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You should go make a page on wikipedia that has information about what regional porn servers are up or down.

Perhaps you could get Netcraft and Vivid Video to co-sponsor a page with up to date information on it -- just like what Netcraft does now. I suggest that you call it

Vivid Craft ;-)

(GoDaddy.com says that vividcraft.com is not taken yet!...)

If you look at the stats from netcraft netcraft they've put enough bandwidth and servers to be able to handle the demand. It's possible to do it with advanced planning and money. Unlike some other popular fruit OS vendors whose software update chokes under load.

I'm afraid I don't believe it. There's nothing on Netcraft about all this.

What more can we expect from such a switcher - they turned to the dark side between 2000 and 2002 by the looks of it.

Apache runs 50% of the internet

windows.
So many ciminals (read Al Qaeda), and so easy to get our information and our money.

So the funny thing here, is that if windows costs so little, what is the costs of break ins like this?

Wait until Cell processors become the norm... when you have a process that runs around your network looking for resources to run on.... Oracle's sales reps are going to have a field day with that one!

Due to greed and stagnancy, Oracle has maybe 5 years left before the "smell of rot" is all pervasive. When MySQL and PostgreSQL become so common place (think Apache on the net today vs. Netscape's web server from the mid to late '90s), Oracle will be lucky to be a million dollar company.

If you doubt my words, think of what MySQL and PostgreSQL were just a year ago. Then think "What will they be like with 5 more YEARS of development?". Then realize that they are free to everyone and you'll see why Oracle is doomed.

Of course, Microsoft will claim it as their victory, but you, me and everyone else not running SQL Server will know better.

Two things seem to have happened here. Firstly, the original lokitorrent.com site at 205.209.128.30 ( see this ) has been shut down, the IP is reachable but no webserver process is listening on port 80.

Secondly, the A record for www.lokitorrent.com has been changed to point from the above address to 216.32.85.114, which whois says is owned by savvis.net, and for which the generic webpage here shows as being owned by www.webbsense.com.

So lokitorrents DNS has been hijacked by the MPAA and is now pointing at a box admined by webbsense, whoever they are. Probably self-appointed 'copyright enforcement' goons-for-hire.

The content for lokitorrent is probably still intact and ready to use should the webserver process be activated again, so the news isnt all bad..

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

LokiTorrent listed itself for sale on the domain auction site Sedo back in January, so there's no shock that the site has had a "transition." They were down for eight hours yesterday, which was a sign that something was afoot. Curiously, the Sedo listing is still online. Is it still for sale? If it sells, who gets the money - the MPAA? Hmmmmm ....

In the past, the main reason I have avoided Yahoo is simply because of all the ads. They slowed down the search to a crawl, and I could barely find any content amongst the ads.

The toolbar 'screenshot' convieniently cuts off the end of the bar... is this to hide ads and other crap? Or are we spared? :)

Either way, I think I'd prefer to just add Yahoo to FireFox's in-built search engine bar. Not that I would use it... since I have Google!

But seriously, Yahoo seems to be going in the right direction. The engine seems to have increased in speed lately. In fact, search results are as quick to load as on Google. What's more, the number of ads on the results page has decreased; just a few textual ads remain.

In fact... Yahoo is looking a lot like Google.

Now I wish Netcraft would write a version of their toolbar for FireFox.

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

Yeah, php works just fine with apache2 (for me at least) - and I using threading (not prefork) - which is double no-no according to rumours. See here (lately not shown b/c firewall servertoken settings, but php is there, well, and healthy).

If Microsoft products are truly superior, then why is it that high volume websites such as the new Microsoft search engine, for example, are running on Linux and/or Apache. See netcraft results.

Back in earyly 2004 you said Now, we've done great work with Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0 and so I feel very confident that when we get the data back, we'll be in great shape there. However, even with the IIS 5 and the Windows 2000 versus the Apache one, once you tried to do more complex things other than just serving up simple Web pages is where you saw TCO advantages move back in favor of Microsoft.

netcraft reports shows a flat to negative growth curve for IIS while Apache increased several precentage points last year. Do you see this trend reversing in 2005?

I agree. In fact your Idea has already been implemented. Check out the Netcraft Toolbar

...it will be a huge test for the OSS community, to see if they can really handle these problems as well as they always say they can.

I guess you've never heard of Apache. 68.8% market share ought to be a good test of the OSS development model. Of course that's not to say that all OSS will fare as well as the carefully developed Apache project, but saying the whole model is untested... is simply uninformed.

Microsoft IIS seems to have about a 28% market share right now... yet people still write viruses for it.

Actually windows boxes run about 20% of the servers out there. Where as apache runs on 70%.

Source: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_surve y.html

But hey whats the truth when you are spouting compnay FUD.

And Netcraft runs on BSD servers :)
Just for the record.

And Netcraft runs on BSD servers :)
Just for the record.

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

If so, why don't we see BSD as popular as linux? Sure, you see Apple having incorporated it into its products, but BSD distros remains just where they were -- they won't get much back from apple. And the product will remain just where it was.

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

says it is running Linux.

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.fbi.g ov

says it is running Linux.

Perhaps that is why Slashdot didn't post the operating system in the summary.

Windows server: Sure, some folks buy it, but plenty don't. So far, Microsoft only has about one third of this space, and Linux is nipping at its heels. They knifed Windows for Itanium, to the disappointment of both Itanium users.

Server appications: IIS has lost market share to Apache in recent years, and Exchange isn't ubiquitous yet either. SQL server enjoys showing the web its limits.

Windows CE/Mobile/Tablet/whatever: Still no monopoly, and since sales of PDAs are shrinking and tablet PC's haven't really caught on, even if MS did take over this market...

Game Consoles: XBox did just have its first profitable quarter. Ever. But it doesn't seem to sell so well overseas, and Nintendo and Sony haven't been persuaded to go away yet.

Media: Media Center PC's aren't selling so well, and in a world with iTuneszilla stomping around, Windows Media suddenly seems less likely to rule the universe than it did a few years ago, even with "PlaysForSure."

Internet Services: Even with its added features, MSN Messenger doesn't seem to be destroying AIM or Yahoo Messenger. MSN doesn't seem to be destroying anybody in general, even if Verizon throws it in free with DSL, and even if MSN is the homepage for Internet Explorer. Now Microsoft wants to go after Google, too.

It's pretty interesting to consider that Windows Client and Office are so frickin' profitable that Microsoft can afford to throw gobs of money at their unprofitable products and divisions (which are pretty much everything but Windows Client and Office) and still have huge heaps of cash left over.

(Oh, and I left off Apple, because if 95% of the world abruptly switched to Apple, Microsoft is second only to Apple itself in Mac software development, and would still be one of the most profitable companies out there, on sales of Office for Mac, VirtualPC, etc. Also, because as long as Apple is out there, and isn't owned by Microsoft, Microsoft can point at it and say "look, there are other choices, we're not that much of a monopoly!" :)

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

Until we upgraded the OS recently, we had 480 days uptime on our primary web server.

look here: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=search.ms n.com

This would be funnier if they used Apacche, but apparently they have a port of IIS to Linux (probably for internal use only.).

Having said that: it would be interesting to hear from some MSN people about the architecture: how many servers? What OS? What kind of interconnect? etc.

For the actual servers... who knows? As for whats serving you those pages, its a Linux box at Akamai.

Usage Stats

>Don't make me quote Netcraft

Please do it
You don't? Well, then I'll do it. :)
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."

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Requiem for the FUD

And if you didn't boot into Linux for many months resulting in lots of unpatched security holes, and there were a ton of people trying to attack Linux boxes because Linux controlled 95% of the market, you'd have the same experience there.

# cat /var/log/apache/error_log | grep File | sed 's/.*exist://g' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n|tail -n 10

483 /var/www/htdocs/scripts/..Á../winnt/system32/ cmd.exe
486 /var/www/htdocs/_mem_bin/..%5c../..%5c../..%5c../w innt/system32/cmd.exe
492 /var/www/htdocs/_vti_bin/..%5c../..%5c../..%5c../w innt/system32/cmd.exe
497 /var/www/htdocs/d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe
512 /var/www/htdocs/c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe
516 /var/www/htdocs/MSADC/root.exe
554 /var/www/htdocs/scripts/root.exe
569 /var/www/htdocs/robots.txt
800 /var/www/htdocs/default.ida
952 /var/www/htdocs/scripts/..%5c../winnt/system32/cmd .exe

Why should OSs be any different?

Its as if some hotshot in his BMW 745i got a Yugo to tow him because some snow was on the ground.
:'o(

The President of America George W Bush is a failed busines man with a criminal record. Renowned for overseeing the most number of executions in his stint as Taxes governot. Advocated more death sentences than any other governor in American history (all 4 pages of it).

You can download and read Bush's resume from the Internet.

For the curious, the President of America's website runs Apache on Solaris.

Here bush entertains some people in white coats with some shadow play

netcraft thinks it is on. So there must be something wrong with netcraft.com

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

look again stupid

when the website is running linux :)

Netcraft can get it right if you use the "refresh now" link. See the following... http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=opensolar is.org&probe=1

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
W hat's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

--
Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
W hat's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

The planet is one of the largest hosting providers in the country. In fact if you check netcraft's Sites on the Move you'll see they rank #5 in terms of the number of websites added in the last 24 hours. They've added over 400 in the last day. Ahead of Yahoo, Register.com, Verio and others.

I think you may be confusing them for some small shared hosting provider.

The netblock owner for Iranian Sutdents' News Agency (ISNA) appears to be Hostway, at least acording to Netcraft but it looks old.

If that was the case all along... The Planet shouldn't have hosted them at all in the first place.

And from what Netcraft shows, they have been using the same hosting company (The Planet?) for quite some time now.

I doubt that this is about money as you so simply put it.

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (30 Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

See, I just don't see this in the kind of "class-warfare" motif you seem to be pushing. I don't see what's so "obviously 'windows-centric'" about Liz Claiborne. Or Disney or Best Buy or Sonyfor that matter. All are hosted on *nix and work perfectly without complaint here with my Firefox/Gentoo. And now each has recorded a hit from me for WebSideStory. Happier?

These are just sites that see a lot of visitors, and are run by reputable outfits, and coded in such a fashion that they can accurately count users. I don't see how the conflict against the "pretty people" holds sway here.

See, I just don't see this in the kind of "class-warfare" motif you seem to be pushing. I don't see what's so "obviously 'windows-centric'" about Liz Claiborne. Or Disney or Best Buy or Sonyfor that matter. All are hosted on *nix and work perfectly without complaint here with my Firefox/Gentoo. And now each has recorded a hit from me for WebSideStory. Happier?

These are just sites that see a lot of visitors, and are run by reputable outfits, and coded in such a fashion that they can accurately count users. I don't see how the conflict against the "pretty people" holds sway here.

See, I just don't see this in the kind of "class-warfare" motif you seem to be pushing. I don't see what's so "obviously 'windows-centric'" about Liz Claiborne. Or Disney or Best Buy or Sonyfor that matter. All are hosted on *nix and work perfectly without complaint here with my Firefox/Gentoo. And now each has recorded a hit from me for WebSideStory. Happier?

These are just sites that see a lot of visitors, and are run by reputable outfits, and coded in such a fashion that they can accurately count users. I don't see how the conflict against the "pretty people" holds sway here.