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Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary Charity Auction for the EFF
Triton currently has a couple of P2s in it that may or may not work, as well as a number of SCSI controllers that may or may not work. It also has a 300W power supply that may or may not work. Remember, you are donating to charity here... but these guts have been sitting in a closet for probably 5 years now. We don't have any idea what works.... the machine was originally hosted in our Holland office, but eventually was shipped to California for colocation. While there it got its guts replaced from dual P133s to dual P2s. After that, it flew back to Holland where it was a file server for a few years until we retired it
The grab box will at least contain some shirts. We have a crate of shirts- some given to us by random companies, others are mis-prints of various corporate things... I think we have some static stickers and hats... but there's no promises here... again... you're making a donation to a worthy charity here! The picture shows you some things that will probably be in the box including Nate's Nokia ngage, a collection of hats... we'll throw in a few of the 10-year anniversary t-shirts as well...
We're willing to sign the things if you think that makes it worth donating more. Or more likely not, if you think it's worth more without our childish scribblings on it. And bid high folks! This is for the EFF after all...
Why is there a framed picture of Vegita in the grab box?
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Why not save your money and just do what others do - post a pure slashvertisement or an article that uses your blog (or similar website) that's filled with adverts and a link to the real news source as "TFA"?
Alternatively, why pay to see your server go down in flames when someone can post an article on Slashdot, Digg or one of the others and you can have it done for free?
Good thinking, Slashdot, you can get rid of some of the clutter AND help out EFF at the same time!
Have the shirts in the grab box been worn?
If a sports celebrity gives a worn jersey to a fan, that's cool. But an old sweaty shirt from a Slashdot admin isn't quite the same thing.
Developers: We can use your help.
the low uid is already more than I can afford - but since it's going to a good cause I can live with that. I wonder what one would go for without a charity involved.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
Actually now that provides a comeback for those flaunting low UIDs.
Oh yeah? Well you *bought* yours!
First bid! That was a lot easier than getting a first post!
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, For you are crunchy and go well with ketchup.
Oh for god's sake, please don't include in that bag some missing burritos and tacos missing since the god ol' days..
Please !!
Slashdot ya no es que lo era!
no boudoir photos of cowboy Neal up for auction?
Monstar L
How exactly do you bid on these items?
..and I promise to pay extra, will you keep the N-gage?
Slashdot Burying Stories About Slashdot Media Owned
That could be a great business model guys - sell a few low-numbered UID's a month, with each selling for $1000+ (the auction has been running for only 1 hour and the price is already $300 with 14 bids). If you do turn it in one, I demand my share of profits, and a low-numbered UID... preferrably 0, or 0, kthxbye.
... between charitable donations and housecleaning. But who am I to judge, I cross it every spring when I leave my trash^H^H^H^H^H donations at the Sally Ann box up at the mall.
you failed in your attempt to /. eBay???!!!!!!!
I have that same casee, was a pain to carry to lan games... anyone want to bid on an almost exact replica?
An I.T. motto in the hands of an idiot is a dangerous thing...
We'll take the box.
Even people that believe in pre-destiny look both ways before crossing the street.
That's exactly the kind of comment you'd expect from someone with such a high uid.
How about selling 10-year t-shirts for $15-$20 each, with $10-$15 to EFF? I know I'd buy one, and I'm sure the demand would result in a much larger contribution to EFF than a single grab box, etc. -- Paul
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I saw the story in the mysterious future and bid about $30 on the low UID, the email address, and the URL display. It wasn't any time till I got outbid on a couple, so I upped my bid to about $75. Then I left my desk for a minute, came back, and the story was live and the bids were up to $300! Except for the URL display, which is still hovering just a little over my bid. I'd've thought that was the most economically valuable.
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
Will you ship outside the US?
Well, then. That gives me like a coin-flip chance of saying "You, mister over #532! You young wipper-snapper! You had to buy that low-id! I got mine the ol' fashoned way, when the 'net was young, dialup was king, and AOL came on floppies!"
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$Stalag99{"URL"}="http://stalag99.net";
top that.
Lois, the boat is just a boat but the mystery box could be anything...it could even be a boat!
Ban Engadget - moderators censor comments!
Look at the picture of "triton" and think at first it was a picture of a system that itself was slashdotted?
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
http://www.slashnet.org/forums/Slashdot-20001005.html
Just do a control-F and type in "ebay".
Interesting history...
Wasn't "Office-in-a-box" one of those "1. 2. 3.??? 4. Profit!" thingies that went down in flames at the end of the dot com boom, taking the retirement funds of thousands of grey haired grannies along with it?
Best Slashdot Co
I'll donate my "Sounds of Slashdot" CD (which include Debian 2.0) to the auction. I got it in a boxed set at Linux World in '99 or 2000.
For those of you who haven't heard it, it's some dance mix Rob put together (or something).
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
But the mystery box could be anything! It could even be an NGage!
The IRS is the one organization that you don't want to fuck with. Remember, these are the guys who took down Al Capone.
Who among us is trusting (foolish?) enough to bid on an ebay item from a user with zero feedback and just joined ebay today? And free shipping? No way this is legit!
You guys could auction off a date with Cowboy Neal.
DISCLAIMER: I am male.
I am amused at the thought that low UIDs are valuable.. It's not like one can buy being an old-timer...
For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
Really, i don't get it. I was reading slashdot someday in the morning when user registration was announced. I created an account and now i have a fairly low uid. So, wow, but still, whats so special about it? It does not make me any wiser or more important than any other user of slashdot. While, yes, it feels cool to have been with something like slashdot for such a long time, but past is past. Buying in on a low uid is just faking oneselfs identity.
Dibs on "billg@slashdot.org"
Moderator hint: a comment is neither "Flamebait" nor "Troll" if it is true.
No shipping outside the US? Why not?
Nick Waterman, Sr Tech Director, #include <stddisclaimer>
I found myself googling this, so thought I would share with potential bidders.
Short version: you might have a hard time deducting any money you spend on this charity auction, unless you can show the amount you paid was purposely above fair market value -- according to The IRS. I'm not sure how you'd come up with a 'fair market value' for e.g. an @slashdot.org email address.. but I guess it could be done.
Cheers and happy bidding, remember it's for a good cause
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Oh to the contrary! "Anonymous Coward" is actually one of the oldest user "accounts" on slashdot. It must be worth millions on ebay. Maybe even more then uid 1 because Anonymous Coward clearly is much more involved with slashdot than CmdrTaco given the amount of comments made by Anonymous Coward.
Auction off UID 1337!!!
Your URL plugged in the story where we announce the auction winners.
Hi, I am doing a chip-in money collection to win the link plug in order to put the goatse man! imagine putting goatse *in the homepage* of slashdot, that would be hilarious teehehe.
I assume that the editors agree to put *any* kind of link. I won't be surprised if one of those online casinos actually won the auction.
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Suddenly I find myself asking that exact same question.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
Done. (I live in Bangkok where such copies are easy to come by.) Of course, the legal cost is all yous!
"You can do this 1 in 30 times and still have 97% positive feedback."
Ah, but will the 2/3 digit UID be prime? That'd add a bit more value to it for me. I suppose a UID like 380 would be nice enough, but I'd probably prefer one like 389(even with its *slightly* lower "stupid low UID pissing match thread" winning potential)
Really, with incomplete information about the number I can't make an informed decision on how much money to try and waste.
"FINAL FLASH!!!!!!"
In the 70s, I said the newspaper was too commercial...
In the 80s, I said the movies were too pornographic...
In the 90s, I said the TV was too liberal...
These days, I figure after spending all my hard earned money on various media outlets over the decades, they're just opportunistic capitalists - in every cents of the word.
I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.
Are you insane? I'll never sell my account!
Any bets on how long until the "paid for" URL is slashdotted?
for the UID? Just thought I'd ask, since that seems to be the most important part of the auction.
Throw in a empty half gallon from the top of the fridge in the old apartment signed by Rob, Hemos, and Nate.
"The difference between genius and stupid is that genius has its limits." -- Unknown
What do you mean low UIDs pissing contest? I never did that! i swear! oh... wait... :P
/. account? :)
(So who's inactive account is going to have to be declared the first dead and resurected
I am imagining the WSJ or the NYT offering up their stuff after 10 years! Imagine Slashdot in the year 2100! This stuff could be worth somethin! ;-)
When a Ball Dreams, It Dreams it's a Frisbee.
I am hoping whoever wins on the Triton auction ressurects it, chucks slash code on it and sets it up with the old slashdot look and feel.
Fun Fact: there is no UID 0.
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".
6ers unite!
-Clio
Karma: Bad (mostly from not giving a fuck)
Blog: http://clintjcl.wordpress.com
You just don't know who to trust these days.
-Clio
Karma: Bad (mostly from not giving a fuck)
Blog: http://clintjcl.wordpress.com
So send me your /. password please.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
There is always the one......
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Or very cheap if you consider a subscription.
I think you will have no problem to probe that point.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
We just had our party, and I pledge that if we win, we will donate our winnings. In fact, if its the grand prize, we hope to have the editors put up a poll on who should get how much of the charity donation!
Check out our pictures and information here:
http://medsocial.com/slashdot
Mystery box contains a signed Goatse image
Table-ized A.I.
I'd rather have a 300-digit uid that was the multiple of two large primes
Well said. You convey a wisdom befitting of someone with such a low uid!
Why not sell slashdot alias email addresses for something reasonable? Maybe a $25 donation to EFF? Current bid is over $600... These are cheap and easy, and you should be able to do a boatload of them without trouble...
Bummer the ol' Multia 166 isn't up on auction. IIRC, they used it to host slashdot way back in the very early days.
I know that if I wasn't currently out of work, I would certainly bid on it. I've got a developer's board 166 and it's a neat box - too bad Compaq killed the Alpha.
Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach either, do tech support.
Triton is apparently worth less than a /. Swag package.
/. UID /. dot org /. Swag Package
As of this writing, the scores are as follows:
2000 Low
760 Yourname @
457 Plug your url
305
252 Triton
51 The Watchmen
80 CC D8 AF AE D3 AB 54 B7 2E CE 67 C7
The EFF really needs a new logo.
Coder's Stone: The programming language quick ref for iPad
I wonder what exactly they had in mind when they wrote up that disclaimer.
goatse?
note: i'm known as plugwash most places but i screwd up registering that here somehow in the past and now can't register
A miniature stone sculpture of Natalie Portman with no clothes on. That's by far Slashdot's greatest moment, and I want a memorial to it.
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Let me guess: in Soviet Union, bag grabs you!
Is this a news report or a trailer for a motion picture?
Sounds of Slashdot was mixed by San Nettwerk Mehat, a former VA Linux coworkers.
It's still one of the best Trance CD ever made, along with Paul Oakenfold's Tranceport 1
http://www.tagtuner.com/music/albums/Sounds-of-Slashdot/Mixed-by-San-%22NeTTwerk%22-Mehat/album-v2115744
Tracks & Durations
1. Debian "yes, the software" 14:48
2. Lost Tribe "Gamemaster" Hooj Choons 6:56
3. Tekara "Breathe in You (Tekara's M&M Dub) - 3 Beat 7:49
4. BBE "Seven Days & one Week (Kai Tracid remix)" - Additive 6:38
5. Faithless "Bring My family Back (Paul Van Dyk Club Mix)" - Cheeky 5:41
6. Erik Morillo "You+Me - technique (you+me mash up matt mix)" - Creation 4:58
7. Plastic Boy "Twixt (Original Mix)" - Bonzai 3:18
8. Tilt "Invisible (Tilt's Tunnel Mix)" - Hooj Choons 8:21
So every day companies spend tens of thousands of dollars preventing their webservers from crumbling, and the current price for a slashdot effect is $2,000+. Why would people pay to have their webserver taken down by the mighty slashdot effect? My only reason is that you're trying to "load test" how good your implementation really is.
I vote that Google should buy it, just to see if they could be one of the few, the proud, the slashdot resistant.
Neph, 684559 is a very nice prime.
... I think, maybe, could be, perhaps 31337 is a prime number.
However, I wonder who has 31337? Do they know the market value? Would they auction 31337 for a good cause, a greedy purpose, or keep the cool factor forever?
I was just wondering?
http://www.easycalculation.com/prime-number.php
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/primenumber/primecheck.htm
!HAVEFUN!
Unaccountable leaders are masters, and unrepresented people are slaves. How do US and EU fare?
San Mehat mixed the "Sounds of Slashdot" CD... I've never been able to duplicate it on any OS. There's a Debian install on track1.
Where is the Slashdot cruiser?
http://meta.slashdot.org/~575/
/. was never the same since he last posted 4 years back....
Always posted in limerick or haiku. I rather missed him,
Mode (3) smart-aleck mode. Press * to return to main menu.
Paying nearly $3k for id 666 would be very funny...
http://meta.slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=check&uid=666
Wow, makes me wish I didn't loose my first account! Forgot my pass, and just created a second. This UID is a 4 Digit, maybe I should ebay it LOL! My first one was like 400 something.
Awesome!