The Bitacle web thief was using this web agent identifier up through 25/Sep/2006:04:05:00 -0400. After that point, they identify their RSS crawler as “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-EN; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060614 Fedora/1.5.0.4-1.2.fc5 Firefox/1.5.0.4 pango-text” This is based on them using this IP address: 81.172.117.28.
Archive of posts filed under the Technology category.
The Value of e-SocietyRobot?
One of my web sites has been spidered by the e-SocietyRobot spider. It’s web site is at http://www.yama.info.waseda.ac.jp/~yamana/es/, slightly more legible using Babelfish. e-SocietyRobot is not a search engine. e-SocietyRobot hit 4,549 pages, no MP3 files luckily, but still used 51MB of traffic. But it is some unknown research project attempting to spider the web. […]
Re: Verizon needs to stop jerking me around
In Verizon needs to stop jerking me around Derek pegs why junk mail sucks. And a bonus, he pegs why Verizon sucks. Just yesterday my office’s T1 line went down. I call the helpful UUNet number to discover Verizon owns UUNET, or MCI, or whoever the heck it is. I have more important things to […]
Happy OneWebDay!
How has the web impacted your life? It sure has had an impact on mine. I’m a full time webmaster, a career that didn’t even exist 15 years ago. I have tens of thousands of people visit PlanetMike.com every month, something that surely wouldn’t have happened if I were printing a dead tree magazine of […]
Update on Verizon’s Supplier Surcharge
In Verizon BS: Supplier Surcharge I talked about Verizon’s increased prices of their DSL offerings. They’ve apparently decided to drop the new fee. Good. Prices should be going down, not up. The USA is lagging behind bandwidth availability when compared to the rest of the developed world. Dear Valued Verizon Online Customer, Effective immediately, Verizon […]
Verizon BS: Supplier Surcharge
Verizon has added a new fee to their DSL customers. They’ve removed an ancient tax, the FUSF (Federal Universal Service Fund) and added in an almost identical new fee, a supplier surcharge. Don’t most stores simply charge their expenses for their services in something known as a price? Verizon advertises the price of DSL in […]
How Far We’ve Come
I was cleaning out some old files in an ancient file cabinet at my office and found some receipts for purchases of some Apple equipment. Think what you could get for that money today. Apple Powerbook 5300cs/100. 8MB ram, 500MB hard drive: $1,999 16MB Memory Module: $408.95 Global Village Platinum Pro PC Card (28.8bps fax/modem […]
Re: Where Do Displays Go From Here?
In Where Do Displays Go From Here? James R. Stoup asks about our first and current computer monitors. My first monitor was a 9 inch amber CGA screen, 80×25 characters of text on an IBM Portable (30 [thirty] pounds) PC. My current machine is a 15 inch Powerbook screen with an external 19 inch LCD. […]
Why do I sometimes have to dial a 1?
I live in the 703 area code, which is Northern Virginia, the area near Washington DC. Sometimes when I call a 703 number, I have to dial a 1 before the 10 digit phone number. Sometimes I don’t. There is no rhyme or reason to when I need the 1. Area code 571 is generally […]
Re: Mac Server Series: Initial Set Up
In Mac Server Series: Initial Set Up Brian shares the first steps in a video on setting up a Mac as a server. He works for a web host that lets you send them a Mac Mini, and then you can run your web sites and email off of it. I priced it out, and […]