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Title: Is This You?
Post by b0b on Jul 26^th, 2006 at 1:52pm

I occassionally look through my web server logs to see what kind of people visit the forums or the other stuff I host. I found a ton of hits for my signature line image (the thing at the bottom of this post) from a referrer that I don't recognize. The website is BlueOctoberFan.com, which I'm guessing is a band website. I'm too lazy to really investigate.

The exact URL for one of the posts is...

http://blueoctoberfan.com/openBook/viewtopic.php?t=39515

The person using my sig line is "fuclosure", and his post is the fourth from the top. Here's a screenshot of it.

If this is one of you guys, I really don't care, just let me know. If, on the other hand, it's just some random image thief, I'm going to change the name of my sig picture to something else and come up with something extraordinarily homosexual to replace the existing one. That should give fuclosure something to think about next time he wants to hotlink to one of my images.

-b0b
(...is soliciting recommendations.)

Title: Re: Is This You?
Post by Briney on Jul 26^th, 2006 at 1:58pm

Any of these will work!

Dont ask why I have them. But I have them available for blackmail purposes. Enjoy!

Title: Re: Is This You?
Post by b0b on Jul 26^th, 2006 at 2:02pm

That's just scary.

Just to show that I'm not being unreasonable, my sig picture was downloaded 541 times in 24 hours from users of that site. That's a lot of downloading. That's 2.1MB of data, or roughly 16 seconds of my precious bandwidth.

Bastages.

-b0b
(...is currently downloading 13.4GB of e-books.)

Title: Re: Is This You?
Post by Cait on Jul 26^th, 2006 at 2:06pm

uhm, kill them all?

go on a rampage of epic proportions?

Cait
(...those hasslehoff pics were damaging to my mental heath. thanks, briney)

Title: Re: Is This You?
Post by X on Jul 26^th, 2006 at 2:13pm

Not I...but that sounds awesome what you're going to do. You'll have to update us on developments!

X

Title: Re: Is This You?
Post by b0b on Jul 26^th, 2006 at 3:11pm

Other interesting things...

The most popular search queries that led to the forums from search engines...

"thinspiration encouragement"
"prayer"
"ice queen"

Other bandwidth thieves...

http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=BAMF187 (The background)
http://www.bootleggers.us/viewprofile.php?viewuser=TommyVercitie (Private site, likely a profile picture)

You can get the log of the BlueOctoberFan.com thief here...

HTML: http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Other/BandwidthThief.html
Excel: http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Other/BandwidthThief.xls

-b0b
(...feels the wheels grinding.)

Title: Re: Is This You?
Post by The_Fat_Man on Jul 26^th, 2006 at 3:39pm

It's not me, I say let them have it.

Although Blue October is a good band....

Title: Re: Is This You?
Post by b0b on Jul 26^th, 2006 at 4:17pm

Well, I fixed the one picture that was being hotlinked. Here is a sample from the website...

http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=BAMF187

Here is the picture I used...

-b0b
(...snickers.)

Title: Re: Is This You?
Post by X on Jul 26^th, 2006 at 4:59pm

Lol that's great bob...Briney...that's a scary pic for you to have

X

Title: Re: Is This You?
Post by The_Fat_Man on Jul 26^th, 2006 at 5:21pm

The first link still shows the original image.

Title: Re: Is This You?
Post by b0b on Jul 26^th, 2006 at 5:54pm

It shows the new image for me. Make sure you refresh, otherwise it'll just pull the image out of your cache.

-b0b
(...had to refresh twice.)

Title: Re: Is This You?
Post by Stick on Jul 26^th, 2006 at 6:11pm

its not me but that would be funny for that veteran user of that forum to have a Hasslehoff foto.

Title: Re: Is This You?
Post by musiciannary on Jul 26^th, 2006 at 7:01pm

Damn...

Hoff has hotter legs than I do!