On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 18:57 +0000, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 06:51pm on Saturday, February 28, 2009 (UK time), Aaron Konstam > scrawled: > > > I notice that when I browse certain sites they can determing what city I > > live in. How is that done? I can't figure that out. > > Actually they determine where your ISP connects you to the internet. > Thus I am doomed to be shown as living in bloody London. > > http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation
Well does not seem to always work. Try it on:128.42.206.11 which is the ip address of Rice U. in Houston. So something is fishy. But they certainly located me. -- ======================================================================= Write a wise saying and your name will live forever. -- Anonymous ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: [email protected] -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
