The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web Server software usage on Internet connected computers. We collect and collate as many hostnames providing an http service as we can find, and systematically poll each one with an HTTP request for the server name.
In the August 2001 survey we received responses from 30,775,624 sites.
Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains August 1995 - August 2001
I live in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; just a few blocks from both the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges. The lower Manhattan skyline is visible from the end of my block and most of the route to Manhattan.
This morning a little after 9 am I heard a bang. I later learned that this was the second plane hitting the South tower.
I got a call from my mother in Chicago who wanted to warn me that 'the World Trade Center is under attack by planes.' I turned on the radio as President Bush acknowledged an 'apparent terrorist attack.' Immediately, I got off the line, grabbed my camera and my girlfriend's Walkman, and hopped on my bicycle.
The plume of smoke, an immense black ribbon stretching toward Manhattan, was visible the entire route down Flatbush Avenue, which terminates at the Manhattan Bridge. This same roadway then becomes Canal Street after reaching Manhattan.
I tried to take the pedestrian walkway over the Manhattan Bridge, but it seemed at the time that the police weren't going to allow me to pass. So I went to the next best vantage point.
So I rode into DUMBO; Down Underneath the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, to the park in between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. Buildings obstructed the World Trade Center itself until I reached that point.
As I came out from under the Manhattan Bridge, I was moved to revulsion at the sight of the gutted twin behemoths. Several floors of the buildings seemed to have been reduced to black girders, consumed by flame as gouts of black smoke spouted from their interiors. Still too large to fall, or so I thought.
There were fewer than 50 people watching with me, similarly aghast. They opened their car doors and played their radios as loud as they could.
I watched and shot video from this vantage point as the reports came in: Another plane hit the Pentagon. A plane was missing in Pennsylvania. Another DC Police plane was unaccounted for. I watched reviling at the horror as objects fell from the cracked and fuming edifice.
The city seemed uncharacteristically quiet. Sirens could be heard over the East River in Manhattan, and occasionally an escorted emergency vehicle or two would cross the Bridges toward Manhattan.
And then the South tower collapsed.
It started at the break about 3/4 of the way up the building, the black smoke overcome by white, milky dust. I thought merely the top of the building would fall off, but the entire length of the building splintered open, shattering and unfolding like an explosion at a crystal chandelier factory.
A solid, white pea-soup fog enveloped downtown. I could only see the very tip of the North Tower's antenna.
Incredulously, I tried to imagine New York with only one World Trade Tower. Skylines would have to be revised. The remaining tower would be an icon of American resolve and determination over adversity. Musing this kept me from considering the real losses.
And then the North tower vaporized, unfolding in a shattering parasol of black, then white dust.
I felt growing dread about my proximity to a remaining landmark, the Brooklyn Bridge, so I unlocked my bike and started home. Nothing more to see.
It was then I noticed the refugees- throngs of people pouring over the walkways of the bridges above me. Streams of pedestrians walking FDR Drive, the highway running along Manhattan's East side. I even spot a few police trucks headed North on FDR, trailing eddies of debris and dust behind them.
F-16 fighter jets prowl the sky on high, while Police helicopters and boats trawl the lower strata. All powerless; unable to change the condition of the city; only manage the aftermath.
I deftly ride my bicycle home, streets gridlocked in car traffic. The police on the streets in Brooklyn are evidently reserves; I spot several uniformed *school* policewomen standing on corners, directing traffic.
The city is closed south of Canal street. The bridges and tunnels are closed. The subways are closed. Every payphone I can see is in use. Storefronts are shuttering. Now I am safe at home, but I fear for my girlfriend.
She works in Times Square in a relatively high-profile building. I had several messages from her on my return. Amazingly, I am able to get through to her in the office and she informs me that her office has closed. She is walking to a coworker's apartment 29 blocks away. I don't know when we can... er, UPDATE: She's made it to her coworker's apartment without incident. No word yet on when she can cross over the East River to our home in Brooklyn, but she's safe for now. So friends and family- we're OK!
I still don't know what to make of all this- it seems like a movie.
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C'mon now, rats? Cops? The elusive mole people (née squatters)?
I'm glad these former wage slaves can shop around the job market now, because I'd hate to have to compete against an equally qualified person who has fewer working rights than I do.
On a different note, I'd rather shoot myself in the face than have to hear another unemployed 40-something engineer's sob story about being booted in favor of inexperienced kids (like me) or cheap intentured servants, er... H1's. Now the whiners will have one less excuse.
Seriously though- maybe this will help out the obvious age bias that older programmers (percieved as past their prime & too set in their ways) experience every day. Or not, but at least it's a step in the right direction.
A retail decision to use this or any other salesfloor automation would not mean lower prices for a very long time, if at all.
The cost of the entire industry converting to this system would be high- an investment the retail industry would like to standardize upon if only to lower overhead but charge the same price.
Remember, lower overhead was supposed to make the Web a vastly cheaper marketplace with increased consumer choice. To some extent this is true, and this has been a boon to the consumer and a bust for 'ebusiness'/fucked companies.
This is why almost all ebusiness initiatives by major retailers (who are much more likely to weather the dot-com shakeout) provide half the SKU's and all the price.
They aren't going to pass on the savings, because they want to stay in business.
Don't think I like this, or I feel any sort of affinity with retailers- I'm just acknowledging the way it is.
If you look at frames 43, 44 & 45 of this orbital animation of eros you can clearly see a huge boo-scary tortured-looking face on the surface!
I know it's a meritless thing to point out and has no real scientific significance (like the infamous "face on Mars"), but considering that:
It's named after the Greek god of love (dual entendre, anyone?)
It's shaped like a loaf
It's almost Hallowe'en
...I found it pretty funny on three separate levels, which could lead to some great Onion-esque headlines...
Following Probe, Lusty Anthropomorphic Asteroid Hurtles Toward Uranus
Mister Hanky's Mothership Arrives
Approaching Space Demon "Eros" Denies Connection to Ancient Ones, Intention to Destroy Earth
Indeed. The old style whites were four chips giving roughly equal output of red, green and blue. The new whites are blue chips with a yellow phosphor coating. Depending on how much you pay for them you can avoid the bluish ring or yellowish center some of these new whites can be heir to.
Notice in the season premiére when Cap'n Janeway was turned into a Borg she had a blue LED implanted in much the same way that Cap'n Picard's cheesy red laser was?
That was cool.
Hennepin County, Minnesota has done a cool pilot project on using a LED traffic flasher powered by solar for an amazing savings... They have some great graphs on the cost savings (79% down for LED on the grid, 99% for LED w/solar), and the only limitation on the tech was during the coldest winter months there was a charging issue with the lead-acid battery. Very interesting stuff.
Are 2-3x less energy-efficient than regular LED's (comparable to blue)
Are much more expensive (now)
I'm not dissing them, but yellow or blue-green LED's I've seen as bright as 36,000mcd, but all the whites I want to buy are only 6,000mcd at most. They're also a novelty and a little too expensive now for my taste.
Fort Hood started the conversion back in 1998, and they're quite pleased...
In a typical group of 100 signal lights with 120-watt lamps, the electrical load is 12,000 watts (12 kilowatt, kW). If the operating hours are 6,132 hours per year, the electrical consumption will be 73,584 kilowatt-hour (kWh), resulting in an annual electrical cost of $3,776. The use of LED technology reduces this cost by 85%. The lamp rating of the LED lamp is 17 watts, resulting in an electrical load of 1,700 watts (1.7 kW). Using the same operating hours, the electrical consumption will be 10,425 kWh, resulting in an annual electrical cost of $534 (thus the 85% savings).
The normal lamp-life of a 120-watt lamp is 8,000 hours. For the traffic signals described above, the lamps would have to be replaced every 1.3 years. At this time, the replacement cost and the maintenance cost are realized. The lamp life for LED technology is 100,000 hours. Therefore, the replacement period extends to 16.3 years, resulting in a significant cost savings for lamps and maintenance cost.
LED's are already used in video arrays with fantastic results. NASDAQ has a huge, curved LED array covering their building in Times Square. Purportedly the "largest" (by what measure I am uncertain), it is awfully impressive. ABC has a pretty big one next door to NASDAQ and of course, also claims to be the largest. There is also a new monitor (probably 12' x 20') done in LED's by the Manhattan entrance to the Holland Tunnel.
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I live in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; just a few blocks from both the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges. The lower Manhattan skyline is visible from the end of my block and most of the route to Manhattan.
This morning a little after 9 am I heard a bang. I later learned that this was the second plane hitting the South tower.
I got a call from my mother in Chicago who wanted to warn me that 'the World Trade Center is under attack by planes.' I turned on the radio as President Bush acknowledged an 'apparent terrorist attack.' Immediately, I got off the line, grabbed my camera and my girlfriend's Walkman, and hopped on my bicycle.
The plume of smoke, an immense black ribbon stretching toward Manhattan, was visible the entire route down Flatbush Avenue, which terminates at the Manhattan Bridge. This same roadway then becomes Canal Street after reaching Manhattan.
I tried to take the pedestrian walkway over the Manhattan Bridge, but it seemed at the time that the police weren't going to allow me to pass. So I went to the next best vantage point.
So I rode into DUMBO; Down Underneath the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, to the park in between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. Buildings obstructed the World Trade Center itself until I reached that point.
Link to map of my vantage point (my spot between the bridges marked with a red +):7 3.9943&size=m&s=25
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=40.7042&lon=-
As I came out from under the Manhattan Bridge, I was moved to revulsion at the sight of the gutted twin behemoths. Several floors of the buildings seemed to have been reduced to black girders, consumed by flame as gouts of black smoke spouted from their interiors. Still too large to fall, or so I thought.
There were fewer than 50 people watching with me, similarly aghast. They opened their car doors and played their radios as loud as they could.
I watched and shot video from this vantage point as the reports came in: Another plane hit the Pentagon. A plane was missing in Pennsylvania. Another DC Police plane was unaccounted for. I watched reviling at the horror as objects fell from the cracked and fuming edifice.
The city seemed uncharacteristically quiet. Sirens could be heard over the East River in Manhattan, and occasionally an escorted emergency vehicle or two would cross the Bridges toward Manhattan.
And then the South tower collapsed.
It started at the break about 3/4 of the way up the building, the black smoke overcome by white, milky dust. I thought merely the top of the building would fall off, but the entire length of the building splintered open, shattering and unfolding like an explosion at a crystal chandelier factory.
A solid, white pea-soup fog enveloped downtown. I could only see the very tip of the North Tower's antenna.
Incredulously, I tried to imagine New York with only one World Trade Tower. Skylines would have to be revised. The remaining tower would be an icon of American resolve and determination over adversity. Musing this kept me from considering the real losses.
And then the North tower vaporized, unfolding in a shattering parasol of black, then white dust.
I felt growing dread about my proximity to a remaining landmark, the Brooklyn Bridge, so I unlocked my bike and started home. Nothing more to see.
It was then I noticed the refugees- throngs of people pouring over the walkways of the bridges above me. Streams of pedestrians walking FDR Drive, the highway running along Manhattan's East side. I even spot a few police trucks headed North on FDR, trailing eddies of debris and dust behind them.
F-16 fighter jets prowl the sky on high, while Police helicopters and boats trawl the lower strata. All powerless; unable to change the condition of the city; only manage the aftermath.
I deftly ride my bicycle home, streets gridlocked in car traffic. The police on the streets in Brooklyn are evidently reserves; I spot several uniformed *school* policewomen standing on corners, directing traffic.
The city is closed south of Canal street. The bridges and tunnels are closed. The subways are closed. Every payphone I can see is in use. Storefronts are shuttering. Now I am safe at home, but I fear for my girlfriend.
She works in Times Square in a relatively high-profile building. I had several messages from her on my return. Amazingly, I am able to get through to her in the office and she informs me that her office has closed. She is walking to a coworker's apartment 29 blocks away. I don't know when we can... er, UPDATE: She's made it to her coworker's apartment without incident. No word yet on when she can cross over the East River to our home in Brooklyn, but she's safe for now. So friends and family- we're OK!
I still don't know what to make of all this- it seems like a movie.
C'mon now, rats? Cops? The elusive mole people (née squatters)?
You've got bigger worries - C.H.U.D.s.
I'm glad these former wage slaves can shop around the job market now, because I'd hate to have to compete against an equally qualified person who has fewer working rights than I do.
On a different note, I'd rather shoot myself in the face than have to hear another unemployed 40-something engineer's sob story about being booted in favor of inexperienced kids (like me) or cheap intentured servants, er... H1's. Now the whiners will have one less excuse.
Seriously though- maybe this will help out the obvious age bias that older programmers (percieved as past their prime & too set in their ways) experience every day. Or not, but at least it's a step in the right direction.
A retail decision to use this or any other salesfloor automation would not mean lower prices for a very long time, if at all.
The cost of the entire industry converting to this system would be high- an investment the retail industry would like to standardize upon if only to lower overhead but charge the same price.
Remember, lower overhead was supposed to make the Web a vastly cheaper marketplace with increased consumer choice. To some extent this is true, and this has been a boon to the consumer and a bust for 'ebusiness'/fucked companies.
This is why almost all ebusiness initiatives by major retailers (who are much more likely to weather the dot-com shakeout) provide half the SKU's and all the price.
They aren't going to pass on the savings, because they want to stay in business.
Don't think I like this, or I feel any sort of affinity with retailers- I'm just acknowledging the way it is.
If you look at frames 43, 44 & 45 of this orbital animation of eros you can clearly see a huge boo-scary tortured-looking face on the surface! I know it's a meritless thing to point out and has no real scientific significance (like the infamous "face on Mars"), but considering that:
- Following Probe, Lusty Anthropomorphic Asteroid Hurtles Toward Uranus
- Mister Hanky's Mothership Arrives
- Approaching Space Demon "Eros" Denies Connection to Ancient Ones, Intention to Destroy Earth
Just look at it already, you'll see what I mean: http://n ssd c.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/image/near_20000919_larIndeed. The old style whites were four chips giving roughly equal output of red, green and blue. The new whites are blue chips with a yellow phosphor coating. Depending on how much you pay for them you can avoid the bluish ring or yellowish center some of these new whites can be heir to.
Notice in the season premiére when Cap'n Janeway was turned into a Borg she had a blue LED implanted in much the same way that Cap'n Picard's cheesy red laser was?
That was cool.
Hennepin County, Minnesota has done a cool pilot project on using a LED traffic flasher powered by solar for an amazing savings... They have some great graphs on the cost savings (79% down for LED on the grid, 99% for LED w/solar), and the only limitation on the tech was during the coldest winter months there was a charging issue with the lead-acid battery. Very interesting stuff.
check it:
Solar LED Traffic Light Project - Hennepin County, MN
White LED's...
I'm not dissing them, but yellow or blue-green LED's I've seen as bright as 36,000mcd, but all the whites I want to buy are only 6,000mcd at most. They're also a novelty and a little too expensive now for my taste.
Fort Hood started the conversion back in 1998, and they're quite pleased...
Check it:
Fort Hood Converts to LED's
Check it:
NASDAQ LED Array pix
NASDAQ LED Array Article
ABC LED Array PR