Unix: August 2006 Archives

I've done some analysis on my site logs through MySQL. Here's the OS hits:

Total Hits : 94442
Windows    : 75721
Mac        : 12405
Linux      : 5009
SunOS      : 214
FreeBSD    : 118
NetBSD     : 15
BlackBerry : 12
PSP        : 11
WebTV      : 9
HP-UX      : 9
OpenBSD    : 9
IRIX64     : 8
OS/2 Warp  : 7
PalmOS     : 4
Unix       : 3
OSF1       : 2
BeOS       : 2
SymbianOS  : 1
RISC OS    : 1
AmigaOS    : 1

The rest were crawlers and user-agent strings with no machine/OS type.
There was a hit for 'Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)' as well. Very good, mate.

I'm having some geekish fun with MySQL.
I just discovered that Pipex's website monitoring can create MySQL schema for the logs, so I've set up a cron job to download and apply it to my shiny new MySQL DB.
All this SQL reminds me of Uni, typing freakishly long and dangerously brittle queries into an Oracle console. The only difference now is that I have a decent grasp of regular expressions, so I can actually do useful things. As soon as I find useful things to do with my website logs, I'll be good to go.
I am thrilled to report, for now, that 65 people have ended up at this website after searching for 'goatse'. That's 65 sick, disappointed people.

The new-and-improved multiburn is now available for your CD and DVD burning pleasure.
New options added:
- DVD burning!
- Configurable burn speed
- Dummy burning
- Audio CD pre-gap configuration
- Image / scratch dir retention (in case you want to do the burn again later)
- Scan (to discover available burners)
And much, much more! (well, a wee bit more anyway).
So, reclaim your precious disc space from K3b. Scoff at the $20 cost of Nero.
And most importantly, be freed from. the. constraint. of. one. disc. at. a. time. burning.

Oops. Kicked out the network connection to my 'server' (the RJ-45 into the switch was attached using the 'hammer and screwdriver' crimping method, so this is easier then you would imagine). As such the photos and mixes have been off-line all day. Not that anyone noticed, most probably.
It's all back up now, though.
Yay.

multiburn's undergoing a major overhaul to include DVD support, and a host of other fine features. Should be good to go in a few days, once the code's been cleaned up. M'Romanian friend Catalin's doing some testing on the new features, most of which were suggested by him.
jamserve is being lightly hacked on too, but time's a bit tight these days.