LJ Index

  1. Number of wireless nodes discovered by hackers flying in a 4-seater Grumman with an iPaq over Perth, Australia: 95
  2. Number of wireless nodes discovered by by the same hackers with a Toshiba laptop: 92
  3. Speed of the Grumman over the ground in MPH: 250
  4. Altitude in feet of the Grumman through the flight: 1500
  5. Number of wireless nodes discovered by Phil Windley, CIO of Utah, flying in a Piper Turbo Arrow over Salt Lake City: 27
  6. Number of encrypted nodes among those: 5
  7. Speed of the Piper over the ground in MPH: 125
  8. Altitude in feet of the Piper through the flight: 1500
  9. Millions of US Huseholds that read direct mail and telemarketing addressed to a dead person: 17
  10. Millions of those who get "a lot" of junk mail for the dead: 4
  11. Percentage of the 17 million who get junk mail for persons dead more than a year: 53
  12. Percentage of the 17 million who get junk mail for persons dead 10 years or more: 6
  13. 17M US households read direct mail and telemarketing addressed to a dead person. Four million get "a lot" and 53% of the mail is going to people who have been dead for a year or more. Only 6% goes to people who have been dead for 10 or more years.
  14. Linux percentage share of 110 million unit desktop market: 2.7
  15. Unit sales growth of Linux desktops in 2001: 47
  16. Numbers of Linux desktops distributed for every one purchased: 12-15
  17. Linux new license revenue shipments percentage growth over the last year: 28
  18. Concurrent delince in new license revenue shipments for UNIX: 25
  19. Number of Zumiez stores installing Linux desktops: 100
  20. Estimated $-per-desktop savings over Microsoft alternatives at the Zumiez stores: 500

1-4, E3 <www.e3.com.au/>; 5-8, Phil Windley <http://www.windley.com/>; 9-13, Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization <http://www.hyperorg.com>; 14-18, International Data Corp.; 19-, Wall Street Journal.

Notes to ignore...

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-957874.html?tag=fd_top (possibly save for January)

http://www.ojr.org/ojc/topics/brief.php?briefID=37732 (this too)

http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=&REQAUTH=21046&14001REQSUB=REQINT1=45449 (this too)

http://www-1.ibm.com/linux/viewaudience_4.shtml

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1031774552750820715,00.html?mod=todays%5Fus%5Fmarketplace%5Fhs