It's not the computers in gerneral which run Linux. Those numbers are similar all over the world: Microsoft is dominant.
But considering only the OSes which run servers (FTP, HTTP, News), so a survey done by leb.net ( The Internet OS Counter) shows 42.7% Linux in the.DE domain.
I remember Godfrey about 8 years ago: he is the biggest flamer I ever encountered on Usenet (I regularly read soc.culture.german, where he called all germans nazis...), but as I see, he still is alive and honouring his reputation!:-)
From the Net.Legends.FAQ: Last-modified: 9/13/94
Laurence Godfrey:
Found on soc.culture.canada and soc.culture.british. Contrib. post: For the uniniated, Laurence Godfrey is a british scientist who worked in Canada until he quit after a dispute with his boss (he is currently suing his former employers). Since that time, Godfrey has taken to posting on soc.culture.canada with insulting comments about Canada and canadians in general. Needless to say, he has generated a lot of flames. A few months back, several people posted comments to the effect that he was fired from his canadian job. "Libel!" cried Godfrey! Surprisingly, as of about a week ago (12/93), Godfrey claimed to have won out of court settlements from the academic institutions that these people attended. In the last few days, the thread has spiralled out of control - people doubting his claim (particularly the aspect of suing people in Canada from a British court) have called him a liar. His response to these people has been along the lines of: you'd better be careful what you say or: I am taking the necessary steps to deal with this person - basically implying that he will take legal action. A popular reply to this has been that Godfrey is purposely attracting "libelous" flames in order to make a quick buck. -- He vehemently loathes Canada and anything Canadian. Or German. But he's not racist (he married a Thai [note: Filipino, actually]); he came to hate most foreigners after a great deal of thought. He also loves suing, and is perpetually threatening to sue for libel over the net. Look for his posts in soc.culture.british (or don't), and there was even at least one issue of the Godfrey Gazette containing some of his more xenophobic comments. >this might sound like a rather minor net.loon... Well, apart from his disturbing ability to capitalize correctly (they're the most dangerous ones), he does have all the correct attributes...
He's a legend now undoubtedly. My advice: ignore him.
Considering the following: - Linux is used by 43% of all Web/News/FTP-Servers in Germany - SuSe Linux is "made" in Germany - 1/4 of all europen Internet Citizens are Germans I cannot believe, Linux is "outlawed" in Germany, maybe the opposite is true.
I'm from Italy, and I may assure you, in my country Linux isn't outlawed, but used quite everywhere.
b stands for bits, while B stands for Bytes. So tb really is terabits, while terabytes should be abbreviated as TB.
Same goes for the first letter: T is the real symbol for Tera(=10^12), while M is for Mega(=10^6) and m is for milli(=10^-3), D is for deka(=10^1) and d is for deci(=10^-1). t has no special meaning, so it may also be understood if used for Tera although I would not recommend using it this way.
My PC has 32 MB of RAM, while my modem transfers data at a speed of 33 kb/sec - You see de difference.
:-) ms
PS: I'm missing SUP and SUB for super/subskripts - Rob, pls add them
Yes, Google is fast and returns the right results more than any other search engine... if it returns a result! Unfortunately Google doesn't find a lot of things - it seems, that there are only a few websites indexed.
Google also lets you search the same term on other search engines, to show you who gives better results - this is nice. Unfortunately Google doesn't give you this option, if it didn't find anything. But exactly this is the situation, where I need to use another search engine, so I'm really missing this option.
This is why I still prefer Altavista over Google.
For you Google folks: please insert the "Try your query on other engines" also when the term didn't match any documents in Google's database.
Neither Unix nor OS2 where the father of NT. It was VMS (other slashdot stories mentioned this several times). VMS's kernel is multitasking, but not multiuser, and so is NT... (only a small group still uses VMS, and so will NT in a few months...)
NT also has DOS and Windows compatibility (it had and still has to run DOS executables) since the first days, as otherwise no one ever would have adopted NT, if there wasn't a huge base of applications available. That's, also what makes DOS/Win/NT still alive: backwards compatibility (=possibility to execute old programs on the "new" OS).
Why Unix/Linux is better? Unix is the de-facto incarnation of all OS-research/science teached at Universities (there can't be anything better).
Not only. On my box it set: - user - income_bracket - visa_num - sexual_orientation - high_school_gpa - iq - religion - mothers_maiden_name - soc_sec_num
I wonder, when it will overflow my tiny harddisk..
Once I saw a software for X on a HP-UX which swaps the screen upside-down. With a simple modification the same software could rotate the image for 90 degrees: changing the axis y to -y did the trick; changing the axis x to -y and y to x equivals to a 90 degree rotation.
I own a 15,1" pivoting TFT flat screen from Macom. It works great (price was about 1000US$ here in Italy)! I used the vertical screen mode under Win98, but it doesn't look as neat. The screen is not sharp, as the screen seems to be drawn vertically (the tiny transistors on screen have a vertical orientation, so drawing them vertically gives no sharp definition between pixels). As you may pivot the screen whit or without the software enabled image rotation, I think rotating the image may be done by software under X instead of using the hardware function to do so (doing it by sotware will result in sharper images).
According to this survey, 31% of all WWW/FTP/News Servers worldwide seem to run Linux - wow! 1191755 hosts were queried (for a comparison: Netcraft queried 4301512 sites, so the numbers are quite representative).
Doing a little math, considering there are about n servers on the net, we get n*0.31 servers running Linux worldwide.
I read "number of Linux users keep doubling every year". But didn't I read somewhere else, the number of linux users is doubling every six months or quadripling every year?
Slashdot Mirror
But considering only the OSes which run servers (FTP, HTTP, News), so a survey done by leb.net ( The Internet OS Counter) shows 42.7% Linux in the .DE domain.
In detail:
- 59.8% of all FTP-Servers run Linux
- 37.8% of all Web-Servers run Linux
- 31.8% of all News-Servers run Linux
Yes, Linux is really very popular in Germany.Markus Senoner
From the Net.Legends.FAQ:
He's a legend now undoubtedly.Last-modified: 9/13/94
My advice: ignore him.
ms
Considering the following:
- Linux is used by 43% of all Web/News/FTP-Servers in Germany
- SuSe Linux is "made" in Germany
- 1/4 of all europen Internet Citizens are Germans
I cannot believe, Linux is "outlawed" in Germany, maybe the opposite is true.
I'm from Italy, and I may assure you, in my country Linux isn't outlawed, but used quite everywhere.
BTW: Ballmer was talking in Austria, not Germany
Same goes for the first letter: T is the real symbol for Tera(=10^12), while M is for Mega(=10^6) and m is for milli(=10^-3), D is for deka(=10^1) and d is for deci(=10^-1). t has no special meaning, so it may also be understood if used for Tera although I would not recommend using it this way.
My PC has 32 MB of RAM, while my modem transfers data at a speed of 33 kb/sec - You see de difference.
ms
PS: I'm missing SUP and SUB for super/subskripts - Rob, pls add them
Yes, Google is fast and returns the right results more than any other search engine... if it returns a result! Unfortunately Google doesn't find a lot of things - it seems, that there are only a few websites indexed.
Google also lets you search the same term on other search engines, to show you who gives better results - this is nice. Unfortunately Google doesn't give you this option, if it didn't find anything. But exactly this is the situation, where I need to use another search engine, so I'm really missing this option.
This is why I still prefer Altavista over Google.
For you Google folks: please insert the "Try your query on other engines" also when the term didn't match any documents in Google's database.
Thanks,
Markus Senoner
Neither Unix nor OS2 where the father of NT. It was VMS (other slashdot stories mentioned this several times). VMS's kernel is multitasking, but not multiuser, and so is NT... (only a small group still uses VMS, and so will NT in a few months...)
NT also has DOS and Windows compatibility (it had and still has to run DOS executables) since the first days, as otherwise no one ever would have adopted NT, if there wasn't a huge base of applications available. That's, also what makes DOS/Win/NT still alive: backwards compatibility (=possibility to execute old programs on the "new" OS).
Why Unix/Linux is better? Unix is the de-facto incarnation of all OS-research/science teached at Universities (there can't be anything better).
:-)
Markus Senoner (PhD in CS)
Maybe he has no e-mail address, or doesn't know how to use it...
:-)
ms
Not only. On my box it set:
- user
- income_bracket
- visa_num
- sexual_orientation
- high_school_gpa
- iq
- religion
- mothers_maiden_name
- soc_sec_num
I wonder, when it will overflow my tiny harddisk..
:-(
ms
Is this also an April's fool?
On every slashdot page I visit, I'm asked to accept three cookies.
I hate cookies!
Please Rob, take them out - I'm sure there is no real need for it.
Once I saw a software for X on a HP-UX which swaps the screen upside-down. With a simple modification the same software could rotate the image for 90 degrees:
changing the axis y to -y did the trick; changing the axis x to -y and y to x equivals to a 90 degree rotation.
I own a 15,1" pivoting TFT flat screen from Macom. It works great (price was about 1000US$ here in Italy)! I used the vertical screen mode under Win98, but it doesn't look as neat. The screen is not sharp, as the screen seems to be drawn vertically (the tiny transistors on screen have a vertical orientation, so drawing them vertically gives no sharp definition between pixels). As you may pivot the screen whit or without the software enabled image rotation, I think rotating the image may be done by software under X instead of using the hardware function to do so (doing it by sotware will result in sharper images).
Just my considerations
Bye,
Markus Senoner
Volkswagen ist written with E, not O.
And the correct phrase for "do You speag german" is:
"Sprechen Sie deutsch?", not
"Sprechen zie deutsche"
Post what you know about, not stupid blah blah.
According to this survey, 31% of all WWW/FTP/News Servers worldwide seem to run Linux - wow! 1191755 hosts were queried (for a comparison: Netcraft queried 4301512 sites, so the numbers are quite representative).
Doing a little math, considering there are about n servers on the net, we get n*0.31 servers running Linux worldwide.
Markus Senoner
I read "number of Linux users keep doubling every year". But didn't I read somewhere else, the number of linux users is doubling every six months or quadripling every year?