On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:55:06PM -0600, Cesar Rincon scribbled: [snip] > > It made me laugh, so I guess we can consider it to be some sort of a joke > > :). Frankly, I asked myself the same question - is it a provocation or a > > joke? Or an attempt to draw attention to oneself? Or simply ramblings of a > > fool who knows nothing but likes to pretend he knows an awful lot? > > My guess would be that it was an conscious attempt to get the thing on > Slashdot. I'd say slashdotting yourself is not bad at all, if your That might be, although I wonder what is better - to get some cash in one's pocket from banner impressions or to make a fool out of oneself? I'm sure there are better ways of drawing attention - for example to make a honest comparison of the bugs found in all the products he mentions that reaches back to the beginnings of each product :) THAT would be a huge work (if possible at all) and it would surely get recognized ;) > servers can handle the load and you charge advertising on your site by > banner impressions... Actually, the load after slashdotting isn't that high. I saw a test somewhere that stated the load to be ~1Mb/s. I was slashdotted my self several years ago when I wrote a web server in shell script - believe it or not, the little thing was able to handle the visits from the /. readers :) marek
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