[sage-devel] Re: "2000 downloads" -- Re: [sage-devel] Re: SAGE made it to SlashDot

2007-12-08 Thread William Stein
On Dec 8, 2007 5:37 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Sage-Developers, > > Because of slashdot, many people downloaded Sage today. Counting > distinct ip addresses > once (per download type) the number of distinct downloads via htttp > from my three (of the 8) > mirrors was: > > L

[sage-devel] "2000 downloads" -- Re: [sage-devel] Re: SAGE made it to SlashDot

2007-12-08 Thread William Stein
Hi Sage-Developers, Because of slashdot, many people downloaded Sage today. Counting distinct ip addresses once (per download type) the number of distinct downloads via htttp from my three (of the 8) mirrors was: Linux Binary 294 OS X Binary 290 Source 144 VMware (Windows) 600 Total 1328

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE made it to SlashDot

2007-12-08 Thread mhampton
I read slashdot a lot, but I only read +5 moderated comments - you can set the filter to do that. If you read _all_ the comments, you'll feel ill. There is an exponential drop in intelligence with each point I think, at least after the mod points have stabilized. Anyway, its true, by Slashdot s

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE made it to SlashDot

2007-12-08 Thread William Stein
On Dec 8, 2007 11:56 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 8, 8:54 pm, Joshua Kantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was making that statement relative to the general level of > > intelligence of slashdot comments. > > > > Josh > >

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE made it to SlashDot

2007-12-08 Thread Fabio Tonti
Well, after reading the comment THOROUGHLY (I'm not sure why I've done that), I agree. I must say that I wasn't aware of the fact that THIS is the general level of intelligence of slashdot comments, although I occasionally skim through the news. Anyway, it surely IS publicity :) Best wishes, Fabio

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE made it to SlashDot

2007-12-08 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 8, 8:54 pm, Joshua Kantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was making that statement relative to the general level of > intelligence of slashdot comments. > > Josh > Yep, compared to the other threads the comments seemed outright intelligent

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE made it to SlashDot

2007-12-08 Thread Joshua Kantor
I was making that statement relative to the general level of intelligence of slashdot comments. Josh On Dec 8, 11:51 am, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/12/2007, Joshua Kantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > but the comments

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE made it to SlashDot

2007-12-08 Thread John Cremona
On 08/12/2007, Joshua Kantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > but the comments are pretty good. > Do you think so? I was struck by how silly and/or uninformed a lot of them were, and ended up stopping reading them, while thinking that "any publicity is good publicity". I think this underlines how

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE made it to SlashDot

2007-12-08 Thread Joshua Kantor
but the comments are pretty good. On Dec 8, 11:12 am, Joshua Kantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The articles summary is pretty absurd. > >Josh > > On Dec 8, 10:40 am, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Dec 8, 2007, at 8:41 AM, William St

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE made it to SlashDot

2007-12-08 Thread Joshua Kantor
The articles summary is pretty absurd. Josh On Dec 8, 10:40 am, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 8, 2007, at 8:41 AM, William Stein wrote: > > > On Dec 8, 2007 7:39 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Dec 8, 2007 4:13 P

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE made it to SlashDot

2007-12-08 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Dec 8, 2007, at 8:41 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Dec 8, 2007 7:39 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Dec 8, 2007 4:13 PM, Ismail Dönmez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/08/1350258 wow! :) >> >> Ah, that's why http://sagemath.

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE made it to SlashDot

2007-12-08 Thread William Stein
On Dec 8, 2007 7:39 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 8, 2007 4:13 PM, Ismail Dönmez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/08/1350258 wow! :) > > Ah, that's why http://sagemath.org/ is down. :) > > Ondrej > Yep, the apache server c

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE made it to SlashDot

2007-12-08 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Dec 8, 2007 4:13 PM, Ismail Dönmez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/08/1350258 wow! :) Ah, that's why http://sagemath.org/ is down. :) Ondrej --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@go