyone else. If I was a VA stock holder (who owns OSDN and slashdot) I might be a bit upset at the waste.

45 bytes x 2.5 million hits/day. (see the recent slashnet log)

Assume about 2/3 of those are cached, so 45 bytes x ~800,000 hits/day. If my calculations are correct that's something like 34 gigs of bandwidth saved *per day* by moving to png, on just that image alone! Apply those small savings to every image on slashdot, and you're looking at a possible not insignificant bandwidth savings.

Here's the text of the /. IRC chat [also available as text and as HTML.
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[20:00:40] Welcome to tonight's SlashNET forum.
[20:00:46] Tonight our guests are Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jeff "Hemos" Bates.
[20:00:52] They are two of the figures behind Slashdot.org, as you all know.
[20:00:58] Topics they'd like to talk about tonight include comment moderation, story selection, code plans, and technical stuff.
[20:01:06] If you have a question you'd like to ask, you can submit it to the queue by sending it in a private message to "Questions": /msg Questions
[20:01:11] Before we get started with queued questions, would either of you like to say anything? Possibly a brief intro as to who you are? CmdrTaco first?
[20:01:21] Uhh... we do slashdot.
[20:01:25] first question!
[20:01:41] rfoster asks: How has the Slashdot info structure changed over the last year are you still experiencing growth and what hardware are you running to accommodate these needs?
[20:02:14] Well, we can answer what hardware we are using now...
[20:02:14] The system continues to be refined. We add new hardware.
[20:02:20] and I can answer the hardware that's coming.
[20:02:21] The FAQ lists most of the hardware.
[20:02:34] A dozen web servers... a few mysql boxes.
[20:02:37] The major upgrade for hardware will be webservers/DB readers.
[20:03:24] Yeah, we're getting new hardware for the first time in years.
[20:03:28] Literally.
[20:03:33] Like, I think 30 months or so.
[20:03:35] We've added a few boxes, but really not much.
[20:03:44] I mean, yeah, we've added new boxes, but they have been 2 - 3 year old machines.
[20:03:55] w00t asks: Will /. users ever be able to change the "look and feel" of Slashdot? Such as the colors, and general layout?
[20:04:04] Maybe a little, but not much.
[20:04:30] It's computationally expensive.
[20:04:32] The new machines will be 2x P3 1.4 Ghz, with 2 gigs of RAM.
[20:04:34] It's programatically tricky.
[20:04:43] And only a tiny tiny percentage of users care.
[20:04:58] Patches are always welcome tho ;)
[20:05:00] Aridhol asks: What advice would you give to people trying to start up their own content site(games,news etc...) How did slashdot get so many viewers?
[20:05:13] Please don't msg me.
[20:05:25] Aridhol: Being there first.
[20:05:29] And not looking like ass.
[20:05:33] Do something other people aren't.
[20:05:55] reefer asks: Is there any system in place or a plan on developing some system to prevent duplicate posts?
[20:06:03] Whatever.
[20:06:04] Next.
[20:06:11] Reefer: There is one.
[20:06:12] jew asks: At LWCE 2000 NYC, you stated that you were considering developing alternate systems of accessing the site's content than HTTP/HTML. You mentioned NNTP. Have you considered or implemented any alternate means of accessing the site, such as RRS? If not, why?
[20:06:19] It's just that the media spreads stories around.
[20:06:29] And there's something like 30,000 stories, so dupes happen...
[20:06:37] Well Jew, Patches are always welcome :)
[20:06:39] Look at the bottom of CNN's top stories - usually that's all dupes.
[20:06:47] We don't have time to implement much in the way of other protocols.
[20:06:59] CmdrTaco: We did try the chat thing with whatever program that was.
[20:07:03] Er, not chat.
[20:07:09] Discussion thing.
[20:07:11] Yeah, we had an IRC bot.
[20:07:16] That gated stories & discussions.
[20:07:17] Salsa.
[20:07:18] That was fun.
[20:07:21] Worked really well.
[20:07:24] Nobody used it :)
[20:07:36] The deal is that other protocols are fun, but HTML/HTTP is bread & butter.
[20:07:43] Supporting other protocols is a lot of time,

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[20:00:40] Welcome to tonight's SlashNET forum.
[20:00:46] Tonight our guests are Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jeff "Hemos" Bates.
[20:00:52] They are two of the figures behind Slashdot.org, as you all know.
[20:00:58] Topics they'd like to talk about tonight include comment moderation, story selection, code plans, and technical stuff.
[20:01:06] If you have a question you'd like to ask, you can submit it to the queue by sending it in a private message to "Questions": /msg Questions
[20:01:11] Before we get started with queued questions, would either of you like to say anything? Possibly a brief intro as to who you are? CmdrTaco first?
[20:01:21] Uhh... we do slashdot.
[20:01:25] first question!
[20:01:41] rfoster asks: How has the Slashdot info structure changed over the last year are you still experiencing growth and what hardware are you running to accommodate these needs?
[20:02:14] Well, we can answer what hardware we are using now...
[20:02:14] The system continues to be refined. We add new hardware.
[20:02:20] and I can answer the hardware that's coming.
[20:02:21] The FAQ lists most of the hardware.
[20:02:34] A dozen web servers... a few mysql boxes.
[20:02:37] The major upgrade for hardware will be webservers/DB readers.
[20:03:24] Yeah, we're getting new hardware for the first time in years.
[20:03:28] Literally.
[20:03:33] Like, I think 30 months or so.
[20:03:35] We've added a few boxes, but really not much.
[20:03:44] I mean, yeah, we've added new boxes, but they have been 2 - 3 year old machines.
[20:03:55] w00t asks: Will /. users ever be able to change the "look and feel" of Slashdot? Such as the colors, and general layout?
[20:04:04] Maybe a little, but not much.
[20:04:30] It's computationally expensive.
[20:04:32] The new machines will be 2x P3 1.4 Ghz, with 2 gigs of RAM.
[20:04:34] It's programatically tricky.
[20:04:43] And only a tiny tiny percentage of users care.
[20:04:58] Patches are always welcome tho ;)
[20:05:00] Aridhol asks: What advice would you give to people trying to start up their own content site(games,news etc...) How did slashdot get so many viewers?
[20:05:13] Please don't msg me.
[20:05:25] Aridhol: Being there first.
[20:05:29] And not looking like ass.
[20:05:33] Do something other people aren't.
[20:05:55] reefer asks: Is there any system in place or a plan on developing some system to prevent duplicate posts?
[20:06:03] Whatever.
[20:06:04] Next.
[20:06:11] Reefer: There is one.
[20:06:12] jew asks: At LWCE 2000 NYC, you stated that you were considering developing alternate systems of accessing the site's content than HTTP/HTML. You mentioned NNTP. Have you considered or implemented any alternate means of accessing the site, such as RRS? If not, why?
[20:06:19] It's just that the media spreads stories around.
[20:06:29] And there's something like 30,000 stories, so dupes happen...
[20:06:37] Well Jew, Patches are always welcome :)
[20:06:39] Look at the bottom of CNN's top stories - usually that's all dupes.
[20:06:47] We don't have time to implement much in the way of other protocols.
[20:06:59] CmdrTaco: We did try the chat thing with whatever program that was.
[20:07:03] Er, not chat.
[20:07:09] Discussion thing.
[20:07:11] Yeah, we had an IRC bot.
[20:07:16] That gated stories & discussions.
[20:07:17] Salsa.
[20:07:18] That was fun.
[20:07:21] Worked really well.
[20:07:24] Nobody used it :)
[20:07:36] The deal is that other protocols are fun, but HTML/HTTP is bread & butter.
[20:07:43] Supporting other protocols is a lot of time,