Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 15:21:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Mark Ovens <marko@FreeBSD.ORG>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Roland Jesse <jesse@mail.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS poll at linuxtoday.com Message-ID: <20000917152156.B67912@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <39C4554B.3D878080@wiegand.org>; from chip@wiegand.org on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 10:23:23PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009162121400.4662-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <39C4554B.3D878080@wiegand.org>
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On Saturday, 16 September 2000 at 22:23:23 -0700, Chip wrote: >> On 16 Sep 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >> >>> Mark Ovens <marko@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: >>>> Yeah, but unless I've missed something very subtle here, *BSD is ahead >>>> of Linux in _their_ poll :) >>>> >>>> FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/MacOSX/BSDi 15230 >>>> CPM 31 >>>> All Linux Versions 10701 >>> >>> Not any more... >>> >>> FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/MacOSX/BSDi 263889 >>> CPM 44 >>> All Linux Versions 811214 >> >> Yeah, they started blocking further votes to BSD, and from the rate at >> which the Linux numbers were increasing at the same time, possibly giving >> the Linux voters a helping hand. > > I'm sure that button that says 'vote for linux again' is helping > them a bit too much. Why don't they put put one on there that says > vote for your favorite again so this will be as unfail as possible? You're missing the point. The numbers were increasing at the rate of hundreds a second. That can only come from scripts, and I know that people on both sides were running scripts. It's a kind of primitive performance measurement. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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