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Comment Re:netcraft confirms it (Score 0) 26

> You get modded troll for running OpenBSD on a 20 year old Laptop ??? Very odd.

Part of the reason I rarely participate at Slashdot and moved over to SoylentNews; since sometime in the first Bush administration, I've been automatically downvoted by the system for whatever reason.

I guess I pissed off the wrong person with my username.

But to your point: OpenBSD is still great on these older systems, and probably the easiest OS to maintain. I guess technically, I could use a minimalist Linux distribution or Slackware and get the same performance, but it wouldn't be nearly as simple to maintain security patches.

Comment Re:netcraft confirms it (Score 3, Informative) 26

Yeah, I had a laptop in storage since 2 years or so, an old i386 T43p. I pulled it out, ran sysupgrade a few times, and everything works without a problem.

sysupgrade, followed by a pkg_add -Uu, brought the software stack to a reasonable place. Incredibly simple.

Any performance problems come from the fact that it's almost a 20 year old machine at this point. The backlight will die in the LCD panel before I have to worry about the install corrupting.

Comment Re:In related news (Score 0) 128

by Moderator (#60151030) Attached to: How Apple Decides Which Products Are 'Vintage' and 'Obsolete'
I've seen a late 70's F-100 at the service department of the Ford dealership recently. It wasn't turned away because the degree of simplicity lends itself towards being easy to repair.

But, regarding parts, this is similar to how O2 sensors for the 1996 Bronco weren't available for purchase in 2005. Not even a decade later.

Comment Re:Alright smart guy (Score 0) 504

by Moderator (#47961567) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig?
Yes, I did purchase the Galaxy Nexus with the Nexus 4 on the horizon. If you remember back to late 2012, the Nexus 4 looked like it would be a downgrade in terms of build quality and an initial lack of LTE. But the fact remains that I purchased a Nexus product new, directly from Google, and it was abandoned less than a year later.

Comment Re:Begun they have... (Score 0) 234

by Moderator (#46179287) Attached to: The Standards Wars and the Sausage Factory

I'm the kind of guy they want. I post AC and don't have a profile, but I do click on ads. I have bought stuff through those click throughs. I support Slashdot by supporting their advertisers because I value the resource Slashdot provides me. Frankly I'm not a fan of the beta, but I think Slashdot's look is dated and clunky, so something new is at least welcome.

If you're the kind of guy they want, that's a shame, because I've been on this site for over half of my life (this is my second username), and I have a fucking STAR beside my name that means that I give MONEY to this site. And I am ready to move on to backslash or whatever the new site ends up being called if Dice Beta becomes the standard layout.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Can some of us get together and rebuild this community? 21

Submitted by wbr1
wbr1 writes: It seems abundantly clear now that Dice and the SlashBeta designers do not care one whit about the community here. They do not care about rolling in crapware into sourceforge installers. In short, the only thing that talks to them is money and stupid ideas.

Granted, it takes cash to run sites like these, but they were fine before. The question is, do some of you here want to band together, get whatever is available of slashcode and rebuild this community somewhere else? We can try to make it as it once was, a haven of geeky knowledge and frosty piss, delivered free of charge in a clean community moderated format.

Submission + - Slashdot creates beta site users express theirs dislike (slashdot.org) 4

Submitted by who_stole_my_kidneys
who_stole_my_kidneys writes: Slashdot started redirecting users in February to its newly revamped webpage and received a huge backlash from users. The majority of comments dislike the new site while some do offer solutions to make it better. The question is will Slashdot force the unwanted change on its users that clearly do not want change?

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