March 2003, the first month they record, had Linux at 2.3% of all vistors. This month is at 3.3% at the moment and 3.5% for both of the last two months. Basically, 1.5 times as large of a percentage of Linux users as three years ago.
Growth of Windows XP is not at the expense of other operating systems, it is at the expense of previous versions of Windows. In March 2003, Windows 2000 was 41.9%, this month it is 17.5%
What is really amazing is that while Windows holds an 87.59% market share as of this month, a quarter of their user base appears to be using outdated products which they no longer support.
Linux users already outnumber Mac users. Linux is growing fast, and estimates are hard to pin down of the shear size of the user base since there are no receipts or other records for most of us. My computer came with Windows installed originally, even though I have never used Windows on it or any other machine in over a decade. As far as the sales records go, I am a Microsoft customer. I have purchased CDs for any distro, I have always downloaded CD (and long ago floppy) images. Since Google's Zeitgeist no longer lists OS and browser statistics, here's a good site to check out:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.a sp
No, it means complete transparency and standardization. If any company produces a black box which uses rules which I did not set to control what I can and can not do with a computer that I bought and own, then there is a serious problem.
Trusted computing would be along the lines of "This package is not signed or the signature cannot be verified. Are you sure you want to install it? "
When it crosses the line to "Sorry, I won't let you make a copy of this file", or "No, you aren't allowed to print this document and I don't care if you *ARE* root", then this is something entirely different. If it is to be called trusted computing, then I should be able to trust my computer not to tell me what it will or will not let me do.
I wouldn't complain too much considering that one famous Microsoft survey compared Windows running on a PC to Linux running on a very expensive mainframe in order to claim that Linux cost more;-) All in all, the IBM study doesn't look that bad, although I think the sample size was rather small.
This is slashdot. A much larger percentage us than you will find elsewhere have, in fact, never run a virus or spyware scan because we are not running Windows, so chances are very good that "anonymous reader" has not. Neither have I, in fact.
Well, it is for Windows users. The rest of the features, spyware and malware blocking and etc, are needed to simulate running Firefox on.. well... any other operating system but Windows.
Somehow my email address recently wound up on quite a number of spam lists. I have no idea what they were trying to sell since all of it was from japan and was written in japanese. As if ads for "v1&gra" weren't hard enough to read. Hell, at least three quarters of the characters weren't even in my unicode font and couldn't be displayed. After weeks of adding filters to block each new address, It finally occurred to me that I know no one from Japan and that chances are that I will never be in communication with anyone from Japan, so I gave up and just blocked anything ending in ".jp".
The thing about banning laptops is just silly and not at all the intention of the agreement, as anyone can see from reading the text. Nor would any reasonable individual interpret it as such, but I am rather surprised by the ban on mobile devices/game machines/PDA's/Can Openers, and etcetera anyway
It would seem that they would want to get their player on as many platforms as they possibly could. I guess possibly they want to limit the range of devices to those which they have explicitly designed and tested for so as to avoid a bad reputation when it doesn't work? What else am I missing here?
Yup. Exactly. It's downloading files, just like always. Just select a file to download and automatically recieve any updates or new versions, along with show notes, title, and other information, until you unsubscribe. Come to think of it, that doesn't sound much like what I'm used to as far as downloading files from sites goes. In fact, it sound rather different enough to diserve the coining of a new term. It is unfortunate that the term coined is "podcasting", but frankly I lack the creativity to suggest anything better myself so I won't gripe.
I don't quite get the description. It appears that they might provide another avenue for Internet access, and add to existing infrastructure, but how exactly does this ammount to a parallel internet or separate entity from the rest of the internet?
That being said, I do agree that the term is rather annoying. Podcasting has nothing to do with the ipod, and 'casting' suggests broadcasting which is likewise inappropriate terminology.
It is not "streaming audio". Streaming requires enormous bandwidth in order to play in real time. A Podcast is downloaded and saved to the subscriber's disk for playback at a later time. It does not matter, therefore, if limited bandwidth means that a twenty minute episode will take fourty minutes to download
Streaming audio also has the same limitation that radio does, and which podcasting provides a solution to: the listener must tune in on the day and time of the broadcast in order to hear it. There are a large number of Public Radio programs which I enjoy but my schedule does not allow me to listen to live. Even more programs that I listen to are not offered by stations in my area. Podcasts allow me to subscribe to the feeds that I want and listen to them whenever and wherever I want, including on my mp3 player when I am away from my computer.
No, not at all. It is much easier. Under Windows every program has its own installer and, if you are lucky, an uninstall option. Under any mainstream Linux distro, package management is centralised - You search the package repository by name and/or description, click on the package that you want, and install it. True, you may occasionally need to install a commercial application that isn't in the repository, like Maple or something, at which point installation will be little better than under Windows.
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Wouldn't sending out freely redistributable legal recordings of non-RIAA artists in order to promote them make more sense? http://creativecommons.org/ http://dmusic.com/
March 2003, the first month they record, had Linux at 2.3% of all vistors. This month is at 3.3% at the moment and 3.5% for both of the last two months. Basically, 1.5 times as large of a percentage of Linux users as three years ago.
Growth of Windows XP is not at the expense of other operating systems, it is at the expense of previous versions of Windows. In March 2003, Windows 2000 was 41.9%, this month it is 17.5%
What is really amazing is that while Windows holds an 87.59% market share as of this month, a quarter of their user base appears to be using outdated products which they no longer support.
Yup. Can't type worth crap today. :-)
Linux users already outnumber Mac users. Linux is growing fast, and estimates are hard to pin down of the shear size of the user base since there are no receipts or other records for most of us. My computer came with Windows installed originally, even though I have never used Windows on it or any other machine in over a decade. As far as the sales records go, I am a Microsoft customer. I have purchased CDs for any distro, I have always downloaded CD (and long ago floppy) images. Since Google's Zeitgeist no longer lists OS and browser statistics, here's a good site to check out: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.a sp
Nope. Can't compete with Zork I or Adventure. Now Those are addictive!
No, it means complete transparency and standardization. If any company produces a black box which uses rules which I did not set to control what I can and can not do with a computer that I bought and own, then there is a serious problem.
Trusted computing would be along the lines of "This package is not signed or the signature cannot be verified. Are you sure you want to install it? "
When it crosses the line to "Sorry, I won't let you make a copy of this file", or "No, you aren't allowed to print this document and I don't care if you *ARE* root", then this is something entirely different. If it is to be called trusted computing, then I should be able to trust my computer not to tell me what it will or will not let me do.I wouldn't complain too much considering that one famous Microsoft survey compared Windows running on a PC to Linux running on a very expensive mainframe in order to claim that Linux cost more ;-) All in all, the IBM study doesn't look that bad, although I think the sample size was rather small.
This is slashdot. A much larger percentage us than you will find elsewhere have, in fact, never run a virus or spyware scan because we are not running Windows, so chances are very good that "anonymous reader" has not. Neither have I, in fact.
Don't worry. I found another download site here: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ and, in case that goes down, here: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
Well, it is for Windows users. The rest of the features, spyware and malware blocking and etc, are needed to simulate running Firefox on.. well... any other operating system but Windows.
to just install Firefox?
Somehow my email address recently wound up on quite a number of spam lists. I have no idea what they were trying to sell since all of it was from japan and was written in japanese. As if ads for "v1&gra" weren't hard enough to read. Hell, at least three quarters of the characters weren't even in my unicode font and couldn't be displayed. After weeks of adding filters to block each new address, It finally occurred to me that I know no one from Japan and that chances are that I will never be in communication with anyone from Japan, so I gave up and just blocked anything ending in ".jp".
So what the patented was basically the idea of the directory tree. Amazing.
The thing about banning laptops is just silly and not at all the intention of the agreement, as anyone can see from reading the text. Nor would any reasonable individual interpret it as such, but I am rather surprised by the ban on mobile devices/game machines/PDA's/Can Openers, and etcetera anyway
It would seem that they would want to get their player on as many platforms as they possibly could. I guess possibly they want to limit the range of devices to those which they have explicitly designed and tested for so as to avoid a bad reputation when it doesn't work? What else am I missing here?
Someone will probably have at least partial support for it before it ever even gets out of beta.
Yup. Exactly. It's downloading files, just like always. Just select a file to download and automatically recieve any updates or new versions, along with show notes, title, and other information, until you unsubscribe. Come to think of it, that doesn't sound much like what I'm used to as far as downloading files from sites goes. In fact, it sound rather different enough to diserve the coining of a new term. It is unfortunate that the term coined is "podcasting", but frankly I lack the creativity to suggest anything better myself so I won't gripe.
I don't quite get the description. It appears that they might provide another avenue for Internet access, and add to existing infrastructure, but how exactly does this ammount to a parallel internet or separate entity from the rest of the internet?
My guess would be someone who has been awake far too long with too little coffee?
That being said, I do agree that the term is rather annoying. Podcasting has nothing to do with the ipod, and 'casting' suggests broadcasting which is likewise inappropriate terminology.
http://adblock.mozdev.org/
It is not "streaming audio". Streaming requires enormous bandwidth in order to play in real time. A Podcast is downloaded and saved to the subscriber's disk for playback at a later time. It does not matter, therefore, if limited bandwidth means that a twenty minute episode will take fourty minutes to download
Streaming audio also has the same limitation that radio does, and which podcasting provides a solution to: the listener must tune in on the day and time of the broadcast in order to hear it. There are a large number of Public Radio programs which I enjoy but my schedule does not allow me to listen to live. Even more programs that I listen to are not offered by stations in my area. Podcasts allow me to subscribe to the feeds that I want and listen to them whenever and wherever I want, including on my mp3 player when I am away from my computer.Yes, in fact I believe you may be the first person to have ever "mistaked".
Really? Why? http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/10/05/gore _internet/index.html
No, not at all. It is much easier. Under Windows every program has its own installer and, if you are lucky, an uninstall option. Under any mainstream Linux distro, package management is centralised - You search the package repository by name and/or description, click on the package that you want, and install it. True, you may occasionally need to install a commercial application that isn't in the repository, like Maple or something, at which point installation will be little better than under Windows.