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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.

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..)

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

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 ?

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.

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.

Last weeks poll was asking wether you would purchase a Blue-Ray or a HD-DVD drive when available in your country. Poll results seem to reflect the current overall situation in the market. Blue-Ray has a small lead with 33% of all votes followed by HD-DVD with 29% and None with 29% as well. A smaller margin will be waiting for hybrid drives (11%) and 9% will buy both formats.

I was asking you about your favorite video player in the last poll and most voters are actually using the program that I prefer as well called VLC, Video Lan Client. VLC managed to recieve 36% of all votes recieving as many votes as the mplayer, the windows media player and the bsplayer together. Realplayer and Quicktime only got 6% and 4% of the votes with others reaching 19%.

I think it does not make sense to continue the current poll that is asking for your favorite search engine. Google is so dominant that the results would only change lightly if at all. The Google search engine recieved 94% of all votes, all others together recieved only 6% which is really low. It would be interesting to know why everyone is using Google and not MSN or Yahoo for example. Are Googles results better ? Is searching Google not that complicated ?

I was asking you last week about your main activity on the internet: Communicating, Creating Content, Downloading, Gaming, Research and Shopping were the options. 40% of the voters selected downloading which is a big percentage. Creating Content was second with 27% of all votes. Guys, let me know about your websites, I´d be interested to take a look and even write an article if I like them. The third place with 12% each was taken by Research and Communicating on the Internet. Gaming was selected by 8% of all voters and shopping by 0%, guess not many women visit my site..

This poll results did not came unexpected: 41% of all voters stated that they feared the death of net neutrality the most, followed by trojans and virii (17%), spyware, hackers and nothing (10% each), phishing (5%), spam (4%) and finally Worms with 3%.
This is an overwhelming result and I thought I explain the net(work) neutrality concept for the ones who do not know what it is. Internet providers do one thing, they provide access to the internet and make sure that you recieve all the data that you request. It does not matter if you surf to the website of a big company like ebay (amazon, microsoft) or to my blog (hehe, or even smaller websites). All data get the same treatment, none is preferred over the other.

I asked you in the last poll if you had the intention to buy a next-gen console system and if so which. 34% of all voters want to buy a Sony Playstation 3 despite the high price which is astounding to me. The Nintendo Wii is on the second place with 24% and the Microsoft Xbox 360 third making it to 17%. The rest has no intention to buy a console system. I will definatly stick with the Wii and see how the other systems perform. I don´t see much news about the Xbox 360 despite being on the market for a while.

Okay the results are in and a new poll is online. I´d like to thank everyone who participated in the last poll and would like to comment shortly on the outcome. 27% of all voters would like to see more free stuff on ghacks, 23% more freeware and 21% Howtos. I guess those three already are a main focus on my site and I will continue to post articles covering those subjects. (don´t worry I will still post other articles as well.)

We have seen lots of great matches so far that have been played at the Worldcup 2006 in Germany. Some teams like Argentina look in real great shape while others like Brasil play disappointingly. 597 visitors have voted and here are the results: