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Slash Guy

When Reece PingZine gave me this mission and told me I was interviewing Rob Malda I pretended to be happy and nodded my head knowingly while he educated me on Rob's background.

Honestly, I had no idea who Rob was. I guess it's because I live in my own little Web Hosting and worldwide reality TV … but then I heard the magic word: SlashDot !

Oh …

My …

Gawd …

Slashdot? Are you kidding me? They are like GEEKSTAPO the Internet. The source for all the holy things cranky! (Slashdot never publish my memoirs … pfft btw)

Just Lois Lane, as I was determined to go to the courage of this history to know that nobody knows anything about Rob Malda. There must be a limit, something that I can bring to this story that will have people gasping in my ingenious and crafty interview techniques …

I know! I'll bring in a relaxed and friendly and then when he has at least she looks, I'll hammer with an issue as volatile, prosecutors the LP will be whether it is still worth publishing my exploze (yes, it's true, ex-plo-ze: explosion submission).

[] * Air innocent

Amy: So Rob, hello, how are we? Beautiful weather we're having eh? Love your shoes btw …

Rob: 85 degrees and humid as hell. October Stupid. Do not go outside. And I'm not wearing shoes: Get a new prescription!

[* Sigh]

Amy: I did a lot of reading about you and your accomplishments that I think we should take back to your adolescence, when it all began ..

[Gawd I sound like a therapist]

Were you a fan of Star Wars?

Rob: Yes. I still regularly record when they air on television and see if they air in high def. In college, my roommate and I watched the entire trilogy every weekend for a whole year.

Amy You play Dungeons and Dragons? Ummm … Why? Have you ever in WOW or Everquest?

Rob: Yes. We have a bi-weekly D & D campaign. My char name is current Bonzer xylophone, an undead ranger. It's just an excuse to drink beer and eat cookies. Last week we had fondue. I played a fair bit of EQ and tons of WOW. I am 70 now effectively level 4, but I have not logged on for months. I like games with XP. I enjoy the numbers go up, and go splat monsters.

Amy: I read in your biography that as a child your mother's favorite punishment was to take away your keyboard and lock it in his trunk. The story about how you have around that cracked me (Rob added a keyboard error code check its autoexec.bat file which launched a BBS making it possible to obtain data the house of a friend). It made me think of children online today and traps and filters we put in place to protect / monitor their online activities. Do we delude ourselves into thinking that we checking their history and adding filters Google, MySpace etc we can lock stop them?

Rob: Absolutely delusional.

[Wow ... he call me crazy?]

Rob Kids are smart and each generation is more sophisticated than the latest technology. The truth is that over the wall you build, the more the kid will work for see what is on the other side. Better build a fence and just talk to children about what is on the other side of it. Instead we just try to sue anyone who creates something that we might not want a child to see. It's sad.

Amy You were a hyperactive child. What other difficulties did you run into? Come on, spill it.

Rob: Once we started a fire under a bridge near the local high school. It got big enough and I panicked and we filled a cardboard box with water from a nearby creek and dragged him back to the fire burning. Most of the water leak on the board (not the best vessel for the spirit Water you) and dumped on the blaze. The steam and smoke billowing from under the bridge stopped the traffic as far as the eye could see, right as school was letting out. It was great. I was probably 10.

Amy Your first job was working as a technology and PC Guy you master Windows and then the heavens opened and an angelic penguin whispered "Linux" in your ear. We tell you how this experience the transition into cyberspace.

Rob: Linux came into my life because I was large CS was necessary to do their homework on SPARCStations Sun UNIX. Linux let me work at home. As it gets easier the Internet (even 14.4k modem on) and really showed me why Windows was the wrong way to work.

Amy: I find it happened to "drop" your name to certain types of development, I know and the conversation was something like this:

Dev Guy: Ames Sup? You look beautiful and glamorous as usual today "

Amy: "Oooooh not much really, writing a few questions for Rob Malda of Slashdot The Creator "

Dev Guy: "omg omg omg omg! As quite impossible! "(Valley Girl style)

And, after having stopped screaming like chicks, they asked me to ask you if you use open source software on Slashdot and how is it installed?

Rob: Pretty much everything on Slashdot is open source. MySQL. Perl. Apache. Even our own code is open source and available to all www.slashcode.com. It is implemented as software is usually: hard drives in computers. We address these in various forms on the walls, some give us electricity and others give us packets. And all is well.

Amy: So .. What are the tips and tricks for managing a high traffic website?

Rob Cache. Cache. Cache. If you can do to advance to do so. Most people do not need customization, so that the page once and give the 10,000 people coming to the same page.

Amy: Oh, and ASL?

Rob: I do not know sign language U.S.. I barely speak English.

[Newbie Pffft ago]

Amy: You created SlashDot and Yes, I wish I had the same idea. Are you uber become rich? Have you sold the site to a massive conglomerate and retire at the age of 21 to your own island?

Rob: I'm not uber rich, but I had to buy my first house at like 23. You still not paid the mortgage so. And while we sell to corporate overlords, I'm 31 and still far from retirement or an island.

Amy: Everything on the sale of regret?

Rob: Like everything, it's a mixture. I like health insurance and a 401k. But managing a media company in a listed company is a unique set of challenges.

Amy SlashTips – I mentioned earlier nothing I have ever written has been published on Slashdot (I guess they do not appreciate my unique style and humor). What are you looking for when approving Slash-missions?

Rob: Maybe you're just trying hard.

[Yeah that must be it]

Amy: Rob is married to a beautiful girl named Kathleen, and they were married Vegas style. Tell us how you met!

Rob an old girlfriend and I put her with one of my friends, and somehow neither relationship lasted. A well for everyone.

Amy SlashCats – How many cats do you have Rob and Kathleen? Are you a cat-a-holic?

Rob: in order of age, they are Pixel, Dante, Matrix, and Sushi. We could probably have a few die, but I had 2 and she was 2 and that was all Brady Bunch and we have been faced with a herd. But they are ours and we love them, even when they throw up strange colored fuzzy objects on the carpet.

Amy: On weekends I like going to yard sales and buy random junk in the hope that I will make millions with what a treasure … What you do in your downtime that does not plug something into a socket?

Rob Go to movies. Learn to cook. Go to interesting restaurants. Travel. Games. Watch the first season of Heroes.

Amy For accommodation freaks, we talk about the server set up where you started SlashDot and the situation today?

Rob DEC Alpha running Red Hat Multia/166 plugged into a T1. Now we have a dozen webheads dual processor, 4 databases of the Quad, and some Other aid boxes at random and are plugged into an OC3.

Amy: What is the next challenge or project for you, Rob?

Rob: You mean after surviving this interview? Find shoes … Stop looking at my toes.

Sheesh [... now I will be known as the girl with foot fetish;)]

Thank you for chatting with me Rob! I had a time slashtastic!