Call to vote

[Tony]

Which Linux Distro Are You Running in 2006?

[url]http://linux.about.com/library/bl/dist/bldist_poll.htm[/url]

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[Simon]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:52:30 +0100, Tony wrote:

> Which Linux Distro Are You Running in 2006?
>
> [url]http://linux.about.com/library/bl/dist/bldist_poll.htm[/url]

Wow that's close at the moment.

Suse, Fedora and Ubuntu all at 24%

[Dirk Roos]

Simon wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:52:30 +0100, Tony wrote:
>

>> Which Linux Distro Are You Running in 2006?
>>
>> [url]http://linux.about.com/library/bl/dist/bldist_poll.htm[/url]

>
> Wow that's close at the moment.

I'm sure that can be fixed ;-)

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[Simon J]

On Thu, 04 May 2006 17:21:49 +0000, Dirk Roos wrote:

> Simon wrote:
>

>> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:52:30 +0100, Tony wrote:
>>

>>> Which Linux Distro Are You Running in 2006?
>>>
>>> [url]http://linux.about.com/library/bl/dist/bldist_poll.htm[/url]

>>
>> Wow that's close at the moment.

>
> I'm sure that can be fixed ;-)

This seems to work..

#!/usr/bin/perl

$stop = 100; # Number of votes to make
$count = 0; # A nil value
$timer = 0; # ditto
$delay = 100000000; # Time to get firefox up and ready

# Start firefox and wait for it to load fully
system "firefox &";
while ($timer < $delay) {
$timer++;
}

# Open links in firefox tabs, keeps process requirements down
while ($count < $stop) {

system "firefox \"http://linux.about.com/gi/pages/poll.htm?linkback=http://linux.about.com/Flibrary/Fbl/dist/bldist_poll.htm&poll_id=4113693387&poll=1&submit1= Submit+Vote\" &";
$count++;
}

# Let the pages load
$timer = 0;
while ($timer < $delay) {
$timer++;
}

# Shut firefox down again
system "killall firefox-bin";
exit;

[Dirk Roos]

Simon J wrote:

> On Thu, 04 May 2006 17:21:49 +0000, Dirk Roos wrote:
>

>> Simon wrote:
>>

>>> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:52:30 +0100, Tony wrote:
>>>
>>>> Which Linux Distro Are You Running in 2006?
>>>>
>>>> [url]http://linux.about.com/library/bl/dist/bldist_poll.htm[/url]
>>>
>>> Wow that's close at the moment.

>>
>> I'm sure that can be fixed ;-)

>
> This seems to work..
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> $stop = 100; # Number of votes to make
> $count = 0; # A nil value
> $timer = 0; # ditto
> $delay = 100000000; # Time to get firefox up and ready

Hé, you're cheating ! :-)


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SUSE Linux 10.0 - ubuntu 5.04

[Michael]

"Dirk Roos" <droos@ekonet.be> schreef in bericht
news:K3L6g.408454$Rb5.11466801@phobos.telenet-ops.be...

> Simon J wrote:
>

>> On Thu, 04 May 2006 17:21:49 +0000, Dirk Roos wrote:
>>

>>> Simon wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:52:30 +0100, Tony wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Which Linux Distro Are You Running in 2006?
>>>>>
>>>>> [url]http://linux.about.com/library/bl/dist/bldist_poll.htm[/url]
>>>>
>>>> Wow that's close at the moment.
>>>
>>> I'm sure that can be fixed ;-)

>>
>> This seems to work..
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>>
>> $stop = 100; # Number of votes to make
>> $count = 0; # A nil value
>> $timer = 0; # ditto
>> $delay = 100000000; # Time to get firefox up and ready

>
> Hé, you're cheating ! :-)
>

Hmm, suddenly Ubuntu is at 25% and Fedora dropped to 23%
Wonder what happened... :P

[Moe Trin]

On Sat, 6 May 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.ubuntu, in article
<445c6e53$0$31650$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>, Michael wrote:

>"Dirk Roos" <droos@ekonet.be>

>> Simon J wrote:

>>> This seems to work..
>>>
>>> #!/usr/bin/perl

>> H<E9>, you're cheating ! :-)

Why not? The poll is totally useless - someone over in alt.os.linux.mandriva
and in alt.os.linux.suse was already pulling that trick last week.

>Hmm, suddenly Ubuntu is at 25% and Fedora dropped to 23%
>Wonder what happened... :P

Children discovered scripting, and the joker who had created the web page
in the first place apparently knows nothing about secure programming. What
else would you expect?

Old guy