News from ApacheCon US 2002

pdw writes "Apache Week this week has a feature detailing the happenings at last week's ApacheCon in Vegas. Read up to find out what's new in the world of Apache."

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Re:Migrating to Apache 2.x

[aqua]

It wasn't that interactive of a session, but it went pretty well. The only two major reasons not to upgrade are that (1) most distros haven't adopted it as the stable-default yet, so you have to do the install by hand, and (2) using a threaded MPM you'll hit trouble if your CGIs depend on non-threadsafe libraries.

This latter is still the major obstacle, since the number of third-party libraries used by (say) PHP is pretty large. You can eliminate the threaded-MPM obstacles by using the process-based prefork MPM, but you don't get some of apache2's performance improvements, especially on operating systems with slow, expensive forks (Solaris, Win32).

You know it's all skewed when...

[Anonymous Coward]

...more people reply to the MS no-settlement article than to the beloved and much worshipped Apache article.

It's a slow-news-day for sure and, yes, news about a conference for apache geeks is about as thrilling as a barium enema. Go figure..

OT: How best to handle advertising on /.

[Scareduck]

Offtopic, I know. You're right, it's definitely hard to see. Allow me to introduce myself: I actually work for pricegrabber.com. OSDN cobrands our site, but we have exactly zero to do with where links go on /. -- that's all up to whomsoever at OSDN. My question to the audience -- assuming anyone is listening -- is simply this: what should we do? Slashdot needs money to operate, we need traffic, it seems simple, but there's a lot of folks here who don't like the idea of advertising, especially when it gets in the way of site navigation. Fair enough. Something's gotta give, though -- how can we all just get along? (Please be aware I'm just a humble geek-behind-the-scenes. I don't do business. At best I can run any comments up the flagpole and see who salutes, to use Madison Avenue parlance.)

Re:OT: How best to handle advertising on /.

[EvilAlien]

My opinion?

Like I suggested before, I like the banners. They are honest advertising.

I'm not naive, nor do I wear a tinfoil hat, nor do I live life with my head stuck in the sand. Websites cost money to operate, business needs to be transacted. Without the commercial influence this Internet that we all thrive on would not exist as we know it. It would still be an obscure network for academics, which isn't to say quality of information wouldn't be better, but it sure wouldn't be as empowering for the general population.

Banners are honest advertising, they are visible, they do the job. Popups are evil, so don't let your company use them. The insidious little links at the sides of the stories are sneaky and I don't like them. By all means, get in my face with your products, but do it with some respect.

Those who can't handle a little bit of advertising are hippocrats. They need to stop trying to live in 1991 and let the last 10 years help them mature.... in other words, suck it up, buttercup!

Slashdot can't exist without generating some revenue. If you don't like it, hit the smaller less professional sites and see how that works out for you. Build another Slashdot so you can discover that eventually you either stagnate or you general revenue to grow. Money is not inherently evil, people trying to transact business are not inherently evil, and there is nothing wrong with an information portal trying to generate the resources (i.e., money to pay for other resources) so they can survive.