I used PHP for the design of my OS discussion website and have had nothing but good experiences with it. I can't comment on it's stability as a Microsoft IIS module, since I haven't used IIS.
If I don't agree to a license with my signature, then it isn't legally binding as far as I'm concerned. I voluntarily choose to respect the terms set forth in the license, but I am not bound by law to do so.
Just remember, software isn't protected by licenses, it's protected by copyrights.
I know for a fact that a good number of SlashNET IRC servers are running under a BSD unix. There are a smaller number that run Linux. The SlashNET server that's hosted here used to run Debian, but we switched it over to FreeBSD due to some security issues.
Anyway, be sure to stop by SlashNET's #slashdot channel if you get a chance. It's fun, or something.
People who put Slashdot headlines, banners, or buttons on their homepage, or submit items as stories or comments to any Andover web site, this text may be of special interest to you:
(Andover.Net's prospectus, pgs. 40-41)
Intellectual Property
Andover.Net seeks to protect its intellectual property through a combination of license agreements, service mark, copyright, trade secret laws and other methods of restricting disclosure and transferring title. We obtain the majority of our content under license agreements with publishers, through work for hire arrangements with third parties and from internal staff development. We have no patents or patents pending for our current online services and do not anticipate that patents will become a significant part of our intellectual property in the foreseeable future. Where appropriate, we also enter into confidentiality agreements with our employees, consultants, vendors and customers. We generally seek to control access to and distribution of our technology, documentation and other proprietary information. We pursue the registration of our trademarks in the United States and internationally, and have submitted trademark registration applications for our Andover.net, Slashdot.org and Freshmeat.net trademarks. Content created or acquired by us is protected by copyright. The proprietary software that we use to run our business is protected generally by restricting third party access, entering into confidentiality agreements with third parties who do have access and relying on copyright law.
I still love my PalmPilot Professional (with Palm III upgrade board). I just hope the PalmOS units can withstand the Microsoft handheld onslaught.
Currently, MS has their hands in too many cookie jars to concentrate on destroying any one market, but if there's one thing I've learned it's that Bill will always find a way to rain on your parade.
With venture capitalists investing $10 million in them recently, Andover had better find a way to rake in the dough.
That raises an interesting point.. Since Slashdot is a key selling point for them in this, you'll probably be forced to give up some creative control. It just won't fly in corporate-land if your main selling point can be taken elsewhere by a single person at a moment's notice. Then again, with the chunk of dough you'll be getting out of this, maybe creative control won't be an issue for you anymore. I don't know.
I've been watching Andover for awhile now, even moreso since they started their whole "Linux campaign". Their sole agenda seems to be advertising. With the way banner ads are going lately, I sure do hope they plan to branch out into other areas.
One possibilty to watch for is subscription print publication.. (Slashdot Magazine, anyone?) I just can't see a model centered solely on banner ads working for a media company. It may work for the porn industry, but there has to be something more there. What would really be neat is if they'd team up with Walnut Creek CDROM and sell subscriptions to weekly or monthly CDs of Freshmeat-featured Unix applications.
Oh well. Might be something to throw a few grand at. We'll see.
Roblimo is cool, I wish he could hang out at the show every week.
Get Katz on at some point and take live calls. Then you'll be able to see if the Slashdot effect applies to the telephone system.
If it does, there may be an easy way to extend Slashdot to the public telephone network. Require users to touch-tone in their username and password when they first call in. If their karma is in the red, have the system emulate a Bell recording and say:
"<beep beep beep> We're sorry, your call could not be completed as dialed due to an Internal Server Error. Please contact the server administrator, malda@slashdot.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. - Apache/mod_telco 1.3.6 server at 616-555-1212"
Failing that, just have the system play a recording of Nelson Muntz from the Simpsons saying, "Ha ha!"
The system will then hang up and dial *60 to blackhole the user.
On the other hand, if the user's karma and logon data is good, the system can make an exception in the Caller ID database to allow the user through the next time without asking questions, thereby setting a "cookie" of sorts. (:
Moderators could be given access to flash the hook on any live calls, and meta-moderators can have the system flash the hook on the original moderator and call the caller back if the original moderator's moderation is shot down by the meta-moderators.
Agreed. I've been playing Sonic Adventure on my new Dreamcast all weekend and it's simply breathtaking. Miscellaneous tidbits here
N64 is a nice console, but after scaring off Square, Nintendo had better come up with one hell of a launch for Dolphin (and no, I don't mean Super Mario Brothers 128 or Super Mario Tic-Tac-Toe or any of that other crap). Nintendo could screw up a wet dream.
The Playstation didn't have any games that interested me. I'm hoping this will change for the PS2, but I'm not holding my breath.
Just as a sidenote, my 486-class machine with 16MB of RAM survived the slashdot effect two times without even breaking a sweat. At the time, it was running FreeBSD 2.2.8.
That "beware" slash-shirt looks pretty neet.. I'll have to pick one up. Jeez, I remember when Rob was still in college and selling those Malda-Made Slashdot Mugs to people here.. No chance of that happening now, is there?;>
It's already happening in Maryland.. Our pictures are taken with a digital camera, and we have to sign for it on a pressure-sensitive tablet with a stylus. They then print it out and laminate it. It's confirmed that they do store the data locally.
Two things I'm curious about are what the bar code on the front is for, and what the mag stripe on the back is for..
Actually, I believe there was a "Game link" hub that came with the F1 Race game awhile back. Not sure if it'd be compatible with the new-style link cables though.
Slashdot Mirror
That's at least four banner ad impressions per comment posted, do the math.
I used PHP for the design of my OS discussion website and have had nothing but good experiences with it. I can't comment on it's stability as a Microsoft IIS module, since I haven't used IIS.
Just remember, software isn't protected by licenses, it's protected by copyrights.
Anyway, be sure to stop by SlashNET's #slashdot channel if you get a chance. It's fun, or something.
20 plus -7 equals 13. (:
(Andover.Net's prospectus, pgs. 40-41)
Currently, MS has their hands in too many cookie jars to concentrate on destroying any one market, but if there's one thing I've learned it's that Bill will always find a way to rain on your parade.
JPEG - 116,122 bytes - Andover.Net Prospectus Page 2, "Linux Resource Sites -- Visits"
That raises an interesting point.. Since Slashdot is a key selling point for them in this, you'll probably be forced to give up some creative control. It just won't fly in corporate-land if your main selling point can be taken elsewhere by a single person at a moment's notice. Then again, with the chunk of dough you'll be getting out of this, maybe creative control won't be an issue for you anymore. I don't know.
I've been watching Andover for awhile now, even moreso since they started their whole "Linux campaign". Their sole agenda seems to be advertising. With the way banner ads are going lately, I sure do hope they plan to branch out into other areas.
One possibilty to watch for is subscription print publication.. (Slashdot Magazine, anyone?) I just can't see a model centered solely on banner ads working for a media company. It may work for the porn industry, but there has to be something more there. What would really be neat is if they'd team up with Walnut Creek CDROM and sell subscriptions to weekly or monthly CDs of Freshmeat-featured Unix applications.
Oh well. Might be something to throw a few grand at. We'll see.
Stock symbol "FSCK", anyone?
A few weeks.. rad.. they've got my money. This will be my 5th purchased CD set.
Get Katz on at some point and take live calls. Then you'll be able to see if the Slashdot effect applies to the telephone system.
If it does, there may be an easy way to extend Slashdot to the public telephone network. Require users to touch-tone in their username and password when they first call in. If their karma is in the red, have the system emulate a Bell recording and say:
"<beep beep beep> We're sorry, your call could not be completed as dialed due to an Internal Server Error. Please contact the server administrator, malda@slashdot.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. - Apache/mod_telco 1.3.6 server at 616-555-1212"
Failing that, just have the system play a recording of Nelson Muntz from the Simpsons saying, "Ha ha!"
The system will then hang up and dial *60 to blackhole the user.
On the other hand, if the user's karma and logon data is good, the system can make an exception in the Caller ID database to allow the user through the next time without asking questions, thereby setting a "cookie" of sorts. (:
Moderators could be given access to flash the hook on any live calls, and meta-moderators can have the system flash the hook on the original moderator and call the caller back if the original moderator's moderation is shot down by the meta-moderators.
Jeez, boredom can be hell, can't it? :P
Sorry. It had to be said. (:
Quite frankly, I'd go for any woman, as long as she's not from the Windows clan. :P
The Atari 2600 was black (well, mostly). While it did have its share of failed games, overall it was a successful console.
N64 is a nice console, but after scaring off Square, Nintendo had better come up with one hell of a launch for Dolphin (and no, I don't mean Super Mario Brothers 128 or Super Mario Tic-Tac-Toe or any of that other crap). Nintendo could screw up a wet dream.
The Playstation didn't have any games that interested me. I'm hoping this will change for the PS2, but I'm not holding my breath.
Just as a sidenote, my 486-class machine with 16MB of RAM survived the slashdot effect two times without even breaking a sweat. At the time, it was running FreeBSD 2.2.8.
I like the part about how they're concerned about "excessive reliance on Microsoft software". That alone has to tell you something.
That "beware" slash-shirt looks pretty neet.. I'll have to pick one up. Jeez, I remember when Rob was still in college and selling those Malda-Made Slashdot Mugs to people here.. No chance of that happening now, is there? ;>
So when do all the people who are actually paying for this thing get to go on-board it?
As if there weren't enough ways to remotely crash a Windows NT machine already.. (:
First the U.S. Navy abandons Microsoft and now the U.S. Army. Microsoft may have won the battle, but they're going to lose the war.
Two things I'm curious about are what the bar code on the front is for, and what the mag stripe on the back is for..
Another idea would be to have a mini-moderation forum set aside for arguments over scores and such, but that would probably be overdoing it.
Actually, I believe there was a "Game link" hub that came with the F1 Race game awhile back. Not sure if it'd be compatible with the new-style link cables though.
They can add all of that stuff but still not have enough power/space for a backlight. Amazing.
MS Linux has been out there for awhile now.