From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Sep 16 22:52:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93E2E37B424; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 22:52:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8H5pvx30353; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 15:21:57 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 15:21:56 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Chip Cc: Kris Kennaway , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Mark Ovens , Alfred Perlstein , Roland Jesse , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS poll at linuxtoday.com Message-ID: <20000917152156.B67912@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <39C4554B.3D878080@wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <39C4554B.3D878080@wiegand.org>; from chip@wiegand.org on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 10:23:23PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 16 September 2000 at 22:23:23 -0700, Chip wrote: >> On 16 Sep 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >> >>> Mark Ovens 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