In an earlier post I showed how to display listeners to your Shoutcast audio streaming server by country, like this:
There are currently 12 out of 36 listeners from:
USA (3), Taiwan, Chile (2), Peru (2), France, Germany, Brazil,
Japan
But the program was a bit simplistic. If the listener’s hostname ended in “.de” they were assumed to [...]

A while back, I noticed a few spambots liked to make the rounds of all the FTP servers in our area, mindlessly trying to connect as ADMINISTRATOR with a few dozen passwords.  I’d just chuckle and murmur, “Good luck with that,” seeing as the FTP server at work doesn’t even HAVE an account for administrator.  [...]

I’ve been experimenting with the jQuery Javascript library, and was looking for a little project to try it out on.  So I made a test page at http://yggdrasilradio.net/demo/ that polls my Shoutcast server data every 15 seconds using a PHP script, parses the XML that comes back, and displays it in a table using AJAX [...]