I missed the actual event, but this Digest reached over 1,000 comments recently – thanks to the folks that read and give feedback. The 1,000th comment was on the 1.10.1 release post. Incidentally, there’s close to 2,500 posted news items here, since August 2003.
I’ve removed some of the inconvenient antispam features (comments from new people are always moderated, http:// links get a post filtered, etc) and switched to different antispam software. Email me if you add a comment and can’t get through…
I’ve changed the theme, and added some elements to make this match the other DragonFly sites a bit more. If I’ve removed a link you need, please let me know.
The exact count stands at 2,003 posts with this one. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this may be the most frequently updated BSD-oriented news site in existence.
A combination of software upgrades and me changing my apache config on shiningsilence.com led to some unplanned downtime this weekend – sorry!
I’ve moved to HiddenNetwork for the sidebar ad. HiddenNetwork provides ads for computer jobs, which I’d bet would interest most of the Digest’s readers. Some of them look tempting to me, in fact.
I originally heard of HiddenNetwork from reading The Daily WTF, and then had a followup recommendation (good idea, Simon). Please let me know your opinion by comment or email.
If there was a mailing list that had regular summaries of the posts on here, would it be useful to you? If so, would you want it daily? Weekly?
Ian R. Stephenson suggested this, and I’ve had more people than I expected agree.
I’ve been traveling, and not posting – sorry! Back to a regular schedule tomorrow.
The links for the old RSS/XML news feeds for this site now redirect to the new feed locations.
Please update your links to the RSS file, if you are using it. I’ve configured the permalinks to hopefully be more reasonable.
I moved from Movable Type to WordPress. The original links to the XML and RSS feeds are broken, as are old links to individual stories. This will be fixed soon, and then I’ll improve the layout from the current default.
Postings will be slow here for the next week or so, as my net connection will be intermittent.
Since the only folks who comment on months-old stories are spammers, I’m turning off comments on older entries. This should only affect you if you need to tell me about L3v|tr4 and C1a|is, or frequently post garbled links back to your bizarre porn site.
This is a test, to ensure I didn’t mangle the database connectivity. Ignore me.
shiningsilence.com moved from ports to pkgsrc, and rebuilding everything took some work – the website was down for a short while while removing/restoring apache, and search/comments have been broken on the site while moving from /usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/pkg/bin/perl. Everything seems OK now…
No news today. I’m busily trying to establish my need for a new video card.
I’ve upgraded the software behind this site; it should make no real difference to you, the reader. Please tell me if you encounter something that’s broken.
I’ve cleaned up the page; I’ve reduced the redundant references to archives in the page navigation, and added a book section that points at books on Amazon.com. This new book section has some permanent links (including my favorite programming book ever), and also links to whatever books have been mentioned here lately.
shiningsilence.com will be going down for a short period today, due to a repositioning of an exterior power line.
Or rather, potentially no weekend update. A friend of mine is getting married this weekend, so news postings may be slow. I’ll catch up early next week, if need be.