00:00:00 --- log: started forth/08.08.31 00:03:19 --- join: Myoma (n=witch@amcant.demon.co.uk) joined #forth 00:32:01 --- join: ygrek (i=user@gateway/tor/x-29c6efec213a5ed1) joined #forth 01:19:30 --- join: qFox (i=C00K13S@234pc222.sshunet.nl) joined #forth 01:21:22 --- quit: nighty^ (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)) 01:43:41 --- quit: Myoma ("Leaving") 03:10:08 --- join: nighty^ (n=nighty@host217-37-109-17.in-addr.btopenworld.com) joined #forth 06:32:16 --- quit: ygrek (Remote closed the connection) 06:53:28 --- join: ygrek (i=user@gateway/tor/x-13c83007794538a9) joined #forth 07:55:16 --- join: edrx (i=edrx@189.25.122.213) joined #forth 08:14:25 --- mode: ChanServ set +o crc 08:53:43 --- join: snowrichard (i=richard@12.169.182.169) joined #forth 08:53:45 hi 08:54:29 Good evening. 08:55:56 we have this storm headed toward the gulf coast they say we could get 12 inches of rain here 08:56:45 No idea, what is the gulf, you're talking of. 08:57:00 We don't have any coast nearby. 08:57:03 Gulf of Mexico, sout of US 08:57:07 Ah. 08:57:24 I'm 250 miles north of the coast 08:57:49 The closest one is ca. 850 km. 09:03:13 --- join: JasonWoof (n=jason@cpe-72-227-80-103.maine.res.rr.com) joined #forth 09:03:13 --- mode: ChanServ set +o JasonWoof 09:04:08 last night I did some googling on the market share of linux on desktops 09:04:26 anybody's guess really, but answers seem to average about 1% 09:04:39 seems small 09:05:07 but considering it got there from 0%, pretty cool! 09:05:17 today I was thinking "wait a minute... how many computer users are there?" 09:05:58 At least two: me, and the person(s) I'm talking with. 09:06:25 so far in my short googling, there seem to be at least 1 billion computer users 09:06:42 so that means 10 million linux users 09:07:32 Assuming your approximations are valid. 09:07:55 the guy running linuxcounter thinks there's about 29 million linux users 09:08:12 these numbers are _very_ rough 09:08:23 another estimate on world computer users was 6 billion 09:09:19 I was very suprised to read about mac being at 2.5 market share too 09:09:25 seems so low compared to my experience 09:09:34 seems to me almost half the laptops I see are macs 09:09:57 so I dug through the statistics on the most popular website I host 09:10:22 and made a nice graph of linux/mac/windows/other/unknown usage share 09:10:44 over the last two years 09:11:09 mac was holding steady at around 15% and linux was approaching 10% 09:12:22 these stats are on 100,000 - 300,000 hits 09:13:10 the site is based in an earthy-crunchy town in the massachusets and is targetted at vegans 09:13:33 I would venture to say that the home computer market is dwarfed by corporate installations; and that the vast, vast majority of them are running Windows. 09:14:02 right 09:14:17 Computers don't map 1-to-1 to people anymore, of course, but there is probably a very wide divide between sites that people visit from work and those that they visit from home. 09:14:22 another thing that throws the statistics is that there are some massively populated countries that have mostly windows 09:15:00 demographics make a big difference too 09:15:19 I saw a statistic that 40% of freshmen (I forget where) had macs 09:15:34 and that at one point about 30% of the users of the BBC website were on macs 09:17:53 Gosh, those are some pretty high numbers. 09:18:23 I know that among my cow-orkers, the only two kinds of machines that I see with any regularity are Thinkpads and Macbooks. 09:18:42 There may be a weirdo with a Qozmio, too. 09:35:30 --- quit: ygrek (Remote closed the connection) 09:47:38 --- join: Malfermi1aKodo (n=kansu@xdsl-78-34-155-8.netcologne.de) joined #forth 09:58:51 --- quit: MalfermitaKodo (Connection timed out) 09:59:13 --- join: ygrek (i=user@gateway/tor/x-d75901f463a64ca7) joined #forth 10:05:05 --- part: edrx left #forth 10:12:43 --- join: Myoma (n=witch@amcant.demon.co.uk) joined #forth 10:33:09 computers not 1:1 with people here, I have a server, another server I'm not using right now, a desktop, and two laptops (but one is not working completely) 11:15:35 --- quit: ygrek (Remote closed the connection) 11:34:51 --- join: ygrek (i=user@gateway/tor/x-11d08c2b673ed11c) joined #forth 11:42:00 --- join: Maki (n=Maki@adsl-224-84.eunet.yu) joined #forth 12:18:30 --- quit: ygrek (Remote closed the connection) 12:30:52 --- nick: Malfermi1aKodo -> MalfermitaKodo 12:40:54 --- quit: JasonWoof (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)) 12:54:26 --- quit: qFox ("Time for cookies!") 13:53:42 --- quit: Maki ("Leaving") 14:28:49 --- quit: aguai (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)) 14:30:56 --- quit: snowrichard ("Leaving") 14:37:36 --- quit: ASau (Remote closed the connection) 14:39:35 --- join: ASau (n=user@79.111.39.119) joined #forth 15:57:11 --- join: Quartus` (n=Quartus`@205.205.50.1) joined #forth 16:09:18 --- quit: MalfermitaKodo (" Eat less, exercise more is a giant chicken-sacrifice, so I say screw it. I say, you should be super-user in your own body. 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