Hmmm, yes by numbers IIS is at its highest ever, however that is an irrevelent statistic. The fact that its percent of market share has decreased is much more useful. It basically means the market size has increased (ie, there are more total servers now) but IIS hasn't kept up.
As a simple (and exageratted) example, let's say the market increased by a million servers, but IIS only got 100 more. Yes, they would be at their "highest ever", but in reality they would have a much smaller presence in the market.
Numbers don't matter, its numbers relative to the competition (ie, market %). So, the graph is not really misleading, since it shows a useful statistic (market share) rather than a not-so-useful one (number of servers).
Namecheap.com Beats you by a few cents (only $8.88/yr) plus it has a great web interface. URL Forwarding, domain transfers, dynamic DNS and a bunch of other things are made pretty easy too:).
I second that! Fastmail is by far the best email service I've ever used. They actually have a policy that (seems to me, at least), to be sustainable. They have free accounts with limited bandwidth and storage, and IMAP access. If you want more bandwidth (which is where the money actually starts to count for services like this), you have to pay more.
Plus, their web interface is quite good, and it is nice to be able to access all of your emails and your email folders from anywhere.
I have both a P500 and a bunch of V5s. Both pens write quite similarly -- the P500 isnt quite as easy to write with (ie, it takes a little more pressure to use), but is a little more precise, I would say. Personally, I find the V5 better for writing because of this, and the P500 a little better for more detailed work (if you happen to be doing that sort of thing).
Another pen I'd recommend, if your into felt-tips or fineliners is the Pilot Fineliner. Classic, old-school plain black fineliner. Good for some drawing or writing.
Yes, we are all supposed to hate flash. But this is mainly because many slashdotters have a problem with anything that isn't black and white. "Grey" is simply not in their vocabulary.
For example, many websites use flash simply because its "cool". However, it often makes for poor navigation and does not obey any usability/accessibility rukes the browser imposes.... and this can cause even more problems.
However, it can be appropriate in some cases.... for funny little bits of humour, interactive games, stuff like homestarrunner.com, or whatever.
Unfortunately, some people struggle with the concept that the "goodness" of something can have a different value in different contexts.
Hmmm.... I used to think that way, until I got a Logitech iTouch keyboard (which I bought mainly for the wirelessness as part of one of their wireless mouse+keyboard packages). Frankly, I find the "media keys" exceedingly useful.... I can handle all media stuff (using lineak and xmmsctrl) such as next/prev/playpause/whatever, plus toggle my playlist open/close easily, and without leaving the keyboard. I have also assigned buttons for things like logout, lock screen, kcontrol.... basically it means I don't need icons on kicker (KDE's "task bar") any more. Besides, these buttons are much more convenient than mouse-accessed ones, or ones with 2-button shortcuts.
Sorry.... I thought by "these things" you meant everything you were talking about in your post (which you didn't seem to be much informed upon past the "general misconceptions" category:) ). Thus, I took it as admitting ignorance of everything you had just said, rather than just of the matters pertaining to your question.
Or is it simply affordable because Canada doesn't have an FDA? The same drugs in Canada are cheaper than in the USA.
Ummm.... the idea that we "don't have an FDA" (though, we do have equivalent organizations of different names, I do believe) really has nothing to do with the lower prices of drugs. They're cheaper because we recognize that drug companies sell at inflated prices, and thus have caps on pharmaceutical costs.
There are still areas of the USA (way far away from the inner city) where people still don't lock their doors. Also, Canada's population density is a [fraction] of that of the US.
First of all: of course places far from the city can be like that! The point is, you can go to places like Toronto (urban centre; high population density) and people still don't lock their doors nearly as much as in the States. And population density is really irrelevent: most Canadians live clustered in areas (see: Southern Ontario) and thus the overall population density, which includes the vastly underpopulated north, does not really reflect the population density of more settled areas. Southern Ontario's population density is comparable to that of the States, I am sure.
How about this question, because I'm generally ignorant of these things
And that about covers it. Honestly, if you admit you don't really know what you're talking about, it becomes pointless to discuss anything.
I've read a bunch of Sawyer's books (his present-day/near-present-day sci-fi) and they do not dissapoint. I found it funny that I spotted Hominids in the store the other day and picked it up, and now I hear it won the Hugo:)
Errmmm.... ya. My bad:).
In any case, the main point is Microsoft isn't the server marketplace powerhouse some people would like to have you believe:).
Lets assume for a second that you are correct, MS has a majority and thousands (millions?) of servers are using forged HTTP headers. Since the current difference in market percent is 40%, approximately 20% of the servers on the internet would have to be using forged headers. Indeed, for every non-forged MS server there would basically be another forged MS server.
How about instead, let's apply Occam's razor, shall we?
I have one thing to say: Only in the US. For lack of meaningful ways of solving your problems, you can always sue for damages well-inflated from any realistic estimation of the "damage" done. And expect a settlement every time. Yay for litigation!
Oops... I hate to make this a double-reply but I just had to:)
Wanna know how I know? There are WAY more small to medium sized businesses than there are large corporations. They don't even look at Open Sores shit.
Hmmm.... they seem to be included in the netcraft.com survey, and yet Apache still handily beats MS. Oh, I see, right... quantitative information is much more useful than qualitative information.
Dell, the largest computer supplier in the world sells more Windows servers every day than they do OS-less or Linux servers.
The largest consumer-oriented supplier. Do you think a company is going to buy big iron from Dell? Does Dell even sell it? No. The world is not Dell and Microsoft, they are barely even in the markets we are talking about.
Apache hits an all time high in percentage share this month with 63.98% of sites found running an Apache server.
[...]
Following on from last month, Microsoft continued to lose sites as Network Solutions migrated the rest of their domain parking system back to Solaris from a Windows based system hosted at Interland. This is primarily responsible for Microsoft's 2.2% fall, with a net loss of 810,597 sites.
Microsoft's share is 23.75% according to the survey. Face it, the majority of sites out there use Apache, almost certainly running on some form of UNIX. Even if some of the sites are of the odd variety that use it on Windows, you must realize they aren't using an MS standard.
Further, you can probably extrapolate the type of software running on companies' internal networks from their external networks. Quite frankly, the enterprise world is not Microsoft, and it never has been.
Quite frankly, this argument is (no offense) mostly hot air -- Obviously, you could (by your logic) run around claiming everyone is hiding something illegal in something else. It may be difficult to prove it isn't there (indeed, even if you knew "the encoding" you could argue that a different encoding might possibly have been used), but it would be impossible to prove that is there. The classic example: I could tell you that there is a race of little green men living on the far side of the moon, but they always remain hidden so we can never see them and if you try to find them, the will run away in their perfectly invisible spaceships. You can't tell me they don't exist, but how can I prove they do?
KDE and GNOME keep playing catchup to windows instead of leading the way
I think you have probably seen from the above (by now, hopefully), that KDE/Gnome/Whatever often are leading the way, and have been (as far as a number of features are concerned) for a long time -- "always on top" for any window, virtual desktops, alt+mouse moving/resizing, etc are stuff that windows either doesn't have or you need extra to get. (The ability to send windows to the back with a middle-click or focus windows without bringing them to the top are two other features I use often as well). The more I think about it (KDE's kio "vrtual" filing system stuff is another good one) the more features I realize we have as a plus -- so I won't waste my time here; most of that stuff has been pointed out by others already.
My main point is this: when people try to tell me a linux desktop is less functional, less productive, or has fewer features, I can but laugh. Using a windows system makes me feel crippled -- window management is clumsy and inefficient, there are no virtual desktops... the list goes on. The idea that KDE/Gnome are solely playing catch-up is an out-dated notion; the main problems now are involved in making system configuration (not desktop configuration) easy for the end-users. And this, at least at the moment, is a job distributors are taking on.
Here's something I've always wondered about: "up here" (heh) we call it public healthcare, I think I've only ever heard it called "socialized medicine" in the States. It's like the easiest way for the companies in the States to keep their massize industry is to slap a communist implication on it and let the public beat up anyone who voices their opinion for it.
BTW, this is more of a general observation on US politics than a specific comment on healthcare.... it seems to happen in everything. Oh well, some misconceptions die hard.
I remember a program that did something similar to that back in my windows days............... anyway, that architecture business doesn't happen on my box, and given that it is completely unrelated to any content on that site, I doubt it is even a part of the site.
Of course, some environment variables are still based off of the original login, so if you have trouble there then you need to logout and login. In most cases, though, su works just fine.
You can simply include the "-" arg if you want to fix all the env vars and get a proper login shell: "su -" will give you a root shell, "su - joe" will give you a shell for joe, etc -- all variables, etc properly set.
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As a simple (and exageratted) example, let's say the market increased by a million servers, but IIS only got 100 more. Yes, they would be at their "highest ever", but in reality they would have a much smaller presence in the market.
Numbers don't matter, its numbers relative to the competition (ie, market %). So, the graph is not really misleading, since it shows a useful statistic (market share) rather than a not-so-useful one (number of servers).
Namecheap.com Beats you by a few cents (only $8.88/yr) plus it has a great web interface. URL Forwarding, domain transfers, dynamic DNS and a bunch of other things are made pretty easy too :).
I second that! Fastmail is by far the best email service I've ever used. They actually have a policy that (seems to me, at least), to be sustainable. They have free accounts with limited bandwidth and storage, and IMAP access. If you want more bandwidth (which is where the money actually starts to count for services like this), you have to pay more.
Plus, their web interface is quite good, and it is nice to be able to access all of your emails and your email folders from anywhere.
I have both a P500 and a bunch of V5s. Both pens write quite similarly -- the P500 isnt quite as easy to write with (ie, it takes a little more pressure to use), but is a little more precise, I would say. Personally, I find the V5 better for writing because of this, and the P500 a little better for more detailed work (if you happen to be doing that sort of thing).
Another pen I'd recommend, if your into felt-tips or fineliners is the Pilot Fineliner. Classic, old-school plain black fineliner. Good for some drawing or writing.
Hmmmm, RTFA. Vorbis (along with the other codecs that support it) used VBR in the tests.
Yes, we are all supposed to hate flash. But this is mainly because many slashdotters have a problem with anything that isn't black and white. "Grey" is simply not in their vocabulary.
For example, many websites use flash simply because its "cool". However, it often makes for poor navigation and does not obey any usability/accessibility rukes the browser imposes.... and this can cause even more problems.
However, it can be appropriate in some cases.... for funny little bits of humour, interactive games, stuff like homestarrunner.com, or whatever.
Unfortunately, some people struggle with the concept that the "goodness" of something can have a different value in different contexts.
Hmmm.... I used to think that way, until I got a Logitech iTouch keyboard (which I bought mainly for the wirelessness as part of one of their wireless mouse+keyboard packages). Frankly, I find the "media keys" exceedingly useful.... I can handle all media stuff (using lineak and xmmsctrl) such as next/prev/playpause/whatever, plus toggle my playlist open/close easily, and without leaving the keyboard. I have also assigned buttons for things like logout, lock screen, kcontrol.... basically it means I don't need icons on kicker (KDE's "task bar") any more. Besides, these buttons are much more convenient than mouse-accessed ones, or ones with 2-button shortcuts.
Sorry.... I thought by "these things" you meant everything you were talking about in your post (which you didn't seem to be much informed upon past the "general misconceptions" category :) ). Thus, I took it as admitting ignorance of everything you had just said, rather than just of the matters pertaining to your question.
Or is it simply affordable because Canada doesn't have an FDA? The same drugs in Canada are cheaper than in the USA.
Ummm.... the idea that we "don't have an FDA" (though, we do have equivalent organizations of different names, I do believe) really has nothing to do with the lower prices of drugs. They're cheaper because we recognize that drug companies sell at inflated prices, and thus have caps on pharmaceutical costs.
There are still areas of the USA (way far away from the inner city) where people still don't lock their doors. Also, Canada's population density is a [fraction] of that of the US.
First of all: of course places far from the city can be like that! The point is, you can go to places like Toronto (urban centre; high population density) and people still don't lock their doors nearly as much as in the States. And population density is really irrelevent: most Canadians live clustered in areas (see: Southern Ontario) and thus the overall population density, which includes the vastly underpopulated north, does not really reflect the population density of more settled areas. Southern Ontario's population density is comparable to that of the States, I am sure.
How about this question, because I'm generally ignorant of these things
And that about covers it. Honestly, if you admit you don't really know what you're talking about, it becomes pointless to discuss anything.You only missed one obvious one (to me): i gesus it deonst mtaetr taht sashlodt eidorts cnat selpl !
I've read a bunch of Sawyer's books (his present-day/near-present-day sci-fi) and they do not dissapoint. I found it funny that I spotted Hominids in the store the other day and picked it up, and now I hear it won the Hugo :)
Heh... he's also Canadian! Yay Canada!
Should that be masterpiece?
Errmmm.... ya. My bad :).
In any case, the main point is Microsoft isn't the server marketplace powerhouse some people would like to have you believe :).
Lets assume for a second that you are correct, MS has a majority and thousands (millions?) of servers are using forged HTTP headers. Since the current difference in market percent is 40%, approximately 20% of the servers on the internet would have to be using forged headers. Indeed, for every non-forged MS server there would basically be another forged MS server.
How about instead, let's apply Occam's razor, shall we?
I have one thing to say: Only in the US. For lack of meaningful ways of solving your problems, you can always sue for damages well-inflated from any realistic estimation of the "damage" done. And expect a settlement every time. Yay for litigation!
Oops... I hate to make this a double-reply but I just had to :)
Hmmm.... they seem to be included in the netcraft.com survey, and yet Apache still handily beats MS. Oh, I see, right... quantitative information is much more useful than qualitative information.
The largest consumer-oriented supplier. Do you think a company is going to buy big iron from Dell? Does Dell even sell it? No. The world is not Dell and Microsoft, they are barely even in the markets we are talking about.
I hate to bite, but here goes....
Lets have a little look at the latest monthly web server survey from netcraft. Now, I will quote:
[...]Microsoft's share is 23.75% according to the survey. Face it, the majority of sites out there use Apache, almost certainly running on some form of UNIX. Even if some of the sites are of the odd variety that use it on Windows, you must realize they aren't using an MS standard.
Further, you can probably extrapolate the type of software running on companies' internal networks from their external networks. Quite frankly, the enterprise world is not Microsoft, and it never has been.
Hello, this is [insert telco here]. You have a collect call from EAT MY DICK YOU COCKFACE SPAMMER. Press 1 to accept the charges now.
Excellent.....
AHEM
Well, as long as you said hope to expect.
Quite frankly, this argument is (no offense) mostly hot air -- Obviously, you could (by your logic) run around claiming everyone is hiding something illegal in something else. It may be difficult to prove it isn't there (indeed, even if you knew "the encoding" you could argue that a different encoding might possibly have been used), but it would be impossible to prove that is there. The classic example: I could tell you that there is a race of little green men living on the far side of the moon, but they always remain hidden so we can never see them and if you try to find them, the will run away in their perfectly invisible spaceships. You can't tell me they don't exist, but how can I prove they do?
Q. What evidence do you have?
A. Ummm.... none. But theoretically.......
Good-bye
I think you have probably seen from the above (by now, hopefully), that KDE/Gnome/Whatever often are leading the way, and have been (as far as a number of features are concerned) for a long time -- "always on top" for any window, virtual desktops, alt+mouse moving/resizing, etc are stuff that windows either doesn't have or you need extra to get. (The ability to send windows to the back with a middle-click or focus windows without bringing them to the top are two other features I use often as well). The more I think about it (KDE's kio "vrtual" filing system stuff is another good one) the more features I realize we have as a plus -- so I won't waste my time here; most of that stuff has been pointed out by others already.
My main point is this: when people try to tell me a linux desktop is less functional, less productive, or has fewer features, I can but laugh. Using a windows system makes me feel crippled -- window management is clumsy and inefficient, there are no virtual desktops... the list goes on. The idea that KDE/Gnome are solely playing catch-up is an out-dated notion; the main problems now are involved in making system configuration (not desktop configuration) easy for the end-users. And this, at least at the moment, is a job distributors are taking on.
I am not saying the use is improper, I'm just musing about the fact that it is used much more in the States than here.
Here's something I've always wondered about: "up here" (heh) we call it public healthcare, I think I've only ever heard it called "socialized medicine" in the States. It's like the easiest way for the companies in the States to keep their massize industry is to slap a communist implication on it and let the public beat up anyone who voices their opinion for it.
BTW, this is more of a general observation on US politics than a specific comment on healthcare.... it seems to happen in everything. Oh well, some misconceptions die hard.
I remember a program that did something similar to that back in my windows days............... anyway, that architecture business doesn't happen on my box, and given that it is completely unrelated to any content on that site, I doubt it is even a part of the site.
You've probably been spyware'd.
You can simply include the "-" arg if you want to fix all the env vars and get a proper login shell: "su -" will give you a root shell, "su - joe" will give you a shell for joe, etc -- all variables, etc properly set.