thisisblather User24 The minumum size for each page is 4k So if there's 16862 words, and each was only at the minimum size, we'd be looking at 65.8Mb, given that the word blather is currently 857k, so lets's take an average - of those two.... making blather 3.528Gb. In reality, I'd guess at around 4.5Gb. That's not including the history of each day and user, either. 030131 ... User24 the earliest file created date I've found is: 30-Sep-1998 17:33 (look at blather.newdream.net/images/) 030131 ... User24 As far as I can make out, blather.newdream.net is located in "Oceanside", near Long Beach CA. You can see an arial photo of the general area that the blather servers are in here: http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?Lat=33.2188&Lon=-117.347 It's on a computer running debian linux and called zartan (telnet in and have a look) 030131 ... User24 The IP Address is 66.33.208.85 030131 ... User24 PING 66.33.208.85 (66.33.208.85) from 192.168.254.253 : 64(92) bytes of data. 72 bytes from 66.33.208.85: icmp_seq=0 ttl=231 time=172.029 msec 72 bytes from 66.33.208.85: icmp_seq=1 ttl=231 time=169.984 msec 72 bytes from 66.33.208.85: icmp_seq=2 ttl=231 time=169.987 msec 72 bytes from 66.33.208.85: icmp_seq=3 ttl=231 time=179.987 msec 72 bytes from 66.33.208.85: icmp_seq=4 ttl=231 time=169.984 msec --- 66.33.208.85 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 169.984/172.394/179.987/3.886 ms 030131 ... User24 The ip address translats to: basic-bongo.zartan.dreamservers.com 030131 ... User24 Sorry about the formatting but here's traceroute 1 192.168.254.254 (192.168.254.254) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 1.023 ms 0.767 ms 0.685 ms 2 easynet2-hg4.kingston.broadband.bt.net (217.32.70.75) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 40.799 ms 23.028 ms 21.459 ms 3 217.32.70.1 (217.32.70.1) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 22.053 ms 22.478 ms 49.982 ms 4 217.32.70.106 (217.32.70.106) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 45.736 ms 44.779 ms 46.551 ms 5 ge0-3-0-0.br1.wslon.uk.easynet.net (212.134.10.14) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 46.097 ms 44.544 ms 47.305 ms 6 ge0-1-0-0.br0.wslon.uk.easynet.net (195.40.1.6) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 53.800 ms 54.312 ms 31.532 ms 7 so0-0-0-0.br0.bllon.uk.easynet.net (212.135.16.94) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 31.513 ms 35.258 ms 36.732 ms 8 ge0-0-0-0.gr0.bllon.uk.easynet.net (207.162.206.65) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 39.846 ms 37.902 ms 41.884 ms 9 so0-1-0-0.gr0.bwnyc.us.easynet.net (207.162.205.5) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 113.355 ms 113.164 ms 114.166 ms 10 iar5-so-2-0-1.NewYork.cw.net (208.173.135.213) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 117.883 ms 114.978 ms 123.031 ms 11 agr2-loopback.NewYork.cw.net (206.24.194.102) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 123.819 ms 102.321 ms 103.079 ms 12 dcr2-so-6-1-0.NewYork.cw.net (206.24.207.181) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 103.644 ms 103.075 ms 102.298 ms 13 agr4-so-6-0-0.NewYork.cw.net (206.24.207.206) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 102.444 ms agr3-so-6-0-0.NewYork.cw.net (206.24.207.202) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 106.251 ms 102.408 ms 14 acr2-loopback.NewYork.cw.net (206.24.194.62) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 103.733 ms 110.397 ms 111.504 ms 15 pos6-3.core2.NewYork1.Level3.net (209.244.160.189) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 110.764 ms 106.601 ms 120.067 ms 16 ae0-53.mp1.NewYork1.Level3.net (64.159.17.65) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 106.667 ms 122.651 ms 114.442 ms 17 so-0-0-0.mp1.LosAngeles1.level3.net (64.159.1.157) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 181.531 ms 186.902 ms 190.466 ms 18 pos8-0.core2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (209.247.10.198) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 179.085 ms 187.234 ms 186.214 ms 19 gigabitethernet4-0.ipcolo1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (209.244.10.130) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 192.242 ms * 196.820 ms 20 gw-l3.sd.dreamhost.com (63.208.231.118) 36 bytes to 192.168.254.253 180.146 ms 191.245 ms 191.848 ms 21 basic-bongo.zartan.dreamservers.com (66.33.208.85) 46 bytes to 192.168.254.253 173.938 ms 178.540 ms 176.786 ms 030131 ... user24 I'm doing a full port scan on it as well 030131 ... User24 I cancelled it - it was taking too long. port 21 (ftp) was open though. 030131 ... User24 Just run a quick (20 port) scan and found: 80(http) 21(ftp) 22(ssh) 23(telnet) 25(smtp) 030131 ... cube Looks like you're planning a full scale assault on the place. Sign me up for a ringside seat please... ³ 030406 ... User24 lol, nah, just browsing... 030407 ... User24 FYI. the top 3 blathes, in terms of size, are: 100_facts_about_me : 2.6Mb love : 2.3 Mb fuck : 3.0 Mb this is not including any blathes that start with 'i', 'h' or 'd' as I can't see the listings for those pages. 030626 ... jane you're psychotic but it's swell 030626 ... endless desire why didn't blather work yesterday? i nearly went mad. 030626 ... endless desire all answer my own question with blather_crash. that was unfortunate. oh and i don't think fuck deserves to be the longest blather. since it is only large because of one blathe that was just from a book or something of the like. 030626 ... User24 jane: funny you should say that actually.. see http://www.health.gov.au/pubs/drug/cannab2/home.htm 030704 ... User24 blather tells us that it's birthday is today (if you're lucky enough to be here on the 18th of August, check out the three_words on the homepage) 030818 ... jane i missed that so long ago well... i appreciate your insanity it makes you unique 030917 ... User24 thankyou :) 030917 ... nomatter my god, your smart. 031024 ... User24 smartness is relative; I can't add two number together, or work out my emotions, but I can program a computer and philosophise on the nature of consciousness. go figure. :) 031025 ... r1y9a6n4 i have no idea what this all means, nonetheless, i am fascinated 031208 ... r1y9a6n4 what's the whole thing with i, h, and d? 031208 ... User24 webservers are set up to deliver webpages. so, if you request www.blah.com/halb.html the webserver at blah.com will look for halb.html and send it to you. but what if you ask simply for www.blah.com then, the webserver will look for index.html, then home.html, then default.html and give whichever of those it finds to you. so, when we ask for blather.newdream.net/i/ the webserver finds index.html, and gives it to us. instead of listing all the files in the 'i' directory and giving us a choice. this is why we can't see the list of words under 'h', 'i' or 'd' :) however, during the most recent blather_crash, the webserver here, for whatever reason, stopped giving it's default pages (index, home and default.html) and so we were briefly able to see the listings for those directories. I have saved the listings onto my computer, and, if I remember, will upload the lists tonight. :) 031209 ... r1y9a6n4 thanks a lot u24. learn something new every minute 031209 ... whitechocolatewalrus that was so complicated I don't think I understand, but that's okay because it was quite interesting to read. u24 makes me confused. it's fun though. 031209 ... u24 see: index_of_i index_of_h index_of_d 031211 ... u24 i_found_a_blather_secret has some more interesting info (or mind-numbingly boring info, depending on who you are) 040908 ... u24 blather has quadrupled in size since I created this blathe. fuck. 041121 ... u24 for anyone interested in bandwidth use, this is quite interesting.. as you may know, I host blight on puremango, which in effect makes puremango the same as blather (ish). Search engines got hold on blight and chewed it right up, causing my bandwdth to leap to 80% usage in about 3 days. so, on a busy day, imho, blather must transfer about 3Gb/day. :-) 051105 ... oren Who_is shelling_out the dough for this site? Any_idea how_much it costs to keep_it running? BTW, I_love this blathe. 051105 ... anne-girl i just d/led 6446 blathes 86780K average of 13.45K / blathe times 55866 = 752102K 0.75 GB plot of blathe size vs amount of blathes having that size http://blather.chaoti.ca/blathe-size.jpg [the colours! they burn!] (sample size for graph: 3470 blathes) 051108 ... u24 nice graph, anne-girl. wouldn't have expected such a sharp drop.. oren; well, it's owned by the newdream network, whoose principle business these days in web hosting (see dreamhost.com) they're first main product, afaik, was dreambook, which evolved from sage's dream webring. see also dallas_and_sage 051111 ... u24 no don't see also that, see sage_and_dallas. from sage on blather, as I remember: "it was dallas's idea, I just wrote it" 051111 ... u24 see also also megans_blather_paper 051111 ... oren Thanks! I_just spent an hour reading the various write-ups, both here and on other sites, about sage_and_dallas. It all makes sense now. 051210 ... meta meta 060215 ... u24 just looked at that traceroute again; they've got a direct connection to level3. sweet. 060506 ... gja i dont know whether all this makes me like my blather more or less. i just came for the words 070531 what's it to you? who go blather from