Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...

2006-09-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
Marc G. Fournier wrote: I've increased the size of the IDTOKEN to 32 from 16, since I've been noticing alot of duplicates when two hosts submit at close to the same time ... Ummm... that's actually really bad. That means that the RNG used by OpenSSL (hence SSH and others) is not actually

Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...

2006-09-29 Thread Joao Barros
On 9/29/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As painful as it was to do, I backed up the old data tonight and wiped out the stats ... for one major reason: the stats lost their accuracy. As I said, you just need to download the new version and run it, you don't have to wait for the

Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...

2006-09-29 Thread Antony Mawer
On 29/09/2006 1:11 AM, Joao Barros wrote: On another subject, with the addition of the other BSDs the releases stats for example are pretty much nonsense. Do you plan to work on that? Yep, each individual *BSD is getting its own detailed stats summary section... they're not finished yet, so

Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...

2006-09-29 Thread Joao Barros
On 9/29/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/09/2006 1:11 AM, Joao Barros wrote: On another subject, with the addition of the other BSDs the releases stats for example are pretty much nonsense. Do you plan to work on that? Yep, each individual *BSD is getting its own detailed

Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...

2006-09-29 Thread Erik Norgaard
Matthew Seaman wrote: On the other hand, the duplicates could be the result of people deliberately trying to frig the statistics or just innocently running the 300.statistics script manually several times. In either case, entries with duplicate tokens should be discarded -- I guess you'ld

Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...

2006-09-29 Thread Antony Mawer
On 29/09/2006 2:01 AM, Erik Norgaard wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: On the other hand, the duplicates could be the result of people deliberately trying to frig the statistics or just innocently running the 300.statistics script manually several times. In either case, entries with duplicate

Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...

2006-09-29 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Antony is working on operating system sub-pages that will be linked from the operating system summary page ... check out what he has so far by going to: http://www.bsdstats.org/freebsd --On Friday, September 29, 2006 12:11:51 +0100 Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ...

2006-09-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
As painful as it was to do, I backed up the old data tonight and wiped out the stats ... for one major reason: the stats lost their accuracy. As several have noticed, the OpenBSD numbers have been increasing quite steadily, but looking at the RAW urls coming in, 99% of those #s were from a