Warez Poll

[aerog]

dont forget android

Got that too - Motorola Xoom w/Android 3.2

Main home-laptop is a Toshiba M5 w/Win7

I just finished up a new desktop machine last month with an i7-2600 and Windows 7 - but I regularly run XP and Linux on it.

On the road I use a Dell Core2Duo machine with Windows 7 (for internet, work, play, and running the cameras/navigation) but our newest camera system runs on Windows XP-Embedded (not that I get on the forum with that system, but I could ).

GeekPron: i7-2600 machine, 16gb DDR3-1600, liquid-cooling, humming away. I've had all four cores maxed at 100% for an hour and the temps stay around 35-37. The radiator fan, exhaust fan, and intake fans all idle very slowly so the machine is virtually silent. At 100%dc the radiator fan speeds up quite a bit but it's still extremely quiet.

PS: It also will run Snow Leopard 10.6 but I haven't toyed with that yet.

 

[swift6]

Depends on which computer I'm on.

 

[70herald]

You're gonna love it, Yiz. Put as much RAM in it as ya can. And ya went for the x64 bit "ultimate" version of 7, yes?

It is coming with 4GB, but I think I ordered the "home premium" version of Win7. Basically the kids are going to play with it. Is there a good reason I should order or upgrade to the more expensive version?

 

[JodyFKerr]

We run Win7 on recent Acer laptops. Machines have varying amounts of RAM.

Other tech: iPad, HTC Android phone

Looking at getting a samsung galaxy tablet.

Around here I consider technology to be a commodity/tool. Gave up farting around in the innards a long time ago. I'm on computers enough that I don't derive much pleasure from them any more. I suppose that's the side effect of having technology be my career. I prefer to spend my time building cars, not computers.

Jody

 

[DrEntropy]

You're gonna love it, Yiz. Put as much RAM in it as ya can. And ya went for the x64 bit "ultimate" version of 7, yes?

It is coming with 4GB, but I think I ordered the "home premium" version of Win7. Basically the kids are going to play with it. Is there a good reason I should order or upgrade to the more expensive version?

Only if you would need to run a VM for XP. Some "legacy" software won't run on 7 but if you download/install Microsoft's VM you can run in XP "mode". It is only available on the high-end version of 7.

 

[Nunyas]

Thanks Dave! 18 in the poll, so I'm taking it as a good approximation of Pub posters.

I think most webservers these days actually record the browser and o/s of each connection. Basil would likely have a more detailed "warez" count already logged on his BCF server.

Tom

Yup.

Yup, I know Apache on Linux does log user agent data. That normally includes OS and browser. The only catch to that is some web browser will "lie" about their browser type, typically to get around people that want to build sites strictly for IE. Since building sites in that manner isn't common place anymore (not saying it doesn't still happen), it shouldn't be much of a factor.

I haven't bother poking around and trying to figure out what this server is running (as it can often appear to be malicious in nature). However, if it's Linux/*nix w/ Apache, something like the following might help gather more accurate statistics:

(run in the directory with your access_log files)
awk '{print $12" "$13}' <access log file name here> | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20

Depending on the layout of your access_log files, $12 and $13 might need to change slightly. In a space delimited file $12 is the browser version, and $13 is the OS. Though, because this command uses space delimiting to separate out data from the log file, the OS information will not be 100% accurate. From checking my logs, it'd result in "Windows" instead of "Windows NT 5.1" (WindowsXP).

Most servers at least offer free web traffic statistics. The servers I work w/ daily offer a choice between AWStats and Webilizer which parse the web traffic logs on the server. Other web analytics that I know about are Urchin (server side processing of statistics) and Google Anaylitics. Google Analytics is free. Though, it requires you to add code to your sites for it to work, normally to call a JavaScript file to allow Google to record the page hit. If Google Analytics is used, then it's advisable to add their snippet of code for their .js file to the "footer" file for the site. This makes it quick and easy; edit 1 file and get records of every page load. Also, w/ the call to the js file in the footer, it won't impede site speed much because the js script will be loading after everything else has displayed.

 

[GregW]

It is only available on the high-end version<span style="color: #FF0000">(s)</span> of 7.

Win7 Professional also has the ability to run XP mode. Is there any reason to get Ultimate? I remember a big fallout with the first version of it (in Vista?) where the bonuses were vaporware. Or at least the additional package came out a long time after the initial launch.

 

[DrEntropy]

You're right, Greg. Win7 Pro is fine for the XP "mode". No reason to go to Ultimate.

:blush: My bad. :blush: