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  1. This is offtopic... by bogaboga · · Score: 1 · on LiveCD Lets You Try Out Project Looking Glass
    ...but I was just curious and queried http://www.netcraft.co.uk/ to fine out what the site https://lg3d-livecd.dev.java.net/ was running. You see, I wanted to ascertain whether Solaris that I thought SUN would be using, could withstand the [Slashdot] effect.

    It seems that Netcraft cannot find the site! How can a curions Slashdotter know with certainity, what a particular site is running?

  2. the BBC uses Linux. by chris_sawtell · · Score: 2, Informative · on Linux Going Mainstream

    What a pity that Clark Boyd, the tech journo who wrote the piece, failed mention that the BBC uses Linux and Apache to host its main news portal. If some above average technical writer would like to do a piece about the Net infrastructure at the BBC, I for one would be very interested to read it.

  3. Re:My company's solution to IE by Cally · · Score: 2 · on Don't Hit That Back Button
    Personally, I'm amazed that anyone still uses IIS - yet Netcraft's survey shows that usage has been steadily increasing - ever since CodeRed and Nimda. Go figure! (When I first noticed this trend emerging in the Netcraft charts, I thought it must just be a blip caused by some major Apache-based hoster going bust... but by the third or fourth month in a row with a declining share, I realised that it's time to surrender all hope for humanity. We're doomed -- and we deserve it.)


    No doubt, last week's TEN new IIS security holes, announced by Microsoft all in one go (smart move...take the publicity hit all in one go, rather than dribble the news out AS THE HOLES ARE CONFIRMED (or even "as the patches become available"). Of course, such behaviour is diametrically opposed to the interests of those fools still running IIS; but then, it shouldn't be a surprise by now that PR is a bigger priority than security for Microsoft. "Trustworthy computing", my sweaty arse!

    If I ever become a manager, installing IIS or IE will be a sacking offence. I simply cannot understand why the much trumpeted "shareholder value" and "due diligence" and "director's personal liabilities" have not seen IIS dropped like a dead fish from any half-way competently run web site.

    My sympathy, by the way, to any unfortunates trapped in a job where you must admin an IIS. I suggest a stealth Apache install, perhaps as a hotfailover system - next time you have to kill IIS for "emergency maintenance", point out to the pointy haired cretins that you won't have any downtime, as you may always rely on Apache being there to pick up the slack.

  4. Re:Inside job? by Eck · · Score: 3 · on Microsoft Cracked

    If there are so many exploits for Unixes and not NT, why is it that despite an apparent minority of servers, there are more defacements of NT sites?

    Besides, as another poster pointed out, if we hear about a vulnerability in an open source OS, whether or not it's Unix-like, we can fix it a lot more easily than with closed-source NT.

  5. Netcraft by Pseudonymus+Bosch · · Score: 2 · on Mercury Researchers Explain Microsoft .NET

    Netcraft, has a service to find web servers with addresses matching an expresion like "*.microsoft.*"
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  6. "affects almost every web-hosting provider" by Suydam · · Score: 2 · on Backdoor In Microsoft Web Software?

    I'm not trying to downplay the significance of this. But the arrogant statement by whoever (in the Wall St. Journal article) had the gall to imply that this would affect "every web-hosting provider" has forgotten that MOST web-hosting providers aren't dumb enough to use IIS in the first place. Just check the Netcraft Survey of websites to see that Apache whose developers probably don't think of Netscape engineers as "weenies", holds a 60% (+/- 5% I'm guessing) market share in that area.

  7. Re:Give a little, get a lot by dingbat_hp · · Score: 1 · on Symantec Tries to Censor Criticism

    Nice ideas.

    To implement (2) we first need a resource of how to identify the various filters; how many filters there are out there, and what identifiable headers they send - then we let the coders rip on it. Does anyone already have this info ?

    Secondly, any thoughts on building a site that's a bit like Netcraft's "What is that server running ?" script ? As a webmaster, I'd like to be able to enter a URL and receive a report akin to "NetNazi blocks entire site, WebWorrier gives it a PG rating". For my own sites, I might even part with money for this.

  8. Re:Suggestion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on MSNBC: Stealing Credit Card Numbers Online is Easy

    There already is such a service: netcraft
    Simply enter the URL of a online merchant and see what software he is using before submitting your creditcard info.

  9. Re:you missed one thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Perl Domination in CGI Programming?
    How about Microsoft's Hotmail?

    From http://www.netcraft.co.uk

    www.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 SSLeay/0.9.0b on FreeBSD

  10. Re:Apache ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Apache 1.3.9 Now Available

    I thought everybody was moving to IIS which is much much better.

    Haha, funny!

    IIS doesn't run on top of BSD or any other Unix, so it's not an option for most websites.

    And please check out Netcraft's survey to see how IIS' marketshare has dropped during the last half year.

  11. Re:The uses of NT - and, dealing with a semi-PHB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on CrackThisBox Updates
    I told him Apache is the number one web server. He wasn't convinced. Any idea how to convince him?

    You mean about Apache? Try the Netcraft web server survey, which currently shows Apache at 56%, while M$ is at 22% and going down (yes, I know that "going down" in reference to M$ products usually means something else). The survey has colorful pictures in it, so M$-users won't be too confused. :-)

    The Unix vs. NT Organization has good resources, including a paper by John Kirsch written mainly for suit types who might actually be capable of thinking for themselves.

  12. Is MSN running Apache? by theHippo · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Janus

    I just noticed a discussion post by Henri J. Schlereth at the ZDNet web site in which he points out that homepages.msn.com is possibly running Apache 1.3.6. Since Apache on WinNT is not as mature as for the unices and considering MSN high hit rates, could it be possible that MSN is actually using a unix variant? I tried checking using Netcraft but was not successful.

  13. Re:IIS Worm ideas by smileyy · · Score: 1 · on Major Security Flaw in IIS4.0

    The worm could, once installed, have 2 different stages. 1st is replication stage (goes to the internet - maybe search engines - to find other IIS sites)

    Netcraft would be a good place to start looking.

  14. Gee, that's funny by edgy · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Challenges Linux community

    They May 1999 Netcraft survey came out. Funny, Apache and Zeus are the only web servers gaining market share.

    Microsoft's been consistently losing market share for the past few months. Maybe there's something Microsoft knows that no one else does...?

    http://netcraft.co.uk/survey

  15. You mean Mindcraft, not Netcraft I presume? by peel+me+a+grape · · Score: 1 · on ESR and the MindCraft Fiasco

    www.mindcraft.com
    www.netcraft.co.uk

  16. Whitehouse runs its website on IRIX by VSc · · Score: 1 · on Russian crackers get whitehouse.gov?

    According to Netcraft ,
    www.whitehouse.gov is running Netscape-Communications/1.1 on IRIX     . Not that bad!

  17. Solaris and FreeBSD, too. by cpeterso · · Score: 1 · on Why Your Server Should be Running Linux

    Netcraft says Hotmail is running FreeBSD.

  18. FreeBSD not Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on FreeBSD 3.1 Released

    are you sure? Query again