I think that this argument is ridiculous. People post things on personal websites expecting a very small amount of traffic, and then the 500lb gorilla of the/. community comes along and crushes their puny site under a huge load of "I wanna see the cool thing too!!!"
I think that the only neighborly thing to do would be to execute a preemptive cache of the sites, especially small personal sites that are about to be trampled by us. The slashdot COMMUNITY should be just that. A community of members that care about each other and what effect our actions have on our fellows.
Jim S.
MCSE, Network Geek and all around decent Human Being
It's horrible that we live in such a litigious society that people have to worry about giving something away for free.
We've ratcheted down another couple of notches into the corporatization of everyday life.
Jim Slattery Network Guy (MCSE)
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Buddha
I too used Linux at home for a while, but as I use NT/2000 at work, I just gave up after a while. (I do still have it installed, but I just don't boot to it too often).
Too many LINUX folks don't understand that Windows 2000 and XP aren't your fathers crash-pigs.
I run 2000 now, and don't have to reboot for weeks at a time. If a process dies, I can kill it 99% of the time without affecting other programs. I also can run an 12-20 apps at the same time without slowing down. This isn't a god-machine either. It's a PIII 500 w/256mb RAM.
Yes, it's got it's issues, but when you can be in the middle of a NETWORK install to a laptop of Office 2000, and pause it, pull the PCMCIA network card out, jot down the serial number, and then plug the card back in and continue the install without a hitch, or that you can install hardware that doesn't even need to prompt you for anything, or when you can add a network printer with 5 mouse clicks, then I'm thinking it isn't that big of a problem.
Jim Slattery Network Guy (MCSE)
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
Slashdot Mirror
I think that this argument is ridiculous. People post things on personal websites expecting a very small amount of traffic, and then the 500lb gorilla of the /. community comes along and crushes their puny site under a huge load of "I wanna see the cool thing too!!!"
I think that the only neighborly thing to do would be to execute a preemptive cache of the sites, especially small personal sites that are about to be trampled by us. The slashdot COMMUNITY should be just that. A community of members that care about each other and what effect our actions have on our fellows.
Jim S.
MCSE, Network Geek and all around decent Human Being
It's horrible that we live in such a litigious society that people have to worry about giving something away for free.
We've ratcheted down another couple of notches into the corporatization of everyday life.
Jim Slattery
Network Guy (MCSE)
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- Buddha
Necessity is a Mother.
Jim
I too used Linux at home for a while, but as I use NT/2000 at work, I just gave up after a while. (I do still have it installed, but I just don't boot to it too often).
Too many LINUX folks don't understand that Windows 2000 and XP aren't your fathers crash-pigs.
I run 2000 now, and don't have to reboot for weeks at a time. If a process dies, I can kill it 99% of the time without affecting other programs. I also can run an 12-20 apps at the same time without slowing down. This isn't a god-machine either. It's a PIII 500 w/256mb RAM.
Yes, it's got it's issues, but when you can be in the middle of a NETWORK install to a laptop of Office 2000, and pause it, pull the PCMCIA network card out, jot down the serial number, and then plug the card back in and continue the install without a hitch, or that you can install hardware that doesn't even need to prompt you for anything, or when you can add a network printer with 5 mouse clicks, then I'm thinking it isn't that big of a problem.
Jim Slattery
Network Guy (MCSE)
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.