Thanks to RedHat, we now have closed-source applications using the development libc for Linux systems (glibc 2.0) instead of the stable branch. Considering that the stable branch is out, and seems quite good (I run it here under Slackware 7.0), why are they releasing it for glibc2.0? That's like putting out development patches for the 2.1.x kernels now that we're onto 2.2.x (and beyond).
Sigh. At least they're not using a kernel bug this time. I just wish they'd have an LGPLed wrapper for the core so we could fix things like linking to outdated/unstable glibcs. ---
$ whois openssh.com@whois.corenic.net Record created: 1999-10-25 08:44:41 MET by CORE-80
$ whois openssh.net@whois.networksolutions.com Record created on 16-Nov-1999.
$ whois openssh.org@whois.networksolutions.com Record created on 04-Nov-1999.
So it was 1) OpenSSH.ORG by our friend in Europe (04-11-1999) 2) OpenSSH.NET 12 days later by the OpenBSD people (16-11-19996) 3) OpenSSH.COM a further 9 days later (25-11-1999)
I don't understand why they don't just use.net. They (OpenSSH project) did register it before the one in the COM TLD. Sigh. ---
Somehow, a moderator decided that: "Nothing is a problem once you debug the code."
A true, if somewhat tongue in cheek comment, is being a troll, but:
"Go work on your games or something."
ISN'T!
This reminds me of a chemistry class I once took. "Nothing is a problem once you've got the balanced reaction equation." "Go read a book or something."
Why do the moderators (or perhaps this one moderator) sanction trolling behaviour, and dump on a genuine statement?
Once I grew used to Explorer in Win95, I found it rather nice. A tree view that, while non-configuarable and overly cutesy, allows me to enumerate drives/machines/file systems, with a second list view which lets me work with the files. With proper context menus, easy hooks for adding things to context menus, etc, it was really kinda spiffy (althought the configuration of such required you write a DLL and hack the registry). I was hoping someone would make a similar utility for X11 (this was before Gnome existed, and I was raw X;-).
GMC is pretty good emulating that, with its list view and tree view. While Miguel has "kitchen-sink, et all"ed the original text mode one (which was unessecary, IMO), it would be nice if he had a nice documented (and for those people who can't handle text, a gui config dialog for) a flexible mime type editor. Right now, the mime types are more a part of gnome-libs and require that you use the gnome config to edit, or just track down the file in the file system..
Hopefully the next iteration has configurable FTP, NFS, SMB, etc, left-hand treeview with configurable (via mime types and scripting) list view -- no web browser:-) ---
Or the Gnome-MC (which is, IMO, very nice). This line struck me as the most self-contradictory: "users must type file names into a command-line interface."
Is it the common dialog of GTK+/QT he doesn't like? I don't recall the Win32 common dialog having a nice little "click pretty pictures to specify a textual name" thing.
I think what we have is a red herring article designed to trump up the new Eazel effort. Compare: "Nautilus' file system includes a point-and-click file manager that will offer advanced features like the ability to tell the difference between sound files and pictures, and display them accordingly."
This right after mentioning that the ex-apple people would be using Nautilus. It's practically a press-release. Step 1: Say there are no graphical feature F in X and Y graphical front ends. Step 2: Mention that Z project is using program B Step 3: Crow about program B. Mention it has features F, K, and G. Step 4: Mention that some guy related to Y front ends and other internals has "seen the prototype, and loved it" -- something which should not be special with opensource (ie: everyone can see it).
He also ignores the fact that Gnome-MC and KFM both use mime types to display file types (although KFM, by default, seems to know fewer mime types) claiming that they don't know what they are (by saying that Nautilus does).
Then the semi-FUD makes its appearance: "questioned the need for yet another PC interface -- especially one based on a design that hasn't changed significantly in 20 years."
We don't rethink addition or subtraction every 20 years just because the knowledge is "old" and "hasn't changed significantly".. I really wish people today would understand the concept of matured software/knowledge.
Then the guy is quoted as saying that they want "internet enabled" desktops which tell you what you need to know. Which strikes me as wrong because 1) if I want to browse, I open a browser and 2) if I want to filter knowledge, I can.
I use Linux/Gnome and Win95 on my workstations at home (Win95 for games and some apps, Gnome for the rest). And I've worked on machines with the "IE memory/CPU tax" installed at work. Considering the 3 to 5 second pauses most tasks seem to require as parts of IE load for doing things like file management on a machine that is 400Mhz (Celeron) and has 128mb of ram (SDRAM DIMM).. It's funny to see how many Win98 machines perform worse than my own slower machine at home (a paltry 266Mhz K6-2 w/ 128mb of ram SDRAM DIMM). I really wish people would get off this integration kick that MS seems to have started (and which Gnome, KDE, etc seem to be following a bit). The basic shell should provide mechanism, not policy. If I want to do a set of tasks, I'll have applications for them (that are small and fast).. Not some huge integration crud.. ---
Uhm, that's just a login thing. Saying that you have a one time pad (because telnet is clear) to login is still no substitute for SSH. If you type "su," or do anything requiring a password, people will see it (although the S/Key su fixes that a bit). Ditto for any sensitive files edited or viewed, or anything else that is typed or displayed. It's like giving your credit card out over a cell phone. Don't do it. ---
I've talked about a gtk applet that would use XML backends for describing various things. It'd be an extensible control panel.
The principle was that there is a root run daemon that monitors PS and measures how often certain programs are run. This would allow a person to choose little used programs to be removed.
Another part of the add/remove "front end" for the control panel would be installation. I talked with the author of gxTar (see freshmeat for it) about the install principle. It would involve untarring to a temp dir, and analyzing the output of configure --help. Then, the user can use "default safe" values, or change then via a wizard or dialog. For rpms, slackware tarballs, and debs, you could just use the the preexisting methods for checking files. For the GNU/autoconf, you could use something like the locatedb functionality for monitor what was added to the filesystem.
This allows a nice centralised install and remove functionality, regardless of packageformat, and can be extended to handle more and more package formats. It also allows you to remove what you don't use. So if you go window shopping on freshmeat and install hundreds of applets, you can prune away what you don't use after a few weeks.
paradox would preclude you ever entering. The border'd be like the lint trap of the universe.
Here's an example: You fly towards the zone of reverse time. Upon crossing the border, you go "back" in time, and reverse your newtonian motion back over the line. Once in "forward" zone, you get normal newtonian mechanics pushing you back in, ad nausieum.
If you wanted to leave in the reverse zone, you'd have to be in it already (good luck!), and you'd have to be reversing along to your entry point. Otherwise, the flow of time would be in defience of itself:-) Since your entry would be reversed once you leave, you'd be trapped again.
So before you go boldy reversing where no one has reversed before, you have to understand that you're either in it or not, relatively speaking, as your frame of reference would preclude you ever jumping to an alternate time stream/zone. If you were born there, we seem reversed. Vice versa. And there's no way to pass messages or objects, so there'd technically be no way for things to escape. Perhaps black holes are partially pockets of antitime? ---
In a similar vein, I wish that generic TLDs would have a simple directory server (HTML generated from LDAP hierarchy, perhaps?).
IE:
I go to www.ca -) Get a topical listing of the regions of Canada.
Then I head to www.sk.ca to get a listing of things in Saskatchewan. I decide to look in on a city called Saskatoon, so I head to www.saskatoon.sk.ca..
True, the URL becomes semi-nasty the further in you go, but it is logically strucutured, allowing for simple DNS logic and LDAP organization. Using things like "Friendly Names," bookmarks, and search engines, it would be trivial to not have to worry about the actual URL when dealing with large hiearchies.. and since this is all done via HTML, which allows hyper linking, you could have a nice relational mapping of everything in the world regardless of logical location.. Kinda like symlinks.
Ooops... But then, I did post that in the morning..
There's no satire-code lint checkbox on Slashdot, oh well;-) I also forgot the part about feeding the servers crack, and testing if (1 == 0) { work_properly(one_nano_second); } ---
They're, well, interesting. We talked about the INS being pathetic, but these people take the cake. If they replaced the INS, you can be sure you'd get a "confirmation of request to enter the country and become a citizen" mail 4 weeks after you received your green card and moved to California.
Many of the stories posted are neither news, nor do they matter. Particularly compared to the things that get left out to make room for the stuff that doesn't matter.
There are one or three really interesting things throughout the day. The/. crew really are getting more and more things published. If you want to tighten your focus (ie: you do not even have time to skip the stories you do not want to read about), have the userprefs do it for you. Accounts are free.
Of late it seems that/. is about the last place to publish a story. So even when it would otherwise qualify as "news" and it really does matter, it's old news by the time you see it on/.
As head count goes up, so do comments, story submissions, scalability problems, etc. If you don't like it, leave.
Stories with massive inaccuracies, incorrect/broken links, misspellings, mind-bogglingly poor usage of the language. Or just down-right incorrect usage.
I stopped picking on people's grammar and spelling about the same time I grew up. Maybe there's a correlation? Really. This is nitpicking of the worst sort. It is not beneficial, nor will it help Jeff's language skills. As for broken links, you can get some free karma by fixing it for those who can't figure out how to fix it.
Slashdot performance, well... sucks. Poor response times. Site just not responding for minutes or tens-of-minutes at a time.
*cough* 1,000,000 page views / 24 hours -- that's 695 page views a minute, or 12 page views a second (aprox). If you consider that a page view requires loading of several images, plus database queries, etc, you'll see why this happens. It's going to get better as VA Linux helps sponsor/. with hardware
Of course:/. could lower its load a bit by turning the default for comments back to "Threaded" from "Flat." Thus obviating the need for those of use who don't see the need for a/. "account" from having to hit the machine twice every time we go to comments. (Gotta wonder who came up with that idea.)
Oh, god. Not an "account" -- you might get "karma" or be able to filter the stories, and fix other things you've been bitching about. Gee, if you weren't able to complain about/., what would you do with your spare time? More grits?
The so-called "moderation" system, well... sucks. Geek/nerd/hacker wanna-be types down-moderating anything they don't understand or that appears to deviate from the One True Way Of Open Source.
It works well enough that your (mostly spurious, but a few had some merit) comments made it to my +1 threshold. And then, there is meta-moderation -- which does address this further. The accountability is there, it's just anonymous (like you). That doesn't mean it's nonexistant.
This seems to be a case of, "I like to complain and not do things that I could easily do that would save me effort," AFAIKT. ---
Nuts to you. Linux.com's layout is horrible. You have to learn that eye-candy, content, and layout are often mutually exclusive. If you want some semi-linear layout that has downright insanely large amounts of graphics, you'd end up pissing off a fair portion of the audience and nuking Rob's bandwidth. He and Hemos wouldn't be able to apt-get their Debians (or some such)!
If you really want to get look at HTML 2.0, go stair at some cardboard. It has the proper colourant, and remember that images and tables and such did not exist then. ---
I'm remineded of a few days ago when a certain slashdot bug which let the img tag through (and led to image trolling), led to a lot of -5s.. More than 45 comments were below -1;-)
Another time was when someone had a +6 remark, back in December. Perhaps a burp on the part of one of the webserver's ram chips, or a genuine influence? ---
This site loads Slashdot's main page. Is this a harmless redirect, or perhaps a way of stealing a person's login cookie?
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And then there are you guys, who are a part of the community. You can be quite churlish at times (see the whole "I smack bitches who mail asking for source" thread;-), but you guys do go "into the trenches" to answer our questions (witness now).
My greatest (and pretty much only) complaint related to slashdot has to do with the incompotence of whomever was responsible for the webcast of the beanie awards:-) :
I wish you'd had 3 camera guys at the Beanie awards. Your camera director needed to be faster on those transistions, you needed to get the robot a microphone, and you needed to have better instructions to the men. ---
"Sendmail - You can't tell me you're not running Sendmail. Sendmail has mountains of anti-spam measures. Take a few hours to figure out the Sendmail config file. You'll be glad you did. Spammers can't even connect to your system now!"
A few hours? Have you seen the line noise piped to a file that is sendmail.cf?
Do yourself a favour, and get Postfix -- a replacement for Sendmail. The Postfix MTA is more secure (ie: anything that talks on a TCP port is not priviledged, all the subdaemons can be chrooted), not spammer friendly (it's almost impossible to configure as an open relay, and has good support for pop before SMTP and other authentication bits), can use DUL, RBL, RSS, and ORBS out of the box, and the config file is plain-jane-text, with simple "name = value" pairings.
Not to mention PCRE and regexp support for filtering various mails, the ability to use dbm, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other backends (like LDAP) for aliases, virtual mappings, etc. And, best of all, it's more RFC compliant than Sendmail (and smaller and faster;-).
We here at TMing. Inc. (r)(tm)(sm) are shocked that you would think poorly of our "Product, what product?"(patent pending) marketting approach to doing business. We all knew the market for products to consumers would saturate someday, and we're just trying to make a fair (*) buck by trademarking "computer" related terms -- and suing other people who use them! We admit that while perhaps having prior art and general usage on computers, these terms and algorithms are not generally obvious to a person who has no experience with computers or rational thought in general (like a newborn or US congressman). In the daring world of today's business, companies must feed off of each other to survive!
(* Ok, so it's not fair by webster's definition, but our lawyers assured us that a lot of things people don't consider fair are perfectly legal in the US, and can even be enforced internationally via rulings in small regional court houses in the US. If you have a problem with that, we'll be more than happy to send a few cease-and-desist letters.)
Of course is failed in the market place because we (the market customers) killed it. At no point did I say that I, personally, went out and destroyed the monster known as DIVX. If I did do anything, it was by NOT buying DIVX or related things (like a lot of people).
Really, I expect better of people, even an AC such as yourself. Well, free clue in return, although this was bordering on ClueBat(tm);-) ---
Slashdot Mirror
Slackware was the second or third distribution of Linux to exist.. SLS obviously didn't meat Patrick's needs ;-)
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Thanks to RedHat, we now have closed-source applications using the development libc for Linux systems (glibc 2.0) instead of the stable branch. Considering that the stable branch is out, and seems quite good (I run it here under Slackware 7.0), why are they releasing it for glibc2.0? That's like putting out development patches for the 2.1.x kernels now that we're onto 2.2.x (and beyond).
Sigh. At least they're not using a kernel bug this time. I just wish they'd have an LGPLed wrapper for the core so we could fix things like linking to outdated/unstable glibcs.
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$ whois openssh.com@whois.corenic.net
Record created: 1999-10-25 08:44:41 MET by CORE-80
$ whois openssh.net@whois.networksolutions.com
Record created on 16-Nov-1999.
$ whois openssh.org@whois.networksolutions.com
Record created on 04-Nov-1999.
So it was
1) OpenSSH.ORG by our friend in Europe (04-11-1999)
2) OpenSSH.NET 12 days later by the OpenBSD people (16-11-19996)
3) OpenSSH.COM a further 9 days later (25-11-1999)
I don't understand why they don't just use
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They have to watch "Full Metal Jacket"
"Guy 1: Ever shoot women and children?
Guy 2: Sometimes.. I try not to.
Guy 1: How could you?
Guy 2: It's not hard. You just don't lead them so much."
Just replace "women and children" with "newbies"
>:-)
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Let me clarify.
Somehow, a moderator decided that:
"Nothing is a problem once you debug the code."
A true, if somewhat tongue in cheek comment, is being a troll, but:
"Go work on your games or something."
ISN'T!
This reminds me of a chemistry class I once took.
"Nothing is a problem once you've got the balanced reaction equation."
"Go read a book or something."
Why do the moderators (or perhaps this one moderator) sanction trolling behaviour, and dump on a genuine statement?
See you all metamoderating...
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The Street was a nice plot device, but his "BIOS" munging was a bit over the line, methinks ;-)
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Once I grew used to Explorer in Win95, I found it rather nice. A tree view that, while non-configuarable and overly cutesy, allows me to enumerate drives/machines/file systems, with a second list view which lets me work with the files. With proper context menus, easy hooks for adding things to context menus, etc, it was really kinda spiffy (althought the configuration of such required you write a DLL and hack the registry). I was hoping someone would make a similar utility for X11 (this was before Gnome existed, and I was raw X ;-).
:-)
GMC is pretty good emulating that, with its list view and tree view. While Miguel has "kitchen-sink, et all"ed the original text mode one (which was unessecary, IMO), it would be nice if he had a nice documented (and for those people who can't handle text, a gui config dialog for) a flexible mime type editor. Right now, the mime types are more a part of gnome-libs and require that you use the gnome config to edit, or just track down the file in the file system..
Hopefully the next iteration has configurable FTP, NFS, SMB, etc, left-hand treeview with configurable (via mime types and scripting) list view -- no web browser
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Or the Gnome-MC (which is, IMO, very nice). This line struck me as the most self-contradictory:
.. I really wish people today would understand the concept of matured software/knowledge.
"users must type file names into a command-line interface."
Is it the common dialog of GTK+/QT he doesn't like? I don't recall the Win32 common dialog having a nice little "click pretty pictures to specify a textual name" thing.
I think what we have is a red herring article designed to trump up the new Eazel effort.
Compare:
"Nautilus' file system includes a point-and-click file manager that will offer advanced features like the ability to tell the difference between sound files and pictures, and display them accordingly."
This right after mentioning that the ex-apple people would be using Nautilus. It's practically a press-release.
Step 1: Say there are no graphical feature F in X and Y graphical front ends.
Step 2: Mention that Z project is using program B
Step 3: Crow about program B. Mention it has features F, K, and G.
Step 4: Mention that some guy related to Y front ends and other internals has "seen the prototype, and loved it" -- something which should not be special with opensource (ie: everyone can see it).
He also ignores the fact that Gnome-MC and KFM both use mime types to display file types (although KFM, by default, seems to know fewer mime types) claiming that they don't know what they are (by saying that Nautilus does).
Then the semi-FUD makes its appearance:
"questioned the need for yet another PC interface -- especially one based on a design that hasn't changed significantly in 20 years."
We don't rethink addition or subtraction every 20 years just because the knowledge is "old" and "hasn't changed significantly"
Then the guy is quoted as saying that they want "internet enabled" desktops which tell you what you need to know. Which strikes me as wrong because 1) if I want to browse, I open a browser and 2) if I want to filter knowledge, I can.
I use Linux/Gnome and Win95 on my workstations at home (Win95 for games and some apps, Gnome for the rest). And I've worked on machines with the "IE memory/CPU tax" installed at work. Considering the 3 to 5 second pauses most tasks seem to require as parts of IE load for doing things like file management on a machine that is 400Mhz (Celeron) and has 128mb of ram (SDRAM DIMM).. It's funny to see how many Win98 machines perform worse than my own slower machine at home (a paltry 266Mhz K6-2 w/ 128mb of ram SDRAM DIMM). I really wish people would get off this integration kick that MS seems to have started (and which Gnome, KDE, etc seem to be following a bit). The basic shell should provide mechanism, not policy. If I want to do a set of tasks, I'll have applications for them (that are small and fast).. Not some huge integration crud..
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Uhm, that's just a login thing. Saying that you have a one time pad (because telnet is clear) to login is still no substitute for SSH. If you type "su," or do anything requiring a password, people will see it (although the S/Key su fixes that a bit). Ditto for any sensitive files edited or viewed, or anything else that is typed or displayed. It's like giving your credit card out over a cell phone. Don't do it.
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I've talked about a gtk applet that would use XML backends for describing various things. It'd be an extensible control panel.
:-)
The principle was that there is a root run daemon that monitors PS and measures how often certain programs are run. This would allow a person to choose little used programs to be removed.
Another part of the add/remove "front end" for the control panel would be installation. I talked with the author of gxTar (see freshmeat for it) about the install principle. It would involve untarring to a temp dir, and analyzing the output of configure --help. Then, the user can use "default safe" values, or change then via a wizard or dialog. For rpms, slackware tarballs, and debs, you could just use the the preexisting methods for checking files. For the GNU/autoconf, you could use something like the locatedb functionality for monitor what was added to the filesystem.
This allows a nice centralised install and remove functionality, regardless of packageformat, and can be extended to handle more and more package formats. It also allows you to remove what you don't use. So if you go window shopping on freshmeat and install hundreds of applets, you can prune away what you don't use after a few weeks.
Well, just some ideas of mine
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paradox would preclude you ever entering. The border'd be like the lint trap of the universe.
:-) Since your entry would be reversed once you leave, you'd be trapped again.
Here's an example:
You fly towards the zone of reverse time. Upon crossing the border, you go "back" in time, and reverse your newtonian motion back over the line. Once in "forward" zone, you get normal newtonian mechanics pushing you back in, ad nausieum.
If you wanted to leave in the reverse zone, you'd have to be in it already (good luck!), and you'd have to be reversing along to your entry point. Otherwise, the flow of time would be in defience of itself
So before you go boldy reversing where no one has reversed before, you have to understand that you're either in it or not, relatively speaking, as your frame of reference would preclude you ever jumping to an alternate time stream/zone. If you were born there, we seem reversed. Vice versa. And there's no way to pass messages or objects, so there'd technically be no way for things to escape. Perhaps black holes are partially pockets of antitime?
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In a similar vein, I wish that generic TLDs would have a simple directory server (HTML generated from LDAP hierarchy, perhaps?).
:-)
IE:
I go to www.ca -) Get a topical listing of the regions of Canada.
Then I head to www.sk.ca to get a listing of things in Saskatchewan. I decide to look in on a city called Saskatoon, so I head to www.saskatoon.sk.ca..
True, the URL becomes semi-nasty the further in you go, but it is logically strucutured, allowing for simple DNS logic and LDAP organization. Using things like "Friendly Names," bookmarks, and search engines, it would be trivial to not have to worry about the actual URL when dealing with large hiearchies.. and since this is all done via HTML, which allows hyper linking, you could have a nice relational mapping of everything in the world regardless of logical location.. Kinda like symlinks.
Anyways, just some musings of mine
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Ooops... But then, I did post that in the morning..
;-) I also forgot the part about feeding the servers crack, and testing if (1 == 0) { work_properly(one_nano_second); }
There's no satire-code lint checkbox on Slashdot, oh well
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They're, well, interesting. We talked about the INS being pathetic, but these people take the cake. If they replaced the INS, you can be sure you'd get a "confirmation of request to enter the country and become a citizen" mail 4 weeks after you received your green card and moved to California.
/dev/dsp);
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NSI domain managment psuedo code:
if(new_email)
{
grab(new_email);
grab(mail_from_queue[random()]);
send(letter(confirmation));
if(email_changing_options)
{
send(letter(confirmation);
if(mail_security)
{
if(crypt)
crypt(password, password);
else if(mail_from)
for(i = 0; i (255 * random()); i++)
send(letter(confirmation));
else if(pgp)
{
send(pgp_pubkey(random_recipients));
send(pgp_privkey(random_recipients));
}
}
}
if(cranky_servers)
{
transfer_domain(randomly);
send(letter(info_about_transfer));
}
play("/usr/share/sounds/maniacal_laughter.wav",
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NSI -- the dot incompetent people.
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That site is not mine :-) Some troll poster posted it the other day. It's also been on a few other message boards.
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Shouldn't you be off pouring grits down your pants while watching a statue of a certain Star Wars related actress?
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- Many of the stories posted are neither news, nor do they matter. Particularly compared to the things that get left out to make room for the stuff that doesn't matter.
There are one or three really interesting things throughout the day. The- Of late it seems that
/. is about the last place to publish a story. So even when it would otherwise qualify as "news" and it really does matter, it's old news by the time you see it on /.
As head count goes up, so do comments, story submissions, scalability problems, etc. If you don't like it, leave.- Stories with massive inaccuracies, incorrect/broken links, misspellings, mind-bogglingly poor usage of the language. Or just down-right incorrect usage.
I stopped picking on people's grammar and spelling about the same time I grew up. Maybe there's a correlation? Really. This is nitpicking of the worst sort. It is not beneficial, nor will it help Jeff's language skills. As for broken links, you can get some free karma by fixing it for those who can't figure out how to fix it.- Slashdot performance, well... sucks. Poor response times. Site just not responding for minutes or tens-of-minutes at a time.
*cough* 1,000,000 page views / 24 hours -- that's 695 page views a minute, or 12 page views a second (aprox). If you consider that a page view requires loading of several images, plus database queries, etc, you'll see why this happens. It's going to get better as VA Linux helps sponsor- Of course:
/. could lower its load a bit by turning the default for comments back to "Threaded" from "Flat." Thus obviating the need for those of use who don't see the need for a /. "account" from having to hit the machine twice every time we go to comments. (Gotta wonder who came up with that idea.)
Oh, god. Not an "account" -- you might get "karma" or be able to filter the stories, and fix other things you've been bitching about. Gee, if you weren't able to complain about- The so-called "moderation" system, well... sucks. Geek/nerd/hacker wanna-be types
It works well enough that your (mostly spurious, but a few had some merit) comments made it to my +1 threshold. And then, there is meta-moderation -- which does address this further. The accountability is there, it's just anonymous (like you). That doesn't mean it's nonexistant.down-moderating anything they don't understand or that appears to deviate from the One True Way Of Open Source.
This seems to be a case of, "I like to complain and not do things that I could easily do that would save me effort," AFAIKT.
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Nuts to you. Linux.com's layout is horrible. You have to learn that eye-candy, content, and layout are often mutually exclusive. If you want some semi-linear layout that has downright insanely large amounts of graphics, you'd end up pissing off a fair portion of the audience and nuking Rob's bandwidth. He and Hemos wouldn't be able to apt-get their Debians (or some such)!
If you really want to get look at HTML 2.0, go stair at some cardboard. It has the proper colourant, and remember that images and tables and such did not exist then.
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I'm remineded of a few days ago when a certain slashdot bug which let the img tag through (and led to image trolling), led to a lot of -5s.. More than 45 comments were below -1 ;-)
Another time was when someone had a +6 remark, back in December. Perhaps a burp on the part of one of the webserver's ram chips, or a genuine influence?
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This site loads Slashdot's main page. Is this a harmless redirect, or perhaps a way of stealing a person's login cookie?
Organization:
Andrew Chandler
Chafford Hundred
London,
UK
Registrar..: Register.com (http://www.register.com)
Domain Name: SLAPDASH.ORG
Created on..............: Thu, Dec 16, 1999
Expires on..............: Sat, Dec 15, 2001
Record last updated on..: Thu, Dec 16, 1999
Administrative Contact:
Chandler, Andrew Andrew.Chandler@FT.com
+44 7976151688
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Internic, Registrar internic-free@register.com
212-594-9880
Be suspicious
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And then there are you guys, who are a part of the community. You can be quite churlish at times (see the whole "I smack bitches who mail asking for source" thread ;-), but you guys do go "into the trenches" to answer our questions (witness now).
:-) :
My greatest (and pretty much only) complaint related to slashdot has to do with the incompotence of whomever was responsible for the webcast of the beanie awards
I wish you'd had 3 camera guys at the Beanie awards. Your camera director needed to be faster on those transistions, you needed to get the robot a microphone, and you needed to have better instructions to the men.
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"Sendmail - You can't tell me you're not running Sendmail. Sendmail has mountains of anti-spam measures. Take a few hours to figure out the Sendmail config file. You'll be glad you did. Spammers can't even connect to your system now!"
;-).
A few hours? Have you seen the line noise piped to a file that is sendmail.cf?
Do yourself a favour, and get Postfix -- a replacement for Sendmail. The Postfix MTA is more secure (ie: anything that talks on a TCP port is not priviledged, all the subdaemons can be chrooted), not spammer friendly (it's almost impossible to configure as an open relay, and has good support for pop before SMTP and other authentication bits), can use DUL, RBL, RSS, and ORBS out of the box, and the config file is plain-jane-text, with simple "name = value" pairings.
Not to mention PCRE and regexp support for filtering various mails, the ability to use dbm, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other backends (like LDAP) for aliases, virtual mappings, etc. And, best of all, it's more RFC compliant than Sendmail (and smaller and faster
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We here at TMing. Inc. (r)(tm)(sm) are shocked that you would think poorly of our "Product, what product?"(patent pending) marketting approach to doing business. We all knew the market for products to consumers would saturate someday, and we're just trying to make a fair (*) buck by trademarking "computer" related terms -- and suing other people who use them! We admit that while perhaps having prior art and general usage on computers, these terms and algorithms are not generally obvious to a person who has no experience with computers or rational thought in general (like a newborn or US congressman). In the daring world of today's business, companies must feed off of each other to survive!
(* Ok, so it's not fair by webster's definition, but our lawyers assured us that a lot of things people don't consider fair are perfectly legal in the US, and can even be enforced internationally via rulings in small regional court houses in the US. If you have a problem with that, we'll be more than happy to send a few cease-and-desist letters.)
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Where you can have any colour of computer, as long as it is a semitransparent fruit flavour.
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Of course is failed in the market place because we (the market customers) killed it. At no point did I say that I, personally, went out and destroyed the monster known as DIVX. If I did do anything, it was by NOT buying DIVX or related things (like a lot of people).
;-)
Really, I expect better of people, even an AC such as yourself. Well, free clue in return, although this was bordering on ClueBat(tm)
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