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Saturday, August 10, 2002Wanted: Web Logfile Analyzer
Needs to be:
- Free as in Gratis.
- Available as a Windows binary.
- Easy to get running (I'm smart, but short on time).
- Able to decipher search queries.
- Create pretty graphs and stuff... (the usual features)
Bonus points for something that can:
- Perform unusual ad-hoc queries (like figuring out the peak number of times a file was downloaded within a 1-hour period).
- Convert logfiles to a database format (simple imports into Access aren't good enough, I need deciphered user-agents, referrers, etc).
Some Radio Tweaks
Fixing Broken RSS 0.91 Feeds
According to the Userland RSS 0.91 spec, the LANGUAGE element is required (optional in RSS 0.92). Radio considers an RSS 0.91 file without a LANGUAGE element to be broken and will not allow you to subsribe to it. Ars Technica is one example.
To fix this, open system.verbs.builtins.xml.rss.compileService. Look for the "bundle //get language" line and hack away. (Any changes here may be over-written by a later Radio update)
Lower CPU Utilization
On my once top-of-the-line PIII 733, every 10 seconds Radio would jump to 100% CPU utilization for 2-3 seconds. It's not normally a problem, but sometimes I'm recording video and those peaks come frequently enough to cause frame drops. Icky.
Changing user.radio.prefs.thread.secsBetweenChecks from 10 to 30 seems to have improved things. Look in system.verbs.builtins.radio.thread to see what this change affects.
