ghacks Technology News

Keep logged in users informed with motd

If you have users that log into a server, or a desktop (for whatever reason) you might want to take advantage of the Linux Message Of The Day file. This file resides in the /etc directory and, when a user logs in, the contents of that file are displayed every time a user logs into [...]

Tags: , , , , ,
Categories: Advice, Linux, Polls, The Web, Tutorials Advanced, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 24th, 2006
  • Comments: None

About Secret Folders and Cleaning

I did ask about your secret folder in last weeks poll and surprisingly the majority declined to have one. 38% of all voters said that they do not have a secret folder for files that only they care about which leads to the question why. Do they live alone and don’t have to hide everything in a folder because there is no girlfriend / boyfriend snooping around ? 23% said that their secret folder was bigger than 10 gigabytes which is huge.

Tags: , , , , ,
Categories: Polls

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 10th, 2006
  • Comments: 2

We all hate mondays

I’m glad that I can write this on a friday. Last poll asked about your opinion on the worst day of the week – to no surprise money won that poll with over 50% of all votes. Rather surprising was the second place: Sunday. Not sure why so many people dislike Sunday so much, maybe because many people dislike the fact that you can’t do lots of things on Sundays. Most shops are closed, people tend to stay at home and do not go out to party aso. (as if we would go out and party, we are geeks..)

Tags: , , , , ,
Categories: Polls

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 30th, 2006
  • Comments: 18

So you want a forum, huh ?

Almost half of the users (48%) voted yes on the poll that asked if they would like to have a forum at ghacks while 30% said they did not care and 22% decided that they did not want to see a forum here at my site. I will create a forum because the majority decided that way. I would like to ask you what you would like to see in the new forum, which kind of boards for instance

Tags:
Categories: Polls

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 15th, 2006
  • Comments: 1

A poll is a poll is a poll

Poll results for “What will you do when Windows Vista comes out” have been analyzed. 60% of all voters said they would do nothing which means they will stick to their old operating system or system. 21% will migrate to Windows Vista, 11% to a *nix system and even 8% to Mac. The big questions is of course, what does vista offer its users that XP does not offer ? Not much from what I can see. It offers some drawbacks on the other hand that I for instance am not willed to tolerate – Trusted Computing anyone ?

Tags: ,
Categories: Polls

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 25th, 2006
  • Comments: None

Polls Polls Polls

I’am still in Prague and have some time left before ma transfer to the airport begins and I decided to create a new poll and analyse the results of the old one. The old poll asked if and which next gen console system you decided to buy when it comes out. 25% of all users will not buy a new system while 22% decided that they would buy a PS3, followed by Wii with 14%, Xbox 360, Xbox 360 + Wii and all of the three with 9%. PS3 + Xbox 360 and PS3 + Wii received 7% respectivly 5% of all votes.

Tags:
Categories: Polls

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 13th, 2006
  • Comments: None

Week 37 Poll Results and New Poll

With Amazon unleashing its Unbox on the world and Apple close to start their movie paradise the question for the last poll was almost obvious: How much would you pay for a DVD download ? Amazon charges up to 19,99€ for a movie download and 1,99€ for TV Episodes. Looking at the poll results this seems highly overprized even if you do not take their license agreement into account.

Tags:
Categories: Polls

© 2005-2009 Ghacks.net. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - About Us