I've found this works better when you use a couple of old forks instead of nails. The pickle around the nails tends to burn away / dry up , and then you have to move them. With forks, there is more metal in contact with the pickle, so it takes longer to go dead.
Also, I believe that the yellow glow is actually the excitement of the sodium in the pickle juice, not real flourescence.
I have an old Pentium Pro 200mhz laptop, which is mostly a piece of crap (battery pops out, it overheats until it freezes, etc.) Is there any way I could use its display as a second monitor, short of running X on the laptop? I'd like to be able to just install a second video card on my home machine and hook the display up to that.
Re:What can be done about terrorism?
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I am on the mailing list of a group that advocates third-party nonviolent observers in crisis areas . Here is their press release:
Quote for the lazy: "Instead of hundreds of billions for weapons of destruction which we manufacture for ourselves and sell around the world, we should allocate hundreds of billions of dollars for feeding the world's hungry, housing the homeless, healing the sick and helping heal the wounds of war and hatred around the world. The only real security is for the United States to become a real friend of all the world's people."
For immediate release
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
We at Peaceworkers are heartbroken by the tragedies that continue to unfold in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. The depth of the violence is incomprehensible. It is a time for us to draw our loved ones close. And, it a time for us to draw close to our hearts those not immediately in our circles and to keep those who have died close in our hearts and prayers. We also hold up the families and friends who either know their loved one has died or who wait in anguished limbo. We wish strength and endurance to those police, firefighters, rescue workers, medical personnel and public officials working to save lives.
And, we ask each of us to draw close to those who will be scapegoated for these horrific acts. These acts were not carried out by an ethnic group, race of people or religion. Each of us individually and collectively, must be forthright in resisting any scapegoating or attempts to retaliate with violence.
We also call upon the United States government not to respond with violence, thus escalating the spiral of violence.
This is a time for deep reflection and grief. The horrible carnage reminds us that no amount of armaments can protect us from such violent attacks. It is a time to understand the unity of all people and to build our security based on that understanding. . Instead of hundreds of billions for weapons of destruction which we manufacture for ourselves and sell around the world, we should allocate hundreds of billions of dollars for feeding the world's hungry, housing the homeless, healing the sick and helping heal the wounds of war and hatred around the world. The only real security is for the United States to become a real friend of all the world's people.
From: Ken Butigan,
Adjunct Professor at the Franciscan School of
Theology, Berkeley; 510-533-8181
kenbutigan@paceebene.org
Nightmare and A New Beginning?
September 11, 2001. It is late afternoon. By now, it seems unnecesary to recount the facts of this unspeakable day. We know the details neither by dint of will nor by the rigors of memorization but by the molten visceral after-image burning through us in the way that one passenger plane, then another, and then still another burned through the skin of buildings and then ferociously through the flesh of the unsuspecting within.
The radio all day long repeats the facts. A troupe of airliners, three headed for California, swung away from their their appointed paths and slammed with almost impossible precision into New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, buildings teeming with people even as they are (or were) fraught with economic and military power. But the facts give way to deeper realities. Just as the 110 storey twin towers at the southern edge of Manhattan seemed inconcievably to lose their shape and dissolve as they imploded before the horrified and disbelieving crowd in the street below (one news account reported that they strained their arms upward in unison as an autonomic, if futile, attempt to keep the skyscrapers from collapsing), so too do the facts seem to dematerialize.
It is not that the facts about this catastrophe are not real. Rather, they are like the ten thousand bits of debris that have blasted across the banks of the Potomac, the rugged wilderness of western Pennsylvania (where the fourth hijacked plane went down, presumably not having reached its target), and the concrete canyons of New York City.
The facts are everywhere and nowhere. They peel away to reveal the nightmare just below the surface, the landscape of endless loss and sorrow. The ashes of death are in our mouths. Laid before us is the unutterable collision of two worlds, made suddenly and irretrievably concrete in the finality of this destruction.
The nightmare is just beginning for the victims of this violence, for their families and friends. We must clearly articulate our horror and condemnation of these premeditated acts of murder. We must find, as negligible as they may be, ways to offer solace to those most directly caught in the stunning brutality spreading out from this most recent ground zero of horrific violence.
The nightmare, however, is not theirs alone. We as a nation have added this experience of violence to the long tapestry of violence that stains our history. The great danger lies in how we interpret and respond to this nightmare.
It is too early to say who perpetrated them. There will, nonetheless, likely be strenous efforts by the U.S. to retaliate. As a nation, it is critically important that we recognize that, quite likely, this nightmare is not a new one. Quite likely it is a nightmare drenched in the blood of a retaliatory cycle of violence, and that if the U.S. responds(as government war planners put it)either "proportionately" or massively" there will not only be enormous -- and likely indiscriminate-- bloodshed, it will strenuously escalate and accelerate the wheel of what has been named "redemptive violence." Unfortunately, our history as a species and as a nation painfully reveals that retributive violence is not "redemptive" at all. It does not "save" or make "secure." In fact, it increases the liklihood for new retaliation.
Now is the time for us to clamber off the wheel of violence. It is the only worthy legacy we can offer to those who died today.
To this end, I feel personally moved in more profound way that ever to recommit myself to the spiritual journey of creative nonviolence so that true justice can flourish and genuine peace can be every being's lot.
This means mourning the dead, condemning this horrific violence, but also once and for all acknowledging our own violence and justice and seeking a new path. In this most shocking moment, we have paradoxically been given a moment to desire -- and work for -- the well-being of all. Let us let the unimaginably horrific violence experienced today in the Eastern United States help us understand, in a way we perhaps have never understood before, what such "death from the skies" means, and help us to humbly acknowledge the violence we have perpetrated in this way in the past and continue to contemplate, under certain politically-defined circumstances, in the future.
Most of all, let us be transformed in light of this horror to recognize, again, that we are all one. In this moment of unspeakable fire, may we once and for all commit ourselves, in a deeply powerful way, to the path of active nonviolence for justice, love, and well being for the earth and for all its inhabitants. Let us take action so that, hope against hope, we can choose -- as Martin Luther King, Jr. implored -- nonviolence, not nonexistence.
Each bug report should get you a chance at a prize
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I think they should add one more prize, which everyone would have a chance to win based on the number of bugs they report. I know I won't be in the top 10 reporters, and I doubt I will find the hairiest or most bizarre bug, but might spend a little more time testing it if I still had a chance to win something
I have a 2-year old VAIO superslim, also with a USB floppy. I did a network install of RedHat 7.0 with the built-in ethernet adaptor, and got everything to work fine. There are many web pages out there with info on putting linux on VAIO laptops - search google for "linux" and "vaio". They are especially helpful for the X config.
One tricky thing I noticed when I compiled and installed the 2.4.1 kernel is that sndconfig no longer works - it thinks there is a nm256 module, while the module is now nm256_audio. Also, you need to load the ac97 sound module first. I had to hand-edit/etc/modules.conf so it contained these lines:
alias sound ac97
alias sound-slot-0 nm256_audio
for the sound to work (there may well be a much better way - I just poked things until something worked)
Let me know if you have any more problems - email me at theodorelogan -at- yahoo -dot- com
(being a bit paranoid about spam:) )
I have always wondered about the use of email evidence in court - it would be relatively easy for company A to invent nasty email messages from company B, all the way down to A's incoming mail server logs. If company B was not archiving all outgoing mail, it would have no way to prove that those emails were not genuine.
So, what if the B's mail server logs only a checksum/hash of all outgoing mail? Then B would have evidence that could counteract A's account, but would not need to be intrusive or store huge amounts of email forever. While having each user PGP sign their documents would serve the same purpose (and be more reliable, since it would provide definite proof of a forgery), this system would be much easier to implement on a companywide basis.
One option is to work for a university - they need people to both sysadmin and write software which enhances the learning environment, but they can't pay huge salaries or offer stock options so have a hard time with recruiting. On the other hand, they tend to have great benefit and retirement packages and are not as insanely-paced as many startups.
<plug> For example, I work for Highwire Press, a division of the Stanford libraries which puts scientific journals like Science magazine online. By helping scientific societies to publish online, we make scientists' jobs a lot easier.
And yes, we have jobs open if you are interested:) </plug>
While I love google, and use it for all my searches, a little voice in the back of my head tells me to be worried. Google rates sites based on how many other sites link to them (and how many other sites link to those sites). So, let's say I decide to create a page about the very tasty fish Red Snapper. I'll probably include a section of links to other Red Snapper pages, which I will find using Google. As more and more people create pages with links they found on Google, the set of pages that were popular when Google started get higher and higher ratings, until there is just an incestuous web of interlinking, highly-rated sites.
If everyone uses Google-like search engines, new sites will never become popular, since they aren't linked to by the highly-rated ones. The result will be a fairly static set of pages returned by search results, with an impossible barrier for new sites.
Maybe google can do something to give the new sites a chance (Give extra points to pages created in the last month, or something).
I actually came across an example of this just now. I was searching for some live recordings from a San Francisco radio station called KFOG, and found a file called " kfog.html" (yes, with the space out front). If you open it, it redirects you to a web page, which then sends you to a porn site (well, it would have sent me to a porn site except that the person mistyped their own IP address in the file:) ).
The little "Do you want to accept a cookie from x" window in Mozilla has a "Remember this decision" checkbox, which will make it accept or deny all cookies from server x in the future. There is also a very nice cookie management screen which lets you see your saved cookies, delete them, and specify perma-banned hosts.
Ursula K. LeGuin mentioned the ansible in her 1974 novel "The Dispossessed" - It was a nice surprise to see it there since I had assumed that it was Card's original idea. I don't know if anyone used it before her, though.
What a timely comment! I just finished Slant by Greg Bear last night, and one of my favorite quotes was something like "Would you rather have your child watch real sex or fake violence?" (horribly paraphrased). Of course, in the book this question actually made senators withdraw censorship legislation, but we can hope, right?
Compatibility between KDE and Gnome objects?
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Does anyone know if the KDE and Gnome people are planning to make their objects compatible? It would be great if I could drag a bonobo component into a KWord document - I could blend the best components of each project.
OK OK.. The following article here Is garbage - I never wrote it, posted it, said it or anything. I don't have a girlfriend... (sux eh?) I live on the 3rd floor, not the 2nd, my computer does all it needs, I haven't given any notice to Red Hat about leaving in any way or form - nor am I intending to, Red Hat is just fine - it's not becoming a huge microsoft, E is NOT dead - damnit.. I'm still patching stuff and am adding features (just been sick for the last week with a flu - thus a bit slow), and no - not all my knowledge is computer based. I can speak German and French pretty well, can paint and draw. Hell it was posted at 6:26pm - I was at the Durham Ball park watching a baseball game with other Red Hat employees at that time. So whoever was so childish as to go posting this complete piece of FUD and GARBAGE I think now would be a good time to come clean and admit it and fix it. I DON'T like people masquerading as me - It's not nice to do it, not gentlmanly, not mature and not intelligent. I have very little respect for such childish behavior. If I have anything to say I'll say it HERE on MY pages at rasterman.com - not at some site I've never heard about until today. (my emphasis) Now back to doing useful stuff, like code... and looking for a girlfriend....:)
There is no entry on his page that he is leaving RedHat. However, he DOES say that he is moving to California:
Sun May 30 17:51:28 EDT 1999
Pack pack pack pack... I'm packing... wow - my room is almost empty... only the last essentials remain in it - computer, stereo and chair and a suitcaseof clothes... Tuesday morning I'm leaving this god forsaken land they call North Carolina and driving west... and I'm loving the idea.
In fact I'm never coming back... I'm leaving North Carolina for good and moving... Goodbye sweet Chapel Hill. Adios My dear RTP. I'm so happy to get out! Welcome California sunshine, California girls, California countryside, Real Cities, Supermarkets that sell liquor.
I'll be driving west from Chapel Hill via I-40 then heading to St Louis, then off to Denver, via Salt Lake City, and finally arriving in the Bay area, Northern California. I'm looking forward to seeing America.
Fri May 28 12:59:15 EDT 1999
Don't mail me!:)
Next week I'm going to be gone and completely out of contact - I'm taking a long trip across the country, so if you expect a reply to your mail.. um.. well then.. don't.
So, we know for sure that he is leaving North Carolina, but not that he is quitting RedHat. Can anyone verify more than this? Was his post signed?
Ha ha! Fooled you all! No, I must confess, I did not read the part at the end where they say they are a satire mag. Someone at work forwarded the link to me, and I fell for it all the way. I've got a feeling he'll be coming over and laughing at me any time now.
Of course, if I had known it was a joke I would still have submitted it, but I wouldn't be quite so red-faced now:).
Furby Communication Protocol
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When the Furbys were first launched, some people said they were going to try to figure out their IR communication protocol.
On the Necko web page, they have the quote "It's wafer thin" at the top. I remember a Monty Python sketch in The Meaning of Life where John Cleese (?) is a waiter for an extremely fat man who eats a whole tablefull of food. Cleese convinces him to eat an after-dinner mint, saying "it's wafer thin". The man eats the mint, and promptly explodes. I'm worried that the Mozilla team is stretched far enough as it with everything else they're doing. On one hand, maybe this effort will bring in more outside contributors who like writing networking code. On the other hand, maybe the five Netscape developers assigned to this project should focus on getting the rest of Mozilla in shape and doing this for a later release. There will always be enhancements to make to Mozilla, so we shouldn't be ashamed to release a version with the old networking code.
What about if the article posting system first sent an email to webmaster@sitename with a warning that they were about to be experiencing heavy traffic, then posted the article 10 minutes later. Something like "Avast, y'art about to be slashdotted. Batten down the hatches and prepare to restart."
At least they would be warned and be ready to deal with the traffic, instead of wondering what was going on with their server. None of the news posted here is really so timely that the ten minute delay would matter to us, and it seems courteous to warn people we are about to trash their server.
Problems:
Not every site will have someone at that address. It won't work for everyone.
Would the warning and the knowledge of exactly what was happening actually help the site manager? I'm not sure.
Slashdot Mirror
I've found this works better when you use a couple of old forks instead of nails. The pickle around the nails tends to burn away / dry up , and then you have to move them. With forks, there is more metal in contact with the pickle, so it takes longer to go dead.
Also, I believe that the yellow glow is actually the excitement of the sodium in the pickle juice, not real flourescence.
it's here:
www.eros-os.org
some text to satisfy the lameness filter gods
I have an old Pentium Pro 200mhz laptop, which is mostly a piece of crap (battery pops out, it overheats until it freezes, etc.) Is there any way I could use its display as a second monitor, short of running X on the laptop? I'd like to be able to just install a second video card on my home machine and hook the display up to that.
I am on the mailing list of a group that advocates third-party nonviolent observers in crisis areas . Here is their press release:
Quote for the lazy: "Instead of hundreds of billions for weapons of destruction which we manufacture for ourselves and sell around the world, we should allocate hundreds of billions of dollars for feeding the world's hungry, housing the homeless, healing the sick and helping heal the wounds of war and hatred around the world. The only real security is for the United States to become a real friend of all the world's people."
For immediate release
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
We at Peaceworkers are heartbroken by the tragedies that continue to unfold in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. The depth of the violence is incomprehensible. It is a time for us to draw our loved ones close. And, it a time for us to draw close to our hearts those not immediately in our circles and to keep those who have died close in our hearts and prayers. We also hold up the families and friends who either know their loved one has died or who wait in anguished limbo. We wish strength and endurance to those police, firefighters, rescue workers, medical personnel and public officials working to save lives.
And, we ask each of us to draw close to those who will be scapegoated for these horrific acts. These acts were not carried out by an ethnic group, race of people or religion. Each of us individually and collectively, must be forthright in resisting any scapegoating or attempts to retaliate with violence.
We also call upon the United States government not to respond with violence, thus escalating the spiral of violence.
This is a time for deep reflection and grief. The horrible carnage reminds us that no amount of armaments can protect us from such violent attacks. It is a time to understand the unity of all people and to build our security based on that understanding. . Instead of hundreds of billions for weapons of destruction which we manufacture for ourselves and sell around the world, we should allocate hundreds of billions of dollars for feeding the world's hungry, housing the homeless, healing the sick and helping heal the wounds of war and hatred around the world. The only real security is for the United States to become a real friend of all the world's people.
From: Ken Butigan,
Adjunct Professor at the Franciscan School of
Theology, Berkeley; 510-533-8181
kenbutigan@paceebene.org
Nightmare and A New Beginning?
September 11, 2001. It is late afternoon. By now, it seems unnecesary to recount the facts of this unspeakable day. We know the details neither by dint of will nor by the rigors of memorization but by the molten visceral after-image burning through us in the way that one passenger plane, then another, and then still another burned through the skin of buildings and then ferociously through the flesh of the unsuspecting within.
The radio all day long repeats the facts. A troupe of airliners, three headed for California, swung away from their their appointed paths and slammed with almost impossible precision into New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, buildings teeming with people even as they are (or were) fraught with economic and military power. But the facts give way to deeper realities. Just as the 110 storey twin towers at the southern edge of Manhattan seemed inconcievably to lose their shape and dissolve as they imploded before the horrified and disbelieving crowd in the street below (one news account reported that they strained their arms upward in unison as an autonomic, if futile, attempt to keep the skyscrapers from collapsing), so too do the facts seem to dematerialize.
It is not that the facts about this catastrophe are not real. Rather, they are like the ten thousand bits of debris that have blasted across the banks of the Potomac, the rugged wilderness of western Pennsylvania (where the fourth hijacked plane went down, presumably not having reached its target), and the concrete canyons of New York City.
The facts are everywhere and nowhere. They peel away to reveal the nightmare just below the surface, the landscape of endless loss and sorrow. The ashes of death are in our mouths. Laid before us is the unutterable collision of two worlds, made suddenly and irretrievably concrete in the finality of this destruction.
The nightmare is just beginning for the victims of this violence, for their families and friends. We must clearly articulate our horror and condemnation of these premeditated acts of murder. We must find, as negligible as they may be, ways to offer solace to those most directly caught in the stunning brutality spreading out from this most recent ground zero of horrific violence.
The nightmare, however, is not theirs alone. We as a nation have added this experience of violence to the long tapestry of violence that stains our history. The great danger lies in how we interpret and respond to this nightmare.
It is too early to say who perpetrated them. There will, nonetheless, likely be strenous efforts by the U.S. to retaliate. As a nation, it is critically important that we recognize that, quite likely, this nightmare is not a new one. Quite likely it is a nightmare drenched in the blood of a retaliatory cycle of violence, and that if the U.S. responds(as government war planners put it)either "proportionately" or massively" there will not only be enormous -- and likely indiscriminate-- bloodshed, it will strenuously escalate and accelerate the wheel of what has been named "redemptive violence." Unfortunately, our history as a species and as a nation painfully reveals that retributive violence is not "redemptive" at all. It does not "save" or make "secure." In fact, it increases the liklihood for new retaliation.
Now is the time for us to clamber off the wheel of violence. It is the only worthy legacy we can offer to those who died today.
To this end, I feel personally moved in more profound way that ever to recommit myself to the spiritual journey of creative nonviolence so that true justice can flourish and genuine peace can be every being's lot.
This means mourning the dead, condemning this horrific violence, but also once and for all acknowledging our own violence and justice and seeking a new path. In this most shocking moment, we have paradoxically been given a moment to desire -- and work for -- the well-being of all. Let us let the unimaginably horrific violence experienced today in the Eastern United States help us understand, in a way we perhaps have never understood before, what such "death from the skies" means, and help us to humbly acknowledge the violence we have perpetrated in this way in the past and continue to contemplate, under certain politically-defined circumstances, in the future.
Most of all, let us be transformed in light of this horror to recognize, again, that we are all one. In this moment of unspeakable fire, may we once and for all commit ourselves, in a deeply powerful way, to the path of active nonviolence for justice, love, and well being for the earth and for all its inhabitants. Let us take action so that, hope against hope, we can choose -- as Martin Luther King, Jr. implored -- nonviolence, not nonexistence.
I think they should add one more prize, which everyone would have a chance to win based on the number of bugs they report. I know I won't be in the top 10 reporters, and I doubt I will find the hairiest or most bizarre bug, but might spend a little more time testing it if I still had a chance to win something
I have a 2-year old VAIO superslim, also with a USB floppy. I did a network install of RedHat 7.0 with the built-in ethernet adaptor, and got everything to work fine. There are many web pages out there with info on putting linux on VAIO laptops - search google for "linux" and "vaio". They are especially helpful for the X config. /etc/modules.conf so it contained these lines:
:) )
One tricky thing I noticed when I compiled and installed the 2.4.1 kernel is that sndconfig no longer works - it thinks there is a nm256 module, while the module is now nm256_audio. Also, you need to load the ac97 sound module first. I had to hand-edit
alias sound ac97
alias sound-slot-0 nm256_audio
for the sound to work (there may well be a much better way - I just poked things until something worked)
Let me know if you have any more problems - email me at theodorelogan -at- yahoo -dot- com
(being a bit paranoid about spam
-Josh
So, what if the B's mail server logs only a checksum/hash of all outgoing mail? Then B would have evidence that could counteract A's account, but would not need to be intrusive or store huge amounts of email forever. While having each user PGP sign their documents would serve the same purpose (and be more reliable, since it would provide definite proof of a forgery), this system would be much easier to implement on a companywide basis.
One option is to work for a university - they need people to both sysadmin and write software which enhances the learning environment, but they can't pay huge salaries or offer stock options so have a hard time with recruiting. On the other hand, they tend to have great benefit and retirement packages and are not as insanely-paced as many startups.
<plug>For example, I work for Highwire Press, a division of the Stanford libraries which puts scientific journals like Science magazine online. By helping scientific societies to publish online, we make scientists' jobs a lot easier.
And yes, we have jobs open if you are interested :)
</plug>
While I love google, and use it for all my searches, a little voice in the back of my head tells me to be worried. Google rates sites based on how many other sites link to them (and how many other sites link to those sites). So, let's say I decide to create a page about the very tasty fish Red Snapper. I'll probably include a section of links to other Red Snapper pages, which I will find using Google. As more and more people create pages with links they found on Google, the set of pages that were popular when Google started get higher and higher ratings, until there is just an incestuous web of interlinking, highly-rated sites.
If everyone uses Google-like search engines, new sites will never become popular, since they aren't linked to by the highly-rated ones. The result will be a fairly static set of pages returned by search results, with an impossible barrier for new sites.
Maybe google can do something to give the new sites a chance (Give extra points to pages created in the last month, or something).
I actually came across an example of this just now. I was searching for some live recordings from a San Francisco radio station called KFOG, and found a file called " kfog.html" (yes, with the space out front). If you open it, it redirects you to a web page, which then sends you to a porn site (well, it would have sent me to a porn site except that the person mistyped their own IP address in the file :) ).
The little "Do you want to accept a cookie from x" window in Mozilla has a "Remember this decision" checkbox, which will make it accept or deny all cookies from server x in the future. There is also a very nice cookie management screen which lets you see your saved cookies, delete them, and specify perma-banned hosts.
Ursula K. LeGuin mentioned the ansible in her 1974 novel "The Dispossessed" - It was a nice surprise to see it there since I had assumed that it was Card's original idea. I don't know if anyone used it before her, though.
What a timely comment! I just finished Slant by Greg Bear last night, and one of my favorite quotes was something like "Would you rather have your child watch real sex or fake violence?" (horribly paraphrased). Of course, in the book this question actually made senators withdraw censorship legislation, but we can hope, right?
Does anyone know if the KDE and Gnome people are planning to make their objects compatible? It would be great if I could drag a bonobo component into a KWord document - I could blend the best components of each project.
There is no entry on his page that he is leaving RedHat. However, he DOES say that he is moving to California:
So, we know for sure that he is leaving North Carolina, but not that he is quitting RedHat. Can anyone verify more than this? Was his post signed?Fooled you all!
No, I must confess, I did not read the part at the end where they say they are a satire mag. Someone at work forwarded the link to me, and I fell for it all the way. I've got a feeling he'll be coming over and laughing at me any time now.
Of course, if I had known it was a joke I would still have submitted it, but I wouldn't be quite so red-faced now :).
Did anything ever come of that?
On the Necko web page, they have the quote "It's wafer thin" at the top. I remember a Monty Python sketch in The Meaning of Life where John Cleese (?) is a waiter for an extremely fat man who eats a whole tablefull of food. Cleese convinces him to eat an after-dinner mint, saying "it's wafer thin". The man eats the mint, and promptly explodes. I'm worried that the Mozilla team is stretched far enough as it with everything else they're doing. On one hand, maybe this effort will bring in more outside contributors who like writing networking code. On the other hand, maybe the five Netscape developers assigned to this project should focus on getting the rest of Mozilla in shape and doing this for a later release. There will always be enhancements to make to Mozilla, so we shouldn't be ashamed to release a version with the old networking code.
What about if the article posting system first sent an email to webmaster@sitename with a warning that they were about to be experiencing heavy traffic, then posted the article 10 minutes later. Something like "Avast, y'art about to be slashdotted. Batten down the hatches and prepare to restart."
At least they would be warned and be ready to deal with the traffic, instead of wondering what was going on with their server. None of the news posted here is really so timely that the ten minute delay would matter to us, and it seems courteous to warn people we are about to trash their server.
Problems:
Not every site will have someone at that address. It won't work for everyone.
Would the warning and the knowledge of exactly what was happening actually help the site manager? I'm not sure.