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I see you're quite the unix guru

How slow is slow for you? No delay here for me either. The only change I've made in the last 24 hours was the google search bar I added, doubt that would affect things.

I do see some packet loss on mtr, but I'm getting pretty much 100% of my pings back. Here's my traceroute to compare:

patrick@patrick-laptop:~$ traceroute www.shareforum.co.za
traceroute to www.shareforum.co.za (108.174.145.70), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  14.686 ms  14.653 ms  14.997 ms
 2  10.11.227.107 (10.11.227.107)  19.572 ms  25.860 ms  25.850 ms
 3  69.67.38.81 (69.67.38.81)  26.780 ms  38.315 ms  38.321 ms
 4  41.202.49-21.reverse.CMCNETWORKS.NET (41.202.49.21)  38.300 ms  38.293 ms  38.270 ms
 5  69.67.32.45 (69.67.32.45)  39.618 ms  39.607 ms  45.342 ms
 6  69.67.32.83 (69.67.32.83)  48.201 ms  9.130 ms  9.936 ms
 7  41.202.37-204.reverse.CMCNETWORKS.NET (41.202.37.204)  180.204 ms  180.102 ms  193.277 ms
 8  41.202.53-177.reverse.CMCNETWORKS.NET (41.202.53.177)  198.760 ms  198.785 ms  200.706 ms
 9  41.202.32-77.reverse.CMCNETWORKS.NET (41.202.32.77)  200.691 ms  200.666 ms  207.933 ms
10  GIG-0.0.ldn-ipa-2.CMCNETWORKS.NET (69.67.34.14)  207.868 ms  207.853 ms  207.824 ms
11  gigabitethernet5-0.106.gw1.lnd6.alter.net (158.43.52.221)  269.916 ms  270.713 ms  274.127 ms
12  ge-7-2-0.XT2.LND9.ALTER.NET (158.43.236.133)  274.090 ms  251.782 ms  252.686 ms
13  xe-11-0-0.BR1.PAR7.ALTER.NET (146.188.5.78)  190.510 ms  190.072 ms  188.644 ms
14  prs-b5-link.telia.net (213.248.90.245)  190.493 ms  200.040 ms  201.894 ms
15  prs-bb2-link.telia.net (213.155.130.22)  201.866 ms prs-bb1-link.telia.net (213.155.130.20)  274.037 ms  277.424 ms
16  ash-bb4-link.telia.net (80.91.254.214)  277.413 ms ash-bb3-link.telia.net (80.91.252.36)  274.306 ms ash-bb4-link.telia.net (80.91.254.214)  263.705 ms
17  ash-b1-link.telia.net (80.91.248.161)  335.490 ms ash-b1-link.telia.net (80.91.248.163)  284.345 ms ash-b1-link.telia.net (80.91.248.159)  308.716 ms
18  xe-3-0-1.bbr01.eq01.wdc02.networklayer.com (213.248.78.130)  262.549 ms  270.918 ms  328.009 ms
19  ae0.bbr01.tl01.atl01.networklayer.com (173.192.18.153)  286.347 ms  288.727 ms  285.345 ms
20  ae13.bbr02.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com (173.192.18.134)  310.708 ms  306.097 ms  316.051 ms
21  ae5.dar02.sr01.dal05.networklayer.com (173.192.18.217)  320.386 ms  327.491 ms ae6.dar01.sr01.dal05.networklayer.com (50.97.18.195)  293.635 ms
22  po1.fcr04.sr03.dal05.networklayer.com (173.192.118.149)  299.555 ms  306.767 ms po2.fcr04.sr03.dal05.networklayer.com (173.192.118.151)  308.765 ms
23  108-174-145-70.worldwidewebhosting.com (108.174.145.70)  302.793 ms  303.510 ms  326.213 ms
patrick@patrick-laptop:~$

patrick@patrick-laptop:~$ mtr -r -c5 shareforum.co.za
HOST: patrick-laptop              Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- 192.168.1.1                0.0%     5    9.0   4.5   2.6   9.0   2.8
  2.|-- 10.11.227.107              0.0%     5    3.0   3.8   3.0   6.9   1.7
  3.|-- 69.67.38.81                0.0%     5    5.7   4.8   3.8   6.3   1.1
  4.|-- 41.202.49-21.reverse.CMCN  0.0%     5    5.0   5.6   5.0   6.6   0.8
  5.|-- 69.67.32.45                0.0%     5    5.0   7.2   5.0  15.0   4.4
  6.|-- 69.67.32.83                0.0%     5    7.8   9.3   5.8  17.1   4.6
  7.|-- 41.202.37-204.reverse.CMC  0.0%     5  177.0 176.8 175.5 179.1   1.5
  8.|-- 41.202.53-177.reverse.CMC  0.0%     5  176.2 175.9 175.6 176.3   0.3
  9.|-- 41.202.32-77.reverse.CMCN  0.0%     5  176.1 175.6 175.2 176.2   0.5
 10.|-- GIG-0.0.ldn-ipa-2.CMCNETW  0.0%     5  176.9 179.6 176.9 188.0   4.8
 11.|-- gigabitethernet5-0.106.gw  0.0%     5  249.7 260.5 249.2 296.5  20.3
 12.|-- ge-7-2-0.XT2.LND9.ALTER.N  0.0%     5  260.8 250.8 246.7 260.8   5.9
 13.|-- xe-11-0-0.BR1.PAR7.ALTER.  0.0%     5  201.7 189.6 184.1 201.7   6.9
 14.|-- prs-b5-link.telia.net      0.0%     5  186.8 187.2 184.4 194.3   4.0
 15.|-- prs-bb1-link.telia.net     0.0%     5  189.9 201.5 188.5 248.3  26.2
 16.|-- ash-bb3-link.telia.net    20.0%     5  271.7 270.4 269.7 271.7   0.9
    |  `|-- 80.91.251.98
 17.|-- ash-b1-link.telia.net      0.0%     5  283.9 289.9 266.8 327.9  25.1
    |  `|-- 80.91.248.159
    |   |-- 80.91.248.157
 18.|-- xe-3-0-1.bbr01.eq01.wdc02 20.0%     5  263.6 264.0 263.1 265.8   1.2
 19.|-- ae0.bbr01.tl01.atl01.netw 40.0%     5  276.2 279.6 276.2 284.8   4.6
 20.|-- ae13.bbr02.eq01.dal03.net 20.0%     5  300.7 298.9 297.9 300.7   1.3
 21.|-- ae5.dar02.sr01.dal05.netw 20.0%     5  301.6 302.1 301.6 303.0   0.7
 22.|-- po2.fcr04.sr03.dal05.netw 20.0%     5  298.5 299.7 298.5 303.0   2.2
 23.|-- 108-174-145-70.worldwidew 20.0%     5  298.6 300.6 298.6 304.2   2.5
patrick@patrick-laptop:~$

--- shareforum.co.za ping statistics ---
118 packets transmitted, 117 received, 0% packet loss, time 117080ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 298.660/302.428/331.297/4.633 ms
patrick@patrick-laptop:~$

It reminds me of futuristic sci-fi movies where you need ‘credits’ for services or products, swiping a device or implant. Who knows, maybe paying by Smartphone with virtual money is our future but yes, it will be ridiculed at first.

I spend a good chunk of my time in central and eastern africa. Mobile money is far far bigger than credit cards already. In my view virtual money is definitely the way we're heading. Paypal is the halfway point, but something like a bitcoin is quite likely where we'll end up. I doubt it will be the bitcoin itself. Even though it's an increadibly beautiful algorithm, the fact that it's not based on anything of real value will be it's demise. My prediction is that governments will start "printing" their own virtual currencies in the medium term future.

I've set up a custom google search on the top of this page. It'll search not only this site, but also all the old threads on ShareChat.

Hope it helps.

Patrick

I'll use the list from here, that should cover everyone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_traded_on_the_JSE

I like the idea aspire, but it'll be far harder to implement. It is something I'd like to do though. Maybe I'll do the simple one quickly, and then focus on the more advanced style competition

As to how I would see that working moneypenny, is possibly to have a leaderboard with the ranking according to annualised return.

Keep the ideas coming guys. I've already started development. At the moment I can read in a list of shares automatically. Still some way to go 

Forums are made by where the members are. I've paid for the domain for a year, the hosting won't cost me a cent so I'll keep it running until this time next year at least.

Since I'm a software developer by profession I could code a share pick competition and link it to the forum. How do you think it should work?

My thoughts are everyone gets to pick a portfolio of up to 5 shares, and decide what percentage of the portfolio each of those hold, then we do running calculations and save the monthly leaderboard at the end of the month.

Any other suggestions?