Our awesome sysadmins have put the user agent into our AWStats so we are tracking these numbers now. They discovered something I overlooked. Netscape 4.x is 10 times more used than 7.x or 8.x. Wowsers! Some people really do not give up on the past. Back in the Netscape is dead post, I used this…
Good game M$!! MS paper touts Unix in Hotmail’s Win2k switch (The Register) Santa Switches (Apple.com) Apple making fun of themselves? Who’da thunk? All you software piracy phreaks, listen up… Woman sentenced in multimillion-dollar software sting (ComputerWorld)
Especially enjoyed reading this article… tempted to send it to all the professors in the CS area here. Why software is so bad …
Seems like Xanga is limping along at the moment. In an effort to further complicate my bloggings… news here. Real rants over there. Tech News: Found this by following an article on Slashdot. Thinking this would be good to implement. How to Defeat Bad Web Robots With Apache Only has experimental Apache 2.0 support. Maybe 4.2.1 will fix…
My Apache web server died this morning. Attempted a routine little fix which turned into a hell I could not troubleshoot. Ended up compiling a new Apache install without the extras as a stop gap measure. Will have to build a more permanent one and have a second in place in which to cut over…
Segmentation Faults sux!!
Kinda thinking about this post by Vixenz. I wonder why the 7 wonders of the modern world (the 1918 one) went away from landmarks? I agree that some inventions are much more significant than any ole landmark, but I think landmarks deserve their own list. Saw a show on plans to build an arcology-like structure in Hong Kong Bay. This…
Woke up early this morning. Maybe it was because I didn’t do squat this yesterday? I think it was. Came up to the university to check my email, but SSH on Galileo5 seems to be mapped to execute the AOL install. Think the people who install this stuff are one step ahead of the staff…
Don’t know what the ultimate solution was to the NFS server problem, but it is fixed. Everyone is happy, I guess. Someone was scanning for legitimate logins to our web server. They sent 12,559 connections and may have gotten maybe 48 successful. I’ve got a script to let me know when they come back. Watch…