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From: Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com>
Subject: Re: SCO now turning on their own dwindling customer base...
Date: 17 Jan 2004 16:11:49 -0500
Message-ID: <20040117211148.GV2586@jpradley.jpr.com> 
References: <2nklvvgftkfn0rnv1i7d481fnl487kkc40@4ax.com> <4005715E.185A0671@canada.com> <60bd4c6b.0401161501.21b2ba24@posting.google.com> <KQ_Nb.81841$xy6.140563@attbi_s02> <HrM0A5.oME@wjv.com> <40089B57.90435D66@microlite.com> <20040117041026.GP2586@jpradley.jpr.com> <MU4Ob.73508$5V2.78726@attbi_s53> <20040117182908.GQ2586@jpradley.jpr.com> <8yfOb.74056$sv6.161968@attbi_s52> 

Joe Dunning typed (on Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 06:55:01PM +0000):
| On 17 Jan 2004 13:32:09 -0500, Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> wrote:
| > Joe Dunning typed (on Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 06:48:12AM +0000):
| >| On 16 Jan 2004 23:10:26 -0500, Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> wrote:
| >| >Tom Podnar typed (on Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:17:59PM -0500):
| >| >| Bill Vermillion wrote:
| >| >| > 
| >| >| > What is interesting is in the top-20 uptimes there are 18 BSD/OS
| >| >| > and two FreeBSD sites.  And in the top 30 it waw 27 BSD/OS and
| >| >| > three FreeBSD.
| >| >| > 
| >| >| That's a hoot.
| >| >| 
| >| >| I wonder how many of the Netcraft listed "FreeBSD" sites are running
| >| >| the same "FreeBSD" as www.jpr.com.
| >| >| 
| >| >| If you're not sure which "FreeBSD" JP is running, go to Netcraft
| >| >| and ask about www.jpr.com and then go to www.jpr.com to see
| >| >| exactly which version he's running.
| >| >| 
| >| >| Tom Podnar
| >| >| Microlite
| >| >
| >| >Exactly which URL were you looking at, Tom?
| >| 
| >| I think his point is that, according to Netcraft, "www.jpr.com" is 
| >| running FreeBSB, while the front page of www.jpr.com claims that the 
| >| site is running on OpenServer. 
| >| 
| >| Either Netcraft is wrong, or it's about time that you updated your 
| >| website in line with the change from OpenServer to FreeBSD about 2 years 
| >| ago. 
| >
| > I understood that to be his point, but I cannot see the string
| > "www.jpr.com" on any Netcraft pages I've looked at.
| 
| Put "www.jpr.com" into the "what's that site running" box, or try this 
| link:
| http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.jpr.com

Thanks.  I see their info on www.jpr.com flitting between SCO UNIX, FreeBSD,
and unknown.   False, as the site has always been running SCO UNIX.

I suppose I could report it to them, but that doesn't solve the issue
of how dependable any of rest of their information might be.

-- 
JP

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