- Percentage of its enterprise that Plastic Dress-Up (the leading supplier of trophy and award components) has moved to the Linux platform: 80 to 90
- Linux-derived cost savings in dollars on each new enterprise server purchased by Plastic Dress-Up: 30,000
- Millions of images in the 1Image document imaging system on one Red Hat Linux server at Plastic Dress-Up: 1
- Recovery percentage of its image database after a power outage at Plastic Dress-Up, in spite of a damaged drive partition: 100
- Years during which Streptococcus mitis bacteria survived on the Moon between visits from Earthlings: 2.5
- Years during which backteria lived in the brickwork of Peruvian pyramids: 4,800
- Years during which bacteria lived in a mastodon corpse: 11,000
- Range in millions of years during which bacterial spores survived in amber-trapped bees: 25 to 40
- Age in years of bacteria revived after recovery from a New Mexico mineshaft: 250,000,000
- Estimated number of computer viruses in 1990: 200 to 500
- Estimated minimum number of computer viruses in 2000: 50,000
- Total number of reported Linux viruses: 1
- Cost in $billions of virus damages by September 2001: 10.7
- Number of observable domains hosted by 21VIANET.com in Beijing, China: 3
- Latest uptime in days of the 21VIANET domain (www.encantata.com.cn) running Apache on Linux: 305
- Latest uptime in days of the the two 21VIANET domains running IIS on Windows 2000: 10, 19
- Number of times Tove Torvalds has won the Finnish karate championship: 6
Sources: 1-4, 1image <www.1mage.com> 5-9, Panspermia.org; 10-11, CKnow.com; 12, Librenix.com; 13, Computer Economics <www.computereconomics.com>; 14-16, Netcraft <www.netcraft.com>; 17, Linus Torvalds, Just for Fun.
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http://www.economist.com/surveys/displayStory.cfm?Story_id=770839
http://www.instat.com/press.asp?sku=RC0112HN&Segment=Residential%20Connectivity
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=S%26%2BX%28%28P%21%27%2B%0A
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