Hi,
I have created a poll for the preffered location of meetings. Please visit
http://munshi.dyndns.org/~amish/polls/
and post your poll.
Thanks.
Bye.
On Sunday 24 November 2002 22:55, you wrote:
Hi,
I have created a poll for the preffered location of meetings. Please visit
http://munshi.dyndns.org/~amish/polls/
and post your poll.
I have received 25 votes in all, most are for the choice 1. Andheri Powai. (13 votes) Do you suggest that this is a sufficient number of votes to close the polls? Anyone left out please vote, as soon as you can.
Thanks.
Bye.
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 05:08:34AM +0530, Amish K. Munshi wrote:
On Sunday 24 November 2002 22:55, you wrote:
Hi,
I have received 25 votes in all, most are for the choice
- Andheri Powai. (13 votes) Do you suggest that this is a sufficient number of votes to close the polls? Anyone left out please vote, as soon as you can.
I have concluded the polls, the results are
Andheri, Powai 14 polls HBSCE 16-9=5 polls, there were 10 a repeted poll from the same IP address at the same time. So I have removed the 9 polls from it. Town 6.
So we need to find a good venue around andheri. Anyone with any locations? Sameer and jaju seem to be busy, so I will try to get a venue, I cant promise but I am searching for one. I am not very postive to get a venue without help from someone so if any of you can suggest a venue then please do.
Thanks.
Bye.
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:22:19PM +0530, Amish Munshi wrote:
Andheri, Powai 14 polls HBSCE 16-9=5 polls, there were 10 a repeted poll from the same IP address at the same time. So I have removed the 9 polls from it. Town 6.
That's a very incorrect way to measure polls! An IP address these days does not guarantee anything! The entire IITB campus is visible to the outside world only as a set of 16 (I think) IP addresses. And all the students browsing the web appear to do so from only - our proxy server.
In addition, any ISP will be reusing IP addresses using DHCP, which means two valid voters may unwittingly use the same IP address when connecting to your site! But the second case is less likely, and since you say "at the same time", it becomes impossible.
Sameer.
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:01:01PM +0530, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:22:19PM +0530, Amish Munshi wrote: when connecting to your site! But the second case is less likely, and since you say "at the same time", it becomes impossible.
Hello Sameer, I need a way to decide if it is the same person who is trying to vote for the first time. Any suggesstions welcomed. Hey, I am a newbie at PHP programming, but can probably any suggestion. Also registring IP addresses and time of vote wasnt a great idea anyway since the IP address may be given to some other person in a few days and happens to be voting for the polls. I need suggestion if any practically possible.
Thanks in advance.
Sameer.
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 18:43:28 +0530 mails@munshi.dyndns.org wrote:
I need a way to decide if it is the same person who is trying to vote for the first time. Any suggesstions welcomed. Hey, I am a newbie at PHP programming, but can probably any suggestion. Also registring IP addresses and time of vote wasnt a great idea anyway since the IP address may be given to some other person in a few days and happens to be voting for the polls. I need suggestion if any practically possible.
Tracking people's identity on the basis of IP address alone won't work well.
AFA proxies are concerned, the REMOTE_HOST variable contains the IP address of the proxy, but there's another variable that contains the IP address of the client behind the proxy. I remember using one ASP server variable for this purpose though now I can neither recall that ASP variable nor did a cursory google search reveal anything for PHP/SSI. Try researching yourself.
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:21:23AM +0530, Tahir Hashmi wrote:
AFA proxies are concerned, the REMOTE_HOST variable contains the IP address of the proxy, but there's another variable that contains the IP address of the client behind the proxy.
Even if one can locate this IP address, and one also combines the time of the transaction, it can still fail in a rare case, when two users on the same machine cast a vote simultaneously! :-(
I think the only absolutely reliable way to handle this is to have user accounts for the poll.
Sameer.
Hi all!
In recent past there has been a need for polling on the list on several occasions and deciding the alternatives has been a long, noisy and generally subjective process. The poll for location turned out be almost fruitless.
I would like to suggest that we have a facility for registering the LUG members on www.ilug-bom.org.in. This process should be free (as in free lunch). Registration on the site should require subscription on the list but not vice-versa. Some of the key benefits would be:
- Easy polling, which in turn would ease decision making. - Easy registration for other purposes like volunteering for workshops, attending LUG Meetings, Linux Lunacy trip ;-) etc. - Maintaining a record of contributions made by a member to the LUG (lectures taken, events organized etc.) - A brief public profile so that people seeking help may know whom to contact better (redundant, though. people can ask on the list too.)
Finally, if this scheme is implemented, I would also like to suggest that the ILUG-Bom website be made a wiki that is modifiable by registered users only.
Comments invited.
Tahir Hashmi wrote:
The poll for location turned out be almost fruitless.
I don't think so. We decided to meet @ KReSIT. That was due to the poll.
I would like to suggest that we have a facility for registering the LUG members on www.ilug-bom.org.in.
I really think this is a good idea and makes a lot of sense to do so.
--> Vinayak Hegde
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:54:11 +0530 Vinayak Hegde wrote:
Tahir Hashmi wrote:
The poll for location turned out be almost fruitless.
I don't think so. We decided to meet @ KReSIT. That was due to the poll.
Uh, well, I meant to say the "online" poll for location <grin>.
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 06:43:28PM +0530, mails@munshi.dyndns.org wrote:
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:01:01PM +0530, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 09:22:19PM +0530, Amish Munshi wrote: when connecting to your site! But the second case is less likely, and since you say "at the same time", it becomes impossible.
Hello Sameer, I need a way to decide if it is the same person who is trying to vote for the first time. Any suggesstions welcomed. Hey, I am a newbie at PHP programming, but can probably any suggestion. Also registring IP addresses and time of vote wasnt a great idea anyway since the IP address may be given to some other person in a few days and happens to be voting for the polls. I need suggestion if any practically possible.
Cookies can be a quick and easy way out. But not completely reliable. ;-(
Hi all!
John Fowler, Sun Software CTO, revealed that Gnome2 will replace CDE in Solaris 10[1], a version that is expected to have the first beta sometime in 2003
What's more interesting is that in another story, Bill Moffit, Product Line Mgr of the Solaris Lifecycle mentioned about GTK+ bindings in Java[2]. Cheerio!!
[1] http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2278 [2] http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2172
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