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Slashdot's 50 Millionth Page 55

Posted by CmdrTaco from the rob-does-the-happy-dance dept.
Seems like just a few days ago that we announced number 10 million, but here we are again- not only did we break our "Pages in a Single Day" record (was 387,000, but on Tuesday we got 410,000) but this morning at 1:08am EST, a Windows User (who was at least running Gecko *grin*) from bigpond.com was the recipient of the 50 millionth Slashdot page. Yee haw.
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  • Why are you flaming the nice person who corrected the article?!? When someone sends in a bug report on a program you use, do you wait until it gets fixed, and flame the person who made the report?
  • Okay, yes, Slashdot rocks; I sink far more time into it than I ever did into print media (which I'm no longer subscribed to).

    If it's "better than sex", though, I'm going to be mighty disappointed one o' these days...
  • Posted by wraith-q:

    Go go slashdot!
  • Posted by wraith-q:

    nuff said,
  • Posted by wraith-q:

    I use NT4 at work and Linux at home...It's fun watching that BSOD pop up on NT4, helps to break up my day (and productivity)

  • 206164 (Score:1)

    by zerblat ( 785 )
    check out http://slashdot.org/about.shtml [slashdot.org].
  • Netscape's official Alpha test of the Mozilla next Generation Layout engine and Cross platform viewer.

    MS OS == bad
    Open Source Browser == good start
  • I also have to use NT4 at work. I'd use Netscape, but for some reason it doesn't run well enough on this machine.

    At home, I run OS/2, but I rarely read Slashdot at home.


    --
    Timur "too sexy for my code" Tabi, timur@tabi.org, http://www.tabi.org

  • Legacy winhardware like winmodems and winprinters can make upgrading to a new operating system difficult. Their costs associated with their poor performance, low efficiency, and limited operating system comatibility rarely offset the small decrease in price versus standard devices. Futureproof your hardware investments by avoiding devices that lock you into the current operating system fad. There's no guarantee that you winmodem or winprinter will work with anything other than the current version of Windows. Some winhardware designed before the release of Windows 98 doesn't work with '98. Many windevices don't work with Windows NT due to changes in how it handles device drivers. For similar reasons, it's likely that these devices won't work with the upcoming Windows 2000 either.

    A cheapie 56k modem can be had for $60, and an Ensonic PCI sound card in retail box is $50 at Circuit City. Shop these items carefully and you could replace all your legacy winhardware for well under a hundred bucks.

  • I have two machines on my desk at work. My favorite of the two is an old SPARCstation IPX. With a 40mhz CPU and 32mb of ram, it's still faster for most tasks than the p200mmx with 48mb of ram and NT that sits next to it.

    The only problem with the old SPARC is its 8bpp framebuffer. It makes most websites hard to read, and despite degrading the content, Netscape still sucks up too many colormap entries. If I want to run Netscape, color xterms, and XEmacs at the same time, I have my choice between missing colors or colormap flashing. Yuck.

    Consequently, I usually run Netscape on the PC with Windows NT, even though I do all my imporant stuff on the old SPARC. At one point, I used to run Netscape over the network from one of the faster sparcs, but NT's poor networking performance and the frequent crashing of my NT X server brought a stop to this. Now I just go get a cup of coffee when I see "Cache cleanup, removing 1342 files..."

    My favorite machine of all is at home. It's a dual ppro-200 with 384mb of ram, two 18gb ultra-wide scsi disks, one 9gb ultra scsi disk, a fast cdrom, 48gb DAT autoloader, and a 2x cd writer. It has a great video card that can do 1280x1024x16bpp, which is just the right size for my 20" trinitron monitor. Netscape on my home machine makes for some comfortable slashdotting.

  • Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 21, @07:44
    Sure it wasn't bigpond.com?
    (an Australian ISP)

    Hey, dipsh*t, the article had the follwing text:

    from bigpond.com was the recipient

    Come back when you have learnt to read AND comprehend.

    In fact, I am sure I smell that uniquely Austalian pong which consists of sheep that have been through one too many Australian military installations and dingo sh*t.

  • When I'm at work I have a choice between IE/NT4 on a Pentium or Netscape/Solaris on a Sparcstation 5. If you've used a Sparcstation 5 you know why my connections from work show up in /. logs as IE/NT4.

    At home I use Linux of course.
  • Not a monopoly for much longer. MCI Worldcom is buying out OzEmail and will be implementing its own infrastructure including everything from local phone lines to cross ocean wide bandwidth links. Don't forget Optus, Connect and OzEmail also have overseas links of their own at this time and Optus also offers local calls in many areas.

    Aaah, I love the smell of deregulation in the morning. It smells like... purgatory.
  • Hey, don't forget about FreeBSD either! :)

  • Wouldn't call myself an NT fan, but I use NT at work (which is where I access /. - big pipeline here). IE4 is on the machine, but my primary browser is Communicator 4.5. Our company web server is an NT4 box with IIS (which is why you'll never see my real e-mail address or web site address above - like I need to be /.-ed!), but I'd rather be running Linux (have to reboot the web server at least once every week or so).


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  • chance... chance... someone was probably running a finite improbablity drive over slashdot.org and the improbabilitness of it reached 1,000,000,000 to 1 against.
  • If you haven't, check it out at WINE HQ [winehq.com] It has a library called winelib which is basically a non-microsoft implementation of win32 app stuff. it also has a program loader which lets you run win32 apps under WINE in linux... Please note me on any discrepencies..
  • Well, until someone has a good MS-Proxy client for Linux, I will *have* to keep using my NT4 box to access /. from work. (And I'll have to keep using NT4 until someone ports Delphi to Linux!)

    ...though I'd sooner sell my whole cd collection than resort to IE (Been using Netscape since .90beta)

    I have one linux box sitting next to me, and another one at home, but always get my daily news dose on the office NT box. So yeah, there are a bunch of us 'hybrid' geeks out there.. ;)
  • Where can one get gecko? I'm stuck at work with a crappy browser...
  • I think it probably has to do with the work factor. I'm so busy screwing with new hardware and/or network configurations that I don't have time to browse when at home. I read /. while at work which means I'm commin at ya Big Billy style.

    M
  • *ahem*
    FLAME FLAME FLAME FLAME FLAME FLAME ... FLAME.
  • I can't run it because I don't have the hardware (damn winmodem/soundcard).
  • Well thats all well and good but you have to have the money to buy the hardware first so it's not a lame excuse.
  • Yup. :)

    I'm currently running NT4, but most of the day I run the latest builds of NT5. Occasionally, I run linux here at work.

    And yes, I do work in Redmond, too.
  • hmmmm.. something tells me you've never used linux. you're probably afraid. I've seen too many people get too hard headed between the Mac/Windows holy wars before they even heard of Linux. and of course Linux runs on BOTH - HAH. Also, what exactly DO windows users do better? perhaps they are better at finding the reset buttons every three minutes when the computer crashes, or perhaps are just better at badmouthing anything that opposes their view. or perhaps I'm misenterpreting the meaning of that post. FLAME FLAME FLAME HAHAHA dang that feels good... heh..

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