Yeah...it showed up a day or so after I posted it. Very strange - the db claimed that the comment UID was invalid for a while. Perhaps it was a transient problem. Sorry for being so acerbic, but I've felt the heavy hand of /. admins before. I made the mistake of replying to the "post of doom" many years ago, and I was banned from moderating (by Michael) for a looong time.

Wow...I'm not really sure what to say. I created a comment yesterday, and the message ID for it is no longer found. It didn't portray this new section in a positive light, so perhaps the powers that be removed it? If that's the case, slashdot has gotten a LOT worse than I previously imagined.

This is crap. I mean that seriously - I've been here for over a decade, and this is the first time I'm actually concerned for the future of the site. Not in the way that it will "run out of funding and close", but in a way that all the readers who make /. what it is will vanish.

Please stop what you're doing.

I had to change my long-standing nickname to log back in. I've had an account here since 2001 or so.

Do you still provide the source code that runs the site? I remember that slashcode.com would track your changes in the past. Is this still true? I see that the last post there was in 2009.

Deep geeky stuff please. This is News for Nerds. If you can't get into details here, then where can you?

I wish I had mod points - that's the best comment I've read here all week!

Well said, Bruce. Work-life balance is one of those things that you begin to appreciate more as you get older.

Actually, PSI was acquired by IBM

Thread over - you win.

Nitpick - Linux on System z runs in ASCII mode.

What's even better is that the dialog doesn't indicate whether it has focus or not, so you end up typing your password into your IM window.

FF2 no longer gets security updates - they EOLed the product late last year.