http://rickadams.org/weblog Cheerfully wasting bandwidth since 1995 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:57:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In an earlier post I showed how to display listeners to your Shoutcast audio streaming server by country, like this: [code] There are currently 12 out of 36 listeners from: USA (3), Taiwan, Chile (2), Peru (2), France, Germany, Brazil, Japan [/code] But the program was a bit simplistic. If the listener's hostname ended in ... http://rickadams.org/weblog/?p=17 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 ... http://rickadams.org/weblog/?p=12 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 ... http://rickadams.org/weblog/?p=9 As a bit of election-year skullduggery, some clown registered what you might expect to be website names for DFL candidate for MN Attorney General Lori Swanson, "loriswanson.com" and "loriswanson.org," and redirected them to http://www.johnsonforag.org/, the website of her Republican opponent. An obvious dirty trick, said the Swanson campaign, demanding that the ... http://rickadams.org/weblog/?p=10 About four months ago, we started getting telemarketing calls from a "Terrell," who didn't seem to understand that we were on the Do Not Call list, and wouldn't take "no" for an answer. At first he told us he was calling for my son Tim, alleging he had entered a contest ... http://rickadams.org/weblog/?p=3 Spy Agency Removes Illegal Tracking Files The National Security Agency's Internet site has been placing files on visitors' computers that can track their Web surfing activity despite strict federal rules banning most files of that type. -- Associated Press Those naughty scamps over at the NSA! What crazy hackery are they ... http://rickadams.org/weblog/?p=11 You sure do get a different perspective when you read foreign magazines! Oh, you don't read Japanese? Here, maybe this will be better. That's... uh... wow. Just... wow. Note: the second graphic is just the first one, photoshopped, with my translation of various interesting parts. Oh, and yes, the "scare ... http://rickadams.org/weblog/?p=7 Yokohama Kadaishi Kikou Quiet, atmospheric, philosophical story of Earth's twilight days, and the humans and robots that remain. The end will come, not with a bang or a whimper, but with solemn, graceful dancing, as the lights of the abandoned cities flicker under the surface of the rising ocean. How do ... http://rickadams.org/weblog/?p=8