Espectr0's Journal: About my experience on /.

I have been on the internet since about 1994, when in my state didn't have internet access and the only way was through the local university. A different university had a satellite dish and we had a connection to that university.

Only relatives of professors of our local university had access (though we found our way in, by borrowing accounts)

The access was at 2400 baud, and it was done via telnet. Later it was upgraded to 9600 baud and you could do some graphic browsing via a browser i can't remember its name.

In text mode, you had to send mail to a ftpmail server in order to be able to download a file. I remember i asked for the 2 patchs that were available for Doom ][

Later in 1995, Compuserve came to town (i live in Maracaibo, Venezuela, South America) and it was really slow and difficult to connect. My dad was foolishly scammed by a member and his credit card was stolen.

Later we got an ISP. 28.8kbaud. Fast foward 1997, and i had my own connection, 56k, 5 minutes a day. It growed to an hour a day, and with programs like wingate i could share the connection between my dad and me.

Since december 2000, we have adsl 256kkbits/64kbits. And about from that time, i have a ritual every day of a list of sites i visit. Currently those are, in order:
-Newsforge
-Betanews
-Mandrake.com
-Mandrakeforum.com
-Pclinuxonline.com
-Slipstreamx.net
-Neowin.net
-Slashdot.org

My experience on /. hasn't been really positive. I started as anonymous, then opened an account (i wanted espectro but the letter o was taken). I would find out that every comment i made wasn't read because i posted some hours after the article. Even being a registered user, i was getting all 0 points post. A flaw in the slash code maybe?

I asked taco about it. This is no troll, but i think he either was wasted or he is completely stupid when in email mode. I asked him why all i get would be 0 points posts. He just answered in one line: "post"

I mean WTF is that? Even for a long time, i would not get moderated, either up or down. Not surpringsinly, after about 1-2 weeks after i emailed taco, i would start getting the default 1 point posts, and on my way to finally getting karma: neutral.

Now, i finally got 2 good posts, one modded +3, the other +4, so my karma is positive now.

My only other gripe, is news submission. I have submitted 7 of them, none have been approved. Even one of those 7 was posted about a week later than the date i submitted it.

So, that is my currently experience on /.
My specs: i have 2 pc in my room, a compaq amd 333 64mb laptop that i use the most, with mostly winxp sp1 and vector linux 2.5, and my main amd 2100 xp 256mb ram which has gentoo, winxp and win98

I am 21 and studying computer science down here in the local university.

Probably no one will ever read this, so why bother? I was just bored. Hope you are bored too so you can read this :)

Hasta luego,
Francisco León a.k.a Espectr0

Re:hola francisco

[Espectr0]

Well, Caracas had compuserve even before, being the capital and all. I didn't like Compuserve , too slow, expensive and hard to connect.

About my goverment: i'm against it. Most people voted for him because he did not belong to the usual 2 political parties, but now lots of people changed back their minds.

The coup could not have been funded by the US. The "coup" happened because there were snipers shooting at the people that were marching, and some military guys were against that and asked the president to resign. So he did, and it was announced on public by the minister of defense, and Chavez asked to be sent to Cuba.

After that, there was a "counter-coupe" that intercepted Chavez before he was sent and they took him back to office.

There has been lots of rumors. Self-coup by the president himself? Maybe

I think people said that US was behind it because after april 11 the us said "he deserved it" (with other words)

Also, i have seen even people in the own us suggest an aid from the us to the coup. Even Richard Stallman himself.

Good luck in school

[penguin_punk]

Study your fscking ass off. Get a job. Make Money. Make kids. Go to work 5 days a week, Sleep 1, Church 1.

Greets from Canada

Posting requires a little time over Months

[Zarf]

I had to post to slashdot for a long time before I managed to get enough Karma to beable to get positive posts. I have made the comment in forum before: "I need more karma so my posts will rank higher so I can get more karma so my posts will rank higher."

New slashdotters are in an akward position... like new workers who need more experience so they can get more experience so they can get experience to get a better job. How do you get experience when you have none? How do you get karma when you have none? The new slashdotter today has a rougher time since there are simply more slashdotters.

When I moderate I deliberately look for zero point posts that deserve a +1 or +2 to help out new slashdotters. My advice for dealing with slashdot is not to spend too much time on slashdot. If you spend more than a half hour to an hour a day you are likely to take it far too seriously.

Try to comment early if you want to be funny (funny is easy and gets used up fast). If you want to be insightful try to post only to articles that you have insight on. If six months go by and you haven't noticed an article that you want to post to... don't sweat it. It's only a web site.

I've decided I'll check in on you from time to time and if you make a good post (and if I have mod points) I'll be more likely to notice it. Please keep the journal entries coming. So my answer to you is: Post.