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The Slashdot Effect

The Slashdot Effect 12/17/2004 06:43 PM

Slashdot effect: Interesting comments and links about the Slashdot effect.

Few definitive numbers exist regarding the precise magnitude of the Slashdot effect, but estimates put the peak of the mass influx of page requests at anywhere from several hundred to several thousand hits per minute. The flood usually peaks when the article is at the top of Slashdot's front page and gradually subsides as the story is superseded by newer items. Traffic usually remains at elevated levels until the article is pushed off the front page, which can take from 12 to 18 hours after its initial posting.

Someday people will live in fear of "The Gadgetopia Effect."

Slashdot Humour

Slashdot Humour 04/20/2004 08:43 PM

Spotted in a thread about a newly discovered TCP/IP vulnerability:

No problem (Score:5, Funny)
by niom (638987) on Tuesday April 20, @03:18PM (#8920438)

I'll just switch to UDP.

Re:No problem (Score:5, Funny)
by TheTomcat (53158) on Tuesday April 20, @03:25PM (#8920559)

more like:
UDP just I. switch ll'll to I just

Slashdot for WAP phones 1.0

Slashdot for WAP phones 1.0 02/17/2004 11:50 AM
An adapter that lets you read Slashdot articles on a WAP enabled mobile phone.

Slashdot Is Worthless

Slashdot Is Worthless 01/07/2003 09:53 PM
There. I said it. Slashdot is worthless. OK, I'll admit that the headlines are useful, but the comments certainly are not. The sad thing about Slashdot is that there are still people posting useful and interesting comments, and they're utterly and completely lost among the utter crap that floods the site. Generally I make do by simply ignoring the comments section on Slashdot entirely, but after reading the comments on the Jhai PC yesterday, I realized that the comments section is not just worthless but actually a malign force. -- rafeco

I see it slightly differently. Slashdot is great as a black hole for all the stupid comments you have kept deep down inside you, a place you can let go of all your shit. Just like this weblog!

"tri" Link thanks to Archipelago.

"zeldman.honey"

Slashdot over IPv6

Slashdot over IPv6 02/13/2003 05:05 AM
This trick works for most sites by simply appending .sixxs.org to the domain part of a url, eg http://www.google.com.sixxs.org, the gateway will the rewrite ...

Slashdot Down for Service

Slashdot Down for Service 07/16/2004 11:55 PM
Geeks of the world, relax! Slashdot, that uber-blog of open-source technology news isn't under attack. It is, however, undergoing a scheduled, but unannounced, code refresh.

Slashdot caído

Slashdot caído 08/02/2004 05:18 PM

Slashdot for WAP phones 1.2

Slashdot for WAP phones 1.2 07/21/2004 09:26 AM
An adapter that lets you read Slashdot articles on a WAP enabled mobile phone.

Slashdot Gets Real

Slashdot Gets Real 09/14/2004 02:27 PM
Real Networks' CEO, Rob Glaser, talks Harmony, Freedom of Choice, and support for the Mac OS in a revealing Slashdot interview.

Gnomoradio on Slashdot

Gnomoradio on Slashdot 09/10/2004 12:59 PM

Last October we wrote about Gnomoradio, software that helps people share CC-licensed music.

Gnomoradio has made good progress since then. Check out the new screenshots.

One Gnomoradio screenshot. Click for more.

Now Slashdot has taken notice, with ensuing discussion.

Michael Badnarik on Slashdot

Michael Badnarik on Slashdot 09/21/2004 01:07 AM
Libertarian Presidential candidate Michael Badnarik an swers Slashdot's qu estions.

Slashdot Trolling Defined

Slashdot Trolling Defined 01/16/2004 11:33 AM

Slashdot trolling phenomena: Here's an example of awesomeness of Wikipedia combined with some pretty interesting reading. It's several thousand words on the trolling of Slashdot comments.

The Slashdot trolling phenomena make up a bizarre and complex subculture found on the popular Slashdot technology website. It is a mixture of juvenilia, sarcasm, deliberately bad jokes, tasteless nonsense and highly developed and artistic attempts to provoke outraged responses from other forum users, or amuse them. It is a subset and a microcosm of Internet trolling in general.

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Slashdot | Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun
Sites

Slashdot | Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun
Sites 11/04/2003 07:35 AM
Symantec's Internet Security 2004 is blocking pro-gun sites across the board .. anti-2nd Amendment .. blocking .. cluge .. :

yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/11/02/1729239.shtml?tid=103&tid=153&tid=99
track this site | 6 links

Legal uses for P2P catalogued on
Slashdot

Legal uses for P2P catalogued on
Slashdot 12/27/2004 10:38 AM
Cory Doctorow: The Supreme Court have agreed to hear the appeal on Grokster v MGM, the court case that EFF won, legalizing P2P networks. To help save the Internet's bacon, Slashdot users have clubbed together to catalog noninfringing uses for P2P networks.

Durring the beginning of the Iraq war, I used P2P to get video and pictures that were censored from the US. The instant I hear about pictures, recordings, etc. on another network they can't show in the US, I go find them on P2P. Along with that search, I also found pictures that solders had taken along the way. Then I found gunship video (de-classified and classified because it had altitude/other readings) showing people walking into a building. The order came, and they leveled the building. Then started firing on anyone leaving the scene. You could actually see the men get thrown around after getting hit with munitions. On, and this video just happened to show one man running into a mosque so he was let go. (sure it wasn't leaked on purpose)

Link (via Waxy)

Slashdot Goes Dark, Briefly

Slashdot Goes Dark, Briefly 07/19/2004 02:49 AM
Extreme Tech Jul 19 2004 7:08AM GMT

Slashdot Weekend Roundup

Slashdot Weekend Roundup 04/26/2004 07:40 AM
Slashdot had some good gadget news this weekend (I know! They must have changed the mix in their daily free Thinkgeek Crazy Caffeine Slurry). The first was a tongue-in-cheek homemade mod which stuffs the cooling power of case fans into a gel mousepad, dubbed the 'BreezePad.' Then there was the...

Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards

Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards 01/07/2004 07:09 PM
A look at the markup behind Slashdot.org that demonstrates how simple -- and cost-effective -- the switch to a standards-compliant Slashdot could be. (Part I of a two-part series.)

Slashdot: The Hardened-PHP Project

Slashdot: The Hardened-PHP Project 05/17/2004 02:44 AM
Stefan Esser is the author of the Hardened PHP project. Reading through the feature-list, i cannot help but feel that some of these features should have been rolled into PHP's standard safe-mode. Implementing it as a set of patches just means a lot more work for everyone, particularly the maintainer.

Some of the responses to this post were quite interesting. Among other things, PHP appears to be a great programming tool for Porn.

Slashdot Commentors on SuprNova

Slashdot Commentors on SuprNova 12/22/2004 01:03 AM

Following up on Torrent Shutdowns: Slashdot has posted a bit on Sup rNova being shutdown. What I found interesting were the comments: they are generally very anti-SuprNova, very pro-copyright. An example:

Furthermore, this is exactly what should be happening: the government attacks those who break the law, rather than those who create the tools. Bit torrent and p2p applications have legal, useful purposes; by seeking those who use them in illegal ways rather than banning them altogther is appropriate, rather than trying to ban them.

I find this odd (notice I said "odd," not "wrong") for a site like Slashdot.

Slashdot troll speaks

Slashdot troll speaks 11/01/2003 12:57 PM
Tom Coates has been discussing technical tricks for coping with message-board trolls on his Everything in Moderation blog, and, surpisingly, an avowed Slashdot troll has shown up to explain why he undertakes extreme technical measures to disrupt Slashdot's message baords.

...i believe that the people who must be treated with the most public, forthright, and open methods of censure are those who offend us the most. i do not believe that trickery is ever as effective as open methods because trickery is, at its core, dishonest to both the person being tricked and the online community you have secretly enacted policy for.

i believe that secret punishments inevitably lead to abuse and combativeness, that they lead to an arms race against people of equal intelligence and unlimited free time.

Link (via Oblomovka)

Give the Gift of Slashdot

Give the Gift of Slashdot 12/09/2003 01:24 PM

RSS abuse and Slashdot IP banning

RSS abuse and Slashdot IP banning 05/12/2004 03:50 PM

I've had a number of people ask me about t his blog entry, whose title suggests that FeedDemon was banned from Slashdot. If you read the entire entry you'll find out that the subject is misleading - it's really about how Slashdot tries to protect itself from people who make too many requests on their feed.

Given the un necessary bandwidth consumption caused by some RSS readers, Slashdot certainly has every right to try to protect themselves from RSS abuse. The problem is that they ban based on IP address - which obviously causes problems for those behind a proxy server that shares a single IP address with dozens of other users. In all fairness, though, I'm not sure of a better solution to Slashdot's valid concerns.

Anyway...since some who read the aforementioned article thought it might be due to a problem in FeedDemon, I just wanted to make it clear that this will happen regardless of which RSS reader you use if you're behind an IP-sharing proxy. As I pointed out in an earlier post, FeedDemon employs a number of techniques to keep bandwidth consumption to a minimum - which not only keeps it 'Net-friendly, but also makes it extremely fast since it doesn't waste time performing unnecessary updates.

Firefox and Rendering Slashdot

Firefox and Rendering Slashdot 12/19/2004 03:25 PM
I've been getting this error viewing various pages at Slashdot with Firefox on and off since about version 0.8. Hitting refresh renders the page properly though. Is this an issue with Firefox or with Slashdot's ancient markup?

Slashdot: Mozilla 1.0 Released

Slashdot: Mozilla 1.0 Released 06/06/2002 06:01 AM
Check out the cute and horny devils in the OPEN SOURCE NEEDS MORE BABES post. "tri" A disappointing release for me. In my javascript testing, it appears to be buggier than the potty people at Hogwarts .

"zeldman.cte2"

Slashdot | Windows 2000

Slashdot | Windows 2000 02/12/2004 06:13 PM
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/12/2114228 Neowin.net is reporting that Windows 2000 and Windows NT source code has been leaked to the internet.

Slashdot Reviews 'We the Media'

Slashdot Reviews 'We the Media' 08/04/2004 06:58 PM
On Slashdot, Ernie Miller has positive thoughts in a review of We the Media. Then the Slashdot readers chime in with their typically wide-ranging assortment of comments.

Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards

Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards 02/10/2004 02:35 AM
A look at the markup behind Slashdot.org that demonstrates how simple -- and cost-effective -- the switch to a standards-compliant Slashdot could be. (Part I of a two-part series.)

Slashdot -- Someone Smoking Crack ?

Slashdot -- Someone Smoking Crack ? 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
Slashdot -- Someone Smoking Crack ? Now I know that the Slashdot audience isn't all that reliable at best. Yes we all read it but we rarely trust it. Still I'd expect a little better than this: The Object Prevalence concept, developed by the Prevayler team, and implemented in Java, C#, Smalltalk, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby and Delphi, can be a great a solution to this mess. The concept is pretty simple: keep all the objects in RAM and serialize the commands that change those objects, optionally saving the whole system to disk every now and then (late at night, for example). [_Go_] Now that's a cool concept. So I did the natural thing and went and looked for the code. Since I'm a php-head, I figured that I'd look there to start. Nope! According to SourceForge, "This project has not released any files". Well I can get by in Perl so I thought "Ok, not my preference but ok". Nope. Well I think Python is neat and people I respect a lot like it. Additionally Guido has just plain guts to make the decision he did regarding mandatory indentation. Break conventions is hard so I figured I'd look at the Python version. Nope! Well once upon a midnight dreary, ... (bag the mock Poe), I did a lot of Pascal. Nope! It turns out that only the C# and Ruby versions exist. I couldn't get the Smalltalk page to come up so I don't have a clue there. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying anything about the concept but just pointing out that this posting is essentially wrong on many of the major details. And, sadly, it doesn't really surprise me at all.

Google adwords on Slashdot?

Google adwords on Slashdot? 03/13/2003 10:22 AM
Did I miss something, or has Slashdot just started using Google's content targeted AdWords on the site? In case you're...

Slashdot bans ETCON

Slashdot bans ETCON 02/11/2004 08:33 PM
Slashdot has a script that bans your IP address if you pull their RSS too often. I'm at ETCON, where I'm sharing a public-facing IP with hundreds of Slashdot readers who are all pulling /.'s RSS. So I have been banned, along with all of them, for 72 hours. Link

Slashdot | TeacherReviews.com Forced
Offline

Slashdot | TeacherReviews.com Forced
Offline 02/10/2004 10:37 PM
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/11/0112229 from the thin-skin-for-teacher dept. MrCawfee writes "Dylan Greene's site Teacher Reviews which allows students to post reviews of their professors. The site was taken down because a professor complained about comments made against him, and threatened to sue. Here is an exerpt from his blog: 'Yesterday and tonight I talked with a professor who was extremely upset with what written about him on TeacherReviews. He had...

Slashdot Discussion on Yahoo
standardizing on PHP

Slashdot Discussion on Yahoo
standardizing on PHP 10/30/2002 02:52 AM
A typical Slashdot debate. Better for laughs than for facts :-)

But there are valid criticisms, many aimed at the class library, PEAR. The sad fact is that i used to use chunks of PEAR in my code, but eventually replaced these bits with my own code as I found PEAR too limiting. Too much of PEAR is written by journeyman programmers. Like many other people more famous than me (like Manuel Lemos :-), I am unable to contribute to PEAR because I would have to follow the PEAR coding standards.

Others have criticized PHP for not having the power of Java/C/C++/C#. I agree that that PHP is not suitable for every job - my company is planning to migrate to .NET for our future Windows software. But PHP is very suitable for web pages, or calling business logic components written in another language. Also from personal experience I find PHP very useful in many other domains, particularly as a replacement for shell-scripts.

From the Yahoo benchmarks it appears that PHP is slower than mod_perl. However despite Perl's superior speed and wide use internally with Yahoo, Perl was rejected. When you have 612 software engineers and 3 million lines of Perl code, Perl became a liability for Yahoo. My guess is that Perl's There’s More Than One Way To Do It mentality has proved to be an excuse for poor and divergent coding practices.

"zeldman.545"

Slashdot Book Review: PHP4 XML

Slashdot Book Review: PHP4 XML 09/25/2002 08:44 AM

Community News: PHPSec on Slashdot

Community News: PHPSec on Slashdot 02/01/2005 09:14 PM
In more PHP Security Consortium news today, they have officially been posted to Slashdot for the first time.

Book review: Perl and XML (Slashdot)

Book review: Perl and XML (Slashdot) 08/26/2002 08:32 AM

Book review: Perl & XML (Slashdot)

Book review: Perl & XML (Slashdot) 07/12/2002 09:42 AM

Slashdot: PHP 5 Power Programming
Reviewed

Slashdot: PHP 5 Power Programming
Reviewed 03/17/2005 02:47 AM
From PHP Magazine:

Slashdot.org: Advanced PHP Programming
Review

Slashdot.org: Advanced PHP Programming
Review 06/25/2004 08:38 AM
Over on Slashdot.org there's a new review of the George Schlossnagle book - Advanced PHP Programming.

Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards
Part II

Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards
Part II 02/10/2004 02:35 AM
In Part I, we showed how Slashdot could save money and reduce bandwidth requirements by converting to semantic XHTML markup and CSS layout. In Part II, we explore how standards-compliant markup and deft use of CSS could make Slashdot and your sites play nicely in print and on handheld devices.
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