Yet another blatant evidence that Linux is way behind the competition when it comes to marketing. Seriously, how do you expect to beat the catchy "Use Windows and you'll get fucked"?
Not quite. You had to get a connection to the registry, send your request, get disconnected, get a new connection, send a new request, etc. The PITA was that the registry only allowed 60 connections per second. With 1000+ accreditations in the rush, you had to wait your turn to get a connection. Now, about that 1 request thing, if you had read _carefully_ the specs for the Landrush, you'd have understood that each accreditation can send up to 5 requests per second. Don't tell me I'm wrong, I did it and didn't get any penalty. Well I must say that during the first couple of hours it was more like 1 request every 5 seconds, but after 4 hours I was sending 2 to 3 requests per second without any problem.
Now for that Landrush you had 2 options. First, get one accreditation, put a shitload of cash on it and reg all the domains you can but that may take a while. Second, you could just create a shitload of accreditations put the minimum amount of money and raid on all the domains at the landrush and get the most wanted ones in a matter of one hour simply killing the fun of the rush. Guess what that US company did?
Keep in mind that the domain business in Europe is a joke. You just have to look at some registries requiring signed papers from the registrant in order to be allowed to register a domain or registries having asynchronuous systems to register domains. The domain business in Europe is in no way designed to be fast and efficient, it is made to guarantee that each domain registration can be tracked down to one individual/company. Knowing that it's no surprise that the biggest ccTLDs in Europe are the ones having the fewest limitation on who can register what.
That said, I really think that the majority of the european registrars (who usually just sit on their ass waiting for customers to register domains) were not ready for that Landrush. They were simply amateurs with a few professionals in the game. It was just like having the '92 Dream Team playing a minor HighSchool Team. At the end, you go home and cry in your basement because of the ass kickin' you just received.
Maybe the Eurid should have rejected any non-european registrar to get an accreditation. I mean, you have to be a EU citizen/company to be entitled to get a.eu domain, so why not? But that doesn't feel Internet-ish to me. My conclusion is just that european registrars were unprepared and sucked. If only they could stop whining now...
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Yet another blatant evidence that Linux is way behind the competition when it comes to marketing. Seriously, how do you expect to beat the catchy "Use Windows and you'll get fucked"?
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Close enough. I'd go for "Free/Libre/Open-Source Software".
It won't die, will it?
G.
Not quite. You had to get a connection to the registry, send your request, get disconnected, get a new connection, send a new request, etc. The PITA was that the registry only allowed 60 connections per second. With 1000+ accreditations in the rush, you had to wait your turn to get a connection. Now, about that 1 request thing, if you had read _carefully_ the specs for the Landrush, you'd have understood that each accreditation can send up to 5 requests per second. Don't tell me I'm wrong, I did it and didn't get any penalty. Well I must say that during the first couple of hours it was more like 1 request every 5 seconds, but after 4 hours I was sending 2 to 3 requests per second without any problem.
.eu domain, so why not? But that doesn't feel Internet-ish to me. My conclusion is just that european registrars were unprepared and sucked. If only they could stop whining now...
Now for that Landrush you had 2 options. First, get one accreditation, put a shitload of cash on it and reg all the domains you can but that may take a while. Second, you could just create a shitload of accreditations put the minimum amount of money and raid on all the domains at the landrush and get the most wanted ones in a matter of one hour simply killing the fun of the rush. Guess what that US company did?
Keep in mind that the domain business in Europe is a joke. You just have to look at some registries requiring signed papers from the registrant in order to be allowed to register a domain or registries having asynchronuous systems to register domains. The domain business in Europe is in no way designed to be fast and efficient, it is made to guarantee that each domain registration can be tracked down to one individual/company. Knowing that it's no surprise that the biggest ccTLDs in Europe are the ones having the fewest limitation on who can register what.
That said, I really think that the majority of the european registrars (who usually just sit on their ass waiting for customers to register domains) were not ready for that Landrush. They were simply amateurs with a few professionals in the game. It was just like having the '92 Dream Team playing a minor HighSchool Team. At the end, you go home and cry in your basement because of the ass kickin' you just received.
Maybe the Eurid should have rejected any non-european registrar to get an accreditation. I mean, you have to be a EU citizen/company to be entitled to get a
my $0.02
G.
Here is a list of testing frameworks for several languages.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TestingFramework
G.
does it run NetBSD? had to do it... sorry.
Favorite LOTR version?
- the book
- the cartoon
- the movies
- the pr0n
- the musical
- [can't find a CowBoyNeal joke here...]
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