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1 Billion Websites Coming Soon
by Brent Wallis 29 May '14

29 May '14

Hi All, Excuse the cross post but think this is worth a look... Since '95 I have been regularly following the Netcraft Web Server Surveys and thought I should point out that the 'net is about to crack the 1 Billion site mark. In their April Survey: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/04/02/april-2014-web-server-survey.h… The first line of the report makes me think that the 1 Billion mark may have already been cracked... "In the *April 2014* survey we received responses from *958,919,789* sites — 39 million more than last month." Granted, a large portion are parked ( the early bleat in the report around IIS seems to indicate MS have been busy with the marketing dollars and parked domains) but in the end...1 Billion is an astounding growth over just shy of 20 years... :-) Its also worthy noting how NGINX has EXCEEDED IIS share in both the Active Sites and Top 1 Million Sites... BW

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Fw: [AUG-Vic] reminder
by David E Payne 24 May '14

24 May '14

--- On Thu, 22/5/14, David jazzcat6581 wrote: > To: "Amiga_Users_Group_Vic(a)yahoogroups.com" <Amiga_Users_Group_Vic(a)yahoogroups.com> > Received: Thursday, 22 May, 2014, 7:46 PM SNIP > > Flashback 2014 - come along and enjoy the retro museum, loads of stuff on > bigscreen projectors, BBQ, nerding and the compos that take place - > entertainment! Stuck at home on the weekend? Forget it - http://www.defame.com.au/flashback > Regards > > Dave. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G3OyeMMDreE SNIP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FWDed by a different Dave Flashback 2014 is on from 7-9th June, in Sydney. There's a much smaller demo/scene event in North Melbourne later in the year. (No wheelchair access though.)

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New trains make old mistake AGAIN! (Alert French President's bodyguards?)
by David E Payne 24 May '14

24 May '14

Mon DOH! http://www.news.net/article/1363113?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_… George Pullman made the same mistake in 1865 when he constructed "The Pioneer" luxury sleeping car. Probably the only thing that saved him from bankruptcy was the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. http://www.pullman-museum.org/theCompany/ So other people's money was spent to make railway platforms narrower & tunnels bigger to accommodate the oversized rail-car and the Pullman Palace Car Company was able to operate along that route & eventually grow to monopoly status. http://www.chicagohs.org/history/pullman/pul1.html This is not the only example of corporate welfare in the USA transport industry, eg. some of the railroad companies lobbied to be purchased by governments. On the other hand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak points out that companies using privately funded railroads & now Amtrak were/are expected to compete with other transports using government funded highways & airports. A lot of different calculations are covered in that Wikipedia article & I guess anyone can find ways to support their own belief. In Australia, we might argue there is proportionally more government financial support for motorists, especially motorcyclists, due to more public health-care for the injured. If the Victorian government wants to support local car manufacturing, why don't they, (as John Cain Jr's government did,) replace car registration fees (& GST at purchase?) with increased fuel taxes? The "need" for road building in say, Greater Melbourne, isn't determined by the number of cars but by their weight, size & amount they are driven, all of which are reflected in fuel consumption. While this would be especially fairer for car collectors like Lindsay Fox, it would also be fairer for the rest of us too! And it might encourage those who occasionally need a big vehicle for their caravan or off-road trips etc. to use something smaller for their daily commute & use less or perhaps hire the gas-guzzler only when needed. Dav* - (I'm so pessimistic sometimes I think I'll NEVER manage to read everything on the World Wide Web!)

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Re: [luv-talk] Amazon Glacier backup tools for Linux/Unix
by Rohan McLeod 21 May '14

21 May '14

Toby Corkindale wrote: > .........snip > In case any current or future employers are reading this, I must point > out that I'm talking about my personal archives here, not anything to > do with work. I'm just lazy in my own spare time :) Well the spin doctors would say; 'time and energy efficient '; and' inclined to minimise the errors of human fallibility':-) ! regards Rohan McLeod

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on thread directions
by Arjen Lentz 21 May '14

21 May '14

Hi all Yes this is a lecture - deal with it. Some things need saying. When someone decides to unsub from a list, things tend to be well beyond problematic. It's not the time to argue with them over the validity of their move, or the semantics of what constitutes name calling and who did what. The atmosphere has gone sour and continuing to argue on whatever aspect of it merely indicates that you're not getting that point - which is possibly also the origin of the problem. Bianca Gibson is an awesome member of the open source community, and if she decides to make this moves you can be assured that various other less outspoken people have also disconnected (not don't go off checking the unsubs to nerd-argue with me, as that would again miss the point). Losing anyone from our community, particularly for these reasons, is a bad thing. It is very important we are inclusive and accepting as a group. If it's "just" luv-talk people unsub from rather than all of LUV, you may consider yourself lucky, and it'd be an opportunity for a second chance - show those people in the other lists and at live events that you're a sensible individual who positively contributes. Our community has people of many different skills and skill levels. Yes some of us spell better than others. You can offer suggestions and help, just don't bet a jerk about it. And in terms of politics... while overall we're probably more on the progressive end, there'll still be a wide range of viewpoints. Making sweeping statements about people in the context of a broader group tends to be fairly uncool as well as regarded as extremely unfair - so just don't do that. I think it's cool to discuss politics online, just remember that email and online communication lacks the instant feedback that tends to keep live chats within sensible boundaries - and politics are, particularly now, of course a hot topic. Everybody has very strong opinions, and that's not a bad thing. Even when you feel (or know!) you're right about something, if you tick off everybody in the group by you blatting them over the head with it, what's the use? If you tone it down a bit, you may have more and longer opportunity to interact with the people with whom you currently disagree - and perhaps, who knows, you might convince them later with your insights and thoughtful contributions. Stewart Smith and others have summarised these things very eloquently at talks: don't be a jerk. Cheers, Arjen. -- Exec.Director @ Open Query (http://openquery.com) MariaDB/MySQL services Sane business strategy explorations at http://upstarta.com.au Personal blog at http://lentz.com.au/blog/

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Re: [luv-talk] Fwd: Tony Abbott 5/9/2013, the week before the election
by Peter Ross 21 May '14

21 May '14

> From: "Andrew McGlashan" <andrew.mcglashan(a)affinityvision.com.au> >> Feel free to ask your local MP what that was worth. > > There is no point, they couldn't give a rats ... not until they lose > their seats will they even think twice about anything that counts, and > even then, they'll just say we're idiots for voting them out. Well, the next election is here in the State, and the Federal Budget, no money for Victorian railways, ca. $20 billion dollar cuts most felt in schools and hospitals set the scene. In this environment to lock in $16 billion on the East West Link is obscene. I wrote to Terry Mulder, see below. feel free to do similar things. http://www.terrymulder.com.au/contact Regards Peter Dear Terry, the last Federal budget is cutting support for education and health to Victoria by est. ca. 20 billion dollars. Please axe the East West Link. The Link was never the best next transport project for Melbourne, is poorly planned and is destroying park land that is there as long as the Colac Botanical Garden next to your home. It is a dude, the business plan so weak that you not even dare to publish it, and not even in sync with your own proposals before the last election. I also have a problem to understand why $50 billion for National Broadband is a waste while $16 billion for one local road is money well spent. Please start to work in the interest of Victorians, not in the interest of construction companies and financial institutions. My wife started economics in New Zealand. She gets utterly confused these days. She learnt that the GDP is only part of our well-being, looking after the young, the sick and the elderly is important too. I think that is in our interest too. Thank you Peter

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Re: [luv-talk] Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" (was: name calling)
by Peter Ross 20 May '14

20 May '14

Hi Jason and all, From: "Jason White" <jason(a)jasonjgw.net> > I sympathize. I was going to cite Thomas Piketty's Capital in the > Twenty-First Century in the context of recent discussions here .. > It's a very worthwhile book to read, with plenty of meticulous research > into the history and predicted future of economic inequality. I have read _about_ the book but not the book yet. I grew up with "Communist" education and that included a lot of Marx and Engels. I have to admit, some of it still seems to be the most logic description of the inner workings of capitalism (the construction of a Communist society as a way out has some serious flaws - but that's a different matter) AFAIK, Marxism is not dead in the teaching of economics. Is Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" a book in that mould or does it differ a lot? I wonder sometimes how much people know and reflect where the 40 hours week, holidays, sick pay etc. come from. E.g. what is the Eight Hour Monument about? (http://www.onmydoorstep.com.au/heritage-listing/13841/eight-hour-monument) My Chinese wife saw Ken Loach's "The Spirit of '45" (http://www.thespiritof45.com/) at last year's film festival. It was a revelation for her. For me it was education in British history too (something I could not say about "The Iron Lady" movie with Meryl Streep, it was a very "fluffy" movie, I think) Regards Peter

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christopher pyne is a real dick
by Andrew McGlashan 17 May '14

17 May '14

So, student protesters are just an extension of Labor, or so it seems that genius Pyne seems to think.... no matter he couldn't care less about the cuts to education. This so called /adult/ government, a real joke there alone, is going to be the worst in AU history, if not the world! A.

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Re: [luv-talk] Maths for beginners
by Peter Ross 17 May '14

17 May '14

From: "Brent Wallis" <brent.wallis(a)gmail.com> > Told myself not to reply but can not let this go. > > > - First...there is an error in your calc. ABS data shows we were at 22.7 M > users as of 2012. The numbers were to give a "rough idea". If I come up with 100 years and have 6 years to 2020.. you can double the number of visits and interest and a few percent higher population - these all does not come close to was floated two days ago. If you tell me you are running 10 GByte/sec over a GBit/sec switch, I do not bother to check whether 10.4 or 8.7 GByte/sec - there is something fundamentally wrong. > I could go on but please do answer 1 very important question then suggest > that you perhaps take the ill informed fake green tanty somewhere > else...that party used to stand for something worthwhile, now they just > rant and rave like the extremists they have become: > > A keystone of the current budget was to levy high income earners 2% for a > fixed period to help rein in debt: > > Why are the Greens so divided on this given past statements? I asked this myself, I do not have a clear answer yet (I contacted Adam Bandt over this) but I can tell you what I think. > Why and how has "Kristine the Milliner" won an internal "Pseudo Green > Party" policy debate on the issue? > Could it be just plain hubris, personal hatred and poltix? Well, I can see how passionate you are about the Greens. You seem to love them a lot;-) http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/budget-long-on-losers-shor… "High income earners are hit too, with a two per cent deficit levy that will cost someone on $200,000 a year an extra $400 a year - but only for three years." That sounds like an cornerstone of the budget.. I am impressed. The question is whether you let this fig leaf pass or show it as it is: a fig leaf to hide that it is a budget to ensure that the rich get richer and the poor poorer.. This levy is, as the biology research fund, a last minute stunt to justify what the Coalition is doing. There is no seriousness in this. Just look at the last months of decision making. My family at the kitchen table has more logical discussions than that. All was "utterly nonsense" one day and next day in the budget, this levy started at $80 000 one day and $180 000 two later, there was "no $70 billion black hole" in their promises and on the sudden we had a budget emergency, we cannot afford NBN and then we have $20 billion for medical research, we have problems with Medicare and than on the sudden we do not pay for Medicare, we pay for research, there are no cuts to education and than education is not Federal so the States have to run it, on the sudden we have schools again and have $250 million dollars for school chaplans financed by the Commonwealth.. Sounded very much like the adults are back in government.. They know what they are doing - they just have to create a smokescreen big enough to ensure that enough people vote for them - despite stealing the money from our pockets. But this fire may to big, hopefully, even for Murdoch's Own Country. By accident I saw "Two men in China" after the budget night. There were ex-pats mourning the ignorance shown recently to invest in our relationship which China, even when Australians were first when China opened. There were reports of Chinese praising the Australians engineering efficient wind farms etc. There were 2 men asking: what else can Australia trade with China besides of the obvious: our soil? Can you imagine what the current government will do in this regard? The axing of support for solar energy and wind farms? The cut for the Australia Network run by the ABC? The truth is: there is no interest in investing in anything here. Just cut and give Gina her $2 slave labour. Forget the medical research. It's there to introduce you to the end of free health care in Australia. Unis for research? First, they are good for selling degrees for the ones that can pay. And create private unis. Because the money should always go to the rich. It's just wasted on the poor. Just ask your Minister for Science. Oops, we do not have one.. Regards Peter

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Re: [luv-talk] Tony Abbott 5/9/2013, the week before the election
by Peter Ross 16 May '14

16 May '14

From: "Trent W. Buck" > Peter Ross wrote: >> If you are a Herald Sun reader, you may still have to be introduced >> to [...] Bill Shorten. >> >> Given that yesterday there was his budget reply, it is amazing how >> the Herald Sun can send it as a little article to page 7 or 9, >> sorry, I did not look which number it was - but it's practically >> "buried" and has probably a quarter of a page. > > Why are you even reading it? Pure masochism;-) There was a bit of curiosity what the Herald Sun will report. It's more propaganda than news. It makes me feel home, back in Communism again. There is a difference: Most of East Germans were aware that it is propaganda. Regards Peter

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