I see we finally picked up someone from the State of Alaska. Probably because they should have turn left at Albuquerque instead, but what the hey. Still no one from Madagascar (I like to move it, move it) Or new Guinea yet.
It would be interesting if some of the more remote hits, like from Churchill on Hudson Bay Canada, would drop a note saying they were here.
We also have no one from Siberia or Irkutsk or whatever is in the upper right corner of the map. Maybe when Russia finishes with their national distro.
Oceania is missing, and I'm waiting for a contact from Pitcairn's Island. And central Africa is a little weak. But I don't know how good their Internet connectivity is in those places, or if Linux and Suse in particular has made it's presence known. (I know Pitcairn's has a good satellite link, but the bandwidth is a little limited.)
There are about 30 or 40 places in Africa that haven't called in.
Connectivity is difficult and relatively very expensive for the masses - and linux isn't known very well - what an opportunity!!!
What with two distro bosses Mark Shuttleworth of ubuntu and Theo de Raadt of openbsd, we should have much more linux penetration.
We are getting a new undersea cable in June, and this should change the scenery quite a bit
Well, well. In the 3 months and 2 days this widget has been running, we've had 6,558 visits from 110 different countries. Looking at the map, we've had visits from most anywhere in the world that human beings cluster together in any density at all. And from some pretty remote locations as well. We have no hits from above the Arctic circle, nor from below the Antarctic circle, from the tops of the Himalayas, nor from the deepest parts of the Amazon basin, or the middle of the Sahara desert. (Correction: I believe 1 visitor from Norway is above the Arctic circle. My apologies to that visitor.) (Another correction: 1 visitor from Algeria is far enough south to be considered well into the Sahara. My knowledge of the boundaries of the Sahara is a little fuzzy. My apologies to that visitor as well.) No visitors from Madagascar yet, Mattb4. Nor from Pitcairn Island. But we haven't given up hope!
I think that is all pretty amazing, bozo. Sitting in a tar paper shack in the "Wilds of Arkansas" in contact with the World. As for Madagascar not checking in, well... Lemurs, nuff said.
As for Antarctica...HELLOOO! I'm here. Just because I no longer live there I don't count?
Nothing personal, welan; just lookin' at the dots on the map. And there aren't any dots in Antarctica. 'Fraid you'll have to go back and get online from there to get a special mention.
http://penguinclickers.3chq.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2
I found Welan's site he's trying to over inflate the amount of friends he has hehe ;)
Why does everybody keep posting all my secrets?
DF I thought you were on my side?
The way you guys are acting you'd think I was trying to take over the world or something sinister like that
I'd cry but the tears would freeze and then I'd have to clean up the ice bb"s
I get no respect, or very little can't tell the difference...
I've noticed our red dots have increased considerably. Some even appear to come from out in the middle of the ocean. I'm guessing there are small islands underneath them, unless the geo locator is good enough to pick up traffic from boats.
I think there's islands under the dots. The locater actually uses the ISP location. If you click on the map, you go to a site that shows a bigger map, and breaks down the visits by country. I see hits from Maldives, Mauritius, Barbados, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Macau, Brunei Darussalam, Andorra, Virgin Islands, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago, New Caledonia, Burundi, Bahamas, French Polynesia, Malta, Sri Lanka, "Asia/Pacific Region", Puerto Rico, and many other exotic sites. The dots in the Pacific are Hawaii and the Galapogos, I believe, or maybe Pitcairn's Island. Iceland has 17 hits. The Canary Islands are represented, I think, and Tasmania, and maybe Guam? Many islands will be catagorized under far away countries that possess them. It's really kind of exciting to think of all the people worldwide that have popped in. I only wish more of them would have written something, if just to say "Hi". Some interesting conversation could have taken place, I bet.
If you expand the map, there is only one Big dot - that must be where Mattb4 lives !!
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