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SourceForge To Acquire Development Portal Ohloh.net
SourceForge, Inc. (parent company of Slashdot, and the corporate overlord of SourceForge.net and ThinkGeek) announced today plans to purchase Ohloh, a three-year-old Seattle company that runs Ohloh.net, a software-development portal that specializes in the community aspects of distributed open source projects. The purchase will probably be final as of next month. (I hope no one requires that I show up to an office, just because one will be nearby.)
I don't see the problem. You can stop using the website, no? I only block adverts if they are flashing, noisy or make the page unusable (like the stupid flash ones that cover up the text before shrinking down). Other types of adverts I have no problem with and am happy to view to support my favourite sites.
Um.. ohloh.net doesn't offer project hosting. It is a tool for analyzing statistics and creating reports about projects hosted on other sites.
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According to http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/nimp.org its apparently some virus site from the GNAA (yes, from that /. troll of the "Gay Nigger Association of America")
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It would be nice, except that the output is complete nonsense. It think, for example, that I am responsible for around 50K lines of Autoconf and 1K lines of D, when I have never committed anything in either language. My statistics for C and C++ are correct now, but for a while it was counting all of my Objective-C headers as 'C/C++' not as Objective-C, giving a widely skewed result. Because most of my Objective-C headers are documentation, it thought I had a comment ratio of almost 90% for C/C++.
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Never heard of nimp before. Being brave, I had to look. Just tell everyone it's goatse with a different skin, along with browser hijack.
Oddly - I visited from a Linux desktop, but the Windows VM alarmed about a virus attack.... hmmmmm I'm sure glad I didn't go there FROM Windows.
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I use DNS level ad blocking. My DNS servers are set to 75.147.151.12 71.249.184.157 205.232.175.67 About 88% of the sites that I visits are free of ads. In fact these DNS servers even block the annoying ads on places like Hulu, Joost, fancast, and southpark.com. I usually get surprised at the amount of advertising out their when I am on a public computer, I'm so used to browsing sites without ads.