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Broadband Bermuda Triangle
An anonymous coward sent in: "Mike from Techdirt has written an article in Salon.com about how he is the bermuda triangle of broadband, and how the government should kick him out of the country if they really want to save the broadband industry. Apparently, he's been kicked off 4 or 5 different broadband networks in the past year alone as each company went bankrupt or gave up the business."
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This was a link to an advert. Could you not link directly to the article :(
You can have a prize if you survive another year.
I'm confused. At about this time everyday, slashdot goes into static page mode. ie, some people get to see new stories, while unlogged in me, and possibly others get left with a page that is static for several hours. Eventually, the front page updates, and I see that many comments have already been made on at least 5 new stories.
What is up with that? A way to punish unlogged in people??
(The rules & the first three cards are in the thread on Quantum Holography)
I'll add a couple more cards here, in case anyone else wants to join in. (It's relevent, cos there's a whole bunch in the intro!)
Card 4: Salon, Bermuda Triangle, Aliens, Black Holes, Conspiracy, Broadband, Kuro5hin, Sourceforge, Server51
Card 5: Bankrupt, Depression, Afghanistan, Luddites, Identity Card, Homeland Security, Virus, Outlook, Keystroke Monitor
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For ll practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
*BSD is dying
For the past week or so, I've been running dog slow, like 8kb/s downstream slow. To test the waters, I downloaded something from windowsupdate, and off of a server that I typically get ~750kB/s off of, I was getting a whopping 2.2kB/s.
What's up with this? Anybody in the Northern Nevada (Charter Pipe) area having similar problems?
Thanks in advance, if you need me, I'll be waiting for the page to load...
Why is it when I hit ^R that ZSH calls me a cocksucker?
Is /. being paid to pass on their drivel?
/. just plans on driving people to their site?
Its bad enough using Salon as some kind of fact filled reference behind a story, but now
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
this makes it news how?
this makes it matter how?
stop trying to be a smartass karma whore.
Quickly heeds my anxious prayers
Toast pressed to my cheek
Consume nirvana
God is not to be eaten
But toast will suffice
Ritualistic
A genesis of breakfast
Immaculate toast
Head hung in despair
Morning offering rises
I thank my toaster
Toast in pitch black room
With a beautiful painting
Valuable toast
Proudly I preside
Nineteen toasters hum in sync
A kitchen aflame
Thirty-six croutons
Sewn together with great care
Spicy slice of toast
The warm chosen slice
His jealous untoasted friends
Waiting for their turn
Bakery arson
Twelve thousand slices of toast
A silver lining
Scrape into the sink
Constellation of black stars
A toast neglected
I didn't see any ads. Oh, that's right, I have WebWasher.