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| | Slashdot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Additionally, OS results may be skewed by the fact that many Slashdot users access the site from work, and only use Linux on their home computers. | | | While Slashdot's core audiences are often said to consist of Linux enthusiasts and various other enthusiasts of the open source software movement, there is a significant Windows audience as well. | | | A poll on Slashdot suggests that approximately half of all Slashdot visitors use a Microsoft Windows operating system, a third use some form of Linux, and above ten percent use Mac OS X. Polls on Slashdot, like most on the Internet, are notoriously unreliable. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot
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| | Slashdot effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Slashdot Article on using Freecache--a system in which cooperating [volunteer] caches exchange any files without burdening the original site (no longer an active project) to mitigate the slashdot effect. | | | One tool commonly advocated to assist smaller sites in bearing the load of a Slashdot effect is the Coral P2P Web Cache [8], designed at New York University. | | | The name comes from the huge influx of web traffic that often results from sites being mentioned on Slashdot, a popular technology news and information site. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect
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| | MiniMediaGuy: A Snippet of Slashdot |
| | Slashdot is one of the seminal Open Source sites and an object lesson in volunteer content creation. | | | In 2000, Slashdot tangled with Microsoft when a Slashdotter posted some Microsoft software code. | | | (In an earlier post I noted how another of the Linux commercializers is experimenting with open source media.) Today Slashdot is part of what VA Software calls its Open Source Technology Group, a group of sites that also includes SourceForge, a forum for open source developers. |
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http://minimediaguy.blogspot.com/2005/01/snippet-of-slashdot.html
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| | ThinkGeek :: Slashdot Store |
| | For the 1/2 percent of you who don't know, Slashdot is a website where open discussions thrive about things that are really important to the inner nerd in you; things like technology, computers, privacy, open source, star wars and code. | | | Not only are they globally open 24 hours a day at a computer terminal near you - they also have a soothing green design that hasn't changed since inception. | | | Support freshmeat.net, your global center for the latest and greatest in open source software... |
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/slashdot
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| | Quit Slashdot.org Today! |
| | Reading Slashdot can therefore often be worse than useless, especially to young and budding programmers: it can give you exactly the wrong idea about the technical issues it raises. | | | Slashdot is a plot by Microsoft to destroy the productivity of Linux users. | | | People who do operating systems research, of course, think this is a joke. |
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http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/klee/misc/slashdot.html
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| | SIeCommunities: Slashdot.org |
| | Slashdot is a large online news and commentary site dedicated to technology issues. | | | Another site that piggybacks on Slashdot's framework is LISNews∞, which I read more frequently (and sometimes moderate). | | | In addition to news stories, often times, discussion of the social impacts of technology are discussed in depth here far before other sites start to mention them... |
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http://www.socialcomputingresearch.net/eCommunities/SlashDot
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| | Digg vs. Slashdot (or, traffic vs. influence) (kottke.org) |
| | The "word-of-mouth" network that Slashdot has built over the years is broad and deep. | | | The brash newcomer vs. the reigning champ, an intriguing matchup. | | | I've overlaid the Digg trend on the Slashdot one so you can directly compare them: |
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http://www.kottke.org/06/01/digg-vs-slashdot
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| | salon 21st Geek central |
| | Basically, Slashdot is nothing more than a constantly updated list of pointers to articles posted elsewhere on the Web, combined with a forum for bulletin-board discussion of each of those articles. | | | Malda doesn't take credit for Netscape's decision to make its source code available to all and sundry. | | | Stuff that matters" -- has speedily grown into one of the Web's most popular spots to find news about events that concern computer geeks. |
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http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/06/15feature.html
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| | PRESS RELEASE RSS Use to Increase Dramatically, Slashdot(R) Survey Shows |
| | Voted the "Number One Technology Blog" in a recent Forbes' poll, Slashdot has been breaking news and making headlines since 1997 by delivering news and commentary about emerging technologies and their cultural implications, including Open Source and IT, as well as biotechnology, space exploration, and politics. | | | SourceForge Enterprise Edition is used to manage and optimize distributed development across the enterprise. | | | OSTG (Open Source Technology Group) is the cornerstone of the Open Source movement and the leading online network for IT managers and development professionals. |
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http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=83089
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| | Meatball Wiki: SlashDot |
| | Besides that, at a threshold of 3 (my normal level), you usually only get the most passionate and well written "Linux rulez1!#@$!" posts, not necessarily the most intelligent. | | | (With newspaper chains, the publisher tends to take a more hands-on position, and thus publisher conferences now are less analogous to Shriner conventions and more professional events.) In SlashDot, ultimately it is Cmdr Taco and Hemos. | | | Has anyone else noticed an improvement in quality at Slashdot since KuroShin's rise in popularity? |
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http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?SlashDot
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| | A List Apart: Articles: Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards |
| | Most Slashdot visitors would have the CSS file cached, so we could ballpark the daily savings at ~10 GB bandwidth. | | | Everything explained so far is discussed in more detail at the University of Wisconsin – Platteville’s Slashdot Web Standards example site. | | | Savings per day with caching the CSS files: ~14 GB bandwidth |
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http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slashdot
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| | The Slashdot Effect, An Analysis of Three Internet Publications |
| | With the publication of articles related to Linux and the Open Source movement, and the announcement of these articles to Linux related news web sites, one has a chance of documenting, in a controlled environment, this effect. | | | In conclusion, the term Slashdot Effect has been referenced many times on sites around the Internet. | | | Author's note: An addendum to this paper has been published on the Internet which details the Slashdot effect on this paper. |
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http://ssadler.phy.bnl.gov/adler/SDE/SlashDotEffect.html
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| | 2000-Jul-10: SlashDot |
| | Connect your MAPI users to your UNIX mail system! | | | KDE contributor with interesting things to say about GPL, QT Embedded, KDE, The Mythical Man Month, Distributed Development and scaling projects." If Warrick's words make you say "hmmm" (for whatever reason), you might also want to revisit earlier Slashdot stories about Embedded QT and |
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http://sitescooper.org/samples/slashdot/onepage.html
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| | Define Slashdot Effect - a Whatis.com definition |
| | The effect gets its name from the Slashdot Web site, a discussion forum originally about Linux and related software, but increasingly about any technology-related subject. | | | "The Slashdot Effect: An Analysis of Three Internet Publications" explores the phenomenon. | | | The Slashdot Effect is the sudden, relatively temporary surge in traffic to a Web site that occurs when a high-traffic Web site or other source posts a story that refers visitors to another Web site. |
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http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci214064,00.html
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| | Slashdot Case Study Managing the Digital Enterprise |
| | Today Slashdot is owned by the Open Source Development Network, Inc. (OSDN), which is a subsidiary of VA Software Corporation. | | | By Junk Mail, Fails To See The Irony | | | Slashdot has won over 20 awards including a 2000 Webby award for Best Community Web site, a 2000 Webby Award for "Best Print/Zine", voted one of Newsweek's favorite technology Web sites and Rated One of Yahoo's Top 100 Web sites as "Best Geek Hangout" (2001). |
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http://digitalenterprise.org/cases/slashdot.html
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| | Eric's Archived Thoughts: Slashdot’s Validity |
| | I believe that if the content is meant to be purely informational with no data buried in it then the document should be HTML. | | | When it comes to HTML versus XHTML, I just do not care. | | | For example, I ran a check on the Slashdot home page. |
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http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/09/25/slashdots-validity
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| | Forbes.com Best of the Web |
| | The site, which has been self-supporting since 1998 and is now a unit of Linux developer VA Software, offers lots of great links to recent interviews. | | | Each day you'll find user posts ranging from the latest AMD vs. Intel chip speed comparisons to unprecedented digital legal issues around privacy and piracy. | | | Despite its humble beginnings mega geek forum Slashdot is arguably the most influential and pervasive disseminator of technology news on the Web. |
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http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/review.jhtml?id=7827
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| | Urban Dictionary: slashdot |
| | Oftentimes, the information presented by said members is inaccurate and based on incorrect understanding. | | | Anandtech.com posted geforceFX benchmarks and was swiftly slashdotted. | | | Slashdot (/.) is a news site and forum for nerds and the tech community to read and discuss nerdy related material, usually the articles consist of information technology, open source software and science fiction or other nerdy and delightfully brainy topics. |
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slashdot
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| | Slashdot Apple Hardware VP Defends Benchmarks |
| | You know, I always thought that this would be a good idea for Slashdot. | | | Does superior floating point performance mean "better for photoshop"? | | | This is the first time I think _I_ have seen slashdot with an article they wrote compltely on their own. |
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http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/03/06/24/2154256.shtml?tid=126&tid=181
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| | Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters |
| | In most non-engineering faculties this is well accepted, however in the Applied Sciences Faculty the users are computer savvy -- they do not like the idea of giving out control of their computers to people they don't know. | | | blueZ3 asks: "It seems that the readers of Slashdot are the most likely early adopters of electronic books, but from posts I've seen here, it doesn't appear that many on Slashdot are e-book fans. | | | Recently, I've been thinking about upgrading my gaming PC, but with all the mish mash of components in the box, I don't really know which components are slowing down the rest, and would be an ideal candidate for replacement. |
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http://ask.slashdot.org
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| | SlashDot .sigs |
| | I think there's a place for closed source software, it's just not at my place. | | | Sig Error #38 - The dog ate my.sig | | | Slashdot: Proof that a million monkeys at a million typewriters can create a masterpiece |
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| | slashdot.org |
| | On July 28, 2000, native PQA and AvantGo support was added into Slashcode, the software that drives the Slashdot website. | | | The official Slashdot PQA can be downloaded from ftp.slashdot.org/pub/slashcode, and AvantGo users can visit slashdot.org/palm to get their version. | | | I can be reached at vito@perilith.com if you have any questions or job offers. |
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| | RDF Site Summary 1.0 Modules: Slash |
| | It is a bona fide Open Source / Free Software project. | | | Slash is the source code and database that was originally used to create Slashdot, and has now been released under the GNU General Public License. | | | This copyright applies to the RDF Site Summary 1.0 Specification and accompanying documentation and does not extend to the RSS format itself. |
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| | Stephen's Web ~ Edu_RSS ~ Add a Feed |
| | IpSo_ writes "Finally an extensive, human readable Linux file system benchmark has been unleashed upon us. | | | Luis Villa writes "The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project at UC Berkeley and Stanford is working on statistical debugging techniques to report, find, and fix... | | | As Wharton legal studies professor G. From Slashdot on October 9, 2003 at 12:46 p.m. |
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| | onfocus.com |
| | For example, the Slashdot Google Topic Page is here: | | | You'll also need the numeric topic ID for any Slashdot topic you want to track. | | | If that happens, view source on the Slashdot topic page and rewrite the regular expressions on line 39 or so of the script. |
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| | Slashdot Protecting Our Parents' PCs? |
| | My folks get my old machines and just enough software to be productive. | | | Frustrated Son asks: "I assume that many Slashdot readers must serve as the IT staff for their parents. | | | Posted by Cliff on Tue Mar 09, '04 06:55 PM |
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http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/04/03/09/2134215.shtml
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| | Haddock Directory: Slashdot Articles |
| | Slashdot is running a poll on coolest movie robots (11 Apr 2002) Permalink | | | Ask Slashdot: Is A Public Wireless Internet Possible? | | | why I love slashdot (29 May 1998) Permalink |
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http://www.haddock.org/directory/media/news/bytitle/slashdot
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| | Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters |
| | Slashdot is the place to ask two questions, however. | | | There are lots of things I would like to say about it that I won't, as Slashdot isn't the place. |
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| | Slashdot Bloggers Assail Movable Type's New Pricing Scheme |
| | Some prominent blogging software is not counted, such as geeklog, scoop, and (ahem) slashdot. | | | Oh, and the blogger stuff is just a part of it, it's actually a lot more than that (kinda like a software to build Slashdot type of sites). | | | Some MT users probably are cheapass, and will warez the MT software if they can or do whatever they can to avoid paying. |
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http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/05/14/1314256.shtml?tid=149&tid=185&tid=99
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| | Anonymous Coward |
| | The result (at SlashDot) is a mixed bag: the level of immature flaming is considerably higher among the AnonymousCoward set, but it also provides a means for some people to provide information or opinions without fear of reprisal from their company. | | | Actually, AnonymousCoward used to be a specific user on SlashDot before they had accounts. | | | To my knowledge, at this point on Wiki, AnonymousCoward only refers to one person, who would generally prefer to remain anonymous. |
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| | AlterSlash ~ the unofficial SlashDot digest |
| | (previously on Slashdot…) Non-business customers won’t tolerate the scam that Cisco make you go through when buying second-hand kit — that they make sure you “relicense” the embedded software to the new owner when selling on your old kit (the software that’s completely irrelevant to anything other than the hardware they sold it with). | | | The Slashdot summary is incorrect; the password is for the account you create during installation, which has sudo rights and therefore is just as effective as a root account. | | | Marketting dept for technology company downplays statement made by PhD/EE. |
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| | Web Servers, Earthquakes, and the Slashdot Effect |
| | This is known in the jargon as the "Slashdot Effect", and has reduced many web servers to smoking piles of charred silicon. | | | Note: A slightly revised version of this article was included in the 1999 Southern California Seismic Network Bulletin, which was published in the July/August, 2000 issue of Seismological Research Letters. | | | There is a popular web site called Slashdot which bills itself as, "News for Nerds. |
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http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/office/stans/slashdot.html
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| | JD on EP: Slashdot CSS |
| | Slashdot CSS: Popular commentary site changes its display system: "After 8 years of my nasty, crufty, hodge podged together HTML, last night we finally switched over to clean HTML 4.01 with a full complement of CSS." Amazing stat: the site has 900,000 users (I'm assuming these are registered users, not visitors)... |
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http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2005/09/slashdot_css.cfm
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| | Slashdot We the Media |
| | Connected to the net in the conference room, I was getting news through Slashdot because most of the major media websites were down, and the broadcast news was simply playing video of the attacks over and over. | | | Slashdot just gave people who weren't there a way to talk and theorize about what was happening. | | | Soon, many of the other attendees were also checking Slashdot for links to and mirrors of the news gathered by Slashdot's readers. |
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http://books.slashdot.org/books/04/08/03/0858230.shtml?tid=188&tid=192
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| | Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters |
| | Before I posted these links, I looked for verification of this problem but found nothing but links to Wonkette, so I cannot say for sure whether this is true. | | | An anonymous reader writes "Even though many American voters are ready for open source systems at the polls, Newsforge (a Slashdot sister site) has an interesting story about why open source may not be ready for the polls. | | | Hopefully, alert Slashdot readers (like you) will post confirmations if, indeed, there are any to be found. |
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| | Slashdot World of Warcraft Duping Bug Found |
| | Slashdot and Blizzard sittin' in a tree by Iriel (Score:1) Tuesday July 19, @12:01PM | | | But really, you have to understand...slashdotters are a lot of engineers...we like to break things down and see how they work. | | | I hear the editors have been exploiting this bug for years on Slashdot... |
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http://games.slashdot.org/games/05/07/19/1644250.shtml?tid=209&tid=10
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| | Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters |
| | New features, and there are lots, can be reviewed at the official site. | | | One of the biggest and most anticipated features (mentioned before on Slashdot) is wireless support, which has been greatly improved upon. |
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http://bsd.slashdot.org
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| | Harvey |
| | This slashdot shirt was distributed at the first Linux Expo in San Jose. | | | Slashdot didn't have the usual tables, all the folks were sitting around on bean bag chairs on the floor. | | | The back of the shirt says We put the "o" in.org, a take off on Sun's arrogant "We put the dot in.com". |
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http://geekt.org/geekt/morenews.cgi?section=19
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| | Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters |
| | We did our first Slashdot interview with Jimmy Wales back in 2001. | | | Isam is also a long-time Slashdot reader, so he's the perfect person to ask what's going on in the Arab (cyber)world today. | | | Isam will answer 12 of the highest-moderated questions. |
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http://interviews.slashdot.org
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| | Technorati Tag: slashdot |
| | To contribute to this page, just post to your blog and include this code. | | | Become a member to save searches in a Watchlist. | | | Slashdot Shop eBay for anything and everything - from the very unique to brand new items. |
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http://www.technorati.com/tags/slashdot
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| | 404 Not Found |
| | Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. | | | The requested URL /Slashdot was not found on this server. |
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| | Slashcode: Slash Open Source Project |
| | I'm sure you can do the same thing with other browsers but you're on your own for the specifics of how to do so. | | | If you'd like to see what Slashdot might look like you can activate the Slashdot stylesheet on Slashcode.com in Firefox by choosing View > Page Style > Slashdot. | | | A complete list of tags can always be found on sourceforge.net (in the "Show files using tag" menu). |
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| | Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters |
| | Ask Slashdot: Is Visual Basic a Good Beginner's Language? | | | He first explores Active Record, the persistence engine behind Ruby on Rails.'" |
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http://developers.slashdot.org
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| | Slashdot Craig Silverstein answers your Google questions |
| | But in my own words: Google doesn't actually use traffic ("hit") analysis in its rankings: the rankings are based entirely on how sites link to each other. | | | It was plainly stated that Silverstein (a) reads Slashdot (and therefore could have found said question himself) and (b) chose the questions himself. | | | Hmm, everything I wanted to say here has already been said in the Slashdot discussion on this question. |
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http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/02/07/03/1352239.shtml?tid=95
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| | Slashdot Chernobyl...18 Years Later |
| | That might be enough to survive a slashdotting. | | | Actually, the response time wasn't bad but I'm on an ISDN line so my pipe is pretty thin. | | | Maybe the stereotypes are wrong and people who hang out on slashdot really do have a life. |
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http://science.slashdot.org/science/04/03/05/2127221.shtml
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| | Slashdot Balmer Vows to Kill Google |
| | It's a quote, hence (if I understand correctly) it's not required of Slashdot that it be true, only that it be an accurate representation of what that person said. |
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http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/09/03/0515250.shtml?tid=109&tid=217&tid=133&tid=123
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| | Definition of Slashdot |
| | Press releases can often trigger increased interest in a certain topic, and if a Web site link is provided in the release, this can translate to increased hits to the Web site. | | | You can also use the term as a verb, as in, "Dude, thanks to that stupid article, our server got slashdotted today, man!" |
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http://www.sharpened.net/glossary/definition.php?slashdot
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| | slashdot effect |
| | effect”; what is said to have happened when a website becoming virtually unreachable because too many people are hitting it after the site was mentioned in an interesting article on the popular Slashdot news service. | | | readers, including variants like “That site has been slashdotted again! |
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