Posted on 03/21/2008 1:37:20 PM PDT by ShadowAce
Tracking pre-installed linux sales is likely to severely underestimate linux deployments. I can’t count how many old windows machines I have slapped linux on to. Maybe a better proxy would be to track versions of adobe Flash that get downloaded, or their pdf viewer. Even new Windows machines often don’t have these apps on them, and this is a once only activity, unlike counts of browser hits on a web site. I suppose even there this would only track client type machines and miss server deployments.
LOL! Great cartoon!
Which would mean that any numbers reported via such mechanisms, should be considered to be under reported.
Suck it, Gates. We are coming for your scalp.
-ccm
True insider geek humor, right up there with “God is real unless declared integer.”
I used Vista for the first time last week. I am astonished that people would pay money for such a steaming heap of dung. Everything seems to take 30 or 40 percent more clicks to get done than in XP.
The only Windows that was worth a damn was Windows 2000. XP with Service Pack 2 is tolerable. Vista is dung.
-ccm
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LOL, Linux is eating Apple’s dust, much less posing any sort of threat to Microsoft.
I see Bill’s sending his minions out to spin.
Yeah - the flash thing sort of popped into my mind - I haven’t run across flash on Fedora Core distros (what I usually use) but maybe I missed it or maybe it’s really not there. Or maybe something like itunes might work (for clients).
Anyway I think there is a lot of stealth linux usage out there under the radar. You take an old, retired window machine, you use the distro CD’s you copied from a friend - how is that going to make it into anyone’s numbers?
Maybe you can help me.
How does one burn a CD video I would like to make a copy off of you tube or something like it like a online video.
I have Nero but never used it and have no clue how to use it!
Thank you for your help.
I can capture youtube videos (google youtube-dl), and convert them to avi. Once that is done I can do it, but I'm not sure I can explain the process since we use different OSes, and different apps.
I'd help more, but I don't use it. You using Nero 3 for Linux, or Nero 8 for windows?
Thank you I bookmark that page.
Yea, well, then any site using those methods don't get accurate readings from me. Because I don't allow those scripts to run. I don't accept cookies from all but a small few whitelisted sites. I don't even run JS here, and Noscript is reporting that besides FR, google-analytics wants to run a script.
Nope!
Guess that will skew the results. And I imagine people running Linux, or people who have set up Linux for others, are using similar protections.
It doesn't bother me that some sites I visit don't have all sorts of flashy graphics, or ads, or JS applets running all over the place. If there is so much that I cannot access the information I need; I'll go elsewhere rather than turn on all sorts of things.
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