Talk:KernelTrap

No stories

There have been no new stories posted since October 2008; should this be mentioned in the article? PuerExMachina (talk) 21:40, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

"Available"

The article says: "As of August 2012, the domain 'kerneltrap.org' is still available, but no webserver is running." It's unclear to me what "available" means in this context. If there is no web server running, it's not available in my browser. Since the domain is still taken (registered), it's not available for registration either. So... how is it available? --82.170.113.123 (talk) 10:18, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Jeremy has left the theater

May I suggest leaving a historical note regarding what was once kerneltrap.org? The last entry cached in archive.org is dated May 13, 2013, but all of the entries after April 12, 2010 are the same; that is the last entry Jeremy added. I followed a comment link for one of the 2-year-old articles. One of the comments raised the red flag, so I downloaded it as text-only. Sure enough: spam! The message was full of porn sites. If you open the page in a browser, there are literally hundreds of links to directories on sites with strange names that the browser will faithfully load, probably to infect the host with malware. The malicious messages all have their posting date hidden, some with a name, others show the date as "0 0". Fortunately the site itself is no more. I'd avoid using Drupal, since one helpful chap logged into Jeremy's account and left a message telling him that he was able to do that. It seems that every once in a while, someone reboots the host machine making the site appear up, but then it vanishes after a day, probably because the spammers fill up the available disk space.

Please don't post a helpful link to the archive.org cache because you can follow the comments link of two-year-old posts and fall into a trap. Before the spammers got in, there were a lot of posts welcoming Jeremy back, but nothing after the spammers cracked Drupal passwords. There is a site, http://kerneltrap.net/, put up by a fan whose intention was to pick up the dropped banner and carry it back into the fray, but the last entry therein is dated 5Nov2013.

I don't know what to recommend for repairing the damage. Anything from deleting all Wiki pages referring to kerneltrap, to posting a historical note with no links. Just a suggestion. Maybe hide the pages in case Jeremy shows up and starts posting links to kernel-related notes on other sites again. There are a lot of kernel-related news aggregators: lwn.net/Kernel/, which is mirrored on http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/index.html, might be of interest.

Hpfeil (talk) 18:35, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Site gone

It looks like kerneltrap.org has gone and what's worse a robots.txt went up that now means archive.org's copy of it has been destroyed. 46.208.39.171 (talk) 04:13, 7 April 2015 (UTC)