Posts Tagged ‘Windows NT

In todays highly competitive e-commerce marketplace, the performance of a web-site plays a key role in attracting new and retaining current clients. New technologies are being developed to help speed up the delivery of content to customers while still allowing companies to get their message across using rich, graphical content. However, in the rush to [...]

I have been seeing a large number of hits with the following User-Agent string in my logs lately:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

Firebird hasn’t existed as a browser for a very long time
A build date of October 7, 2003???
From 3 separate IP Addresses

This Apache REWRITE rule took care of this issue.
RewriteCond [...]

For those of you ourt there that use SiteMeter, I need some verification that the service is unreachable right now. The icon does not load on my Blog page (you may have noticed this if you are reading this is a browser) and when you do get to the site, the stats database is unreachable.
Wouldn’t [...]


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