Janko in a Jar

An interesting observation (Google bots download many many times) that lead to some more observations (after looking at the logs many people noticed that too) was posted on indie gamer forum today and revealed some facts (about how Google really indexes internals of various binary (exe) files on net too) and lead to some speculations (that these bots must be really stupid (unoptimised) to download one file that hasn’t changed so many times) . Read all about it here

You know there are these little occurrences in our lives that make us laugh or at least giggle inside every time we meet them. One of such unintentional creatures is entertaining me aprox. once per month for 5 years now. It just did it again… so I decided that it had finally earned a blog-post (5 years is long period). I don’t know if it’s really funny… if it is it’s more of a “British humor” funny.

When I (for the first time) ordered web-hosting services (back in 2001) at some company abroad I of course got a bunch of passwords… mySQL, FTP, Qmail, SSH (yep, I had a webmasters account)… and with it a bunch of instructions. SSH (Secure SHell) is of course the most important password and instructions said something like: “Change this password OFTEN (like every 14 days) or you will….” and the password was preset to ‘ChangeMeOften2001!!’…. well guess what … it still is … and every time I have to login to my ssh account (just distant enough that I forget about it) I am amused once again (stupid me).