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January 2, 2005 Leave a comment
Asa has posted a graph of the firefox download numbers. It's great to see that the NYT ad did indeed have a noticeable impact on the download numbers. I think the intangibles from the ad far outweigh the shear number of downloads, so IMHO the ad was a win. Great to see.
–jeremy
January 1, 2005 11 Comments
If there is anyone left who would like a Gmail account, post in this thread and I'll send you an invite. I still have at least 6 to spare…
–jeremy
January 1, 2005 Leave a comment
On behalf of LinuxQuestions.org I'd like to wish everyone (well, everyone using the same calendar as me) a happy new year! We have many things in store for 2005, but those can wait ;) For now, enjoy the new year and recover from last night.
–jeremy
December 30, 2004 Leave a comment
Voting for the 2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards is now open. We had a great turnout last year and this year looks to be even better. Good luck to all those up for an award!
–jeremy
December 29, 2004 Leave a comment
The latest LinuxQuestions.org Podcast. Topics include an update on LQ Radio, LQ hitting 150,000 members, the 2004 LQ Members Choice Awards, sponsoring the upcoming Linux Desktop Summit, LWE Boston and some general Linux news.
–jeremy
December 28, 2004 Leave a comment
I'm looking for feedback on the categories for the upcoming 2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. Competition was pretty stiff last year, and I expect a couple of great races this year. Are we missing anything?
–jeremy
December 28, 2004 Leave a comment
All I could think when I saw these numbers, was…WOW. The company said it set a single-day sales record during the period with more than 2.8 million units, or 32 items per second, ordered across the globe. Visitor traffic peaked at an estimated 700,000 users during a 60-minute period. While I know they use Linux for many (most) things, along with Oracle RAC, I can't seem to find anything more recent than about a year old detailing their infrastructure in any way. If anyone knows and would like to share it, please do contact me. Thanks.
–jeremy
December 28, 2004 Leave a comment
The search on LQ was down for about 30 minutes yesterday, due to this bug. If you are using RHEL, make sure that you do not have a symlink for /tmp when you upgrade to U4. Luckily the sever this happened on was not in a remote colo. The bug was reported over a week ago and no comment from RH yet, which seems odd for a bug that causes a machine to not boot.
–jeremy
December 27, 2004 Leave a comment
While many of us were enjoying the holiday season and spending time with family and friends, it looks like many a Windows admin was not. Three exploits on Christmas day…ouch. While Linux security has been far from perfect recently (and make no mistake about it, it never will be perfect), the amount of aggravation that the average Windows admin puts up with is astounding.
–jeremy
December 26, 2004 Leave a comment
Red Hat recently released their numbers for the quarter. Revenue jumped 55 percent, but came in just shy of Wall Street's expectations on a net income of $10.8 million, or 6 cents a share. Total subscription and services revenue grew to $50.9 million from $32.9 million, also slightly below Wall Street's estimate. Subscription revenue climbed 80 percent to $39.2 million from $21.8 million. Good to see that Red Hat is able to continue to increase revenue, but with the current pricing structure you have to wonder how long it will be until Red Hat is the niche player (in the high end server market) and no longer the market leader. One has to wonder, 1) Do they care if this happens and 2) Could they sustain the current trends if they no longer were the market leader. I haven't seen any response to the recent call to cut prices and I still haven't heard of any plans to re-enter the consumer market, but this is definitely a topic I'll keep a close eye on.
–jeremy
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