If you don't already know what Webalizer is, here's a brief intro: Webalizer is an application that reads web server logs and spit out reports on the site's visitors. It can tell you who visited your site, which section of the site was visited most often, and what files used up the most bandwidth.
I was bored yesterday and decided to do a google search to find some Webalizer reports on uwaterloo.ca sites.
The most interesting reports were the ones for www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca and www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca. According to the report on the CS student server, roughly 30 GB of bandwidth were used in August so far to transfer the sweet ballads of Bryan Adams, Jessica Simpson, and Britney Spears. The report for the Math server shows downloads of weird wrestling videos using up a bit less than 7 GB of bandwidth (again, in August so far). These files, in my opinion, need to be taken down immediately: maybe not the wrestling videos, but the music downloads are definitely abusive usages. More importantly, bad taste in music should not be tolerated.
There were some other interesting discoveries besides the above abuses. Some guy has posted a flash movie about some hockey players. I didn't get it because I don't follow hockey at all, but I thought people who do follow hockey might find it funny (or not funny or disgusting or Kafkaesque or sadomasochistic). And, Lino Demasi, the beloved leader of the Mathsoc has apparently created a nifty script to allow anyone with an Internet connection to see his mailbox. Well, thank you Lino Demasi for taking a major leap in increasing the transparency of the Mathsoc and your personal affairs.
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The source of the "wrestling videos" : http://www.stevenfin.com/kyfest/index.htm
I was there.. good times, although I don't know why he needs server space to keep them, since they already exist on other servers...
Saturday July 24th.
That's the day I went to see the Door in the Floor and got traumatized by the sight of Kim Basinger's 50-year old breasts.
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