This reminds me of another news story from IDG about the OS market I saw for a few years ago.
It was about almost the same thing. Windows was supposed for have a bigger market share for workstations and servers than any other operating system.
When I read the story again it was about a poll and the question was about what operating system one had bought in the recent year.
I don't buy Linux or BSD. -I just use it.
"We have a lot to learn from Iceland. Twenty years ago its fisheries were in a terrible state but they did something about it. They have done a heck of a lot better than us." The British Minister for Fisheries, Mr. Ben Bradshaw (From the Financial Times, quoted in an Opening Address by the Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr. Halldór Ásgrímsson)
I think you should at least try to know what you are talking about before you start your flametrower, Gunness-boy.
"The fishing is not as good as it used to be" Iceland is not a member of the EU and doesn't have to folow it's utterly stupid fishing policy (wich is the biggest reason why Iceland is not a member) so the fishing is as good as it has been for years and it will be in the future.
"trans-Atlantic airplanes don't need refueling stops anymore." The Icelandic Civil Avation Control Area has grait traffic. Also, Icelandair uses the Keflavik Int Airport (KEF) as a hub for their trans-atlantic flights (http://www.icelandair.is/routemap/index.html). T he ammount of passangers traveling trough KEF rose up to 17% of what is was las year.
"They'll get kicked out of the EU?" How can Iceland be kicked out if they are not even going to be members in the near future?
"Better Iceland become the world's library than Vanuatuu, because that little island could just disappear in a typhoon and take all the servers and storage with it." Server storage? And where is the bandwith? FARICE, the newest one of the two fiber-optic cables connecting Iceland to the rest of the world has the maximum bandwith of 720Gb/s and CANTAT-3 has the maximum bandwidth of 2,5Gb/s. Is that enough for the whole world?
"When five companies control most of the world's media[...]" There is actually a world outside the USA. Have you noticed it?
I decided to translate what was going on on the chatroom on the biggest Direct Connect Hub in Iceland just before it was closed down.
[22:31:15] <Eval> Guys [22:31:17] <Eval> LISTEN [22:31:24] <Eval> THERE IS A BIG BUST GOING ON AT THE NATIONAL POLICE COMMOSSIONER [22:31:30] <Eval> REMOVE ALL THE DISKS YOU ARE SHARING FROM YOUR COMPUTERS [22:31:34] <Eval> I MEAN ALL OF THEM [22:31:53] <Eval> THEY HAVE ARRESTED A FIEW, INCLUDING OLD ADMINISTRATORS FROM DCI [Direct Connect Iceland] [22:32:03] <Eval> THEY WILL BE HAVING A MASSIVE SEARCHES THE NEXT DAYS [22:32:12] <Eval> ALL DISKS FROM YOUR COMPUTERS AND GO AWAY FROM YOUR HOUES [22:33:25] <Eval> THEY HAVE ARRESTED 12 PEOPLE SO FAR [22:33:30] <Eval> WE DON'T KNOW IF ANY USER OF THIS HUB IS RELATED TO ANY USER IN HERE [22:33:34] <Eval> BUT TO BE SAFE, REMOVE THE DISKS [22:33:43] <Eval> NO ONE FROM VALHOLL [this hub] HAS BEEN ARRESTED YET [22:33:44] <Archanum> lol you are joking, right? [22:33:51] <Eval> NO I'M NOT JOKING [22:33:57] <Archanum> ok ) [22:34:03] <Archanum> Thanks for letting us know [22:34:11] <Eval> i know some of those who have been busted [22:34:24] <Archanum> eww i wouldn't let this happen to me [22:34:25] <Eval> i tink we will close tempoarilly while we try to find a way out of this [22:34:54] <Archanum> i was calculating the fines i have to pay if the c0ps find this out [22:35:02] <ingo> WTF! [22:35:03] <Archanum> compared with the fines they have in denmark.. [22:35:07] <Eval> ingo this is NOT A JOKE [22:35:07] <Archanum> and that's 16 millions [16.000.000ISK = $224656] [22:35:14] <Eval> and we will most likely close for a while after a fiew minutes [22:35:26] <Eval> you have our addresses [22:35:29] <Eval> xxxx@xxxxxx.xx [address hidden] [22:35:37] <Eval> we will watch this and see what happens [22:36:10] <Eval> Skifan [the biggest reseller and publisher of music in iceland, a division of the Northern Lights Corp, the biggest media corporation in Iceland and a member of SMAIS] is doing that [22:36:18] <Eval> just letting you know so you know where you should NOT buy Christmas presents [22:36:26] <Eval> i have to go outside. everything is going down here [22:36:38] <ingo> i will never shop there again!!!:@ [22:36:51] <Eval> later guys [22:37:07] <Eval> let the word spread. make a copy-paste of what i wrote [22:37:12] <Eval> this is not a joke [22:37:15] <Eval>://////////////////// [22:37:32] <Eval> DON'T let them take arrest you with your share [22:37:37] <Eval> later, i have to fix......my computer
* The text inside the brackets is only for explaination but not from the oginal text.
"As for the drop in traffic - the entire population is ca. 300.000 people, so 12 active users account for quite a bit of traffic - although the entire country is wired."
It wasn't only those 12 users that were suddenly "disconnected". It was the whole file sharing community of Iceland. Thousands of users.
Slashdot Mirror
The Icelandic morning newspaper, Morgunblaðið started their online edition in 1995 i think.
Does anyone want to top that?
What happens if the Space Elevator gets outdated or it has to be removed for some other reasons?
This reminds me of another news story from IDG about the OS market I saw for a few years ago. It was about almost the same thing. Windows was supposed for have a bigger market share for workstations and servers than any other operating system.
When I read the story again it was about a poll and the question was about what operating system one had bought in the recent year.
I don't buy Linux or BSD. -I just use it.
"We have a lot to learn from Iceland. Twenty years ago its fisheries were in a terrible state but they did something about it. They have done a heck of a lot better than us."
The British Minister for Fisheries, Mr. Ben Bradshaw (From the Financial Times, quoted in an Opening Address by the Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr. Halldór Ásgrímsson)
I think you should at least try to know what you are talking about before you start your flametrower, Gunness-boy.
"The fishing is not as good as it used to be"
T he ammount of passangers traveling trough KEF rose up to 17% of what is was las year.
Iceland is not a member of the EU and doesn't have to folow it's utterly stupid fishing policy (wich is the biggest reason why Iceland is not a member) so the fishing is as good as it has been for years and it will be in the future.
"trans-Atlantic airplanes don't need refueling stops anymore."
The Icelandic Civil Avation Control Area has grait traffic. Also, Icelandair uses the Keflavik Int Airport (KEF) as a hub for their trans-atlantic flights (http://www.icelandair.is/routemap/index.html).
"They'll get kicked out of the EU?"
How can Iceland be kicked out if they are not even going to be members in the near future?
"Better Iceland become the world's library than Vanuatuu, because that little island could just disappear in a typhoon and take all the servers and storage with it."
Server storage? And where is the bandwith?
FARICE, the newest one of the two fiber-optic cables connecting Iceland to the rest of the world has the maximum bandwith of 720Gb/s and CANTAT-3 has the maximum bandwidth of 2,5Gb/s.
Is that enough for the whole world?
"When five companies control most of the world's media[...]"
There is actually a world outside the USA. Have you noticed it?
I decided to translate what was going on on the chatroom on the biggest Direct Connect Hub in Iceland just before it was closed down.
:@ :////////////////////
[22:31:15] <Eval> Guys
[22:31:17] <Eval> LISTEN
[22:31:24] <Eval> THERE IS A BIG BUST GOING ON AT THE NATIONAL POLICE COMMOSSIONER
[22:31:30] <Eval> REMOVE ALL THE DISKS YOU ARE SHARING FROM YOUR COMPUTERS
[22:31:34] <Eval> I MEAN ALL OF THEM
[22:31:53] <Eval> THEY HAVE ARRESTED A FIEW, INCLUDING OLD ADMINISTRATORS FROM DCI [Direct Connect Iceland]
[22:32:03] <Eval> THEY WILL BE HAVING A MASSIVE SEARCHES THE NEXT DAYS
[22:32:12] <Eval> ALL DISKS FROM YOUR COMPUTERS AND GO AWAY FROM YOUR HOUES
[22:33:25] <Eval> THEY HAVE ARRESTED 12 PEOPLE SO FAR
[22:33:30] <Eval> WE DON'T KNOW IF ANY USER OF THIS HUB IS RELATED TO ANY USER IN HERE
[22:33:34] <Eval> BUT TO BE SAFE, REMOVE THE DISKS
[22:33:43] <Eval> NO ONE FROM VALHOLL [this hub] HAS BEEN ARRESTED YET
[22:33:44] <Archanum> lol you are joking, right?
[22:33:51] <Eval> NO I'M NOT JOKING
[22:33:57] <Archanum> ok )
[22:34:03] <Archanum> Thanks for letting us know
[22:34:11] <Eval> i know some of those who have been busted
[22:34:24] <Archanum> eww i wouldn't let this happen to me
[22:34:25] <Eval> i tink we will close tempoarilly while we try to find a way out of this
[22:34:54] <Archanum> i was calculating the fines i have to pay if the c0ps find this out
[22:35:02] <ingo> WTF!
[22:35:03] <Archanum> compared with the fines they have in denmark..
[22:35:07] <Eval> ingo this is NOT A JOKE
[22:35:07] <Archanum> and that's 16 millions [16.000.000ISK = $224656]
[22:35:14] <Eval> and we will most likely close for a while after a fiew minutes
[22:35:26] <Eval> you have our addresses
[22:35:29] <Eval> xxxx@xxxxxx.xx [address hidden]
[22:35:37] <Eval> we will watch this and see what happens
[22:36:10] <Eval> Skifan [the biggest reseller and publisher of music in iceland, a division of the Northern Lights Corp, the biggest media corporation in Iceland and a member of SMAIS] is doing that
[22:36:18] <Eval> just letting you know so you know where you should NOT buy Christmas presents
[22:36:26] <Eval> i have to go outside. everything is going down here
[22:36:38] <ingo> i will never shop there again!!!
[22:36:51] <Eval> later guys
[22:37:07] <Eval> let the word spread. make a copy-paste of what i wrote
[22:37:12] <Eval> this is not a joke
[22:37:15] <Eval>
[22:37:32] <Eval> DON'T let them take arrest you with your share
[22:37:37] <Eval> later, i have to fix......my computer
* The text inside the brackets is only for explaination but not from the oginal text.
"As for the drop in traffic - the entire population is ca. 300.000 people, so 12 active users account for quite a bit of traffic - although the entire country is wired." It wasn't only those 12 users that were suddenly "disconnected". It was the whole file sharing community of Iceland. Thousands of users.