From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jul 25 10:22:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from musrvr2.ummu.umich.edu (musrvr2.ummu.umich.edu [141.213.37.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E78537B993 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:22:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nlevitt@umich.edu) Received: from bloater.ummu.umich.edu (root@bloater.ummu.umich.edu [141.213.35.41]) by musrvr2.ummu.umich.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA02409; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:22:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (nlevitt@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bloater.ummu.umich.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA00159; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:22:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:21:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Noah Abraham Levitt X-Sender: nlevitt@bloater.ummu.umich.edu To: Joe Warner Cc: Joel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rk?= , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD article In-Reply-To: <397D8AA2.99E6239E@uswest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I got the same thing, but it seems to come up with freebsd 4 out of 5 times or so. According to http://www.netcraft.com/os/accuracy.html,=20 "The reported operating system may be different to the one you expected because: =20 =2E =2E=20 "The site load shares across multiple servers using different operating systems with round robin DNS. In such cases each query might detect a different OS." On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Joe Warner wrote: > Something funny happened this morning. I went to the netcraft link below > and typed in www.hotmail.com and it said they were using WIN 2000 servers= =2E > I went back a few minutes later and pulled them up again and it said they > were running on FreeBSD. What's up with that? >=20 >=20 > Joel Bj=F6rk wrote: >=20 > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, it's true. Though you'll never hear Microsoft admit it. > > > > http://www.netcraft.com/whats/ > > > > Type in www.hotmail.com and see for yourselves :) > > > > I have heard rumours about them trying to migrate to NT when they first > > bought it but that it failed miserably. > > > > /Joel Bj=F6rk > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message >=20 > -- >=20 > FreeBSD =3D The Power to Serve > ..Simply put =3D FreeBSD Rocks! >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message