Spider Hunter

I woke up this morning to a server that wouldn’t boot, it wouldn’t even make a noise. Turn out to be half of the RAM died in the server at about 2am. Took me nearly an hour to get the server back up and running, so I’m sorry if anyone tried to visit and couldn’t […]

I just Finished and put into place the RevenueSharing code on this site. Basically it gives anyone who already has their own Adsense account the ability to make money by authoring and editing the wiki words on this site. Email me at simpleenigma@spiderhunter.com for more infomration.

I have been looking for a way for quite some time to figure out the CIDR numbers for an IP Address. Until today I was thinking I was going to have to data mine the IP registrars, but the IP to Country database in the an earlier blog is giving me a way to do […]

I found a great link earlier today, I was researching how to make or use an IP to Country database and I hit the mother load at http://www.pierzchala.com/visitor-tracking.html He even gives you the PERL script to download and update the files when ever you want. I’m going to be incorporating this into the IP Database […]

Over the past few days I’ve run across a new concept that seems very promising to me. It is called blog and ping. The goal is to get your blog onto as many services as possible with the least amount of effort to inform the blog syndication serivces that you have updates. The solution is […]

Every once in a while I see a SOCKS proxy server request in my log files. I don’t have a SOCKS proxy server and no one should ever think that I do. Therefore the only conclusion I can come to is that any traffic on port 1080, which is desiginated for SOCKS is a hacker. […]

I talked about getting TimeZone data a few days ago to figure out where IP addresses are located. I realized something while working with them, I will never see the time zone data for a visitor without JavaScript. This statement alone sounds disheartening until you realize what does not have JavaScript, and that would be […]

I got a question via email today that made me start thinking about exactly what I would need to do to build a search engine from scratch. I’ve ran this exercise through my head many times over the years and the exact process has changed dramatically every time. So I thought I’d publish a few […]

I’ve been writing a Google Adsense tracking script to track the impressions and clicks. While doing this I noticed something in some Javascript that finally made sense. I’ve been trying to figure out how people can figure out where I am based on my IP address. I know that there is the Arin WhoIs tool […]