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Re:Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users by dylz on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @07:58PM (#7563360)
>stores its weblogs in the MySQL database

Can you explain this to me? this seems like exactly what wordpress does..?

Re:Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users by patio11 on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @08:43PM (#7563540)
I think he meant "a log of accesses to the website" rather than "a blog." Those are often persisted on disk because they tend to get rather voluminous and the questions one wants to ask of them rarely benefit from SQL.
Re:Slashdot is Port Scanning Its Users by davidgerard on Thursday April 10, 2014 @02:36AM (#7564508)
I mean the Apache log!

Maybe it doesn't do that any more. BUT SOMEONE EVER THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA.