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I predict that her "factual article" will include whining about how mean we were to give her feedback (like this) on her writing process and communication strategy. That's what she calls "personal attacks", you know.
Touche'!
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I do agree that we need to be informed here if the site goes down for any reason. People overreact, and then this happens. Slackware is NOT dieing, there is plenty of activity in current. If I understand Eric correctly, slackware.com is hosted by a hosting company, and the hosting company apparently is having a problem.
I predict that her "factual article" will include whining about how mean we were to give her feedback (like this) on her writing process and communication strategy. That's what she calls "personal attacks", you know.
It is interesting how she made it personal, even tho it wasn't.
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Originally Posted by caitlyn
Let me be clear: I know some of you hate me because I've dared write reviews that didn't praise Slackware from top to bottom.
Who's putting words in who's mouth now... Nobody even mentioned the word "hate" before this post. And now we somehow suddenly hate her, and she "knows" this...
There's not much more to say ... the evidence stands for itself. It's clear that we have made a personal attack on her, because she "knows" we hate her, somehow, even tho the word was never mentioned, except by her.
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Last edited by H_TeXMeX_H; 04-19-2012 at 03:01 AM.
As I understand from what's been said, the server is hosted at a hosting company, but it belongs to PV, and it's a hardware problem, not a hosting one.
As I understand from what's been said, the server is hosted at a hosting company, but it belongs to PV, and it's a hardware problem, not a hosting one.
Ok, that's what I just noticed. I apologize again to Eric, I should have read it more thoroughly before posting.
I don't think it was announced. It threw me when I first noticed following a comment in this thread near the end of last year.
Niels Horn told me around that time that slackwiki.org was registered to Erik Hanson, though I am not sure what happened. I presume Erik either deciding it wasn't needed or the registration simply lapsed. Either way it seems that slackwiki.com/.org are not "official". Sure, like SlackBuilds.org the wiki is important to the wider community but it isn't one of PatV's sites.
Edit: It seems that the registration lapsed once previously (roughly a year before), so it is reasonable to expect it might be the same thing this time. Though as I said, it is not an official site anyway. Also it seems to be run by the same groups of people who maintain SlackBuilds.org. If so they are doing it for free in their spare time. So no complaints from me. We only need one domain for slackwiki anyway.
Yeah, Erik forgot to renew again. In the past, it was as simple as paying the (late) renewal fee a few days later, and all was well. However, it seems that the registrant was bought out or turned evil or something since last time, because they wanted a "holding fee" of $250+ this time, and then there was still no guarantee that we would get the domain back, thus slackwiki.com was registered.
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Originally Posted by dugan
* Sigh. Agreed.
EDIT: Wait. Over the past *year*? What did I miss before this?
Nothing, which, ultimately, is what fueled the current "firestorm." The comment about "old equipment and lack of funds" was the spark that ignited the fire.
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