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Devin A. Rychetnik — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:51:00 GMT

Here is a nice overview of the web server usage statistics from the April 2007 Netcraft survey: http://www.serverwatch.com/stats/article.php/3670036.

Server	No. of Sites	Market Share	No. of Sites With .com domains
Apache	66,899,485	58.86%	36,803,903
Microsoft-IIS	35,377,426	31.13%	22,721,673
Unknown	2,761,059	2.43%	2,042,800
Sun-ONE-Web-Server	1,663,476	1.46%	1,244,246
lighttpd	1,382,843	1.22%	1,182,516
Oversee	845,404	0.74%	726,754
Zeus	488,838	0.43%	154,088
Netscape-Enterprise	241,852	0.21%	122,194
Rapidsite	194,758	0.17%	109,697
tigershark	189,791	0.17%	144,721
thttpd	142,575	0.13%	8,536
Lotus Domino	88,250	0.08%	29,840
AOLServer	70,301	0.06%	3,702
Zope	48,556	0.04%	12,337
WebLogic	29,579	0.03%	16,955
WebSTAR	28,334	0.02%	17,036
Stronghold	22,465	0.02%	13,751
Oracle-Application-Server-10g	17,617	0.02%	7,298
Squid	15,950	0.01%	4,674
4D_WebSTAR_S	11,669	0.01%	5,605
WebSitePro	9,353	0.01%	4,723
WebSite	7,908	0.01%	3,324
Orion	5,745	0.01%	3,738
Xitami	4,602	0.00%	3,248
Roxen WebServer	4,430	0.00%	1,373
Sambar	4,260	0.00%	1,765
Abyss	2,864	0.00%	1,309
Enterprise for NetWare	1,819	0.00%	489
Netscape FastTrack Server	1,472	0.00%	604
WN	1,353	0.00%	107
WebSphere	1,277	0.00%	658
JRun	1,222	0.00%	704
NCSA HTTPd	910	0.00%	206

It shows an already widely-used and gaining in popularity web server called lighttpd that is being used for static content serving in some large-scale scenarios like YouTube and Wikipedia.

Share Computers with the New Microsoft Toolkit

Devin Rychetnik — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:16:00 GMT

I just found out about this free software from Microsoft for sharing computers with Windows XP. It is called the Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx. It is particularly useful for places such as libraries or schools providing public access to computers, but I immediately thought of its application in another area. I am hoping that at least one person out there reading this post is involved in setting up shared computer labs for underprivileged countries and could benefit from using something like this.

Your Computer in a Flash Drive

Devin Rychetnik — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:22:00 GMT

I am really looking forward to the future of this technology: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/technology/15pogue.html?ex=1308024000&en=4c6171f8e0752d39&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss. (Bring your computer programs and files with you in a flash drive.)