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Linsider Launched
Fred Palmer writes: "Linsider was launched recently. We're featuring lots of business-related news, profiles for every major Linux company, stock information, content licensed under the OpenContent license, and much more.
You can read our press release, or skip straight to the home page. " We don't usually post new sites, but there's been a lot of word going around about Linsider/Linsight and what its aim is. Post-LinuxToday, Dave Whitinger [?] was rumoured to be spending a lot of time working on Linsight and this -- and it looks like it was worth the effort.
I get all my latest news and reading done at Slashdot, so I don't need another site
:-)
why leave the warm, glowing goodness that is /.?
need i say more
For some reason I kept thinking of that Michael Mann movie "The Insider" ... Visions of Al Pacino running around yelling at the top of his lungs about some kind of conspiracy to keep Linux in the dark or something.. (Hey wait a minute, that would be kind of cool!)
-Dextius Alphaeus
-- Java is not a Jedi trait... "do, or do not, there is no try" --
The new Linsider site seems to boil new Linux information down to it's essence. While /. does report Linux information, they have a broader net to cast (and a cast of crazies to keep me coming back). Linsider looks like it can be the spot for Linux news. I wonder how this new site will impact the smaller, non-commercial sites run by Linux fans. We'll see how it goes.
"First things first, but not necessarily in that order."
- Doctor Who
Is /. posts something new without taking the time to investigate it, they could be bashed by people like you and I for "not doing their journalist's job" and being "irresponsible".
But if they _do_ check it out, and realize the scoop is real and worth writing, then people like you and I criticize the story as being old news.
Nobody's forcing you to read it, just check the headlines. If it's old, move on!
:-)
I'd just like to say that linsider isn't the only investment site focusing on linux companies. there are a few like OSInvestor, LinuxStockNews, and LWN's Stock Page, to name only 3.
Alright so now we have a web page where we can stick all of the people trying to make a buck off of Linux the good ol' fashioned Ameriacn way.... ohh beautiful for spacious skies...
Hey! Oh That's Great. Redhat, Information Technology, Support, and certification were easily found by me.
I'm exicted to see all this info about certs (like RHCE) indepth at a site...congrats Linsider =)
*just found out there is a LPI cert*
I like the choices in stocks to display. I see Inprise on there...
I wonder if SlashDot and Linsider will be checking each other's sites to see if they missed anything.
-Effendi
-Effendi
It would be cool if more OSS sites would publish their own source code, ala
Want to work at Transmeta? Hedgefund.net? Priceline?
Can your IM do this?
I agree. I have the #1 post in this story, and one moderator flagged it as Funny (as I intended it), another as a Troll.
hehe oh well, I guess we can't please everyone.
Oh no, poor little boy has his #1 post moderated down. And he was so proud of it. Isn't that sad?
All the news stories appear on a one-inch column on the left side of the screen. Scroll past the quotes, and you get 90% of the page being blank, with all the news crammed in the left 10%.
Who's the freakin' designer that works for Linsight? get a freakin' clue!
BTW, the slider is referenced in the article and on the site, also the cross reference to greasy hamburgers is sort of funny.
Wake up mod's, sheeash. +2 Funny
sliders are very small burgers that you can usually eat in one bite. they are so rediculously small that they are funny. they are no longer as popular due to mcdonalds producing hamburgers which are just as small
I'd have thought they'd offer their content for syndication via RSS. Anyone have any idea why they seem to have gone with a proprietary XML format for syndication?
They *do* offer a Perl backend-syndication program to parse the XML, but I've already got some nice RSS tools. Integrating their stuff shouldn't be too hard, but putting another line in my RSS-reader's config file would be easier.
It was moderated UP, asshole.
they also cant spell
First off, shareholders in dot coms are the ones behind the DMCA and all the noise it represents. Having a dedicated stock site, dedicated to linux and open source just feeds the machine.
Second, if you like open souce being open, al la EFF morals and viewpoint, you must not support franchises like these. On the surface they look inviting, get rich quick, eye candy for the community, look folks we've hit the big time with our little linux underdog. Keep it up and the same folks who are making it tought to copy DVD's are going to be regulating what we now know as open source.
All of them to go and flame LinuxOne. My friends and I were going to take the Mandrake installation, and swap out ALL of the logos and names, and then market it as "Linux2000...2000 times better than LinuxOne." (Because...2000 * 0 is still 0.) But, alas...someone already took the Linux2000 domain name...and anything else nearly related to it we could find...sigh...
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moderators, please read the guidelines before moderating. At least get a clue before moderating. I saw several moderations that were totally unfair, and you guys wonder why people troll.
It just got moderated down again, asshole
yes this is redundant for me saying... its a nice site, but im not impressed. there are othere sites that do the same but havent had the same press coverage as this on has.
What do we have here? The Linside Track, Search Linsider, Company Index and Linvestor Summary.
Shouldn't that be Company Linudex? It's not as annoying as the rest of them.
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Why can't I moderate something "Wrong" or at least "Grossly Misinformed"?
ugh, i did notice that there were alot more troll scores this post... but i think this one deserved a -2 troll who eats live trout
Yet Another Company tried again today to 'capitalize' on the 'nascent' 'linux market' today by offering up the following stunning breakthrough in marketing technology:
A portal! Look mom! Look! It's got BOXES! LOOK! No, it's cool, see, those are STOCKS! And, wait, get this, it will be CUSTOMIZABLE!
Everyone knows php3 is passe these days. If you aren't using servlets, you're yawnsville.
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i browse at -1 because they're funnier than you are.
There is some idiot moderating down posts that he disagrees with, and unless you read at -1, you wont even notice he's doing it.
what the world really needs is another website dedicated strictly to linux. I'm not getting enough linux by going just to linux.com, slashdot, freshmeat, linux.org, tux, etc. - thank you linsider...my life is now complete!
-FluX
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
Look sliders are Greasy burgers. They got their name from being so Greasy they slid off the bun. Your thinking of the original name for hamburgers, this coming from the term "hand burger, which was the original name for the little two inch burgers that White Castle marketed beginning in 1952. The original "had burger" was ripped off of a German immigrant in NYC, who used to make "Chopped Hand Steak", which was essentially a hamburger wrapped up in a sort of pita bread.
By the way, there is an "a" in MacDonalds, it's Scottish in heritage, not Irish.
Next time you want to come off as a "Smart guy", try doing a little research first.
I just swung over there in my favorite text only browser (I've been holding off on X this install until 4.0 came out. It's out now, and it's compiling already :-)) w3m, and it was a *very* nice looking site. It's nice to see a company respecting those of us who still don't browse in pictures.
Jeremy
Looking for a Python IRC bot?
try doing that meta-moderation thing then.
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Whoa!
Thank you for brightening my day.
it was a fucking flooder. moron. if i see the moderator in m2, fuck him, he's gettin' whacked. OFFTOPIC, okay guys? or flamebait, if you prefer. BE FUCKING ACCURATE.
okay prick,
#1 i wasnt defining "sliders" i was explining them. also, they are called sliders because they slide down your throat.
#2 i spent enough of my childhood at mcdonalds, and 2 years working there. its McDonalds. not MacDonalds. McDonalds. have you ever even been there, you fucking retard ? dont question my you cock.
im looking at a mcdonalds cup right now, and, OH MY GAWD, IT SAYS MCDONALDS! well holy shit im right.
cock
people troll because they like getting laughs, and becaue it's funny when people fall for the troll and take it seriously. nobody trolls because of the moderators. the whining little assholes like you who do purely disruptive shit aren't trolls, they're just morons. fuck off. i metamoderate whenever i get the chance and it's a rare thing that i see bad moderation, maybe 10% of mods at the outside. the only consistent bad-moderation practice i see is drooling imbeciles like you who pin "troll" on anything and everything that should be moderated down. i always nail those assholes as "unfair". fuck 'em if they can't learn.
go eat your own shit somewhere else, moron.
post a link to one of your "trolls", moron. betcha ten bucks you're just squealing random obscenities and running away giggling. you're not a fucking troll, you're an idiot.
Although I like what you guys are doing, The "Were not in it for the money comment,doesn't seem all that innocent and charitable, according to your press releases
KC computer firm gets $30 million in venture capital
Talley said the $30 million investment would allow the company to go into a "hypergrowth" mode and hire top industry professionals. In addition, "strategic acquisitions are very important to us, and this will allow us to pay in cash if we have to," he said.
Linux firm hopes cash infusion will steer it to IPO
"As things move along, we certainly see the professional services side moving up to 50 percent
Again, I like what you guys are doing and Linsight overall, good services and you have picked out your own nitch market, but being owned by Atipa, with 30M in venture capital to repay, the revenue has got to come from somewhere. The division your in my be more of a marketing branch for brand awareness etc., but this still goes back to revenue generating efforts. You may not see the marketing impact from where you sit, but beleive me it's there. I can't see Atipas VC's giving up 30M so you and Wells could code for the good of the Linux community, your are part of the revenue stream.
More race stuff in one place,
than any one place on the net.
This is one of the best comedy routines I've heard in a while... She's a pro straightman.
I gues it's offtopic, but damn!
How did you keep from laughing? Can you give me any tips on compiling and debugging with that cool-sounding RPM thing?
Having met a number of the core people involved with Linsight and its associated site, I must say that they're among the most talented people out there with a total devotion to Linux.
They're good folks with a lot of potential.
It looks like you guys have posted about a dozen articles since this article, and have beat out linuxtoday in posting so far this morning.. if you want to do news.. you have to get it out there before anyone else gets it. i'll still visit linuxtoday.. but i'll check linsider first. (plus, i found out that compusa does linux training) :-))
I say we find out who the moderators are, gouge out one of their eyes and skull fuck them.
Thank you. That is all.