I wouldn't worry. The website I work for got slashdotted once when we were using a crappy virtual server which can't put up with *any* stress, and MySQL was the least of its problems. It uses PHP3 too. I believe slashdot itself uses MySQL, and obviously it needs more simultaneous connections than the sites it links to.
They're not aiming to change a way a person thinks - they're probably aiming to stop, or slow, the offensive material that is flooding the internet. There's a difference between changing the way a person thinks and attempting to limit their ability to use it to harm others.
I doubt this opinion will be popular, but I'm glad they're doing this. Racism isn't right - there's some times when freedom of speech has its limits. Sure, you can say whatever you want, but people should also be able to stop you if it's harmful.
Perhaps this just may have a practical use. Not to techies, but isn't this the kind of thing that attracts newbies to computers? My grandmother, for example, bought her mac just because it came in nice colors. Maybe virtual reality characters like this could be applied to useful purposes, like helping newbies learn about computers. Since nobody reads popup windows anyway, maybe a human voice and shape would have more of an impact. For news? Well, maybe not so useful. But most of the software on my computer isn't absolutely essential either.
How do you feel towards other geek news sites (etc.).. do you view them as competition and threats to slashdot, are you ambivilent, or do you commend their work? _______________
Clearly it's because they got so many submissions - they only give credit for the first one. Plus it says somewhere (forget where) that slashdot rejects some insane percentage of submissions due to the sheer number of submissions they get.
Maybe the poster was trying to help slashdot become a better place. If we don't point out their errors and pretend they don't exist, then the quality of the website will deteriorate - we obviously don't want that to happen.
Maybe the reason you don't see why "why people post stupid things" is because you're not understanding the poster's point - it isn't stupid to them. Everyone has the same thinking; if you don't agree with something or don't understand it, you assume it's wrong or ill-intentioned. I'm sure that the original poster had a reason completely different from what you suspect for posting their comment.
Well then I might as well submit a new story saying that the Pentium II has been sent to distributers. The reason slashdot is so great is because it focuses on TODAY'S news, not news from several months ago.
What a great question. I'd like to see how some open source coders respond to this. We so often double our standards; whenever there's something we can bash Microsoft about, we do so immediately. But a similar situation in the Linux community would be praised. We all do that, in one form or another.
As for the issue at hand, I don't think anyone, even Microsoft, should be held responsible for such bugs. Cmon, all programs are going to have problems; just because one of the bugs happens to have more risky consequences doesn't mean that it is any worse than a bug that is relatively harmless. It shouldn't be concidered "negligence" - it should be expected by users of the program.
On the other hand, both Microsoft and Open source programmers should be prepared to either a) fix bugs or b) pubish them as soon as they are notified of them.
You haven't given us much to work with:) To answer most of those questions thoroughly we need to know more about your idea. I can understand you not wanting to announce it publically, but then you must understand our inability to respond accordingly. I'll try for some generic answers.
How to get started? A slashdot article can always help:) Really depends on your audience. If it's just a site for you and your friends, tell your friends. If it's a humor site, try advertising on well known humor sites. If it's a geek site, get slashdotted and you're all set:)
Typical server setup? There isn't a generic typical one. It depends GREATLY on what kind of traffic you expect. Slashdot and Andover probably have 30 billion dedicated servers, other, smaller sites, just need geocities or the like.
T1 or T3? What kind of question is that? Of course you want the fastest connection possible. Maybe your real question is whether it's really worth the extra money to get a T3 instead of a T1. Well, a T1 and a T3 doesnt mean much - you could get a T3 with insane amounts of traffic and be slower than a T1. And of course, there are other choices besides T1 and T3:)
Backing up - definately key. I backup every 1 to 2 weeks. Note, make sure you dont overwrite your previous backups with new backups - I've done that:)
Webhosting service vs own computer? Uh... depends how much cash you have and how good your computer and connection are. If you have a really fast internet connection and your ISP doesn't mind, then use your own computer. But if you dont know much about server admining then it's probably easier just to go with a webhosting service. At least to get started. Move from there.
I think that covers it. Have fun - starting new sites can be a blast:)
"Then I'll tell the truth. We're allowed to do that in emergencies."
Bah.. I didnt realize that any time I post anything on slashdot - be it a joke, a parody, a smartass comment - I might be quoted and used to represent the whole slashdot/linux community. Now are we going to have to be careful about what we say to avoid being misquoted?
"Then I'll tell the truth. We're allowed to do that in emergencies."
I agree totally. A penguin shows nothing about linux to someone who doesn't know about linux. I'm not sure what the precise purpose of the cover is, but if any of the audience is going to be non-linux users, a penguin as the sole representation of linux is not the way to go. You could incorporate a penguin into a more complex design, but a big tux on the cover of a magazine wouldn't prove much to me:)
I realize this only tells you what NOT to do, not what TO do... I'll try to think of something, but at this point you have 140 other ideas to work with:)
"Then I'll tell the truth. We're allowed to do that in emergencies."
Is Windows 95/98 a buggy operating system? Yes 90% 3379 votes No 10% 388 votes
I think I caught this before the slashdot effect hit, so I was surpised that that "Yes" was so high. CNN.com isn't really a highly techy website.. most of its visitors aren't slashdot types. I think if you asked random people on the street whether they think windows is buggy they a) will say no or b) won't understand the term "buggy." It would be interesting to see this poll on other websites with different focuses: slashdot, some computer newbie sites, etc. They'd probably have very different results.
"Then I'll tell the truth. We're allowed to do that in emergencies."
That works now, but mail password doesn't. Also, just noticed that when you reply to a comment it doesn't show the score (it says Score:) and no comment number. No big deal, of course, but something you should be aware of.
One name you won't see here is that of hacker poster boy Kevin Mitnick, who was indicted on 17 counts of computer fraud, wire fraud, damage, and unauthorized access. The hacks he got caught for weren't merely public displays of bravado; they were more like industrial espionage.
Eh... That's the first thing I saw when I was reading the article. I stopped after that.. why do they feel the need to "warn" readers that they're not going to talk about "real hacks" (whatever they think that means). Seems a bit over-politically-correct to me.
I can't help but agreeing with this article. I run a website that generates large amounts of emails from newbies, and I find that dealing with the emails takes up a large chunk of my time and in fact lowers the quality of the website itself. It's probably the same thing in the linux world; the more newbies there are asking stupid questions to people who could be more valuable doing better things for linux, the less gets done. This brings us the the question of whether we WANT newbies using linux... is it better to be the "esoteric operating system," or is the final goal have everyone in the world, regardless of computer experience, using Linux?
I'm a high schooler right now. Like a lot of other people in a similar situation, I have a pretty solid understanding of a bunch of programming languages - Perl, C++, PHP (sorry, no ASP or CF). So if I "know" these languages, why would I go to college? Because there's so much more to a programming language than simply the syntax. In English class you don't learn sentence structure, you study literature (well, my english class anyway). In programming classes you shouldn't be focusing on the syntax, you should be focusing on the things that are far more important: actual understanding of the programming. As someone else said, you can buy a "teach yourself ASP in 21 hours" or whatever - so what do you need a professor to lecture for? The book can teach you syntax, the professor can teach you understanding.
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But you also must have killed Jon Katz to get a perfect score :p Tough for a lawyer.
I wouldn't worry. The website I work for got slashdotted once when we were using a crappy virtual server which can't put up with *any* stress, and MySQL was the least of its problems. It uses PHP3 too. I believe slashdot itself uses MySQL, and obviously it needs more simultaneous connections than the sites it links to.
They're not going to stop it. They're going to try to decrease it. They try in "real life," right, so why not apply similar efforts to the internet?
I doubt this opinion will be popular, but I'm glad they're doing this. Racism isn't right - there's some times when freedom of speech has its limits. Sure, you can say whatever you want, but people should also be able to stop you if it's harmful.
I can't wait until my 70-year old biology teacher who rejected technology long ago has to learn boolean logic to teach her class...:)
Perhaps this just may have a practical use. Not to techies, but isn't this the kind of thing that attracts newbies to computers? My grandmother, for example, bought her mac just because it came in nice colors. Maybe virtual reality characters like this could be applied to useful purposes, like helping newbies learn about computers. Since nobody reads popup windows anyway, maybe a human voice and shape would have more of an impact. For news? Well, maybe not so useful. But most of the software on my computer isn't absolutely essential either.
How do you feel towards other geek news sites (etc.).. do you view them as competition and threats to slashdot, are you ambivilent, or do you commend their work?
_______________
Clearly it's because they got so many submissions - they only give credit for the first one. Plus it says somewhere (forget where) that slashdot rejects some insane percentage of submissions due to the sheer number of submissions they get.
Maybe the reason you don't see why "why people post stupid things" is because you're not understanding the poster's point - it isn't stupid to them. Everyone has the same thinking; if you don't agree with something or don't understand it, you assume it's wrong or ill-intentioned. I'm sure that the original poster had a reason completely different from what you suspect for posting their comment.
Well then I might as well submit a new story saying that the Pentium II has been sent to distributers. The reason slashdot is so great is because it focuses on TODAY'S news, not news from several months ago.
As for the issue at hand, I don't think anyone, even Microsoft, should be held responsible for such bugs. Cmon, all programs are going to have problems; just because one of the bugs happens to have more risky consequences doesn't mean that it is any worse than a bug that is relatively harmless. It shouldn't be concidered "negligence" - it should be expected by users of the program.
On the other hand, both Microsoft and Open source programmers should be prepared to either a) fix bugs or b) pubish them as soon as they are notified of them.
How to get started? A slashdot article can always help :) Really depends on your audience. If it's just a site for you and your friends, tell your friends. If it's a humor site, try advertising on well known humor sites. If it's a geek site, get slashdotted and you're all set :)
Typical server setup? There isn't a generic typical one. It depends GREATLY on what kind of traffic you expect. Slashdot and Andover probably have 30 billion dedicated servers, other, smaller sites, just need geocities or the like.
T1 or T3? What kind of question is that? Of course you want the fastest connection possible. Maybe your real question is whether it's really worth the extra money to get a T3 instead of a T1. Well, a T1 and a T3 doesnt mean much - you could get a T3 with insane amounts of traffic and be slower than a T1. And of course, there are other choices besides T1 and T3 :)
Backing up - definately key. I backup every 1 to 2 weeks. Note, make sure you dont overwrite your previous backups with new backups - I've done that :)
Webhosting service vs own computer? Uh... depends how much cash you have and how good your computer and connection are. If you have a really fast internet connection and your ISP doesn't mind, then use your own computer. But if you dont know much about server admining then it's probably easier just to go with a webhosting service. At least to get started. Move from there.
I think that covers it. Have fun - starting new sites can be a blast :)
"Then I'll tell the truth. We're allowed to do that in emergencies."
"Then I'll tell the truth. We're allowed to do that in emergencies."
"Then I'll tell the truth. We're allowed to do that in emergencies."
"Then I'll tell the truth. We're allowed to do that in emergencies."
I realize this only tells you what NOT to do, not what TO do... I'll try to think of something, but at this point you have 140 other ideas to work with :)
"Then I'll tell the truth. We're allowed to do that in emergencies."
Yes 90% 3379 votes
No 10% 388 votes
I think I caught this before the slashdot effect hit, so I was surpised that that "Yes" was so high. CNN.com isn't really a highly techy website.. most of its visitors aren't slashdot types. I think if you asked random people on the street whether they think windows is buggy they a) will say no or b) won't understand the term "buggy." It would be interesting to see this poll on other websites with different focuses: slashdot, some computer newbie sites, etc. They'd probably have very different results.
"Then I'll tell the truth. We're allowed to do that in emergencies."
But I agree with you otherwise, this isn't going to change any of our lives significantly.
"Then I'll tell the truth. We're allowed to do that in emergencies."
"Then I'll tell the truth. We're allowed to do that in emergencies."
That works now, but mail password doesn't. Also, just noticed that when you reply to a comment it doesn't show the score (it says Score:) and no comment number. No big deal, of course, but something you should be aware of.
Eh... That's the first thing I saw when I was reading the article. I stopped after that.. why do they feel the need to "warn" readers that they're not going to talk about "real hacks" (whatever they think that means). Seems a bit over-politically-correct to me.
I can't help but agreeing with this article. I run a website that generates large amounts of emails from newbies, and I find that dealing with the emails takes up a large chunk of my time and in fact lowers the quality of the website itself. It's probably the same thing in the linux world; the more newbies there are asking stupid questions to people who could be more valuable doing better things for linux, the less gets done. This brings us the the question of whether we WANT newbies using linux... is it better to be the "esoteric operating system," or is the final goal have everyone in the world, regardless of computer experience, using Linux?
Maybe you meant This shitty editorial on it.
I'm a high schooler right now. Like a lot of other people in a similar situation, I have a pretty solid understanding of a bunch of programming languages - Perl, C++, PHP (sorry, no ASP or CF). So if I "know" these languages, why would I go to college? Because there's so much more to a programming language than simply the syntax. In English class you don't learn sentence structure, you study literature (well, my english class anyway). In programming classes you shouldn't be focusing on the syntax, you should be focusing on the things that are far more important: actual understanding of the programming. As someone else said, you can buy a "teach yourself ASP in 21 hours" or whatever - so what do you need a professor to lecture for? The book can teach you syntax, the professor can teach you understanding.