Slashdot Prepares Switcheroo

We're planning on making the final switch from Slashdot to Banjo tonight at around 8pm my time. User preferences changed after 6:30pm will be lost. Comments won't be. Around 8pm, Slashdot will stop providing dynamic pages: only the static homepage will be visible until we we complete the transition, which will hopefully take only however long it takes for us to incrementally update all the critical data. We should see you by 9.

Comments

Changelog?

[mutantcamel]

so whats new/cool with banjo?

Re:Changelog?

[ctkrohn]

Yeah, Im sure there is alot of backend stuff, since the UI seems the same.

I would be interested to know as well.

Re:Changelog?

[ectoraige]

Well, apparently we now need to receive a cookie *every* time you click on a link.

Which gets really annoying when you have cookie warnings turned on. Which I normally do, since I usually read slashdot when I'm meant to be developing sites...

Re:New Hardware Specs ?

[michael]

The old hardware setup is here.

The new one is not terribly different: five beefier HTTP servers instead of six, still with the same Arrowpoint load-balancing switch; one NFS box and one beefier database machine.

And of course, this will mark the switch to Slash 2.0.

I'm sure there will be a story (maybe not until Monday though) which will give plenty of specs and info.

Re:see you by 9...

[gaydot]

...or, even better O'Reilly's Meerkat

Mmmmm.... Tastey

~g.

We should see you by 9.

[r41nm4n]

We should see you by 9.

On what day?

See you on monday...

[Above]

when they finally get things back up. :-)

Re:When exactly is "9"?

[Mononoke]

9 rebmuN

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9 rebmuN

Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted.

When exactly is "9"?

[Swaffs]

"Around 8pm, Slashdot will stop providing dynamic pages: only the static homepage will be visible until we we complete the transition, which will hopefully take only however long it takes for us to incrementally update all the critical data. We should see you by 9."

PM?... AM?... September the 9th?... 2009?

Re:When exactly is "9"?

[Mononoke]

Once upon a time there was this group known as The Beatles. Some moderator apparently has never heard of them.

They had a few hit songs. Influenced a musician or two.

Re:When exactly is "9"?

[Goldberg's Pants]

What you are forgetting is that to find this out, geeks would have to leave their lovely little cubicles and actually experience some culture.

As for influence, bands like Oasis are practically Beatles cover bands.

And to the original poster, nice post.

Well

[PovRayMan]

Is this a 1st post or did all the comments get lost?

Is this just my lucky day?

Re:Well

[TOTKChief]

What's really nice about the new Slash is that FP is gone, and I guess it's replaced with the Nth comment number in the entirety of Slashdot. That should strike a blow for the noisemakers...

Can't wait to see the race for post N million, etc.

Hey, Taco, what about sticking a "N comments served", kinda like McDonald's, on the static front for all the noobies? Be kinda cool, and updating every 20 minutes or so shouldn't make it too much of a load on the system, no?

Re:Well

[GlassUser]

Yes, unfortunately it will make for slightly more errors when determining what's redundant and what is original.

Re:Well

[nEoN nOoDlE]

Hey, Taco, what about sticking a "N comments served", kinda like McDonald's, on the static front for all the noobies?

I got a better idea! How about a karma increase for the guy with the N millionth post! Sorta like those shopping spree give-a-ways except MUCH MORE VALUABLE!

Re:Well

[astr0boy]

yeah, then all slashdot would be is a bunch of "xth post" comments. oh wait......

Re:Well

[Bluesee]

Wait... if there are half a million users and 2.4 million posts...

...that don't seem right, now, does it?

Re:Well

[TOTKChief]

Yeah, I originally reported this as a bug when testing Banjo. When my bug got closed as irrelevant, I figured it out...=)

Re:You can tune a banjo..

[floodle]

You can tune a banjo..

..but you still can't get that Dukes of Hazzard theme out of your head.

Make it stop!

Re:When All Is Said And Done

[Swaffs]

They should hold a pool to guess at when it will be up.

Re:Isn't there some rule?

[roguerez]

I believe Rob mentioned a short while ago that the bulk of traffic happens during work days. The weekend is a little slower. Therefore picking the weekend makes sense, since less people suffer from possible problems during the switcheroo. I'm not sure if this is the reason for choosing friday, though.

Re:Most important question...

[smack_attack]

Ha! Your wish has been granted.

Nobody told me...

[MasterOfDisaster]

So, do I get to keep that extra karma I got on banjo? last time I looked, it was still there. Please? awww....

Re:How to tune a Banjo...

[NonSequor]

I was always told that the phrase "well-tuned banjo" was a good example of an oxymoron

Re:New Hardware Specs ?

[pratyoosh]

has the switch already taken place ? I have never seen slashdot response to be so slow...

Re:A new type of Karma whore

[geekoid]

his from someone who hides behind AC. I have no idea why it was modded up so fast, I'd guess coincedence.
I take offence of your KW accusation.

Re:How to tune a Banjo...

[_Stryker]

The only problem with using a digital tuner in this situation is that you really want to tune to match the rest of the band. If they are all slightly off in the same direction, you will want to match them rather than being perfectly in tune yourself.

Re:"my time" is when?

[Spunk]

Please don't feel me.

Thanks.

Critical data?

[Chris Parrinello]

With all of the first posts and goat sex links, can any of the data on Slashdot be really termed "critical data"?

:)

Beep... Beep...

[Halo-]

I say we play "Dark Side of the Moon" till things come back, or... baring that... go out... maybe meet some members of the opposite sex. Hopefully O'Reilly makes a book about that....

"my time" is when?

[blair1q]

And what color is the ethernet cabling in your world?

--Blair

Re:"my time" is when?

[grammar nazi]

Dull gray in color with yellow boots that prevent snags on the RJ45 connectors.

When I'm feeling spunky, I go with a red ethernet cable, with a twist.

Re:"my time" is when?

[Evil MarNuke]

Ok, since you asked...

• 
  black = dmz
  blue = firewall uplink
  yellow = frontend servers
  purple = backend servers
  white = office server
  green = ofiice clients
  red = firelink net
  gray = serial console net
  

I hope it works

[Grim Grepper]

I hope the problems you've had with Banjo have been worked out. For example, last time I went to Banjo, my karma was lower than it should be. Good luck!

Who wants to take bets on how long it will take before Slashdot switches back to the old code?

Re:Uhm....

[Monkey-Man]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/10/193122 1&mode=thread
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/02/183425 6&mode=thread
http://banjo.slashdot.org

Re:Just curious

[Zildy]

I think they plan on doing it "Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years Eve" style where only the eastern folks will see the new server live at 9PM. Central, Mountain and Pacific users will continue to see their regularly scheduled /. until 9pm their time.

Beat the system! Have your EDT friends send you screen shots of the new /. so you can see it before everyone else in your area!

Zildy

Re:Uhm....

[cymen]

I've been waiting for a decent reply to your post but none so far... Banjo appears to be a newer version of Slashcode (perhaps 2.0 or 2.2?). There are some notes in CVS logs for slashcode that mention Banjo.

Re:Just curious

[RedX]

Not that I've done any amount of research, but based on past stories, I believe that Taco is/was in Michigan (Eastern) and the server is in a data center near Boston (also Eastern). I'd say it's a safe bet that "my time" is Eastern.

Re:Code base only?

[J'raxis]

I don't think you meant http://www.banjo.org/, did you?

You can tune a banjo..

[geekoid]

..but you can't tunafish

Re:You can tune a banjo..

[Glytch]

Or the Beverly Hillbillies. That song's been going through my head for the past few hours.

Re:You can tune a banjo..

[Zugok]

and I hae some idiot singing Green Acres at work every single friggin day! Even worse, she doesn't know the words to it, and just substitutes events from daily work life. Now that is nuts

Re:banjo.org

[Mononoke]

"hillbillys" in this context is not a contraction, possessive, and is not a letter or number like a VCR is.

Wow, "a VCR" is a letter or number?

Did Big Bird tell you that?

Don't want to criticize...

[GeneOff]

[but wait I do...]

Just strummed on the banjo server and about 1/2 of the things I clicked on returned internal server errors. Hope this is not a sign of things to come later tonight.

Will this enable articles to morph faster?

[sharkey]

Will we hear about Cisco chicks, rebooting to erase critical logs and the death of a nearby star system (not neccesarily in that order)?

Will any and all posts asking for the truth, or pointing out that the narrative of events is on it's fifth unique revision be moderated down lower than a hot-grits-toting, petrified Natalie Portman visit to goatse post?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Just curious

[Anonymous Coward]

"Your time" is Eastern, right? That would be 5pm here on the West Coast?

Not that it really matters that much, just want to make sure.......

Re:Just curious

[jamesdood]

If this goes like all of the "upgrades" I've done I will bet that at 2am EST things are being rolled back! In all seriousness I hope things go well and the amount of caffeine imbibed is less than the amount of beer!!

Re:Just curious

[geekoid]

central, I think. plus it 3 hours difference from west and east coast.

Re:Just curious

[neuromortis]

It is Eastern. From what I understand, Rob is the only one who hasn't moved yet, and he's up in Holland, MI. If you listen to Geeks in Space you'll hear them talk about where they are and where they went to college a few times. Also, they did a special about the filtering issue in the libraries of Holland.

(/me feels special, as he lives in the state that begot /.)

(/me also insists that he just has an excellent memory and that he is not stalking Rob Malda.)

Re:Just curious

[jetpack]

All "your time" is belong to us.

Sorry in advance for that one :)

Re:Just curious

[DaneelGiskard]

Don't worry, it isn't funny anyway :)

timing

[DNS-and-BIND]

At least they have the sense to do it on a Friday night, so they have the whole weekend to screw up. Dimes to dollars says they fall back to the current version by Monday.

Re:timing

[topham]

Don't know about you, but my free time is mostly on the weekends. Which means thats when Ishould be using slashdot the most.

Re:timing

[DNS-and-BIND]

Dude, you spend your free time reading slashdot?? I don't think I've ever read slashdot if I wasn't on company time!

banjo.org

[geekoid]

news for hillbilly's, stuff thats inbred...

Re:banjo.org

[Anonymous Coward]

"hillbillys" in this context is not a contraction, possessive, and is not a letter or number like a VCR is.

Re:banjo.org

[bigbadwlf]

The difference is you can stop being a hillbilly by taking a bath, getting rid of the old POS pickup truck, stop sleeping with relatives (and your shotgun), moving out of your trailer and into a house, etc.

"Nigger" is a term that narrow minded people apply to other people who happen to be black.

Furthermore, there is no known link between blacks and banjos.

Re:banjo.org

[SecretAsianMan]

news for hillbilly's, stuff thats inbred...

I live in Oklahoma, so I guess that I'm a hillbilly by your reasoning. What must be very embarassing to you is that I have better English skills! For instance, had I written your comment (i.e., had your comment been written in correct Engish), it would have looked like this:

News for Hillbillies. Stuff That's Inbred.

Note the following:

• 1. correct spelling and pluralization of "hillbillies";
  
• 2. the use of the contraction "that's", meaning "that is", instead of "thats", which at best can be viewed as a pluralization of "that", which, of course, makes no sense;
  
• 3. correct capitalization, as the text is a subtitle and therefore deserves capitalization to match.
  

I hope this experience has been an educational one for you. I'm just glad I could help.

Re:banjo.org

[geekoid]

Just being from Ok, I don't think your a Hillbilly.

I wrote the catch phrase as if it was written by a hillbilly.

Why would you presume to know what I consider to be a hillbilly? It seem to me you were just looking for something to take offense to.

Sorry if my english skill are too pore for your wyes, but the internet is international. Even though your from Oklahoma, I'll assum you know what that means.

Missed Opportunity

[scott1853]

Why the hell didn't we get a chance to put up a poll on what would happen with the update!?

24 hours to get it working

48 hours to get it working

Cowboy Neal will have to get it working

"We should see you by 9"

Um, 9:00 on what DAY?


C'ya later everybody. Nice knowin ya all. Maybe we can talk again in another couple years.

In the words of a famous person...

[jgrumbles]

Break on through to the other side...

Re:Uhm....

[rjamestaylor]

I think it's called banjo because someone was listening to the banjo playing in Travis' Sing...

But I've been wrong before...wait...well, shoot, I just broke my streak...

So What?

[rabtech]

I have reviewed the changelogs, and I don't see many new features, and certainly none that would affect me as a standard reader/poster on slashdot.

I'm sure the administration side has improvements, and the behind-the-scenes code is better. But I'm left asking... So What?

If anyone can explain the real benefits from this move, let me know. And congrats to those who worked on Bender.

Re:see you by 9...

[Monkeylover]

9 next Friday? Maybe you give them too much credit....

Code base only?

[Winged Cat]

You mean just the code base, right? As in, I won't have to go to http://www.banjo.org/ from now on, and explain to my semi-geek friends who have heard of Slashdot but never kept up with it that I haven't changed to a redneck just because I now visit Banjo as often as I used to visit Slashdot, right?

Re:Code base only?

[Winged Cat]

Yeah, I did - but I didn't think to link it, and then there's always concern for the goatse-afraid. ;)

very critical.

[Cardhore]

I think you mean this.

Re:very critical.

[Telek]

EXCELLENT... You mean things are like this BEFORE they do the switch:

OK
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, pater@slashdot.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Re:very critical.

[Telek]

and I just noticed, my comment is apparently the 2,171,131th comment for this article! Woah, talk about a lively debate!!

by Telek (dNaO99@hSoPmAeM.com) on Saturday August 18, @03:44 (#2171131)

How to tune a Banjo...

[daeley]

Just in case things go awry:

http://www.wiredweb.com/~banjoboyd/tuning.html

'Remember that as you begin to play music with others its will become important to tune in settings that are loud. Your banjo is a cannon and you stand behind it. If you sence that you are out of tune turn away from the group and face into a corner or wall. This will allow the sound to bounce back toward you. Another easy way to tune in a loud environment is to use a battery powered digital tuners. A fiddle tuner pickup is available which will plug into the tuner input jack and clip on the bridge of your banjo. This tool allows you to tune in the most loud environment without any interference or even the need to hear precisely the string note. You simply tune according to the digital devise display. Most music stores stock these devices and will be happy to demonstrate them for you.'

Isn't there some rule?

[localman]

...about launching changes on a Friday? Plan to spend all weekend with headaches, Taco.

Heck, you'd probably be doing that anyway :)

Re:see you by 9...

[gaydot]

We'll be living off of Google's Slash Cache until they get the site back up.

Buena Suerte

[krmt]

Good luck guys. Hope it all goes well. Thanks for all the great work!

When All Is Said And Done

[ackthpt]

There'll be partying, liquor flowing, a food fight or two, an underwear on the head parade, and lots of other celebration type activities the little ones shouldn't read about.

Then they'll try to sober up enough to switch it over without fscking it all up.

I suggest a prize of a /. T-shirt to the first post on the "It's Up!" article when it's back up around nine...(yeah... heard that one before)

Here, I'll help ya by writing the article!

Well we did it, it's up and running and we only lost half of the posts, several IDs, all the settings and everyone's karma is reset to 0, but it seems to be working just fine. Have at it and let us know if there's any problems. The techs have left their pagers in greasy pizza box and are heading off into the bushes to sleep it off. See you in the morning.

New Hardware Specs ?

[green pizza]

What sort of new hardware will Slashdot (and, thus Slashcode Banjo) be running on? I would be quite intersted in the types and configurations of the servers, switches, and routers involved. It may be old-hat to sysadmins, but to me it's kinda neat!

Re:New Hardware Specs ?

[Telek]

Oh dear oh dear... something's wrong here. I see the title as this:

Re:New Hardware Specs ? (Score:5, Troll)

And I go, who the fsck moderated that as a troll, and how did it get to +5?? ... So I look at the comment itself:

Moderation Totals: Interesting=2, Informative=2, Total=4.

Yup... Slashcode 2.0 works guys!! So far, through the main slashdot.org page, I've seen 4 or 5 "internal server errors", some wacky comment numbers, addition that doesn't add up (well, actually, knowing /. that's probably a 'planned feature') and now this...

The magic 8 ball says: I slept with your wife

=; .. better luck next time guys =) See you on Monday after 48hours of "personal uptime"...

Re:New Hardware Specs ?

[Bodero]

This bug has been around for ages. Whoever moderated him down as a troll posted to the thread. His -1 score was revoked but the Troll tag remained there. This has nothing to do with Slashcode 2.

Re:New Hardware Specs ?

[Xoro]

Is it a bug when comment number #2111220 is a response to comment #2155782 in nested mode? A bug in spacetime? I'm confused.

Re:New Hardware Specs ?

[Telek]

but how does 1 troll tag outweigh 2 interesting and 2 insightful tags?

wierd

Re:New Hardware Specs ?

[Bodero]

It's just in order of how it was moderated. The most recent moderation of that comment was Troll.

Best of luck

[cnkeller]

until we we complete the transition, which will hopefully take only however long it takes for us to incrementally update all the critical data. We should see you by 9.

So said mission control the Mars polar lander....

Tick Tock

[Lothar 0]

About 50 more minutes left to change your settings to filter out posters who have nothing better to do than keep track of how long until Slashdot makes the change.

Uhm....

[mansemat]

Okay, I haven't been keeping up with /. things for a bit, but please tell me, WTF is Banjo? Is slashcode finally going down the tubes and they are moving to something PHP based (muhahaha, perl will know it's dead for web scripting when /. switches to PHP ;-)

Anyway, 1 link to something banjo releated (that doesn't have anything to do with musical instruments or "Deliverance") would be apperciated.

Word to yer_mom,

~Manse

Re:Uhm....

[cymen]

Yeah, I was on vacation 7/29-8/15 so... ;)

Re:Uhm....

[Lordrashmi]

MMMMMMMM... PHP is so so yummy!

Good Luck!

[TalShiar00]

I am currently involved in a server migration at work. Luckly it is an internal web/file server so it is not at critical, yet still a big issue. All I can go is wish all the /. staff the best of luck and hope you won't need too much coffee ;)

Does everyone get to meta-moderate on the new

[blair1q]

server or am I the lucky one?

--Blair
"Nyah-ha-haaaaah."

Re:Does everyone get to meta-moderate on the new

[bigbadwlf]

Count me as well (and probably whoever modded you up)

Re:Does everyone get to meta-moderate on the new

[astr0boy]

i hope you are joking

Re:Does everyone get to meta-moderate on the new

[spudnic]

You have always been able to meta-moderate (well, at least since it was implemented). Apparently you had to opt in by clicking on it in preferences or somewhere (I forget). After that, the "Have you Meta Moderated Today?" line would appear magically each time you loaded the main page.

From the comments that I've seen here (and on banjo when it went up for testing) everyone gets the meta-moderation line without opting in.

Re:ON TOPIC fp

[jfonseca]

Hey man I just wanted to mention the word "FUCK" coz I think slashdot looks pretty darnd fucked up after the 7th beer fridy night so "FUCK" does make sense. You mentioned BITCHES, you forgot FUCK.

Oh, what fun...

[Kimble]

1) According to my user page, my moderation points expire 8/3/2001. I saw someone else has submitted this in SourceForge, so I'll assume it'll get fixed.

2) "Slashdot Overload" still doesn't work properly -- comments 1-50 on page 1, 50-99 on page 2, 100-149 on page 3, etc. Do they care? Noooo!

-----
Bug #106050, was updated on 2000-May-18 10:17
Here is a current snapshot of the bug.

Project: Slash
Category: Comments
Status: Closed
Resolution: Wont Fix
Bug Group: Slashcode
Priority: 2
Submitted by: eithkay
Assigned to : cbwood
Summary: 1-off error in "Slashdot Overload"
-----

3) Is the fact that I can't see who posted a reply in nested mode a feature, or a bug? I guess that's one less join to make per comment, which is a good thing if needed, but I'd still like to have it.

4) I'd like to have the strikethru tag allowed -- much less geeky^H^H^H^H^H^H illegible.

5) But, other than that, it's all good (AFAIK).

Re:Oh, what fun...

[ethereal]

One other problem - the user option to suppress signatures is nonfunctional. I've never seen so much random crap in my life :)

Re:Oh, what fun...

[Glytch]

You obviously don't browse at -1, then. ;)

Re:Oh, what fun...

[Andux]

My gripes:

• Fake email is gone. Gimme my ROT13 back, dammit!

• Comments listing
  is spaced

  like this,
  which is

  very annoying
  because it

  ends up
  longer than

  the friggin'
  front page.

• <DIV> is allowed, but not the ALIGN attribute. How useful.

• <A TITLE> would be nice too.

Whatever happened to GMT?

[jonnydigital]

As well as your own local time, I think you really ought to give times in GMT! Every time zone is given in relation to GMT on official charts and stuff, but I'll be damned if I know how many hours ahead of my own time zone is CET, or west coast time, or CowboyNeal's friend's cousin's dog's time...

Welcome to slashdot's new cluster

[sulli]

Why, is that a beowulf cluster?

MetaModeration

[Silent.Bob(.And.Jay)]

It has come to my attention that many users are abusing the MetaModeration privelege! Help to stamp out these trolls' ability to squelch our moderation power! Support the SMMMA - Slashdot Meta Meta Moderation Association! E-mail Hemos or Taco today!

Hidden sids

[sulli]

are gone. What happened?

Re:Hidden sids

[hab136]

> Hidden sids are gone. What happened?

It's a secret conspiracy by the Illuminati, the Majestic 12, *and* CowboyNeal to deprive you of your hidden sids!

Quick, bring all your sids out into the open! Hiding them is certain death! All your sids are belong.. errkk.. (strangling noise)

Re:Hidden sids

[jonnydigital]

"What happened?"

Somebody set up us the bomb!

(slashdot groans, CowboyNeal kicks jonnydigital in the beanbag, everyone cheers)

Re:Hidden sids

[vslashg]

This is addressed in the more recent Welcome To Slashdot 2.2 article.

Basically, users can start up discussions now, which totally remove the need for hidden sids.

9pm isn't exactly an "off-hour"..

[kill_9_1]

.. so why haven't you scheduled to perform this work in the middle of the night? Sure it'll be an inconvenience for YOU but that's your job isn't it?

A) I'd never consider such a disruption to any production web servers I'm responsible for administering

B) If I did take them down at 8-9pm, I know I wouldn't have a job by 9am the next morning...

What's with the new cookie anyway?

[TFloore]

Every time I load a page here now, slashdot.org sends me a new cookie user= and a bunch of %25 codes.

What's this doing, anyway?

Re:What's with the new cookie anyway?

[Prior Restraint]

Hear! Hear! This is very annoying.

The site slashdot.org wants to modify an existing cookie. Do you want to allow it?

Not really. What's the deal?

Re:What's with the new cookie anyway?

[viscous]

Indeed. It's driving me totally nuts. It doesn't matter if you accept or reject them either, you still get offered a cookie with every new page. If course if my browser had decent cookie control (e.g. I was using Lynx instead of Netscape 4.something) this wouldn't be a problem...

Oz

[Goldberg's Pants]

I say we play "Dark Side of the Moon"

As long as we can watch is synched with The Wizard of Oz, I'm in.

Not to change the subject, but...

[CoachS]

...isn't anybody wondering what day they're referring to?

[rolling eyes skyward]

-Coach-

New random quotes

[HongPong]

Sweet! The random quote of the day seems to have been updated. Futurama's definitely new I think. Though I bet it's just a text file they can change at will, it seems different than usual.

For posterity: I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth. -- Fry

Re:New random quotes

[JatTDB]

It appears that the random quote ain't so random at the moment...visiting several different pages keeps the same Futurama quote.

Re:New random quotes

[jandrese]

Er, the fortune at the bottom only updates once every 30 minutes or so IIRC. That fortune has been like that for ages not (perhaps forever, I can't remember how it worked in the original Slashcode).

Can you name the next test machine

[l3377r0lld00d]

"w00t" please?

Thanks!

YOU MANIACS!!

[flikx]

(Statue of petrified Queen Amidala appears, burried to the neck in the sand.)

You blew it up! DAMN YOU!!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!

What kind of damn dirty apes take away hidden [nonexistant] sids from helpless trolls and crapflooders?

Neato!

[vslashg]

You know what's really improved? The historical stuff. Pull up an article from months ago, and you'll be able to browse the comments in an intelligent manner! Very nice.

Re:Neato!

[krow]

Thank you, that was a lot of hell to make that work :)

Re:Neato!

[enneff]

I, too, send my thanks.

The way they were archived was a complete fuck-up. Does ANYBODY read /. that way? You couldn't even follow threads.

In any case, thanks and cheers.

Re:Neato!

[krow]

Its a historical thing if you think about it. When slashdot was first started XML wasn't a real reality and MySQL would have flopped on the Hardware Rob had with that many comments in the DB.
To make this work the entire schema was redone (mainly keep blobs away from other attributes).

Banjo Story

[cjsnell]

So this bluegrass picker goes into 7-Eleven for a few minutes and returns to parking lot, only to find his car window broken. As soon as he sees the shattered glass, his heart sinks. He had left his $3000 banjo in plain view on the passenger seat. "Oh no", he sighed. He looks through the broken window and sees his beloved banjo, still sitting on the seat. And lying next to it is...another banjo!

test

[GigsVT]

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Sweet

[Thomas Charron]

Looks like were all back and up..

Comment numbers?

[Kreeblah]

What happened? Did the database count all the comments in it so far, and start numbering from that point onward, or what?

Annoying..

[Thomas Charron]

Well, thats just annoying. You have to have at least typed for 20 seconds before you can hit submit? Whats up with that? Some of us can type fast, ya know..

Crack...

[DaRkJaGuaR]

Geez every time i check back together somthing new has borken - now the slashboxes have lost their borders.....

Fake Plastic Slashdot

[Waffle Iron]

It looks like the real thing
It tastes like the real thing
This fake plastic slashdot

But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I could just roll back

And it wears me out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out

Obvious Bug Remains

[smagruder]

When do we get the see the YEAR shown with older or searched articles??? Hmmm???

Re:Obvious Bug Remains

[Cato]

Absolutely - in fact, why not always show the year, it's only 4 digits. Has this been submitted as a bug yet?

Re:Obvious Bug Remains

[smagruder]

Yes, I logged the problem, but it was closed without any rationale. It's strange when such an obvious, honking bug is dismissed.

Oh, Yes!

[fm6]

Oh baby! Respond to me baby! Oh, yeah! Oh, you know how to respond, don't you baby! Oh baby, you're so Real Time! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!!!!!

Hey Michael, is a real story

[Billly Gates]

Intel is not playing nice with OEM's who are thinking about using p4's with DDR enabled chipsets. I am sure this absolutely has nothing to do with the rambus investment.

Re:b

[jesser]

Would the book have a rabbit on the cover?

Your Info

[Prior Restraint]

Prior Restraint has posted 222 comments.

Lovely. Yet another metric that can be used to mathematically prove I'm wasting my life.

Re:b

[jesser]

I had to change the subject line of my reply before slashdot would let it through. It kept complaining about "postersubj compression". What the fuck?

Time for more change

[gss]

Well the codebase has been updated now how about a new look, Slashdot has been green and white as long as I've been coming here (at least 2 years probably longer). It's not a bad look but don't you think it's time for something new?

The new slash it harder to use

[Skapare]

I would go back and follow up on my postings to see if there are any replies, and maybe make counter replies. To find mine in the thread I would click on the browser search icon to bring up a search box, enter my name, and search for posts with my name as the poster. From there I can see if there are any new replies.

My display format preference is "light".

Now I can't. The new design leaves out the poster name. Nothing to find. The only way I can see my name is if my post got moderated up and doesn't show as just a one liner. But people do reply to posts that don't get moderated up. Not everyone reads at level 5.

So how about putting the names back in on the one liner when the post isn't expanded? Or at least do so for one's own posts when logged in.

Still be nice to know..

[sporty]

still be nice to know how to create journal entries...

Banjo???

[tilleyrw]

I am ignorant -- what is Banjo? A search of "linux banjo" turned up only irrelevant links using Google.

Any information can be forwarded to my e-mail address.

Thanks!

Slashdot has be awfully s-l-o-w lately

[imagineer_bob]

I've almost gave up on it and switched ti Kuro5hin!. I hope that this "banjo" thing makes things better.