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Slashdot's 50 Millionth Page
Seems like just a few days ago that we announced number
10 million, but here we are again- not only did we break
our "Pages in a Single Day" record (was 387,000, but on Tuesday
we got 410,000) but this morning at 1:08am EST, a Windows
User (who was at least running Gecko *grin*) from bigpond.com
was the recipient of the 50 millionth Slashdot page. Yee haw.
Just goes to show you Windows users do it better :).
Sure it wasn't bigpond.com?
(an Australian ISP)
that \. runs on ie4 on nt4 workstation.
how many windows/nt slashdot fans are there?
Hey, this may sound stupid but what is Gecko???
Well, each OS has its uses... just some (NT) less than others (Be, Linux, Solaris, etc).
and not a few of them looking in from Redmond, me included. Hey, I'm sure someone watched every revolution there is from inside the palace gates (besides, I run Linux at home . . .)
Here's to 50 million more . . . but hopefully not all at once.
(I think it would have been funny if the 50 millionth visitor had been from tide.microsoft.com... but that's just me.)
Thanks alot.
...speaking of monopolies, for those who don't know, Big Pond is the ISP arm of Australia's
communcations mega-company - Telstra.
(read: a microsoft in the making)
Not the friendliest of competitors if you're an
ISP as they own the lines and just about everything else to do with your connection downunder.
But enough about that - way to go slashdot!!!
I didn't know there existed a site called :))
back-slashdot.I don't know about that site,but
slashdot is different
nvon
The real question is how many GB has /. served?
When do we hit the Terabyte mark?
Or Try Opera... Very nice. Web, News and Mail on on a floppy. And get this.. It bucks the trend in web browsers and actually has to be paid for.
Chances are it is an individual browsing
Slashdot from work and they have to use Windows
at work.
Yeah, Slashdot Rules! Slashdot is King. I love
Slashdot. Slashdot is better than sex... let me
check that with my girlfriend first. Anyway,
Congrats.
BTW Rob, why do you call yourself "CmdrTaco"?
> The enemy is watching.
No... well, yes, probably, but friends are watching too. Tentative friends, just waiting for Linux to go the extra mile in terms of usability, hardware support &cetera. I spend 1% of my time doing things in Linux, 9% of my time figuring out how to do things in Linux, 50% in Windoze and 40% re-booting Windoze. So the productivity ratio is still higher in Win, even though it blows goats most truculently. I'll probably be with you full time in a year or two though; give it time...
i just know i'm gona read that headline on zdnet real soon.. ;-)
I got a Sparc/IPX sitting next to me! Thats 40 Mhz of Cold Cranking Power, and it still runs pretty fast! Of course, I don't use it all that much for desktop apps, but ya know... Still cool little machines!
Well thats all well and good but you have to have the money to buy the hardware first so it's not a lame excuse.
/. readers I'd guess.
You can't come up with the $75-$110 it would cost to buy a supported modem and sound card?
You can get a generic V.90 internal 56k modem with the Rockwell chipset for around $50-$60 these days, and a genuine Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 for $25-$50.
You should be able to find someone who will give you a few bucks for your old non-standard ones, which would bring the cost down a little more.
For that matter, I can often pick up whole, functional, 486 and low end Pentium class PC's these days for $50-$250 that work fine for running Linux.
For example, I picked up an HP Vectra Pentium 75 machine the other day for $100 including keyboard and mouse (16M RAM, 540HD). All I added to it was a 3c509 network card and an NEC 14" SVGA monitor (picked up used for $10 and $25 respectively). I did an NFS install of Red Hat 5.2 from the CheapBytes CD ($2 + S/H) and it works fine. For about $80, I will add an additional 32M of RAM to it, and I may add a second hard drive (I can get brand new Maxtor 4.3G EIDE drives for about $140). This machine is going to be used as a web server, so it doesn't really need a sound card, or CD-ROM drive (although if it did, I could put a 24x EIDE one in for less than $50).
Even if I purchased all the extras I mentioned, the whole thing would still be well under $500 -- well within the reach of almost all
When I'm at work I have a choice between IE/NT4 on a Pentium or Netscape/Solaris on a Sparcstation 5. If you've used a Sparcstation 5 you know why my connections from work show up in /. logs as IE/NT4.
You are nuts. Until very recently I had a SparcStation 10 Model 51 on my desk which is slower than most SparcStation 5's (probably all but the Model 70 and pretty close to the Model 85). I also have a PII-266 crawling Windoze 95. The SparcStation 10 killed the PII-266 when both were running Navigator, despite the fact that it had only 48M of RAM compared to the 128M in the PII-266. Of course now I have an Ultra 5, which is only 4MHz faster than the PII-266, but runs absolute rings around it.
If I had a way to read proprietary MS-Office documents and proprietary MS-Exchange email on my Sparc, I would leave the PC turned off all the time.
I am a Windows 98 user, who surfs with IE 4, and read Slashdot every day! Slashdot, while catoring to the Linux/UNIX users, is a haven for all those who are computer nerds, despite the OS they run.
Yes. Bigpong blows large, hairy, goats. You think you guys in the US have it bad? How about AU$400/month for a 64k ISDN channel between 0-15km. How about $1800 a month for a 256k DDS (sync serial) link between 16-25km? How about $12,000 a month for a 2meg (eg, E1) DDS (again, sync serial) connection between 0-15km.
I really, really, wish Au had the monopolistic laws that the US had some times. Telstra would be split up faster than you could spit on them.
--Rob
Okay, Solaris at home, too...
I love my 128MB Sparc 10 Model 412 (twin SM41s). It is a noisy bugger, but I like it more than the Ultra 1 I am typing this on. It runs Solaris 2.6 and S7 nicely, with only network bandwidth being the bottleneck.
I also love my 72MB Sparc LX running RedHat 5.1 1/2. It does very nice (though still 8-bit) video with the 2x-buffered framebuffer, and WindowMaker rocks with it. Much better than my $2500 (summer '98) Dell PII 300 NT4 128MB box that I 'make' my girlfriend use. And it only cost me about $150.
Oh, the hypocrisy of "supporting" Linux/UN*X whilest using M$ kruftage. Just use the good stuff, folx!
Not to mention that the CEO of Telstra is an American. He should know better! Ahh, but we never learn... :)
when I posted the message, the article read "bigbond.com"
:)
/. messageboards without a 10" thick flameproof jacket! :)
rob.. can you confirm the correction?
gee.. can't go anywhere on the
You're an idiot. That's all I have to say.
Windows users are better at receiving the 50 millionth page??????...
Well at least they're good for something.
It must be all that practise gained by consulting the M$ knowledge base for complex tasks such as plugging in your mouse.
Clickety click
AndyM
Erk... Winmodems... don't say that name here :)
Man, even if I was running Windoze, I wouldn't touch a Winmodem with a 4000ft pole that someone else was holding.
They are yet another example of shite that just don't work.
Yuuuuuuuuuuuk
Also, your soundcard isn't supported? It must be a bit of a wierd one... I've seen support for heaps of soundcards in Linux that I didn't expect...
AndyM
And posting with Konqueror/1.1pre!
And KDE's MacOS theme!
No Windows. Period. Ahhhh.
What was the IP address of the connection logged? I'm a bigpond user and was on around that time :)
CWIP-T-002-p-222-223.tmns.net.au I think I was that night...
A trivial bit of history:
bigpond.com is what resulted from
OnAustralia Pty Ltd, which was a joint
venture between Telstra and Microsoft.
(If you go to www.bigpond.com/Home/Search/
you'll see a "©1999 On Australia Pty Limited"
on the page - corporate remnants)
So effectively Microsoft started bigpond.com
Why are you flaming the nice person who corrected the article?!? When someone sends in a bug report on a program you use, do you wait until it gets fixed, and flame the person who made the report?
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Open mind, insert foot.
Okay, yes, Slashdot rocks; I sink far more time into it than I ever did into print media (which I'm no longer subscribed to).
If it's "better than sex", though, I'm going to be mighty disappointed one o' these days...
Posted by wraith-q:
Go go slashdot!
Posted by wraith-q:
nuff said,
Posted by wraith-q:
I use NT4 at work and Linux at home...It's fun watching that BSOD pop up on NT4, helps to break up my day (and productivity)
check out http://slashdot.org/about.shtml.
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Open Source Browser == good start
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I also have to use NT4 at work. I'd use Netscape, but for some reason it doesn't run well enough on this machine.
At home, I run OS/2, but I rarely read Slashdot at home.
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Timur "too sexy for my code" Tabi, timur@tabi.org, http://www.tabi.org
Legacy winhardware like winmodems and winprinters can make upgrading to a new operating system difficult. Their costs associated with their poor performance, low efficiency, and limited operating system comatibility rarely offset the small decrease in price versus standard devices. Futureproof your hardware investments by avoiding devices that lock you into the current operating system fad. There's no guarantee that you winmodem or winprinter will work with anything other than the current version of Windows. Some winhardware designed before the release of Windows 98 doesn't work with '98. Many windevices don't work with Windows NT due to changes in how it handles device drivers. For similar reasons, it's likely that these devices won't work with the upcoming Windows 2000 either.
A cheapie 56k modem can be had for $60, and an Ensonic PCI sound card in retail box is $50 at Circuit City. Shop these items carefully and you could replace all your legacy winhardware for well under a hundred bucks.
I have two machines on my desk at work. My favorite of the two is an old SPARCstation IPX. With a 40mhz CPU and 32mb of ram, it's still faster for most tasks than the p200mmx with 48mb of ram and NT that sits next to it.
The only problem with the old SPARC is its 8bpp framebuffer. It makes most websites hard to read, and despite degrading the content, Netscape still sucks up too many colormap entries. If I want to run Netscape, color xterms, and XEmacs at the same time, I have my choice between missing colors or colormap flashing. Yuck.
Consequently, I usually run Netscape on the PC with Windows NT, even though I do all my imporant stuff on the old SPARC. At one point, I used to run Netscape over the network from one of the faster sparcs, but NT's poor networking performance and the frequent crashing of my NT X server brought a stop to this. Now I just go get a cup of coffee when I see "Cache cleanup, removing 1342 files..."
My favorite machine of all is at home. It's a dual ppro-200 with 384mb of ram, two 18gb ultra-wide scsi disks, one 9gb ultra scsi disk, a fast cdrom, 48gb DAT autoloader, and a 2x cd writer. It has a great video card that can do 1280x1024x16bpp, which is just the right size for my 20" trinitron monitor. Netscape on my home machine makes for some comfortable slashdotting.
Sure it wasn't bigpond.com?
(an Australian ISP)
Hey, dipsh*t, the article had the follwing text:
from bigpond.com was the recipient
Come back when you have learnt to read AND comprehend.
In fact, I am sure I smell that uniquely Austalian pong which consists of sheep that have been through one too many Australian military installations and dingo sh*t.
Don't take life too seriously. It is only a temporary situation. Usual disclaimers apply.
When I'm at work I have a choice between IE/NT4 on a Pentium or Netscape/Solaris on a Sparcstation 5. If you've used a Sparcstation 5 you know why my connections from work show up in /. logs as IE/NT4.
At home I use Linux of course.
Not a monopoly for much longer. MCI Worldcom is buying out OzEmail and will be implementing its own infrastructure including everything from local phone lines to cross ocean wide bandwidth links. Don't forget Optus, Connect and OzEmail also have overseas links of their own at this time and Optus also offers local calls in many areas.
Aaah, I love the smell of deregulation in the morning. It smells like... purgatory.
I say I ain't giving you no tree fiddy you goddamned Loch Ness monster, get yo own goddamned money!
Hey, don't forget about FreeBSD either! :)
Wouldn't call myself an NT fan, but I use NT at work (which is where I access /. - big pipeline here). IE4 is on the machine, but my primary browser is Communicator 4.5. Our company web server is an NT4 box with IIS (which is why you'll never see my real e-mail address or web site address above - like I need to be /.-ed!), but I'd rather be running Linux (have to reboot the web server at least once every week or so).
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If you haven't, check it out at WINE HQ It has a library called winelib which is basically a non-microsoft implementation of win32 app stuff. it also has a program loader which lets you run win32 apps under WINE in linux... Please note me on any discrepencies..
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Well, until someone has a good MS-Proxy client for Linux, I will *have* to keep using my NT4 box to access /. from work. (And I'll have to keep using NT4 until someone ports Delphi to Linux!)
.90beta)
;)
...though I'd sooner sell my whole cd collection than resort to IE (Been using Netscape since
I have one linux box sitting next to me, and another one at home, but always get my daily news dose on the office NT box. So yeah, there are a bunch of us 'hybrid' geeks out there..
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Where can one get gecko? I'm stuck at work with a crappy browser...
This sig is false.
I think it probably has to do with the work factor. I'm so busy screwing with new hardware and/or network configurations that I don't have time to browse when at home. I read /. while at work which means I'm commin at ya Big Billy style.
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*ahem* ... FLAME.
FLAME FLAME FLAME FLAME FLAME FLAME
Paranoid
Bwaahahahahaa.
I can't run it because I don't have the hardware (damn winmodem/soundcard).
Well thats all well and good but you have to have the money to buy the hardware first so it's not a lame excuse.
Yup. :)
I'm currently running NT4, but most of the day I run the latest builds of NT5. Occasionally, I run linux here at work.
And yes, I do work in Redmond, too.
hmmmm.. something tells me you've never used linux. you're probably afraid. I've seen too many people get too hard headed between the Mac/Windows holy wars before they even heard of Linux. and of course Linux runs on BOTH - HAH. Also, what exactly DO windows users do better? perhaps they are better at finding the reset buttons every three minutes when the computer crashes, or perhaps are just better at badmouthing anything that opposes their view. or perhaps I'm misenterpreting the meaning of that post. FLAME FLAME FLAME HAHAHA dang that feels good... heh..