Rob Malda

Rob Malda (born May 10, 1976), also known as CmdrTaco, is the founder of the website Slashdot. He is a graduate of Hope College. Slashdot, often abbreviated as /., is a science, science fiction, and technology-related news website owned by SourceForge, Inc. ... Jonathan Pater is an editor and co-founder[citation needed] of Slashdot. ... Anonymous Coward is a term applied within some online communities to describe users who post without a handle; it is a dummy name attributed to anonymous posts used by some weblogs that allow posting by people without registering for accounts. ... The Slashdot effect is the term given to the phenomenon of a popular website linking to a smaller site, causing the smaller site to slow down or even temporarily close due to the increased traffic. ... Slash (a backronym for Slashdot-Like Automated Storytelling Homepage) is the open source collection of Perl modules and stand-alone programs which runs Slashdot, one of the oldest and most popular collaborative weblogs in existence. ... Geeks in Space was a semi-weekly Internet audio show produced from June 1999 to June 2001. ... Slashdots Top 10 Hacks of All Time is a list compiled in 1999 by a Slashdot reader from a discussion held earlier about what can be though to be a real hack. ... Picture of Rob Malda (cmdrtaco) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Picture of Rob Malda (cmdrtaco) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... is the 130th day of the year (131st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Slashdot, often abbreviated as /., is a science, science fiction, and technology-related news website owned by SourceForge, Inc. ... An alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine) of a college, university, or school is a former student. ... Hope College is a medium-sized (3,200 undergraduates), private, residential liberal arts college located in downtown Holland, Michigan, a few miles from Lake Michigan. ...

His moniker originates in the Dave Barry book Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week. 'Commander Taco' is the final entry in a list of bad restaurants for business lunches. A moniker (or monicker) is a pseudonym, or cognomen, which one gives to oneself. ... For the English musician, see Dave Berry (musician). ... Toms Restaurant, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld A restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to order, to be consumed on the premises. ...

Rob Malda also writes a monthly column for Computer Power User. His article is titled "The Department of Stuff" and has titles like adwords.txt and goodblog.txt. According to his magazine bio, "He spends his time fiddling with electronic gizmos, wandering the 'Net, watching anime, and trying to think of clever lies to put in his bio so that he seems cooler than he actually is." (CPU Magazine) Computer Power User (or CPU) is a monthly computing and technology magazine published by Sandhills Publishing Company in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. It has been in circulation since December 2001. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Electronics is the study of the flow of charge through various materials and devices such as, semiconductors, resistors, inductors, capacitors, nano-structures, and vacuum tubes. ... Gizmo is a placeholder name for any small technological item. ... Internets: Full of rumors The Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). ... The main cast of the anime Cowboy Bebop (1998) (L to R: Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Ed Tivrusky, Faye Valentine, and Ein the dog) For the oleo-resin, see Animé (oleo-resin). ...

Malda is also infamous for his dismissive description of Apple Computer's then newly introduced iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."[1] This quote has often been used to illustrate the gulf between Slashdot's "techno-elite" and ordinary computer users. Apple Inc. ... iPod (fifth generation) in Apple Universal Dock, iPod nano (second generation) and iPod shuffle (second generation) iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple and launched in 2001. ... The Creative NOMAD was a range of digital audio players designed and sold by Creative Technology, and later discontinued in 2004. ...

In 1997, Rob Malda was scheduled to interview for a job with Red Hat. Malda flew to Raleigh-Durham International Airport where, upon landing, he was to call Red Hat and have them pick him up. However Malda forgot to bring his Palm Pilot, so he did not have the phone number. He then sat in the airport all day, returning to Holland, Michigan that afternoon. He never went to the interview. Red Hat, Inc. ... Raleigh-Durham International Airport (IATA: RDU, ICAO: KRDU, FAA LID: RDU) is located 9 miles (14. ... An early model - the Pilot 5000 The Palm m130 was one of the first Palms with a colour screen Pilot was the name given to the first generation of personal digital assistants manufactured by Palm Computing in 1996 (then a division of U.S. Robotics and later 3Com). ... Holland is a city in the western region of the U.S. state of Michigan. ...

On Valentine's Day of 2002, Malda proposed to Kathleen Fent [2] through Slashdot [3]. She said yes. Saint Valentines Day or Valentines Day is on February 14. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... With the increasing popularity of personal web pages, proposing online has become a popular way for many who are deeply involved in subsets of the Internet community to pop the question. ...

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Rob Malda

• Personal homepage
• "Taco Hell"
• CmdrTaco's Slashdot.org profile page
• Marriage proposal Slashdot story
• Computer Power User Magazine Homepage
• CmdrTaco interview on the FLOSS Podcast
• CmdrTaco@Everything2.com CmdrTaco's Super Node Of Nuttiness