Do we really want the kind of split-down-the-middle stance on formats that we have to deal with when it comes to DVD burning, VHS vs Betamax, anything like that? No, it only ends up being harmful for everyone in the long run.
I'm reminded of what Microsoft did with IE. All these different DOM objects that aren't part of any standard, which no one can really use because it's not browser-compatible.
Using muscle to force the Internet into a standard isn't going to work. We need something that *is* a standard, rather than *pushing* a standard upon people.
Well, you could say the same thing about Friendster / Orkut. The usefulness of such a place increases with the number of people who are on it.
And what I'm trying to do now is get people on it to improve its usefulness.
Of course, the early adopters are going to have to invite all their friends for the site to be interesting, but provided that the site grows, that should change in time.
The above post isn't profane. It's not a cut and paste job from anywhere else. I wrote it originally for this article.
Yes, I have a slashdot subscription, so I wrote this up before the article was posted... I'm not asking sarcastically guys... But how is this trolling? I'd like to know, so that if the above post really is a troll, that I don't do it again.
Well, I'm glad that the people at Orkut are working on their user system. I'm hoping that they end up making their system highly scalable.
Time for another shameless, but fairly relevant plug.
A few days ago, I posted about a new Friendster implementation I'm working on called Slashster. It's a PHP/MySQL implementation of Friendster which I've been working on for the past few weeks. I'm hoping that with some attention, that it will scale to a decent size network of people.
As stated in my first post about Slashster, it has a couple features that Friendster doesn't. It has a messageboard, and it's easier to find friends who are closer to you (1-4 degrees of separation). It also has news feeds (which I'll be adding some more fairly soon) It's also quite a bit faster for the time being, but that's obviously because it's fairly small at the moment.:)
I'm thinking about making it open source after most of the features / bugs have been worked out of it. I'm not sure whether a BSD or GPL license would be better for publishing a work like this. Any input from the slashdot community is always welcome:)
Of course, having a business model for this type of site would be useful too. After all, last I heard Friendster has roughly 50 machines for handling its traffic, and is still buckling under the weight of people going on it. I'm really curious to see if MySQL's replication could help a Friendster / Slashster type site scale well. And I'm hoping there will be a way to pay for it. Breaking even for hosting on a project like this would make me happy.
I've also had suggestions to use DB's from Oracle or IBM. There's also postgres... I'm curious to hear input on that as well.
Everyone is welcome to email me with ideas on how to make Slashster pay for itself with an open source model.
Right now Slashster is hovering around 200 users. Of course with a userbase of that size it's going to be pretty zippy even without any optimization whatsoever. I imagine things will start getting interesting around the 10,000 mark. This is, presuming that the people who come to slashster bring their friends, and there's an actual network there. I'm really hoping for something to come out of this.
I doubt that I'm ready for a slashdotting (well, at least making the front page), but in time, I'm hoping the project will grow into something useful, scalable and great user community. Only time will tell.
The support I've had so far has been pretty positive and I've met some pretty nice people from starting the site. I'm hoping to meet some more great people out of this, too.
Check out Linus sporting this new sports jacket. When asked about his favorite line of menswear he replied, "What is with you people? Aren't you going to ask me something important?"
Bill Gates is thinking about having a makeover. We've got the inside scoop on what kind of haircuts are fashionable for geeks nowadays.
New Pictures of Carly
I would watch that show... The same way I like rubbernecking car crashes on th side of the road.
They are using a ramdisk in the rover's RAM to bypass the bad flash memory, and are working on a workaround for the bad flash.
I think they should return the bad flash part to where they got it and exchange it for a new part... although getting the memory back to the store by the 30 day warranty might be a little difficult.
This supposed guide on how to keep CD/DVD discs preserved reminds me of a story back in high school.
A friend of mine (around 1997-98) carved his name onto his CD so that other people wouldn't steal it.
Of course, this bright individual decided to carve his name onto the UNDERSIDE of the CD, instead of the top side.
Before I knew this, I asked him if I could borrow the CD so I could rip it to mp3. When I saw the underside of the CD, I realized that there was no help for this person whatsoever.
I think White Zombie plus Acid does bad things to today's youth. Mostly acid.
The most amazing thing is that he graduated high school.
The main lesson here is to TRY and take care of your albums. Don't leave them out, let your kids throw them around the room. But then... this sort of thing is obvious to any doofus who has made it out of high school.
Law always is a weight between the Civil Liberties of an individual versus the safety of the public.
There are many scenarios where Civil Liberties being violated may or may not be justified:
There's an airborn infection within an area, andromeda strain or Outbreak style. Here, does the liberties of confining one to his/her house outweigh the possibility of an entire nation or race being wiped out?
There is an invasion from another country, and civilians are ordered to be searched / confined, and quartered. Does the imminent threat call for the curtailing of civil liberties?
To me, this is nowhere as serious and imminent a threat, as Mad Cow can't be transmitted from person to person (last I remember). Still, a customer has a right to know whether he or she may have bought infected meat. This right to know outweighs the loss of privacy that is at hand.
Maybe it's me, but how the hell is OpenSSL slower in 64 bit?
It makes absolutely no sense. Operations concerning large integers were MADE for 64 bit.
Hell, if they made a 1024 bit processor, it'd be something like OpenSSL that would actually see the benefit of having datatypes that bit.
Something is wrong, horribly wrong with these benchmarks. Either OpenSSL doesn't have proper support for 64 bit data types, this fellow compiled something wrong, or some massive retard published benchmarks for the wrong platform in the wrong place.
Okay, disregard my other comment. I fixed it so that it won't ask for gender preference on dating / relationship / netbuddy / friends if you don't have them checked.
I am currently creating a PHP version of friendster which I call Slashster. (Yes, this is inspired from Slashdot and Friendster).
I figured that a PHP/mysql implementation would be interesting, and I'm rather curious to see how this thing can end up scaling, and if it can do it well.
I was thinking of launching this on Monday, but this slashdot story was too relevant for me to wait on it, and get some of the press on it.
Right now, its layout is nearly identical to friendster, but will change once I actually get someone with design skill to help me redo it.
There are a couple primary differences between slashster and friendster so far:
Slashster has a messageboard. You can only see threads / post from people two degrees of separation or less from you (You, your friends, their friends). Friendster kind of had a "post-it" system on their site, which didn't have any sort of interaction on it. This aims to be a little better.
News feeds. I'm still working on getting the XML parser working better, but I have a couple news feeds on the "main page" which are pretty much customizable.
Moderation: Right now, people who submit new threads to the messageboard have control on moderating people up / down on those posts. The way I figure, people who want to talk about one thing will have their own corner. People who want to be irrelevant and stupid will have another corner.
Karma. Your karma is (roughly) the sum of your moderations (slashdot style) divided by the number of days you've been on the site. This way, it'll encourage people to be there on a daily basis and contribute. Also, the amount of space you get for uploading pictures depends on your karma.
Referrals: You end up getting more picture space for the Karma of your friends. Hopefully this will encourage people to invite others who participate, and not those who do nothing.
I'm very interested in getting input on the place. I'm still doing bugfixes on the site, as I said before, so people visiting might get the occasional parse error or two while I'm updating things.
Still, I'm looking forward to any feedback (positive and negative) on this place. I'm really hoping this post gets modded up, simply so that more people will check it out.
Slashdot Mirror
I never said I didn't have a sense of humor.
Do we really want the kind of split-down-the-middle stance on formats that we have to deal with when it comes to DVD burning, VHS vs Betamax, anything like that? No, it only ends up being harmful for everyone in the long run.
I'm reminded of what Microsoft did with IE. All these different DOM objects that aren't part of any standard, which no one can really use because it's not browser-compatible.
Using muscle to force the Internet into a standard isn't going to work. We need something that *is* a standard, rather than *pushing* a standard upon people.
When are companies going to learn?
I am a subscriber. I clicked "No subscriber bonus" on that post.
By all means, anonymous coward, when you have a Friendster / Orkut / Slashster clone, please let me know. I'll sign up to it :)
Well, you could say the same thing about Friendster / Orkut. The usefulness of such a place increases with the number of people who are on it.
And what I'm trying to do now is get people on it to improve its usefulness.
Of course, the early adopters are going to have to invite all their friends for the site to be interesting, but provided that the site grows, that should change in time.
Just out of curiosity, how is what I just posted a troll?
I looked up the definition of it on wikipedia and found this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_trolling_phe nomena
The above post isn't profane. It's not a cut and paste job from anywhere else. I wrote it originally for this article.
Yes, I have a slashdot subscription, so I wrote this up before the article was posted... I'm not asking sarcastically guys... But how is this trolling? I'd like to know, so that if the above post really is a troll, that I don't do it again.
Thanks.
Of course, since John posts here, I'm hoping that he'd be kind enough to take a screenshot of the current desktop he has, and post it here.
Well, I'm glad that the people at Orkut are working on their user system. I'm hoping that they end up making their system highly scalable.
Time for another shameless, but fairly relevant plug.
A few days ago, I posted about a new Friendster implementation I'm working on called Slashster. It's a PHP/MySQL implementation of Friendster which I've been working on for the past few weeks. I'm hoping that with some attention, that it will scale to a decent size network of people.
As stated in my first post about Slashster, it has a couple features that Friendster doesn't. It has a messageboard, and it's easier to find friends who are closer to you (1-4 degrees of separation). It also has news feeds (which I'll be adding some more fairly soon) It's also quite a bit faster for the time being, but that's obviously because it's fairly small at the moment. :)
I'm thinking about making it open source after most of the features / bugs have been worked out of it. I'm not sure whether a BSD or GPL license would be better for publishing a work like this. Any input from the slashdot community is always welcome :)
Of course, having a business model for this type of site would be useful too. After all, last I heard Friendster has roughly 50 machines for handling its traffic, and is still buckling under the weight of people going on it. I'm really curious to see if MySQL's replication could help a Friendster / Slashster type site scale well. And I'm hoping there will be a way to pay for it. Breaking even for hosting on a project like this would make me happy.
I've also had suggestions to use DB's from Oracle or IBM. There's also postgres... I'm curious to hear input on that as well.
Everyone is welcome to email me with ideas on how to make Slashster pay for itself with an open source model.
Right now Slashster is hovering around 200 users. Of course with a userbase of that size it's going to be pretty zippy even without any optimization whatsoever. I imagine things will start getting interesting around the 10,000 mark. This is, presuming that the people who come to slashster bring their friends, and there's an actual network there. I'm really hoping for something to come out of this.
I doubt that I'm ready for a slashdotting (well, at least making the front page), but in time, I'm hoping the project will grow into something useful, scalable and great user community. Only time will tell.
The support I've had so far has been pretty positive and I've met some pretty nice people from starting the site. I'm hoping to meet some more great people out of this, too.
Thank you Slashdot!
--Mark
This week on Geekside Edition:
- Check out Linus sporting this new sports jacket. When asked about his favorite line of menswear he replied, "What is with you people? Aren't you going to ask me something important?"
- Bill Gates is thinking about having a makeover. We've got the inside scoop on what kind of haircuts are fashionable for geeks nowadays.
- New Pictures of Carly
I would watch that show... The same way I like rubbernecking car crashes on th side of the road.I think they should return the bad flash part to where they got it and exchange it for a new part... although getting the memory back to the store by the 30 day warranty might be a little difficult.
I hope they bought the extended warranty.
And back before we had all this open-schopen source, we had to decompile our programs so that we could figure out how it works.
And before we had fancy-shmancy C/C++, we disassembled our programs and found out how they worked from there.
And we liked it!
This supposed guide on how to keep CD/DVD discs preserved reminds me of a story back in high school. A friend of mine (around 1997-98) carved his name onto his CD so that other people wouldn't steal it.
Of course, this bright individual decided to carve his name onto the UNDERSIDE of the CD, instead of the top side.
Before I knew this, I asked him if I could borrow the CD so I could rip it to mp3. When I saw the underside of the CD, I realized that there was no help for this person whatsoever.
I think White Zombie plus Acid does bad things to today's youth. Mostly acid.
The most amazing thing is that he graduated high school.
The main lesson here is to TRY and take care of your albums. Don't leave them out, let your kids throw them around the room. But then... this sort of thing is obvious to any doofus who has made it out of high school.
Oh wait...Nevermind.
Law always is a weight between the Civil Liberties of an individual versus the safety of the public.
There are many scenarios where Civil Liberties being violated may or may not be justified:
To me, this is nowhere as serious and imminent a threat, as Mad Cow can't be transmitted from person to person (last I remember). Still, a customer has a right to know whether he or she may have bought infected meat. This right to know outweighs the loss of privacy that is at hand.
Thank you Anonymous Coward.
It makes absolutely no sense. Operations concerning large integers were MADE for 64 bit.
Hell, if they made a 1024 bit processor, it'd be something like OpenSSL that would actually see the benefit of having datatypes that bit.
Something is wrong, horribly wrong with these benchmarks. Either OpenSSL doesn't have proper support for 64 bit data types, this fellow compiled something wrong, or some massive retard published benchmarks for the wrong platform in the wrong place.
Or maybe I'm just on crack.
Well, that's changed now. Thanks.
*laughs*
Seriously, there'll be more options in the future. First things first I wanted most of the implementation out of the way. Hehe.
If there's anything else, feel free to email me.
Whoops.
I got that from my friends as a comment. "We don't want to date anyone, why would it ask my preference?
The thing is that if you don't want to date anyone, or have a relationship, it won't show up on any of the pages as you wanting to date someone.
In any case, I'll fix that so that it doesn't require it of you. Try again in about an hour.
Thanks for showing interest, though!
--Mark
At least it's better than getting high, losing your paper on your PC, and becoming famous for switching to a mac.
At least Bob Goatse has to cover up in public and doesn't "open wide" for a lot of people.
Okay everyone, shameless plug time.
I am currently creating a PHP version of friendster which I call Slashster. (Yes, this is inspired from Slashdot and Friendster).
I figured that a PHP/mysql implementation would be interesting, and I'm rather curious to see how this thing can end up scaling, and if it can do it well.
I was thinking of launching this on Monday, but this slashdot story was too relevant for me to wait on it, and get some of the press on it.
Right now, its layout is nearly identical to friendster, but will change once I actually get someone with design skill to help me redo it.
There are a couple primary differences between slashster and friendster so far:
I'm very interested in getting input on the place. I'm still doing bugfixes on the site, as I said before, so people visiting might get the occasional parse error or two while I'm updating things.
Still, I'm looking forward to any feedback (positive and negative) on this place. I'm really hoping this post gets modded up, simply so that more people will check it out.
You can email me at the address listed with this user account. Thanks everyone.
--Mark
Will any of these haikus people are writing be used for stopping spam? :P
Yes... take the average run of the mill slashdot joke, give it a new spin... Bang! Extra Karma.
I'm rather curious to see what percentage of slashdotters actually watch this show.