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Re: So now there are Two Windope Flatfish Loonies Spamming The Group?

flatfish+++ <flatfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:57:00 +0200, Peter KÃhlmann wrote:
>
>> Hadron Quark wrote:
>> 
>>> flatfish+++ <flatfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:49:49 +0000, Jim wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hear hear!
>>>>> 
>>>>> (This "ME TOO!" post brought to you by the letters C, L, and O twice,
>>>>> and the number 0).
>>>>> --
>>>>> I hereby testify that the above statement is an accurate recollection of
>>>>> the events mentioned therein.
>>>>> http://dotware.co.uk
>>>>> Registered Linux user #426308 -*- http://counter.li.org
>>>>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do you like get a secret decoder ring and copy of the Linux COLA gang
>>>> playbook for registering?
>>>>                         
>>> 
>>> Here's an interesting thing : Jim is #426308, but yet if we visit the
>>> counter page, what do we find?
>>> 
>>> ,----
>>> | At Sep 04 2006 21:41:36 GMT, there are 141728 users registered 156696
>>> | machines registered.
>>> `----
>>> 
>>> I registered anout 200000 before Jim. But what has happened to the
>>> totals? A crash and loss of data possibly? Am I missing something
>>> non obvious to someone of my limited "smarts"? Is it because I use
>>> windows too that I'm unable to see the bigger picture?
>>> 
>>> Whatever the reason for the strange figures (Remember that "Mark'n'Roy"
>>> Schestowiscz estimate that 20% of PCs have Linux installed).
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> You have no idea how the counter works.

Correct. Its probably designed by a Linux zealot from COLA : so instead
of it representing the number of registered Linux users and being
incremented each time a new user with a unique email registers, its
probably representative of "users with ginger hair who've been caught
jay walking in Germany".

>> If you /had/ any, you would know that registered users are periodically
>> asked to verify that they are indeed still running linux
>> If they don't answer for whatever reason, they are removed from the
>> counter

So you think that the take up rate of Linux is less than the rate of
people jumping ship? When I registed I was #400000 give or take. Now
there are only 140000 or so "active users". Dont tell Mark'n'Roy :
he'll worry that his research and loss of dignity were all in vain.

In addition, I was never emailed to confirm anything : and my entry
stayed valid. So there.

>> 
>> But then, you are no linux user. You just claim to be one

I dont need a dicksize competition with you on my usage of Linux. I
daresay I use Linux a shed more than you will ever do. I see even
posting screenies cant convince you : I probably knocked them up in MS
Paint eh?


-- 
Linus Torvalds:
> This is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84

Winfried Truemper:
> Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit
> working today and rise on easter?

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