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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 07:18:26 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 23 Message-ID: <324639C2.38BB@www.play-hookey.com> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51pog8$1gj@newsbr.eunet.fr> <Dy0K58.MLv@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <32423719.6904CE4@julia.de> <51uo7m$bu9@magic.metawire.com> <3244780C.23B6AB75@aug.com> <52400f$t6r@topeka.cjnetworks.com> <slrn54bpdv.mbf.dcook@xenu.utexas.edu> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130911 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27745 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43955 David M. Cook wrote: > > On 22 Sep 1996 18:19:59 GMT, tdsmith@topeka.cjnetworks.com <tdsmith@topeka.cjnetworks.com> wrote: > >In article <3244780C.23B6AB75@aug.com>, Wayne <wroberts@aug.com> writes: > > >>Hmmmmm....... On my screen, that looked like 70.000 with a period [...] > > >Yup. It's a dot. > > So the guy is saying that he gets 70 hits, and that his measurement is > accurate to the nearest thousandth of a hit? Does he sometimes get 70.156 > hits? > Nope. Go back and look at where he is (.de). Much of Europe swaps the dot and comma symbols for decimal notation. Translation to American notation would give 70,000 hits. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |