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Spotify, also from Sweden! ;)

Jul 18 2011 Published by under MediaCreeper

We here at MediaCreeper would like to share a few Spotify invite codes with you. Enjoy!

cRTpYuhKBqTFTX4a
bN9FDbR7psz9Nq7k
efN5agAYpqq2dn4P
aPscVndW52b4Y3Yp
bBWqyezLsHWUAwhw
e7fED53Pd2WgPHDu
fm9NVe45NtkEscae
cwJ9UbmTDn6nKDPM
dps4mtAgg4ggf5ZR
eD9cZnGtaqUmT2Hr

Update: All codes above has been used. We will release another 10 Spotify invite codes during this week.

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A few corrections and additions

Jun 29 2011 Published by under MediaCreeper

We noticed earlier that Aftonbladet AB almost disappeared from listings, turns out that they inherited a partial range from their sister-company Svenska Dagbladet AB, as they are now located in the same building. We got a tip through email with no specifics about what ranges were split/delegated .. dug it out in a matter of minutes.

Svenska Dagbladet AB 144.63.0.0 - 144.63.255.255

was changed into…

Svenska Dagbladet AB 144.63.0.0 - 144.63.239.255
Aftonbladet AB 144.63.240.0 - 144.63.255.255

Another tip we received through email was a new Norwegian newspaper, which we could not find .. instead, while researching we found a few other that we now have added to the ranges .. Norwegian and Danish newspapers.

217.13.9.136 - 217.13.9.143 Bergens Tidende AS
217.13.10.184 - 217.13.10.187 Bergens Tidende AS
213.145.168.212 - 213.145.168.215 Bergens Tidende AS
84.49.40.172 - 84.49.40.175 Norsk Rikskringkasting AS NRK
85.200.242.136 - 85.200.242.143 Bergens Tidende AS
80.64.201.64 - 80.64.201.79 Fjordenes Tidende AS
195.41.142.0 - 195.41.142.7 Bornholms Tidende
195.24.8.128 - 195.24.8.191 Berlingske
195.24.2.192 - 195.24.2.223 Berlingske
87.54.20.144 - 87.54.20.151 Bornholms Tidende
80.167.239.232 - 80.167.239.239 Bornholms Tidende

Enjoy!

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In the press again ( http://bit.ly/m2BSVR )

Jun 15 2011 Published by under MediaCreeper

Yesterday the article was published after a long anticipated wait since early April, Scoop: Hur paranoida bör vi vara (“How paranoid should we be?”), unfortunately only available in Swedish — Google Translate mangles it pretty bad but you might get the picture. Scoop is a pocket-sized magazine for investigative journalism published by Föreningen Grävande Journalister (the Swedish Investigative Journalism Association), for which I was interviewed in end of march about online traces, cryptography and anonymity .. this issue were themed “Makt och motstånd” (“Power and resistance”).

I were expecting to buy the paper-version to get hold of the article, but out of curiosity I checked the Scoop site to see if they had released details about the new issue .. they published the whole article online! Still, I ordered the print pocket book, it’s about €9 or $10 on their site, don’t know if they ship outside of Sweden.

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Request for suggestions

Jun 15 2011 Published by under MediaCreeper

It’s been a while since I had the time to really do something constructive with the code, the project has been put into a maintenance phase, not moving in any direction, as I’ve been caught up in work — quitting employment, beginning a new.

I’ll put this request for suggestions out; what would you like to seen added and/or changed on MediaCreeper? All suggestions will be taken under consideration, I’ll even blog about each suggestion and evaluate it, with argumentation for/against inclusion into the code base.

Issues that is already on the roadmap..

  • Optimize database-connections (in transitional work for moving off MySQL to a non-sql database in the future, probably MongoDb)
  • Make web site more dynamic, add AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) to update listings
  • Clean up code base to prepare for public release, as open source
  • Sync API-calls with WordPress plugin CreeperPing
  • Adding full support for IPv6 — currently spotty support

.. there is possibly more issues that I’ve forgotten about, adding them as they bubble up.

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Better IPv6

Apr 25 2011 Published by under MediaCreeper

Just updated a chunk of code that handled the parsing of IPv6 (6to4) .. where IPv4 are tunneled through IPv6 … and IPv4 addresses are embedded within IPv6 addresses. The chunk of code has been tested against approximately 16000 IPv6 addresses and test patterns.

Possibly we have missed a few hits where a small number of addresses were parsed wrong and dismissed as negative hits. We will keep an eye on the statistics for this and tweak it further if necessary.

CreeperFramework (which is the platform MediaCreeper is built upon) does not yet support IPv6 fully, work is in progress for this and will be supported in the near future. CreeperFramework will be released as open source when code base is mature for a public release.

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Old logs

Apr 17 2011 Published by under MediaCreeper

To correct and fill in missing data, I wrote a small shell-script to parse through old logs, some 9Gb of old logs. There is some more work required to massage the parsed data to something useful, so it’ll be online as soon as I’ve had a few more hours to spend on it.

When done, it should be possible to render diagrams of traffic on MediaCreeper from November 16th 2008 to today’s date, on total hits, positive hits and unique IP’s.

The last couple of weeks has been quite busy, so I haven’t had that much time to work on CreeperFramework and MediaCreeper. I have a few new ideas to try, but I’ll put them on hold for the moment.

The end of this month will be the last days on my current job, a new job from the May 2nd which is based in my city, less travel, better salary, more sleep and more time for MediaCreeper.

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CreeperSiteMap

Mar 30 2011 Published by under MediaCreeper

Somewhere along all updates I forgot to update the CreeperSiteMapEngine, perhaps one of the most important pieces for search enging robots to index, it generates an XML with links, priority, update frequence for almost all pages on the site, again it was a silly error .. encoding of urls. As we accept IDN-domains, a small piece of code that handled the encoding that wasn’t very well written, which made the script emit errors and halt less than half way through.

That might explain why I haven’t seen as much traffic to certain pages as expected, hopefully the sitemap.xml will be re-indexed in a while and traffic returns.

There is also a humans.txt file available as well, with credits to the helpful people around me.

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A few more ranges

Mar 22 2011 Published by under MediaCreeper

Added about 35 new IP-ranges, mostly media in the USA but also European and even Asian. The count is 1130 monitored ranges, adding more as they become available/found.

A nasty encoding bug I’ve been chasing for a couple of days has been resolved, it also prevented the pages from rendering valid XHTML 1.0 Strict results. Should be easy to up the pages to HTML5, some modifications necessary though.

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Craptarded!

Mar 15 2011 Published by under MediaCreeper

Somehow I managed to fill up the server disk with either cached data or logs, probably cache, discovered it while at work and had to dig up my login credentials for the VPS hosting, added more disk and pressed “play”. Seems to work at the moment, but I’ll check what happened when I get home tonight.

The service did not go down, just the website .. while serving pages. In a little more than two years, I’ve had about 4 hours downtime.

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Maintenance update

Mar 13 2011 Published by under MediaCreeper

Just updated a lot of code and templates of the CreeperFramework, preparing for further updates. No new ranges in this update but I’ve got serveral up my sleeve.

Some optimization, prettification, validation of HTML (HyperText Markup Language), tweaks on SEO-stuff, javascript and will turn on compression in the next update.

I’ll put some effort into completing the WordPress plugin, CreeperPing .. as the project has gone stale. Need to put this one out the door.

Have given evercookie‘s a thought ..

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