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Mine GO BOOM - Sun Aug 29, 2004 3:12 pm
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Solo Ace - 9.2%
Mine GO BOOM - 3.4%
D1st0rt - 2.9%
Dr Brain - 2.8%

The problem with this, is that Sole Ace must use the crappiest browser around, because it seems as if it does not cache a single image. His Page Load/Item Hits ratio is 1:14. Everyone else in the top 20 averages 1:2. Only blackmoon has a worse Page/Hit ratio with 1:23, but he only uses 1% of the total bandwidth.

Anyways, Windows is 98%, Linux is 1.4%, 'Others' are 0.3% and Mac is 0.1%. IE is 80%, Mozilla is 16%, Opera is 1.7%, and Safari is 0.02%, which even WGet beats. And AWStats estimates that 10% of you guys have my forums bookmarked, or like to type it out in your address bar that often.

50% Packetloss - Sun Aug 29, 2004 3:21 pm
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I use firefox and have it bookmarked, any idea how much BW i use?

Mine GO BOOM - Sun Aug 29, 2004 3:39 pm
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Yes, but I'm lazy, and only checked the IP->Names of the top couple. Whats weird is that Solo Ace uses three IPs, which take up #2, #4, and #5 on the list. I could have done more, but was afraid that Solo Ace would have been them too, thus I stopped at #6.

I thought I was going to be the top bandwidth sucker, since I check this page often, and try to read/glance at almost every topic.

Dr Brain - Sun Aug 29, 2004 4:03 pm
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Nice. I just moved IPs a few days ago. I probably would have beaten D1 otherwise

Solo Ace - Sun Aug 29, 2004 4:14 pm
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Sorry?

I've been messing with a proxy lately, and this proxy prevents the Referer tag to be sent to webservers, and I guess it prevents images from being cached too.

Are you logging everything the browsers send to the server?

I doubt I will show up again in the list after the #5, but well, I'll stop loading these pages so often.

Mine GO BOOM - Sun Aug 29, 2004 7:41 pm
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Solo Ace wrote:

Are you logging everything the browsers send to the server?

Oh, forums.minegoboom.com only uses 3% of the bandwidth allocated for it, so you being 9% of 3% is nothing. As for logs, I'm guessing you never looked at weblogs before? Every server you ever visited will probably log the HTTP request down somewhere. Usually, people just don't care, and leave the logs how they are. There are programs, such as awstats, that will filter the logs into little useful stats, such as search terms people use to visit the site, what file uses up more bandwidth than another, etc. Me being an engineer, I like this kind of useless knowledge, so I share.

As for your proxy, I'd suggest trying out better ones. Firefox has some extensions in which it will not send all external referances, which is what you are probably after. If you are afraid of people seeing what you do on the internet, webmasters are the least of your problems. Cookies/referals are passe now-a-days, and mean little.

So by all means, feel free to try and suck more bandwidth. I've got plenty to spare. I figure this could come as an assitances to you, to know that your online experience can be run a bit faster. If you really want to follow all the scary "people are watching look at porn" ideas, I'd recommend Squid. This will do everything you want to try and mask yourself (which won't work very well anyways), but also help you out by being a good proxy, in which it will correctly cache images/pages, and can make a 56k connection feel fast.

CypherJF - Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:19 pm
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I switched IPs each time I logged on; now I'm back at school w/ T1 baby $ much nicer than 56k haha..

SuSE - Mon Aug 30, 2004 1:53 am
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I almost always type out "forums.minegoboom.com" because I can usually hit CTRL+L, then type that faster than I can hit CTRL+B, find the bookmark and click it

Cyan~Fire - Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:19 am
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I never knew about Ctrl+L.... thanks Akai!

SuSE - Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:21 am
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mmm, plus I hate autocomplete, so that's off

when my computer's back up and I get Firefox running, I may just break down and make a bookmark link for my forums or actually organize them all into a folder and open them up simultaneously, whatever

D1st0rt - Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:09 am
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start page $$ no effort at all

CypherJF - Mon Aug 30, 2004 12:06 pm
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rotfl

Solo Ace - Mon Aug 30, 2004 2:21 pm
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Mine GO BOOM wrote:

As for logs, I'm guessing you never looked at weblogs before?

I have seen my apache's access log, but I didn't see any of the Referer tag url's stored anywhere.
I wasn't referring to the webserver's logs, I just meant logging in general.

I admit I became more paranoid after I learned more about how things are communicating with eachother on the web, that's the reason why I started using some filtering proxy server (The Proxomitron) Dust recommended (if you use it, you should really turn textures off before puking at the GUI).

This connection is fast enough to browse without proxy or something.

I've been wondering though, popular websites log some of that stuff, like IP, User-agent and like for on Google, search queries.
People keep changing IP's (I will move soon again too) but well, how long do they keep those logs? I guess they are being rotated like every month but doesn't that information become useless after a few months?

Mine GO BOOM - Mon Aug 30, 2004 3:15 pm
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I've keep every single hit logged on shanky.com/minegoboom.com since we started it. Then again, thats only like a couple of meg worth of stuff, and its only due to the fact that we are too lazy to ever clean it out.

As to when the data goes bad? Never. Most websites use it only to keep information on how often certain pages are viewed, what type of browsers/OS people are using when visiting the site. The ad people want every bit of information they can.

I tried Proxitrom a long time ago, but have found that Firefox + a good userContent.css works much better. Hell, I havn't even seen Google ads in over 6 months. People also pimp out the AdBlock, but my version is too old to use that correctly.

ExplodyThingy - Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:04 pm
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I used to have you homepaged, back in the day when I set it by accident, untill I set it by accident on something else.

ExplodyThingy - Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:02 pm
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BOO, Quick reply is broken in konqueror

Mine GO BOOM - Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:52 pm
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ExplodyThingy wrote:

BOO, Quick reply is broken in konqueror

I'll try that tommorrow at the PSU lab.

Anonymous - Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:53 am
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Quick reply is broken in a lot of browsers, so far I've had problems with links and dillo.