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Slashdot's 10,000th Story
After two and a half years we're happy to announce that this is the 10,000th story posted on Slashdot. Uncounted trolls, repeats, server meltdowns, lost nights of code, conferences, quickies, hot grits, flame mails, broken links, 'Score:-1', karma whores, rants, submissions: its been a great ride... along the way we've posted a lot of sweet stories and had some great discussions. We promise to make the next 10,000 suck less! Congrats to Hemos (2153 stories) Roblimo (700) Cliff (693) and Sengan (664). Course I rule all over them with 4478 (I had a 6 month head start tho ;)
I will now pour 10,000 bowls of hot grits down your pants !!!
(By the way, this is the 100,000,000th troll)
thank you.
I submitted this a months ago !
Hot ants down my pants, ouch !
And hat's off, too, to all the people who have taken the time to post insightful, interesting, informative or funny comments; the site is as much about you, because the net has enabled you to participate as much as the authors of the stories and the editors who select them.
Despite all the whining about the acquisitions, it sounds like CmdrTaco has done the truly noble and honorable thing and guarded the independence that makes the site what it is. I can't tell you how much I respect that, and thank you for doing the right thing, and understanding what the right thing was to do.
And that means that the next 10,000 stories will give us all as much reason to come here as the last 10,000 did.
Of course, the number 10,000 is only significant to those of us who use a base-10 numeric system as their preferred counting device.
/. are able to count and manipulate numbers more easily in octal or hex, making this story (number 023420 or 2710h) pretty meaningless.
I would guess that many of us geeks who reed
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31,000 hot grits pouring
22,000 Natalie Portman references (slowing down, guys)
33,000 Jon Katz flames
5,000 references to the supposed sexual preferences of Slashdot staff
10,000 "is this really news posts?"
10,000 First Posts
100,000 First Post wannabes
5,000 "I submitted this months ago" posts
and maybe
300 good trolls.
[Note that these numbers are based on recent averages]
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auntfloyd
Oh? It's early slashdot stories you seek?
You can't get much earlier than "Chips and Dips", and you can also get some insight into Taco, the Man, instead of Taco, the Commander...
So here are some screenshots for your enjoyment:
Taco's first e theme, Flaunt. It was designed for 1600x1200, and DR11. And boy, if you don't see "Chips and Dips" right there on his screen. Talk about a little self-promotion!
And what else do we have? We have his DR12 theme, Obsidian! Obsidian features a few irc chats here and there, and we get to see taco lurking (as an op no less) in #linuxwarez. Woo!
We also find out that, originally, his themes were hosted at mandrake.net, in the "TacoWare" directory on the ftp. Hmmmmmm. TacoWare. I think we have a competitor for the Dilberito!
Congrats guys, it's good to see all the progress that's been made.
Oh, and for all those of you looking for early slashdot articles, check these:
Nov 19, 1998 -- Taco announces kernel 2.1.129 on slashdot. Amazingly, no one trolls!
March 23, 1998 -- Java news! The most interesting thing about this one, is the link address, and the lack of any and all comments. Hmm. (For a hidden surprise, try incrementing the link a few times!)
Well, that's enough time wasting for me for today (har har, I just got q3a for linux)
Regards,
Ed Fisher
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It's here. Some very interesting statistics :)
"Oppression and harassment is a small price to pay to live in the land of the free." -- Montgomery Burns.
I would be pleased with this, but wasn't I reading this on Wired and Salon.com last week? Come on guys! This is old news.
/. article needs someone flaming the story to be old. [/disclaimer]
[disclaimer] Every
A story for the sake of being the 10,000th story? Sounds to me like this is CmdrTaco's way of saying "FIRST POST!!!" ;)
Perhaps now that 10000 has been reached, /. can celebrate by putting in a couple more moderation words, such as "surreal" or maybe "BFG Bait"...
(-1 here I come...)
-- Count Spatula: The Culinary Vampire "...because my cooking sucks."
Seriously guys, Congratulations, It's been a fun ride so far.
More race stuff in one place,
than any one place on the net.