What do you guys think a fair price for slashdot would be? I'm curious because I'm thinking about starting a kickstarter or something to buy slashdot and turn it into a community run forum.
This site is valuable because of the community it has. I don't come here for the articles, I come here for the discussions. I know that the majority of the people who come here do so for the same reasons.
Couldn't agree more... Except they'd never let us buy it... We apparently need to create a NewDot....
DICE doesn't get that, and once they kill the community there won't be any real way to rebuild it. I think that would be a shame since I love this place. For all its flaws I think the community here is awesome.
Amen, Brother....
So, what do you guys think? Is it at all within the realm of reason to buy slashdot and make it ours?
Highly unlikely.... Unfortunately.... Soon there will be nothing left here to be worthy of even an occasional visit and I find that very sad.:(
Update: 02/05 20:16 GMT by T : If you're seeing this post on beta.slashdot.org, note that we're still ironing out the details of video display here. You can view the video on tv.slashdot.org, instead. Please pardon our dust.
Seriously??! What is wrong with you douches? Why would you push^H^H^H^Hforce this on people when things don't even work... No post button... Sorry... This doesn't work correctly... Sorry, you can't see a video (not that I could care LESS ABOUT A *&%$#@ VIDEO!! )... WTF??!
crap, Crap, CRAP, CRAP!, CRAP!!, CRAPP!!!
What happened to you, dear/. ???!
RIP, my darling... May you find peace...:( Sniff... Sniffle....
As long as it's been, I guess it's time to finally say... "Good, riddance,/.":(
I managed to hit this, accidentally doing an installkernel with a custom kernel config from a 9-STABLE tree just after doing a binary update to 10-RC3. The 9 kernel couldn't mount the 10 ZFS root, and I then had to find a bootable 10 CD (it turns out the machine I did this on can't boot from USB) to reinstall the 10 kernel.
I've been using 10.0-PRELEASE for most things here for a while and it works well... Watch the package system change though if you're upgrading a really old system and used to just using things like portupgrade, I'm still trying to get one of my old 8.something boxes ports all updated properly, though that's probably mostly my fault for being sloppy and not reading ports/UPDATING carefully enough:) The 10.0 kernel and userland themselves are working perfectly and it was a pain free transition all the way from 8 on that box.
Actually, that was a reply to THIS post, not the original question posted by timothy...
I really hope this discussion provides good answers, with practical solutions for Windows, IOS, and Linux... I think that this is the sort of thing that everyone could really use!
Are there cloud storage providers that can do this for the above example of an approx. 2 TB data set, and provide complete security?
I still think questions about basic data integrity, checksums, parity, ECC on disks etc. should be completely unnecessary and most certainly already be second nature to the slashdot crowd, but I guess I'm just living in the past.
Thanks for immediately jumping down my throat, though;)
What's wrong with WordPerfect for DOS? I use WordPerfect 5.0 almost every day. It is incredibly efficient, even works through a telnet connection (minus the graphical preview), and just plain works! I'll bet I can properly layout pretty much any type of document in 5.0 faster than you can using any GUI-based word processor / typesetter program, be it a more recent GUI WordPerfect (which I also use as my GUI-based WP, BTW) with strong typesetting-style heritage or some piece of utter garbage like MS Word.
Just because it's old doesn't mean it isn't good!:)
No, it's not! This is supposed to be a nerd site for people with at least SOME kind of technical ability (or at least it USED to be...) You're telling me you don't even know how to store your files?!! Do us all a favor and please stop visiting slashdot. Thank you!
This guy should take some flying lessons, if this whole thing hasn't soured him on the idea of small planes.
Actually, in one of the linked videos he says he already had a free lesson offered from a friend but hadn't been able to go up a few weeks ago when originally planned and was waiting to reschedule, essentially...:-)
These vehicles will seat two, three of four people...
I'm not quite sure how to parse that one and/or do the math. Three of four people!? Is that like some kind of musical chairs in the car at each stop and someone rides up on the roof with the solar panels? Sign me up! Sounds like fun as long as I'm the driver!:-)
It's 2013, we must support mobile devices at the same time as the high-resolution desktops.
Then go back to what HTML is supposed to be, simplify the site and let the browser do what it was originally intended to do! Stop trying to second guess everything and force a layout that may or not fit the end device! This is getting as ridiculous as the early web days when everyone starting to return completely different page content for Netscape vs IE, etc. although that was caused mostly by braindead browser choices, etc. (Poor bastardized Mosaic... Ah, Mosaic, which I actually liked back in the days of my bedroom 286 network booting Windows 3 over a SLIP serial connection from the FreeBSD version 1 box downstairs with the $200/mo dedicated 33.6K dial-up connection), but I digress....
Perhaps a design goal could be to make the site use, for example, 1/2 the total bandwidth per page that is currently required for most areas. That might make for some excellent efficiency tuning and remove some of the bloat that has crept in over the years.... It may well not be achievable for a typical comments page but would be a worthy goal as an average to beat back the nasty, nasty cruft.
Can't we just go back to the 2000ish design? Really, please? The current design took me something like 6 months to get used to. I bet most slashdot readers don't care for any fancy looking shit, this isn't arstechnica or digg.
Wow, I hope this is actually more of an 'ALPHA' or some sort of trial balloon.... If this is supposed to be 'BETA', that implies there's been some sort of testing and supposedly some thought would have already gone into it yet I can't imagine who would actually think this is better. I preferred the simpler PREVIOUS layout years ago to the current one, but I got used to it even though it's far more bloated as I disliked the changes but it was at least the same basic style.
This new layout wastes even MORE space... Everywhere... I didn't think that would even be possible. Even with the silly photos turned off and whatnot, there's far LESS useful information on every part of every page! More scrolling, even more wasted space, exceptionally poorly laid out comments screen, ICK!.. ICK to it all! BLECH!... Horrible. Absolutely horrible... I simply don't know what else to say.
I didn't think they could possibly make it worse than it already is now, but whoa!! What were these guys thinking!?
Can I please go back to the previous layout from a few years ago? It worked great in any browser on any device. This "new" stuff is just plain bad. At least it still looks partially OK in lynx (unlike many sites, but that's certainly not saying much), but with a bunch more cruft at the top before you get to actually read anything useful. Argh!
In fact, that's what HTML and browsers were supposed to do in the first place. HTML was never intended to be a layout language. The view was supposed to be configurable by the end user in a lot of ways. The web strayed from that, so now we get designers fucking over users, forcing them into a one size fits $foo design, where $foo is usually the set of users that are thought to be the most easily monetized.
100x THIS! I couldn't possibly have articulated it better myself...
If that's the case (NEVER altering the light sequence), the programming on the PLC has probably simply been changed since the buttons were originally installed. At least at some times of the day most lights in most places do change behavior if the pedestrian button is pushed. It may alter timing of the lights, for example, but perhaps only if it doesn't sense traffic, etc... Those systems are actually usually a lot more complex than you probably realize... They usually have vehicle sensor inputs, pedestrian button inputs, know the time of day, etc. etc. and often alter behavior depending on all of those inputs based on the parameters programmed into them....
Apparently very few people here were actually around in the early days of the PC, never played with the ISA bus, etc. You're correct, Ctrl-Alt-Del does NOT generate an NMI... An NMI on early PCs just crashed the computer. It was usually only triggered on a parity error on most machines. It seems to me it was hooked to the back right pin on the ISA bus, so you could crash your machine by triggering it. If you did that accidentally while playing with the bus (we used to hook all sorts of things directly up to the bus using jumper wires shoved outside the fingers in the slots) or moving your home-made card around or something, you'd just ground the second from the back on the left side of the slot and that triggers a reset... IIRC, anyway... It's been some time since I built an ISA card...:-) Still have my original "soundcard" that was a basically just a DAC hooked to the bus at 0x300h that I built many many years ago around here somewhere... and my 16-port GPI/O card I built to hook up to a lightshow controller built from a whole swack of 7400 series logic... Oh, those were the days!:-)
Slashdot Mirror
This Beta garbage dies in a burning ball of galactic-temperature-infused inferno...
I should have seen this coming for months and set up a slashdot clone we could all move to... Hmm, shortsighted!
Shut it off... Turn it off NOW! Bad, BAD experiment!
What do you guys think a fair price for slashdot would be? I'm curious because I'm thinking about starting a kickstarter or something to buy slashdot and turn it into a community run forum.
This site is valuable because of the community it has. I don't come here for the articles, I come here for the discussions. I know that the majority of the people who come here do so for the same reasons.
Couldn't agree more... Except they'd never let us buy it... We apparently need to create a NewDot....
DICE doesn't get that, and once they kill the community there won't be any real way to rebuild it. I think that would be a shame since I love this place. For all its flaws I think the community here is awesome.
Amen, Brother....
So, what do you guys think? Is it at all within the realm of reason to buy slashdot and make it ours?
Highly unlikely.... Unfortunately.... Soon there will be nothing left here to be worthy of even an occasional visit and I find that very sad. :(
Update: 02/05 20:16 GMT by T : If you're seeing this post on beta.slashdot.org, note that we're still ironing out the details of video display here. You can view the video on tv.slashdot.org, instead. Please pardon our dust.
Seriously??! What is wrong with you douches? Why would you push^H^H^H^Hforce this on people when things don't even work... No post button... Sorry... This doesn't work correctly... Sorry, you can't see a video (not that I could care LESS ABOUT A *&%$#@ VIDEO!! )... WTF??!
crap, Crap, CRAP, CRAP!, CRAP!!, CRAPP!!!
What happened to you, dear /. ???!
RIP, my darling... May you find peace... :( Sniff... Sniffle....
As long as it's been, I guess it's time to finally say... "Good, riddance, /." :(
That's strange... make installkernel does back it up to .old when I do it here. Just tried it again to be sure. :)
I managed to hit this, accidentally doing an installkernel with a custom kernel config from a 9-STABLE tree just after doing a binary update to 10-RC3. The 9 kernel couldn't mount the 10 ZFS root, and I then had to find a bootable 10 CD (it turns out the machine I did this on can't boot from USB) to reinstall the 10 kernel.
Couldn't you just have booted from kernel.old?
...that's the one that's a bit like Linnux but not quite, right?
Why would it want to be Linux? Linux is the one that's not quite BSD. :)
I've been using 10.0-PRELEASE for most things here for a while and it works well... Watch the package system change though if you're upgrading a really old system and used to just using things like portupgrade, I'm still trying to get one of my old 8.something boxes ports all updated properly, though that's probably mostly my fault for being sloppy and not reading ports/UPDATING carefully enough :) The 10.0 kernel and userland themselves are working perfectly and it was a pain free transition all the way from 8 on that box.
Thank you. A thoughtful, concise Anonymous post... You've just restored some of my faith in the AC. ;)
So if someone doesn't have your level of expertise on a single isolated topic you automatically dismiss this person as unworthy of your company?
The Anonymous Cowards? Yes.
Please continue the technical discussion. Sorry for the noise.
Actually, that was a reply to THIS post, not the original question posted by timothy...
I really hope this discussion provides good answers, with practical solutions for Windows, IOS, and Linux... I think that this is the sort of thing that everyone could really use!
Are there cloud storage providers that can do this for the above example of an approx. 2 TB data set, and provide complete security?
I still think questions about basic data integrity, checksums, parity, ECC on disks etc. should be completely unnecessary and most certainly already be second nature to the slashdot crowd, but I guess I'm just living in the past.
Thanks for immediately jumping down my throat, though ;)
What's wrong with WordPerfect for DOS? I use WordPerfect 5.0 almost every day. It is incredibly efficient, even works through a telnet connection (minus the graphical preview), and just plain works! I'll bet I can properly layout pretty much any type of document in 5.0 faster than you can using any GUI-based word processor / typesetter program, be it a more recent GUI WordPerfect (which I also use as my GUI-based WP, BTW) with strong typesetting-style heritage or some piece of utter garbage like MS Word.
Just because it's old doesn't mean it isn't good! :)
Excellent question
No, it's not! This is supposed to be a nerd site for people with at least SOME kind of technical ability (or at least it USED to be...) You're telling me you don't even know how to store your files?!! Do us all a favor and please stop visiting slashdot. Thank you!
If your physical media is dying, you'll get hardware errors so restore from a(nother) backup and replace the media.
If your files are being corrupted, what kind of crappy filesystem are you using to store these precious memories?!!
It had to be strapped to giant nonresuable rockets to get into space
Actually, they retrieved the booster rockets after takeoff and rebuilt and reloaded them for re-use.
This guy should take some flying lessons, if this whole thing hasn't soured him on the idea of small planes.
Actually, in one of the linked videos he says he already had a free lesson offered from a friend but hadn't been able to go up a few weeks ago when originally planned and was waiting to reschedule, essentially... :-)
These vehicles will seat two, three of four people...
I'm not quite sure how to parse that one and/or do the math. Three of four people!? Is that like some kind of musical chairs in the car at each stop and someone rides up on the roof with the solar panels? Sign me up! Sounds like fun as long as I'm the driver! :-)
So you freely gave your pictures to someone who turned out to be a douche-bag? Wow... That's never happened before...
It's 2013, we must support mobile devices at the same time as the high-resolution desktops.
Then go back to what HTML is supposed to be, simplify the site and let the browser do what it was originally intended to do! Stop trying to second guess everything and force a layout that may or not fit the end device! This is getting as ridiculous as the early web days when everyone starting to return completely different page content for Netscape vs IE, etc. although that was caused mostly by braindead browser choices, etc. (Poor bastardized Mosaic... Ah, Mosaic, which I actually liked back in the days of my bedroom 286 network booting Windows 3 over a SLIP serial connection from the FreeBSD version 1 box downstairs with the $200/mo dedicated 33.6K dial-up connection), but I digress....
Thanks for the suggestions.
Perhaps a design goal could be to make the site use, for example, 1/2 the total bandwidth per page that is currently required for most areas. That might make for some excellent efficiency tuning and remove some of the bloat that has crept in over the years.... It may well not be achievable for a typical comments page but would be a worthy goal as an average to beat back the nasty, nasty cruft.
Can't we just go back to the 2000ish design? Really, please? The current design took me something like 6 months to get used to. I bet most slashdot readers don't care for any fancy looking shit, this isn't arstechnica or digg.
Seconded!
I couldn't agree more!
Wow, I hope this is actually more of an 'ALPHA' or some sort of trial balloon.... If this is supposed to be 'BETA', that implies there's been some sort of testing and supposedly some thought would have already gone into it yet I can't imagine who would actually think this is better. I preferred the simpler PREVIOUS layout years ago to the current one, but I got used to it even though it's far more bloated as I disliked the changes but it was at least the same basic style.
This new layout wastes even MORE space... Everywhere... I didn't think that would even be possible. Even with the silly photos turned off and whatnot, there's far LESS useful information on every part of every page! More scrolling, even more wasted space, exceptionally poorly laid out comments screen, ICK!.. ICK to it all! BLECH!... Horrible. Absolutely horrible... I simply don't know what else to say.
I didn't think they could possibly make it worse than it already is now, but whoa!! What were these guys thinking!?
Can I please go back to the previous layout from a few years ago? It worked great in any browser on any device. This "new" stuff is just plain bad. At least it still looks partially OK in lynx (unlike many sites, but that's certainly not saying much), but with a bunch more cruft at the top before you get to actually read anything useful. Argh!
Bring on the GAMMA version!
In fact, that's what HTML and browsers were supposed to do in the first place. HTML was never intended to be a layout language. The view was supposed to be configurable by the end user in a lot of ways. The web strayed from that, so now we get designers fucking over users, forcing them into a one size fits $foo design, where $foo is usually the set of users that are thought to be the most easily monetized.
100x THIS! I couldn't possibly have articulated it better myself...
Everyone has widescreen monitors now.
Blech!... Most certainly NOT!!
This new look is absolutely horrible even on my 4:3 1280x1024 screens also, BTW....
Ick. Blech!
If that's the case (NEVER altering the light sequence), the programming on the PLC has probably simply been changed since the buttons were originally installed. At least at some times of the day most lights in most places do change behavior if the pedestrian button is pushed. It may alter timing of the lights, for example, but perhaps only if it doesn't sense traffic, etc... Those systems are actually usually a lot more complex than you probably realize... They usually have vehicle sensor inputs, pedestrian button inputs, know the time of day, etc. etc. and often alter behavior depending on all of those inputs based on the parameters programmed into them....
Apparently very few people here were actually around in the early days of the PC, never played with the ISA bus, etc. You're correct, Ctrl-Alt-Del does NOT generate an NMI... An NMI on early PCs just crashed the computer. It was usually only triggered on a parity error on most machines. It seems to me it was hooked to the back right pin on the ISA bus, so you could crash your machine by triggering it. If you did that accidentally while playing with the bus (we used to hook all sorts of things directly up to the bus using jumper wires shoved outside the fingers in the slots) or moving your home-made card around or something, you'd just ground the second from the back on the left side of the slot and that triggers a reset... IIRC, anyway... It's been some time since I built an ISA card... :-) Still have my original "soundcard" that was a basically just a DAC hooked to the bus at 0x300h that I built many many years ago around here somewhere... and my 16-port GPI/O card I built to hook up to a lightshow controller built from a whole swack of 7400 series logic... Oh, those were the days! :-)