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Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?  

A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.

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DXMachina - Aug 17, 2005 4:35:27 am PDT #5365 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Do the referrer logs give the specific page URL?


§ ita § - Aug 17, 2005 4:37:57 am PDT #5366 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yup.


DXMachina - Aug 17, 2005 4:39:12 am PDT #5367 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

So much for being impressed.


brenda m - Aug 17, 2005 4:41:28 am PDT #5368 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I'm not unimpressed that she went through and registered and (nicely) asked the question.


Polter-Cow - Aug 17, 2005 4:51:49 am PDT #5369 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

More likely she was checking referrer logs. It's what I do.

Yeah, that's what I meant, in so many words.


§ ita § - Aug 17, 2005 5:14:14 am PDT #5370 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

In case you need to say it again -- I'd drop the meter/counter lingo, since that's something different.


Polter-Cow - Aug 17, 2005 5:20:22 am PDT #5371 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Are there referrer logs that come without a meter/counter? I've only seen them as part of the various bits of information a meter/counter provides for you.


§ ita § - Aug 17, 2005 5:23:11 am PDT #5372 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Are there referrer logs that come without a meter/counter?

Referrer logs are a standard HTTP server function. Every time a web page is served up, information is written to a file.

Meters and counters -- well, I'm not sure precisely how meter is defined, but counters have no inherent relation to or dependence on a referrer log.

There's nothing you have to do or install to have server logs generated -- the magic is in parsing them usefully.


Polter-Cow - Aug 17, 2005 5:28:10 am PDT #5373 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Aha. Okay, I didn't know that. So that counter software just reports to you the referrer logs you could view yourself if you knew how.


Jon B. - Aug 17, 2005 5:56:54 am PDT #5374 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Lots of web page hosting companies (the free ones mostly) do not give the user sufficient access to look at the referrer logs. For those users, counter applets can be useful.