Archive for June, 2007
A look inside Boing Boing’s stats
Boing Boing is a very popular blog with a very big following, which makes sense because they’re also very good at what they do (which like most “authority” blogs is reword someone else’s story and publish it with your ads around it), but they do it well indeed.
BoingBoing keep their traffic stats publicly accessible at http://www.boingboing.net/stats/ which makes for [...]
iPhones and Wii’s - Firefox’s Real Competitor
The Firefox community widely regards Internet Explorer as ‘the competition’. This is kind of innacurate - Internet Explorer’s marketshare is more like ‘the goal’. Calling it ‘the competition’ is like me calling Ashton Kutcher ’the competition’ for Demi Moore’s affections. He’s already won, leaving me and every other straight guy with a taste for milfs to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )HP Voodoo thingies
HP have left “trace” on on some of their asp.net pages. This outputs a nice big table of data, some of which shouldn’t be publicly available.
Like the sql queries they’re outputting, which reveals parts of their table structure to anyone with bad intentions.
What’s most amazing is they reveal how many active sessions are on the [...]
Come on Dell, Show us the Numbers
It’s been nearly 2 weeks since Dell bowed to the perception of demand for a major computer retailer to provide Linux on computers.
Craploads of people expressed their support for the idea, and Dell figured it might be a good idea to follow through since there was so much demand for the machines. They expressed their [...]
