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  1. Cast your vote ...

    Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> — 2003-01-02T06:24:34Z

    Just got this in my mailbox:

2002 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=78a8c06fbc1dcecd52597decd6c56ad8&threadid=39870

And we are way behind MySQL (like, d'ah!):

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/poll.php?s=78a8c06fbc1dcecd52597decd6c56ad8&action=showresults&pollid=168

The problem, of course, is that you have to be a registered member to
vote, so its not an 'open poll' ...

  2. Re: Cast your vote ...

    Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> — 2003-01-02T06:43:15Z

    Hmmm...I wonder if this will mean we'll be accused of "ballot stuffing" in
the MySQL lists again...

It is a newbie forum, so I'm not surprised that MySQL is way ahead.

The poll is a bit of a joke anyway.

The poll needs to have two questions:

1. Which of these databases have you ACTUALLY USED?

2. Which of these databases is your favourite?

That'll sort it out.

Chris

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> Subject: [HACKERS] Cast your vote ...
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>
>
> Just got this in my mailbox:
>
> 2002 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards:
>
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=78a8c06fb
> c1dcecd52597decd6c56ad8&threadid=39870
>
> And we are way behind MySQL (like, d'ah!):
>
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/poll.php?s=78a8c06fbc1dcec
> d52597decd6c56ad8&action=showresults&pollid=168
>
> The problem, of course, is that you have to be a registered member to
> vote, so its not an 'open poll' ...
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  3. Re: Cast your vote ...

    Peter Childs <blue.dragon@blueyonder.co.uk> — 2003-01-02T08:17:11Z

    On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> 
> Just got this in my mailbox:
> 
> 2002 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards:
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=78a8c06fbc1dcecd52597decd6c56ad8&threadid=39870
> 
> And we are way behind MySQL (like, d'ah!):
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/poll.php?s=78a8c06fbc1dcecd52597decd6c56ad8&action=showresults&pollid=168
> 
> The problem, of course, is that you have to be a registered member to
> vote, so its not an 'open poll' ...
> 
> 
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> TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
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	Open Poll? Its free to register, so really its to try and stop 
people voting twice. They don't even want that much data just your E-Mail 
address. (The rest is optional)
	The problem with Web Polls is that people can always vote more 
than once making any result totally meaning less what ever you do. 
Ensuring an election is anoumous, free and fare is VERY difficult.

Peter Childs

  4. Re: Cast your vote ...

    Charles H. Woloszynski <chw@clearmetrix.com> — 2003-01-02T12:53:17Z

    Yeah, the registration was painless and enough options to disable it 
annoying you. Count my vote cast for PostgreSQL.  I encourage everyone 
else to do the same.  In the big picture, marketing statements like this 
survey mean alot more than most technical folks want to acknowledge.  

Please vote for your favorite database.

Charlie


Peter Childs wrote:

>On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Just got this in my mailbox:
>>
>>2002 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards:
>>
>>http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=78a8c06fbc1dcecd52597decd6c56ad8&threadid=39870
>>
>>And we are way behind MySQL (like, d'ah!):
>>
>>http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/poll.php?s=78a8c06fbc1dcecd52597decd6c56ad8&action=showresults&pollid=168
>>
>>The problem, of course, is that you have to be a registered member to
>>vote, so its not an 'open poll' ...
>>
>>
>>---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
>>TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
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>>    
>>
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>	Open Poll? Its free to register, so really its to try and stop 
>people voting twice. They don't even want that much data just your E-Mail 
>address. (The rest is optional)
>	The problem with Web Polls is that people can always vote more 
>than once making any result totally meaning less what ever you do. 
>Ensuring an election is anoumous, free and fare is VERY difficult.
>
>Peter Childs
>
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  5. Re: [HACKERS] Cast your vote ...

    Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> — 2003-01-02T20:07:48Z

    On 2 Jan 2003 at 7:53, Charles H. Woloszynski wrote:

> Yeah, the registration was painless and enough options to disable it
> annoying you. Count my vote cast for PostgreSQL.  I encourage everyone
> else to do the same.  In the big picture, marketing statements like
> this survey mean alot more than most technical folks want to
> acknowledge.  
> 
> Please vote for your favorite database.

Coincidentally, I've just started up a voting script project... see 
http://polls.unixathome.org/
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/

  6. Re: [HACKERS] Cast your vote ...

    Jeroen T. Vermeulen <jtv@xs4all.nl> — 2003-01-02T20:30:57Z

    On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:07:48PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
> 
> > else to do the same.  In the big picture, marketing statements like
> > this survey mean alot more than most technical folks want to
> > acknowledge.  
 
The figures would be a lot more interesting anyway if people bothered
to correlate results with user bases.  A vote from someone who knows
several of the contending products means a lot more to me than one
from someone who hasn't seen aything else.


> Coincidentally, I've just started up a voting script project... see 
> http://polls.unixathome.org/

Does it support hanging chads?


Jeroen

  7. Re: [HACKERS] Cast your vote ...

    Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> — 2003-01-02T20:35:34Z

    On 2 Jan 2003 at 21:30, Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:

> > Coincidentally, I've just started up a voting script project... see
> > http://polls.unixathome.org/
> 
> Does it support hanging chads?

Now is the time to decide that....
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/