There was a community meeting on IRC on Monday at which everyone got to put their viewpoint and consensus was to keep the themes available but not to make them the defaults.
This actually brings Slashdot closer to its worst enemy, Segfault.org. (Just kidding Rob, we love you really!:)
Segfault has been assisted by VA for quite some time now. When I left my last company Segfault nearly went homeless, and VA came to the rescue, securing us a machine to use, paying for it to be hosted in the states etc.
Hell, they even payed the cost of a transatlantic plane ticket to bring me to LinuxWorld Expo last year.
Even Slashdot received help from VA in the early days.
VA has a long history of helping the Open Source community and working with it the best they can. Their own portal site, linux.com is pretty unbiased and SourceForge is a huge benefit to the community.
I really don't think VA are stupid enough to mess about with Slashdot, they are well aware of the value it has to the Open Source community if its left as it is.
Just my two cents, I'm gonna go and hide now and hope nobody caught me reading Slashdot:)
Ignoring clues like letters being required on a SATURDAY, times being wrong and stuff like that ?:)
And then ignoring "Michael Scott DeWitt" which a few of you got and "See you on the flip side" which a few less (but rather proud of themselves when they did) got.
I reckon that Segfault's ISP has some kind of block that prevents accesses with a referer of segfault getting through! Cause the machine wasn't really worrying about it.
3 hits a week? I think Rob's just jealous that we have a better poll script *snigger*
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Actually, that's not true...
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There was a community meeting on IRC on Monday at which everyone got to put their viewpoint and consensus was to keep the themes available but not to make them the defaults.
http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/200
New artwork was created and uploaded for the final release, the default GDM theme is plainer and without the three friends on it.
http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/warty-changes/20
http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/warty-changes/20
The screenshot links posted were actually from our Preview and Release Candidate releases, not the real thing.
Mark Shuttleworth is South African.
This actually brings Slashdot closer to its worst enemy, Segfault.org. (Just kidding Rob, we love you really! :)
Segfault has been assisted by VA for quite some time now. When I left my last company Segfault nearly went homeless, and VA came to the rescue, securing us a machine to use, paying for it to be hosted in the states etc.
Hell, they even payed the cost of a transatlantic plane ticket to bring me to LinuxWorld Expo last year.
Even Slashdot received help from VA in the early days.
VA has a long history of helping the Open Source community and working with it the best they can. Their own portal site, linux.com is pretty unbiased and SourceForge is a huge benefit to the community.
I really don't think VA are stupid enough to mess about with Slashdot, they are well aware of the value it has to the Open Source community if its left as it is.
Just my two cents, I'm gonna go and hide now and hope nobody caught me reading Slashdot :)
Oh Rob was just as in on it as the rest of us :-)
Yeah it sucks, seriously sucks :-)
Ignoring clues like letters being required on a SATURDAY, times being wrong and stuff like that ? :)
:-)
And then ignoring "Michael Scott DeWitt" which a few of you got and "See you on the flip side" which a few less (but rather proud of themselves when they did) got.
We gave ya hints
Uh-oh, I'm replying to these comments now :-)
:-)
/Microsoft/i )
a snippet from the segfault source
if ( $title =~
$changes_of_being_published -= 10;
we get toooo many!!! give us a chance. In a month or two when the Segfault rewrite kicks in they'll be a whole section devoted to this stuff
I reckon that Segfault's ISP has some kind of block that prevents accesses with a referer of segfault getting through! Cause the machine wasn't really worrying about it.
3 hits a week? I think Rob's just jealous that we have a better poll script *snigger*