hmm, well, seems like blogger is back up. seems to have been out all morning.
i looked this up this past weekend because it occurred to me in my writ340 class for some reason. anyway, here’s the dec software performance report on vms’s y2k leapyear behavior. good for a chuckle and very detailed. this was back when the day when men were men and computer engineers were thorough (1983 – actually, more like when rock stars were androgenous ces wore pocket protectors).
oh a discussion on last night’s horrible xfiles episode at /. and also, while your at it submit your questions for the /. interview with jakob nielsen. i used most of my recent moderation points on that thread. oh, and via camworld, there’s a stating the obvious article about /. and how it now has bias and isn’t independent, blah blah blah. /. has never been about “editorial distance” or lack of bias, so that’s not a huge deal. the main thing to keep in mind is that /. by and large posts news. if users submit it, they will post, and if they don’t, we will complain loudly. we submit the stories, but more importantly, we populate the message threads, we moderate, and we meta-moderate. /. just provides a convenient meeting space. basically, if the community feels that there’s abuse going on, you’ll hear it where it counts – in the message threads. and if nothing gets changed, we’ll leave. because of va linux’s association, we will be suspicious, but that’s not going to make /. useless because va linux doesn’t own /. , we do.