Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:12:47 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <freebsd@hub.org> Cc: Antony Mawer <antony@mawer.org>, Tore Lund <toreld@netscape.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDstats: Stand up and be counted! -- November Statistics Message-ID: <20071206161247.GD47073@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <136DAB3FF85F674A13F804BA@ganymede.hub.org> References: <3356169C998DEAF517CD854B@ganymede.hub.org> <47570885.7090800@netscape.net> <20071205165958.65950ed4.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <475728C7.9080403@netscape.net> <136DAB3FF85F674A13F804BA@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:45:04PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > - --On Wednesday, December 05, 2007 23:40:07 +0100 Tore Lund > <toreld@netscape.net> wrote: > > > Bill Moran wrote: > >> Huh? > > > > The figure for PC-BSD in November was 6551. When I checked earlier this > > evening, it was 1997. I suppose this does NOT mean that 4554 PC-BSD > > users have kicked the bucket. Probably, it means that many PC-BSD > > systems have not YET reported to bsdstats in December. I think this way > > of doing it does not serve the following purpose: > > > >> The mission of this site is to compile semi-accurate numbers for > >> advocacy and marketing of the *BSD operating systems. > > > > For the fulfillment of this noble mission, it would be better to display > > statistics for the last complete month to casual visitors. If people > > want to see running counters, this could be done on a different page. > > Actually, what we should do is put a 'History' page off that main one that > expands that chart to include the previous two or three months, as well as this > one ... would be easier/faster to implement then a graph too ... > > Antony? Have a couple of minutes to whip that together? Maybe do it similar > to the countries page, but instead of listing countries, list month/year? > maybe go back 6 months? Gee, maybe you could mine the data to do a 'most recent 31 days' report. That should not show the dips and peaks in the middle of the month. ////jerry > > - ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org > Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQFHV2Iw4QvfyHIvDvMRAscwAKDCKGAHyKk4hrJvxZ8oRNYyVpqpawCeO7NF > s4J+XrhOYJom22oW47yzsvA= > =wG2c > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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