The subject matter is very pertinent, but did anyone at/. HQ think for a second that the heading and the general gist of the story is of/no relevance whatsoever/ to anyone living outside of the US of A? Jesus, you can be so inconsiderate sometimes. This is a global medium, remember?
Bah humbug! --
Barry de la Rosa, Features Editor, Network News (UK) Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk, tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
Jeez, this guy is an argument for censorship all unto himself. Moderators, do you job! Maybe if you all give him -1 he'll be the first to end up with a -50 score. Is there any was the system could automatically ban someone if they receive a huge markdown? I would prefer never to see this sort of racist, bigoted hate speech at all, even though I sometimes look at the -1's just for a laugh sometimes. --
Barry de la Rosa, Senior Reporter, PC Week (UK) Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk, tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
This story is dated 1st June! I also wrote a piece about this at the time which showed up NT more than NetWare - it seems that NetWare is re-gaining market share, and stopping the NT tide, whereas Linux is mopping up the rest.
Considering that a previous posting dealt with Slashdot as the new form of journalism: come on guys! News has to be new! Sort out your editorial policy! --
Barry de la Rosa, Senior Reporter, PC Week (UK) Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk, tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
Damn, that just shows how quick the reaction to this news was - when I was writing the above comment, there were no posts; by the time I had finished it, there were already 22 comments! Not that I wanted to get "first post" necessarily, I just thought I was the first! --
Barry de la Rosa, Senior Reporter, PC Week (UK) Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk, tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
May I be the first to congratulate you guys, well done. Andover is a good company, the site is excellent, built up from a collection of Windows shareware sites and various tidbits. They now do an excellent "portal" newsletter that bundles a load of stuff together, including a Linux software bit. Also, they run the very useful Internet Traffic Report site. Their hacks are top class, and always worth a read.
I hope this means we'll see a bit more investment in bandwidth then, to get rid of those "overload mode" messages. Also, you should think about hiring some people in Europe to post stories during the morning over here - we're always waiting for you guys to wake up and start trawling through the night's postings! --
Barry de la Rosa, Senior Reporter, PC Week (UK) Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk, tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
I have a Hotmail account I give out when filling out online forms and such - so if the Webmaster decides to sell my details (because he's outside the EU for example and isn't bound by consumer data protection laws) then the spam gets held at Microsoft's expense. It's amazing how much spam I get there as well. Then every month or so I open up SpamCop, and start cutting and pasting. Not only does this give me immense pleasure, but I feel I'm doing my bit against spam. --
Barry de la Rosa, Senior Reporter, PC Week (UK) Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk, tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
The guy who is quoted in the story, Dan Kusnetzky, also did the Linux report that came up with the 212% growth figure, but he also told me that IDC only expects Linux to grow by 25% per year for the next five years. That doesn't make sense, does it? He was also very sceptical of the figures for Linux installs, and admitted that IDC's methodology was not "efficient", and they only had two years-worth of statistically significant data to work from.
Other comments of his were more FUDdy, though - he believes Linux is "like Unix was in the early 70's" and could suffer from fragmentation.
Oh, and he can talk the hind legs off a donkey;). He once talked to me on his mobile, in his car, all the way from his hotel to the conference he was attending in San Francisco - about an hour at least. And he did all the talking.
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Barry de la Rosa, Reporter, PC Week (UK) Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk, tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
Sorry mate, you're wrong here. Selling ad space based on clickthroughs is a suckers game. CPM (as anyone in the print business will tell you) is cost per thousand/impressions/.
Would you sell space for $15 per thousand clickthroughs? You'll be waiting a long time to get that first $15...
Plus, ZD probably charge more than $15 cpm - it's a prime site. I think you'll find it's worth their while.
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Barry de la Rosa, Reporter, PC Week (UK) Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk, tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
This headline is pure slashdot bait. They want to get the slashdot effect, so they get more hits, so they get more $$$$$ from the advertisers!
I'm sure a load of news sites have cottoned onto the fact that a good, juicy Linux headline gets them at least 10,000 hits extra. Rob should set up a scoring system, whereby each post about a "mainstream" news site reporting on Linux (or any other OSS topic for that matter) is given a relevancy score. That'll save us all the time it takes to trundle off to ZDNet or News.com to read yet more uneducated rubbish. --
Barry de la Rosa, Reporter, PC Week (UK) Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk, tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
I agree. It seems weird not only that Red Hat is receiving all of the Big Vendors' attention and money, but that Red Hat is looking for so much investment. Are they going to give away the whole boat? Do they have any equity left? And if they need so much money, how are the smaller Linux distributors faring? --
Barry de la Rosa, Reporter, PC Week (UK) Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk, tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
I used to respect Paul Thurrott for covering other things apart from Windows in his mailing list (unfortunately I still have to read it as a journalist, because he gets stuff before we do in the UK). Lately, however, he seems to have been sucked into Microsoft's PR spin. The DoJ trial has had a polarising effect on commentators, and now people's true colours are showing through. He used to have a page about Linux which (as far as I remember) was quite objective, but now I can't find it. Shame. --
Barry de la Rosa, Reporter, PC Week (UK) Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk, tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
Slashdot Mirror
The subject matter is very pertinent, but did anyone at /. HQ think for a second that the heading and the general gist of the story is of /no relevance whatsoever/ to anyone living outside of the US of A? Jesus, you can be so inconsiderate sometimes. This is a global medium, remember?
Bah humbug!
--
Barry de la Rosa,
Features Editor, Network News (UK)
Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk,
tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
Jeez, this guy is an argument for censorship all unto himself. Moderators, do you job! Maybe if you all give him -1 he'll be the first to end up with a -50 score. Is there any was the system could automatically ban someone if they receive a huge markdown? I would prefer never to see this sort of racist, bigoted hate speech at all, even though I sometimes look at the -1's just for a laugh sometimes.
--
Barry de la Rosa,
Senior Reporter, PC Week (UK)
Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk,
tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
This story is dated 1st June! I also wrote a piece about this at the time which showed up NT more than NetWare - it seems that NetWare is re-gaining market share, and stopping the NT tide, whereas Linux is mopping up the rest.
Considering that a previous posting dealt with Slashdot as the new form of journalism: come on guys! News has to be new! Sort out your editorial policy!
--
Barry de la Rosa,
Senior Reporter, PC Week (UK)
Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk,
tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
Greenwich Mean Time: GMT
Paris Mean Time: PMT?
Someone's having a laugh!
--
Barry de la Rosa,
Senior Reporter, PC Week (UK)
Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk,
tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
Damn, that just shows how quick the reaction to this news was - when I was writing the above comment, there were no posts; by the time I had finished it, there were already 22 comments! Not that I wanted to get "first post" necessarily, I just thought I was the first!
--
Barry de la Rosa,
Senior Reporter, PC Week (UK)
Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk,
tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
May I be the first to congratulate you guys, well done. Andover is a good company, the site is excellent, built up from a collection of Windows shareware sites and various tidbits. They now do an excellent "portal" newsletter that bundles a load of stuff together, including a Linux software bit. Also, they run the very useful Internet Traffic Report site. Their hacks are top class, and always worth a read.
I hope this means we'll see a bit more investment in bandwidth then, to get rid of those "overload mode" messages. Also, you should think about hiring some people in Europe to post stories during the morning over here - we're always waiting for you guys to wake up and start trawling through the night's postings!
--
Barry de la Rosa,
Senior Reporter, PC Week (UK)
Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk,
tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
I have a Hotmail account I give out when filling out online forms and such - so if the Webmaster decides to sell my details (because he's outside the EU for example and isn't bound by consumer data protection laws) then the spam gets held at Microsoft's expense. It's amazing how much spam I get there as well. Then every month or so I open up SpamCop, and start cutting and pasting. Not only does this give me immense pleasure, but I feel I'm doing my bit against spam.
--
Barry de la Rosa,
Senior Reporter, PC Week (UK)
Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk,
tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
The job seems to have been taken down: anyone got a sceenshot of the page?
--
Barry de la Rosa,
Senior Reporter, PC Week (UK)
Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk,
tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
It is a natural human reaction to laugh in the face of danger and evil, because there is so little we can do about it. It was a JOKE. Loosen up.
Besides, I had a point. I'm more interested in the games for the games' sake, not for the violence's sake.
--
Barry de la Rosa,
Reporter, PC Week (UK)
Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk,
tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
OK, I play Quake 2 and Half-Life, and I don't go around strafing people with automatic weapons.
BUT I would kill to get a copy of Requiem...
--
Barry de la Rosa,
Reporter, PC Week (UK)
Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk,
tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
The guy who is quoted in the story, Dan Kusnetzky, also did the Linux report that came up with the 212% growth figure, but he also told me that IDC only expects Linux to grow by 25% per year for the next five years. That doesn't make sense, does it? He was also very sceptical of the figures for Linux installs, and admitted that IDC's methodology was not "efficient", and they only had two years-worth of statistically significant data to work from.
Other comments of his were more FUDdy, though - he believes Linux is "like Unix was in the early 70's" and could suffer from fragmentation.
Oh, and he can talk the hind legs off a donkey ;). He once talked to me on his mobile, in his car, all the way from his hotel to the conference he was attending in San Francisco - about an hour at least. And he did all the talking.
--
Barry de la Rosa,
Reporter, PC Week (UK)
Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk,
tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
Sorry mate, you're wrong here. Selling ad space based on clickthroughs is a suckers game. CPM (as anyone in the print business will tell you) is cost per thousand
Would you sell space for $15 per thousand clickthroughs? You'll be waiting a long time to get that first $15...
Plus, ZD probably charge more than $15 cpm - it's a prime site. I think you'll find it's worth their while.
--
Barry de la Rosa,
Reporter, PC Week (UK)
Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk,
tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
Guys, wake up and smell the roses!
This headline is pure slashdot bait. They want to get the slashdot effect, so they get more hits, so they get more $$$$$ from the advertisers!
I'm sure a load of news sites have cottoned onto the fact that a good, juicy Linux headline gets them at least 10,000 hits extra. Rob should set up a scoring system, whereby each post about a "mainstream" news site reporting on Linux (or any other OSS topic for that matter) is given a relevancy score. That'll save us all the time it takes to trundle off to ZDNet or News.com to read yet more uneducated rubbish.
--
Barry de la Rosa,
Reporter, PC Week (UK)
Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk,
tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
I agree. It seems weird not only that Red Hat is receiving all of the Big Vendors' attention and money, but that Red Hat is looking for so much investment. Are they going to give away the whole boat? Do they have any equity left? And if they need so much money, how are the smaller Linux distributors faring?
--
Barry de la Rosa,
Reporter, PC Week (UK)
Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk,
tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
Apologies to WinInfo, the Linux URL is still up, at http://www.wugnet.com/wininfo/win2000/not_nt/defau lt.asp.
So, Paul, when's LinuxInfo launching? ;-)
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Barry de la Rosa,
Reporter, PC Week (UK)
Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk,
tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364
I used to respect Paul Thurrott for covering other things apart from Windows in his mailing list (unfortunately I still have to read it as a journalist, because he gets stuff before we do in the UK). Lately, however, he seems to have been sucked into Microsoft's PR spin. The DoJ trial has had a polarising effect on commentators, and now people's true colours are showing through. He used to have a page about Linux which (as far as I remember) was quite objective, but now I can't find it.
Shame.
--
Barry de la Rosa,
Reporter, PC Week (UK)
Work: barry_delarosa[at]vnu.co.uk,
tel. +44 (0)171 316 9364