Assmasters of the universe!
It is nearly 400 years since Guy Fawkes was hanged, drawn, and
quartered for attempting to poison the Queen of England.
Once you've tired of celebrating his memory in
the
traditional way, why not come inside and treat yourself to the
October 2003 edition of Trollback?
Slashdot news and happenings
Back in May we
discussed
the psychiatrist's dream that is HanzoSan. All good things must come
to an end, and it seems the same is also true for HanzoSan. After
some inspiring work, that which HanzoSan loves the most was taken away
from him: karma. His
comment history shows his karma has been decimated. Like a tree
falling in the forest with no-one to hear it, HanzoSan cannot be heard
without karma, and he has officially
left the building.
In a rare gesture of kindness, HanzoSan included a list of who to thank
in his diary.
We welcome Pan
T. Hose, who has
already
been a
victim
of CmdrTaco's secret powers. Not only does Pan T. Hose have three entries
in The List, but he gets an honourable mention for starting one of the
best threads of the month. Trollback looks forward to a long line of
posts!
It was pointed out by Trollback follower x.c.v that we never
reported on Mensa Babe.
This was not intentional, so we now present a posthumous
investigation into some of Mensa Babe's finest work as selected
by fellow Trollback fan x.c.v:
[1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9].
Remember, if you see a user who shows potential, and we don't seem to be
tracking said user, an email to Trollback's address or a post to 31337
goes a long way to rectifying
the situation.
It seems to have been a bad month for our favorite glorified blogs.
It seems that everyone have received their fair share of 5xx errors
after triggering boundary conditions by, say, clicking on a story
link, discussed by
Taco in journal
entries. Now I know you keep telling us there's never going to be
a Meta section, but honestly Rob, a rose by any other name...
Elsewhere
Slashdot's 5xx problems were minor compared to the trials of
k5. An age-old problem in systems
maintenance is how to create a test environment that can be guaranteed
to perform exactly as the live environment does. Fortunately, Mr Foster
had a brilliant solution to this problem:
test major
changes on the live server.
What followed was a month of turmoil, where the site was seemingly more
down than up. This problem finally seems to be under control, for reasons
possibly not unrelated to the fact that the servers only have to handle a
fraction of the requests they used to thanks to a large exodus of the
userbase. The phrases "open source" and "enterprise ready" keep popping
into Trollback's mind, but Trollback cannot figure out why.
After a lengthy hiatus, Adequacy.org has resurfaced in the form of an archive. Although a static site,
there are links to all of the comments that made Adequacy.org fun.
The world is once again safe from
teenage hackers.
The List
(4,6,45) Anonymous Coward | Re:Here is the text...
(-1,19,32) Anonymous Coward | mp3 music is illegal
(5,14,109) mao che minh | Cool
(0,16,57) Dancin Santa | I kind of like SiteFinder
(1,21,65) Dancin Santa | Losing the Insert key
(0,7,13) egg troll | Such a waste of money
(2,12,114) Tyreth | Starlight and time
(0,18,79) larry bagina | slashdot == sexist
(1,13,18) Krapangor | Why should be decent product activation evil ?
(0,8,18) egg troll | Why are they backing off?
(5,9,33) Pan T. Hose | Funny
(4,32,87) Anonymous Coward | Availability of the DNC
(5,9,33) Pan T. Hose | Interesting
(0,14,49) Krapangor | Java ?
(1,9,58) Pan T. Hose | I am sick of it
(2,24,65) Anonymous Coward | True costs of Linux (egg troll)
(2,11,24) Sheetrock | It makes sense.
(1,17,120) downix | While I like the idea...
(3,18,53) Dancin Santa | GPL == Communism, and I like it that way
(2,25,74) Sheetrock | I don't really like it (yet)
(-1,10,15) Michael's a Jerk! | MS works for me (Not a troll, please read) (egg troll)
(-1,15,22) Michael's a Jerk! | As a record store owner.
Honourable Mentions
That's it for this month!
