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I have been using this great plugin by Alex King named as 404-notifier.
This plugin has one specific role and that is to find 404 error on your website and then notify it to you by RSS or E-mail.
But the e-mail generated are not of much use as it tells me only one part of story i.e. URL that was hit and got 404.
So i modified the code and now it makes a lot of sense and gives me some inside on what is actually happening.
So my latest code and send out messages with following details. (providing Pic of the sample message.)
and i have been using this for past 1 yr on my blog. so what exactly i can get from this extra info.
If the link is not refereed by any page then it means that link is either marked as bookmark or some automated bot is trying to access the URL.
User Agents tells a lot more about who is accessing the link.
and just in case you don’t what to be irritated by a perticular user you always have his I.P. address to block him in htaccess.
So i have launched the modifed code at 404-notifier @ google code
hope this code can help someone.
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While searching for some stuff on Internet i came across this post about interesting usage of ubuntu livecd and was wondering how many more methods are possible.
So some basic usage of live cd that everyone understands and atleast expects from a live disk.
- Bootable Operating system disk
On top of that a large array of disk’s also work in various ways possible some of them listed here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD#Uses
So Here is a non exhaustive list of innovative usage of Live CD’s (already implemented or non implemented.)
- Banks Providing Live CD with Browser Homepaged to Bank Website.
- Internet Cafe’s operating on Live CD, Refer Internet Kiosk link here
- To Setup Diskless dumb terminals / Thin clients booting on Live Disk for cheap workstation alternative. LTSP will be a good alternative
- Ethical Hacking
- Un Ethical Hacking or Cracking.
- Disaster Recovery.
- Forensic evidence collection.
- Testing any Distro before switching to it.
- OS on the RUN (when using Live USB mode)(or custom build)
- Portable Electronic Workbench. <- Preinstalled toolkit for electronics development.
- Portable Testing Workbench. <- complete with software testing tools installed
- Portable bio informatics workbench
- Quick Deployable bastion host
- Quick Deployable / Easily Resettable Firewall.
- Portable WebServer with demo (for web development organizations.) (Browser opening and showing the webpages)
- Live Gaming Disc for LAN parties / Software Demo.
- Backup O.S. in case of Hardware failure.
- Backup, rescue and recovery of files from corrupt OS / Corrupt Partition / deleted files.
- mass setup / replication of system in corporate or other large scale setup
- System Migration. (burn a disk in one and reinstall in second)
- Dedicated partitioning tool for hardware vendors and enthusiast’s
- Cluster on Live CD / Load balancer on live Disk.
- Virus cleaning Kit. (antivirus, rootkit checker, togen and malware detector.)
some other very innovative usage that came in during discussion including
I large number of usage have been collected by the community effort using following threads in various forums :
So what do you thing what else could be done if you have to opportunity to create a Live Disk
Most of us at one point come to a conclusion that spam bot and Leachers are some of the annoyance of web which needs to be dealt with severly.
so here is one way of doing this if you have Apache Webserver.
.htaccess is the file which can help you on this.
I have collected a list of some most common bot user agent strings used and based on these strings we can block them just by using .htaccess file.
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