From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 31 05:05:58 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB09106564A for ; Mon, 31 May 2010 05:05:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1288FC0A for ; Mon, 31 May 2010 05:05:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3A1234558ED; Mon, 31 May 2010 02:05:57 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 51924-01; Mon, 31 May 2010 05:05:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id B81B734558D5; Mon, 31 May 2010 02:05:57 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A4E34558CE; Mon, 31 May 2010 02:05:57 -0300 (ADT) Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 02:05:57 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Anh Ky Huynh In-Reply-To: <20100531115716.3f874797@icy.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <4C032FDC.7090201@comclark.com> <20100531104944.43972435@icy.localdomain> <20100531115716.3f874797@icy.localdomain> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Aiza , FreeBSD question Subject: Re: Is this information obtainable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 05:05:59 -0000 On Mon, 31 May 2010, Anh Ky Huynh wrote: >> the numbers are growing ... since the start of May, I've seen the >> numbers jump by almost 2k new computers, so it is growing ... but >> ppl have to consciously install the software ... > > I remember the days when I was using Linux with http://counter.li.org/ > (my ID is 392115). Anonymousness is good but I think that I'll be proud > of having a counter for my (Free)BSD box :) Why don't bsdstat support > registration? one of the critical requirements that alot of ppl out there had at the start was anonymity ... not so much that they weren't proud to run *BSD, but for safety ... there is nothing in the database that can be traced back to the source, nor that can be spammed ... Also, easy of use was a big factor ... registration is just yet another step that ppl (myself included) generally just don't bother with ... it really doesn't give you much, and discourages alot of ppl from doing it ... ... and, in the case of PCBSD, would make it harder to have it auto-enabled, since it couldn't be enabled without the end user registering first, which most wouldn't do ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. scrappy@hub.org http://www.hub.org Yahoo:yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ:7615664 MSN:scrappy@hub.org