Archive for July, 2006

Well that was going to be the name of the RSS feeder, I’ve coded but now I’m not so sure. myrss.com is taken as is myrss.net. And upon googleing myrss there is already a SourceForge project named that. So I was trying to think of names to name it when Bawked recommended quickRSS. The .net version of it is avalible so that’s what I’m using so far. Anyways I took some movies of my screen of me using the RSS feeder, one for dial-up and one for broadband. I’m not going to release the binary just yet, because I’m still working out some bugs. When I release the project, donations would be awesome. Rui and I have spent tons of time coding this. Hosting and a domain isn’t free either :\. The dial-up version can be downloaded here (~5 Megabytes), and the broadband version can be downloaded here (~12 Megabytes). Note this server honestly sucks but I have no money to pay for better hosting. So please give the movies time to load. The dial-up one takes around 30 seconds while the broadband one takes around a minute. Leave any comments if you have suggestions for the feeder, or name suggestions.

EDIT: QuickRSS.net has been bought. Also the video will load instantly for broadband users as I have new hosting. (6 mbit download speed on my end and it takes about a second to load) Server is on a 1 gig line so enjoy =)

I just updated WordPress to version 2.0.4. Man their coding is just awesome, I’m beyond satisfied. To upgrade, you upload the new files and go to upgrade.php, it really couldn’t be easier. I honestly have no idea why people use horrid blogs like MySpace. Anyways on the small chance you find broken links, or other bugs please let me know. At the moment I’m moving files around on my PCs, shredding files, zero filling hard drives, and installing operating systems. I’ll post back with the new network topology :)

Well first off, thank you John Oates for submitting this article, my website has never had so many hits before. Could you please comment on how you found my blog, I’m just curious? Also thank you to the person who submitted my entry to Reddit as well. Just thought I’d show the July stats to everyone. This site and blog opened July 15th basically, and since then has had over two thousand unique hits. Glad to see a ton of Firefox users out there, only wish Opera users would start to out number Internet Explorer users. Was suprised to see people using links/lynx lol. Have to wonder why people are wgetting my site as well, already had one person steal an article.. I’ve made $15.85 dollars in ads, and they’ve been on the website 48 hours or so, so if you’re reading this please click it a few times. I will take them off once I get 17 more dollars. I need to pay for the cost of running this website, sorry. Me and bawked are making some progress on the PHP RPG. We changed the login around to cookies, and the structure of some of the files. He’s finishing up battle.php while I’m almost done with market.php. Shouldn’t be long now.

        Browser                    Hits           Percent
	Firefox	                   28029	  68.2 %
	Internet Explorer	   8120	          19.7 %
	Unknown	                   1300	          3.1 %
	Opera                      1297		  3.1 %
	Safari                     1096		  2.6 %
	Mozilla	                   540		  1.3 %
	Konqueror                  195            0.4 %
	Netscape                   159	          0.3 %
	Camino                     121	          0.2 %
	NetNewsWire                52             0.1 %
 	Others          	   151	          0.3 %

        OS                        Hits            Percent
	Windows	                  34959	          85.1 %
	Linux	                  2374	          5.7 %
	Macintosh	          1989	          4.8 %
	Unknown	                  1652            4 %
	FreeBSD	                  63	          0.1 %
	OpenBSD	                  12	          0 %
	Sun Solaris		  8		  0 %
	GNU			  3               0 %

	Country                   Pages       Hits           Bandwidth
	United States	          8294	      30208	     451.49 MB
	Australia	          510	      1281	     21.24 MB
	Great Britain	          479	      2518	     65.27 MB

And yes there were 9 hits from Windows 95 users. Some people put off updating, but come on Windows 95? 2569 Unique hits total. 686.19 MBs bandwidth used. And there are still people coming fairly often from TheRegister, so it might even get to three thousand by the time I wake up :)

Someone has posted malicious javascript on netscape.com that pops up alert boxes, and redirects to digg.com. The alert boxes were removed quite fast, but the redirect on news.netscape.com is still there as of 5:58 AM Central time. More details can be found at PacketStorm. Apparently the author warned netscape about this flaw multiple times, and posted it on PacketStorm, so you can’t really feel bad for what happened. Upon visting netscape.com you are greeted with the message “fuck” in an alert box, then it says “Hi to all you Diggers out there ;)”. It then repeats this. On going to news.netscape.com you’re confronted with “this site sucks. go here instead:” and then redirects to digg.com. I took screen shots of this before they deleted them so have a laugh at them :).

I was looking at my gmail account yesterday, and noticed they were up to around 2.7 gigs of email space. So that got me thinking, how many users does gmail have? Well after doing some research, I found some estimates that gmail had around ~50 million users. So let’s do the math. Gmail.com claims to offer 2747 MBs of space. GMail has an estimated ~50 million users. 50,000,000 * 2747 =

• 1152175308800000000 bits
• 144021913600000000 bytes
• 140646400000000 kilobytes
• 137350000000 megabytes
• 134130859.37500 gigabytes
• 130987.167358 terabytes
• 127.9171556 petabytes

I know this is Google we’re talking about, but come on is this posible? I was reading their website, in order to find out how many users they had, when I found this:

You may organize or delete your messages through your Gmail account or terminate your account through the Google Account section of Gmail settings. Such deletions or terminations will take immediate effect in your account view. Residual copies of deleted messages and accounts may take up to 60 days to be deleted from our active servers and may remain in our offline backup systems.

So now not only do we have 127.91 petabytes of hard drive space for gmail users, but offline backup server(s). Does this mean all of 127.91 petabytes of data is also backed up at least once offline somewhere? If everyone started using products such as GMail Drive, would Google be able to handle it? Speaking of Gmail drive, it is actually quite an impressive idea. It allows you to create a virtual partition in My Computer, to drag and drop files to. It then sends you an email with the attachment to your inbox. Like they say on their website you can create a filter to automatically archive these emails. Only thing I’d be worrying about with this software is saving my password. Not sure if it’s encrypted or not, their site doesn’t say and I couldn’t find my password anywhere. Remember, over 2747.349825 megabytes (and counting) of free storage so you’ll never need to delete another message. I’m holding them to that.