I haven't been able to get to their website since yesterday. I was wondering if it was down, or something was wrong on my end.
I haven't been able to get to their website since yesterday. I was wondering if it was down, or something was wrong on my end.
I am able to access it here fine.
Here is a good website to tell whether it is down for everyone or just you:
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/distrowatch.com
OK. I suspect I was IP blocked, because I made a comment that they need to have standards when they review distros. They had deleted that comment, and the same comment the week before. If you read their "reviews", and then see the comments, you'd know they have no real standards for what constitutes a review. I guess they didn't like that being pointed out.
My posts weren't very inflammatory, and considering some of the regulars, they were very tame. Very frustrating.
Last edited by danbuter; April 13th, 2011 at 10:32 PM.
Yeah, I take any review or news article with a pinch of salt. It all depends on the authors personal opinion and sometimes even just what mood they were in when they wrote it. I find news websites very biased. I do think it's good to challenge such opinions publicly, as long as you do it in the right way (without being too abusive/argumentative). Theres a fine line between constructive criticism and trolling.
Works fine here
Code:hack@the-gibson:~$ lynx --dump --head http://distrowatch.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:35:51 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) mod_ldap_userdir/1.1.14 PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny10 with S uhosin-Patch mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny10 Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT Last-Modified: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:35:51 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache Set-Cookie: NewLastSeen=6625; expires=Sat, 23-Apr-2011 23:35:51 GMT Connection: close Content-Type: text/html
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