__/ [ John A. Bailo ] on Saturday 13 January 2007 19:07 \__
> I had an idea. We're always arguing about what web stats mean as far as
> OSes go because of how the browser reports itself in a web access log.
>
> Well, I was testing my new page on my website
>
> http://www.texeme.com/writing/badmemes.txt
>
> which is running Apache 2 and I was checking the access_log with a running
> view
>
> tail -f /var/log/apache2/access_log
>
> So, with Konqueror running on Suse 10.1, I appear as
>
> 216.254.11.92 - - [13/Jan/2007:11:03:26 -0800] "GET /writing/badmemes.text
> HTTP/1.1" 200 1503 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux)
> KHTML/3.5.1 (like Gecko)"
>
> And using the other browser I sometimes use, Firefox, I appear as:
>
> 216.254.11.92 - - [13/Jan/2007:11:03:26 -0800] "GET /writing/badmemes.text
> HTTP/1.1" 200 1503 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux)
> KHTML/3.5.1 (like Gecko)"
>
>
> So, in both cases, I would register as a Linux user. And I did not
> "tweak" my browser settings.
>
> How about you other Advocates? What do you look like to a web access log?
http://www.schestowitz.com/temp/screenshots/user-agent.jpg
But user-agent is only a small part of the equation... companies with money
like to mess about with figures and statistics. Nintendo, Sony and
Microsoft, for example, all declared themselves winners in the console war.
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2007/01/08/the-true-market-share-of-linux/
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