OS survey

2011-05-29 Thread Dazed_75
I think of http://www.betanews.com/ as a primarily Windows focused site and they are re-asking what OS people use. The story and voting is at http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Could-70-percent-of-you-be-running-Windows-7 Currently Linux is at about 7% and I thought some of you might want

Re: OS survey

2011-05-29 Thread Michael Havens
http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Could-70-percent-of-you-be-running-Windows-7is a bad link On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com wrote: I think of http://www.betanews.com/ as a primarily Windows focused site and they are re-asking what OS people use. The

RE: OS survey

2011-05-29 Thread Lee Reynolds
Stuffing ballot boxes fools no one. That's the kind of thing that the RONulans do with online surveys, so often in fact that some informal surveys have deliberately excluded Ron Paul from the list of choices so the culties don't have something to go click happy about. MS owns the desktop

Re: OS survey

2011-05-29 Thread Dazed_75
1) If the link I provided is bad (probablt because I had alreadt voted and tried to strip the resulting URL to what I thought would work, just go to http://www.betanews.com/ and scroll down to the story. 2) I did not, and would not, suggest stuffing a ballot box. I was merely making known that

RE: OS survey

2011-05-29 Thread Lee Reynolds
I apologize. I misunderstood. I'm new to the mailing list and a little too used to dealing with fanboys elsewhere. Lee Reynolds Tech Support Analyst ASU Advanced Computing Center GWC-178 480.965.9460 (Office) 480.458.7434 (Mobile) Have an A2C2 related question or problem? Just send an

Doing https properly

2011-05-29 Thread Dazed_75
https://www.eff.org/pages/how-deploy-https-correctly seems to be an informative and well written article that may be of interest to the web developers on the site. I cannot attest to its accuracy, but it looks like it probably is. I can relate one good anecdotal story related to this. I once

Re: OS survey

2011-05-29 Thread Dazed_75
No problem, clarification is always beneficial to someone. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Lee Reynolds lee.reyno...@asu.edu wrote: I apologize. I misunderstood. I'm new to the mailing list and a little too used to dealing with fanboys elsewhere. Lee Reynolds Tech Support Analyst ASU

RE: OS survey

2011-05-29 Thread Lee Reynolds
-Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of Bryan O'Neal Sent: Sun 5/29/2011 1:58 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OS survey So I feel the need to counter the argument that windows is dominate because software is written for it. Since

Re: Doing https properly

2011-05-29 Thread Austin William Wright
On 05/29/2011 11:42 AM, Dazed_75 wrote: He wrote me back and said that had I clicked the button, the information would have been sent securely and that he was trying to minimize his bandwidth costs since he was a small company. The web browser is correct, if the submission form is not secure,