Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)
Lawrence Sica
lomion at mac.com
Fri Jan 16 12:23:06 PST 2004
On Jan 16, 2004, at 12:56 PM, Colin Percival wrote:
> At 16:18 16/01/2004, Jamie Bowden wrote:
>> I read it from the link off of Daemon News' Daily section. If someone
>> wants to /. it, you'll probably need to upgrade your connection for a
>> few
>> days, and add filters to your mail to screen the nastygrams you'll be
>> sure
>> to get from the shallow (and usually 14yo) end of the Linux Userbase
>> Pool.
>
> I think the /. effect is overrated these days. Network connections
> and
> processors have gotten faster much more rapidly than the slashdot
> readership has grown; the only time slashdot kills anything now is when
> people use excessively dynamic pages.
>
I have to disagree here. As I have been slashdotted in the recent
past. It still has a serious affect.
--Larry
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