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I for one welcome our new corporate overlords! f1rst p0st! How about a Beowulf cluster of those?? Ah, the good old days... :)

FigBug 11y ago
Natalie Portman, naked and petrified and covered in hot grits
- cjp 11y ago
  All your base! Those were some good times.
  - nailer 11y ago
    Constantly referring to 'M$FT' to be edgy. Good times. Seriously though 2016 will be the year of the Linux desktop.
    - meric 11y ago
      If you think about it, the year of the Linux mobile has happened already.
      - nailer 11y ago
        I guess that was the point: everyone was trying to conquer the desktop when the desktop was already giving way to a more dominant form of computing. But hey, the Linux kernel and Konqueror basically won consumers in the end.
    - frik 11y ago
      The Borg icon of Bill. And the /. pony logo. And the 9/11 live coverage on Slashdot, when every other news site was down, Slashdot was up and running: http://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1314258/world-trade-towers-and-pentagon-attacked http://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1314258/world-trade-tower... and http://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1842258/our-new-pearl-harbor http://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1842258/our-new-pearl-har... Ah, fond memories.
- rtee334 11y ago
  Careful, you can't says those things nowadays
  - KineticLensman 11y ago
    You should have put it like this... "Careful, In Soviet Amerika, interweb censors you"
    - filoeleven 11y ago
      My favorite Slashdot comment was attached to a story about discovering spycams in Russia. I don't remember the particulars of the story, but the entirely apropos comment was, "In Soviet Russia, ducts tape you!"
JoshTriplett 11y ago
BSD is dying. Netcraft confirms it. Slashdot is also where I first saw http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt posted. Anyone remember seeing the occasional "(Score: 5, Troll)" comment, which only happened when a comment got downvoted as "Troll" and then upvoted as "Underrated" (which didn't change the "tag")?
- cperciva 11y ago
  Anyone remember seeing the occasional "(Score: 5, Troll)" comment, which only happened when a comment got downvoted as "Troll" and then upvoted as "Underrated" (which didn't change the "tag")? I had a few of those. I was more proud of my "(Score: -1, Insightful)" though.
- lmm 11y ago
  Best I ever managed was a +4, Flamebait.
- adekok 11y ago
  Having been involved in the anti-spam thing for a while, I can simplify the "spam solutions" checklist to two items: 1) Do you have a solution to one piece of the spam problem? ( ) Yes - go away, you don't solve the whole spam problem. ( ) No - go away, you're not helping to solve the spam problem 2) Do you have a solution to the whole spam problem? ( ) Yes - go away, you're a FUSTTSP scammer ( ) No - go away, you're not helping to solve the spam problem. The explicit approach by the SMTP people was both of the above at the same time. Incremental solutions were derided as "the spammers will just try something else". Major fixes to SMTP were derided as "it takes a decade to deploy a new protocol". Well, it's been a decade since I was involved. Changes to SMTP practices mean that I've got jump through more hoops to prove my worthiness when I send email. But the amount of spam I'm getting hasn't gone down.
  - JoshTriplett 11y ago
    Searching turns up zero results for "FUSTTSP" apart from your comment. Can you elaborate?

FigBug 11y ago

Natalie Portman, naked and petrified and covered in hot grits

cjp 11y ago
All your base! Those were some good times.
- nailer 11y ago
  Constantly referring to 'M$FT' to be edgy. Good times. Seriously though 2016 will be the year of the Linux desktop.
  - meric 11y ago
    If you think about it, the year of the Linux mobile has happened already.
    - nailer 11y ago
      I guess that was the point: everyone was trying to conquer the desktop when the desktop was already giving way to a more dominant form of computing. But hey, the Linux kernel and Konqueror basically won consumers in the end.
  - frik 11y ago
    The Borg icon of Bill. And the /. pony logo. And the 9/11 live coverage on Slashdot, when every other news site was down, Slashdot was up and running: http://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1314258/world-trade-towers-and-pentagon-attacked http://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1314258/world-trade-tower... and http://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1842258/our-new-pearl-harbor http://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1842258/our-new-pearl-har... Ah, fond memories.
rtee334 11y ago
Careful, you can't says those things nowadays
- KineticLensman 11y ago
  You should have put it like this... "Careful, In Soviet Amerika, interweb censors you"
  - filoeleven 11y ago
    My favorite Slashdot comment was attached to a story about discovering spycams in Russia. I don't remember the particulars of the story, but the entirely apropos comment was, "In Soviet Russia, ducts tape you!"

JoshTriplett 11y ago

BSD is dying. Netcraft confirms it. Slashdot is also where I first saw http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt posted. Anyone remember seeing the occasional "(Score: 5, Troll)" comment, which only happened when a comment got downvoted as "Troll" and then upvoted as "Underrated" (which didn't change the "tag")?

cperciva 11y ago
Anyone remember seeing the occasional "(Score: 5, Troll)" comment, which only happened when a comment got downvoted as "Troll" and then upvoted as "Underrated" (which didn't change the "tag")? I had a few of those. I was more proud of my "(Score: -1, Insightful)" though.
lmm 11y ago
Best I ever managed was a +4, Flamebait.
adekok 11y ago
Having been involved in the anti-spam thing for a while, I can simplify the "spam solutions" checklist to two items: 1) Do you have a solution to one piece of the spam problem? ( ) Yes - go away, you don't solve the whole spam problem. ( ) No - go away, you're not helping to solve the spam problem 2) Do you have a solution to the whole spam problem? ( ) Yes - go away, you're a FUSTTSP scammer ( ) No - go away, you're not helping to solve the spam problem. The explicit approach by the SMTP people was both of the above at the same time. Incremental solutions were derided as "the spammers will just try something else". Major fixes to SMTP were derided as "it takes a decade to deploy a new protocol". Well, it's been a decade since I was involved. Changes to SMTP practices mean that I've got jump through more hoops to prove my worthiness when I send email. But the amount of spam I'm getting hasn't gone down.
- JoshTriplett 11y ago
  Searching turns up zero results for "FUSTTSP" apart from your comment. Can you elaborate?