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Good morning and can I pour you a coffee? Here is a Christmas tip for the coffee lover at christmas...Starbucks has a nice little online store and some great gift packs :] www.starbucks.com/ This week's newsletter is a neat one. It is jam packed with tips and trix and there just seems to be a lot of interesting smaller articles rather than three or four big short ones. Several webmasters emailed me with interesting questions and ideas which lead to some terrific topics of discussion. Delay and I sent a pile of email back and forth this week and I have included some excerpts. We talk about web projects, programmers, and some of our successes and failures online...I think you will enjoy this section. This week also has more side thoughts on Ginger as Alan wrote me about his "scoota" and Bruce wrote me with pics of a similar device they use in industry. This week there also has a script for 'randon pic with fixed location'. And yes, there is even more talk of virus protection. Speaking of which, I had to remove Norton Anti Virus two days ago. It was driving me up a wall. For some reason it would bomb out every 24 hours and I would get this Vbox error and every email would trigger this damn error over and over and it could not be shut down without a restart. I am now back to Zone Alarm and turned off active X control without asking in IE, and then scan hy HD once a week with PCcillan. Maybe I wil try a reinstall of NAV in the future.

Did you notice I made a little change to the top of the newsletter today? I decided to remove that stat paragraph that I am too lazy to change half the time, and I think only Karl, Gus and I enjoyed it :) and instead I put quick links to all the major sections we have at Gamma. These used to be at the very end of the newsletter and I wanted to move them into a nice tight paragraph at the top. I know, change is scary :] but I figure I'll give it a try and see how it goes.

I have to save a story or two for next week. I will finally reveal if I was ever able to upgrade my last box and daily driver. After a zillion test parts and a zillion dollars, the short answer is yes and the story will lead us to ebay..a place I generally don't shop at too much but came through in the crunch.Enough BS, on with the show!

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FBI KNOWS WHAT WE ARE TYPING
more disturbing evidence of the fed trying to get into our computers and spy
www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2829781,00.html

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KPMG - HEAD FURTHEST UP ASS AWARD 2001 from Charles
Charles sent in this story about the giant business firm KPMG. It is so funny that it is sad.
Charles writes:
Here is an article that you are sure to include in your next newsletter simply because it is such a great example of what a company should never do when creating a website. I am quite sure you will get more than a little chuckle out of the stupidity of the "heavy" of the story. I think everybody should have a link to the website mentioned in the article just to show the firm what the Internet is all about. The real downside is that the same firm will probably make a million in billing while trying to tell others what "not to do" when launching a website.
www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48874,00.html?tw=wn20011206

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HAVE YOU GOT THAT VIRUS !000 SPAM TRICK from Guru-O-Gif
everyone is forwarding it...generally this does not work on modern viruses. The chain letter claims to have found a trick to stop viruses by creating a new account in your email with a !000 and then it does not go anywhere and thwarts viruses. Well here is the scoop on it...it is almost an urban legend at this point
www.snopes2.com/inboxer/virus/quickfix.htm

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MORE OF GINGER'S COUSINS from Alan
Alan wrote me with his scoota and disAbility website. Here is another example of a great product that already exists and is way cheaper and more useful than Ginger
from Alan
how about my wheels? LOL That is actually me in the pics, (and Family) that is my scoota & my disAbility web site. LOL
www.access-ability.co.uk/scoota.html

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CREATIVE INTERNET ACCOUNTING MAY COME TO AN END from Mark
there goes my Amazon!
Mark writes
www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48877,00.html?tw=wn20011206

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TOP 10 NET SCAMS OF 01 from SignGuy
moneycentral.msn.com/articles/smartbuy/dollarwise/8080.asp?special=msn

that is a great story and shows the average loss per event. Auctions are 63% of complaints and an average loss of $500 and that Nigerian scan average loss is $6000...ouch! They have a couple of tips like "always use a credit card". I would agree since it is harder to dispute a bankcard or check. They also like single use credit card numbers, available from AMEX and Discover and some MBNA cards. I have been talking about using this with my AMEX and I love it and use it for every purchase now. This way, if a number is stolen, it is no good since it is single use and cannot be used multiple times. It is fairly easy and simple and I think it is a better approach to the problem than Visa's password game.

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HOW THE WEB STARTED from Richard
a really great story on the creators of the world wide web. Awesome
news.cnet.com/news/0-1014-201-8104108-0.html?tag=dd.ne.dht.nl-sty.0

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ONLINE AD MARKET IMPROVING
www.msnbc.com/news/670879.asp

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BAG OF SALT TABLE O' TRIX CONTENT

SSH BUG from C.H.
BEATING THE VIRUS from D. Trees
HELP! BRUTE FORCE PASSWORD OR DOS ATTACK ADVICE NEEDED COMPLETEWEB.NET REPSONDS TO D. TREES from Gary
IPROTECT FOR PASSWORD HACKS from Guru-O-Gif
VISUAL TRACE ROUTE WEBPAGE
ZONE ALARM AND GRC from Bruce
EUDORA 3 PROVES TOUGH from Stel
KASPERSKY ANTI VIRUS from Dmitri
TCP-IP ANALYZER from Ansel
PEGASUS EMAIL TO AVOID VIRUSES from Charles
ACTIVE X SETTINGS from Delay
RANDOM PIC WITH FIXED PIC LOCATION from Delay
SEARCH ENGINE FORUMS from Kaz
BOOK ON WEBSITE USEABILITY from Delay
C/NET BANDWIDTH TESTER from Guru-O-Gif
AVG ANTI VIRUS GRISOFT from JaMi
INTERNET BACKBONE SPEEDS from Paul
USE OVERTURE'S BID TOOL TO FIND SPONSORS by Steve
ONLINE BETTING ARBITRAGE from Peter
PAY PER CLICK SEARCH ENGINE MONITOR from Delay
HOW DO I INCREASE MY SALES OR IMPROVE MY SITE from G.E.

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TEMPTATION ISLAND2 HAS PORN STAR from David
www.msnbc.com/news/670071.asp

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AFFORD ESCORT SERVICE ADVERTISING
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SWING CONNECTION USA \"SWING CASH\" AFFILIATE PROGRAM
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WEBMASTER VAULT
The adult webmaster resource hub.
www.webmastervault.com
wmvault@hotmail.com

SOFTWARE HARDWARE
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5 PERSONAL FIREWALLS
www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/03/15/firewall.utilities.idg/

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SSH BUG from C.H.
C.H. writes
Hey I just wanted to give your readers on a ssh bug that has been out for awhile but many sites still haven't patched against it. btw I do unix security audits for a very reasonable price if anyone wish to get a quote you can contact me at wdsguy@yahoo.com An advisory is at
razor.bindview.com/publish/advisories/adv_ssh1crc.html

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BEATING THE VIRUS from D. Trees
D. Trees writes
I read all of my mail in Pine. A techie friend of mine compared it to "reading on stone tablets." Sure, it's a command line mail reader. But when it comes to Winbloz viruses, none. Nada. Zip. Zilch. There's only been one virus written for Pine, and that involved a subject buffer overload. *chuckle* Stone tablet indeed.

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HELP! BRUTE FORCE PASSWORD OR DOS ATTACK ADVICE NEEDED from D. Trees
D. writes
I've been seeing a lot of what I term DoS-style attacks. I wonder 1) am I
using the right terminology; 2) are other Web folks seeing the same rise
in attacks; 3) is there a protection against it?

Here's what's happening. An attack is coordinated among 100-500 IP
addresses, with each address having a portion of brute force user/pass
file. These hundred or so IPs begin pounding on the members directory,
each with a different user/pass combination. For example:
199.73.33.11 - - [05/Dec/2001:17:35:31 -0500] "HEAD /members/
HTTP/1.0" 403 0
pandora.adam.es - - [05/Dec/2001:17:35:31 -0500] "HEAD /members/
HTTP/1.0" 403 0
193.120.133.81 - - [05/Dec/2001:17:35:32 -0500] "HEAD /members/
HTTP/1.0" 403 0
ntmail.tsi.com.mx - - [05/Dec/2001:17:35:34 -0500] "HEAD /members/
HTTP/1.0" 403 0

These adresses (as well as 1000+ more) are getting 403s instead of 401s
because I added them to my .htaccess file. That way they don't even get to
attempt to use the user/pass combination in the hack attempt.

But that's only four of 200 who were attacking today. I added all of the
IPs to my .htaccess (check your error-log for the IP as opposed to the
domain name), but that's time-consuming. There's got to be a better way.

But, each address only tries out maybe 10 user/pass combinations. If 100
IPs each have 10 user/pass combinations to try, that's 1000 attempts. If
it's 500, it's 5000.

So why do I call it a Dos (Denial of Service) style of attack? Just
imaging 500 servers/PCs pounding on your members directory with a
user/pass list. Even if you add them to the .htaccess, they're still
sending a request. Advise, or other instances?

Guru-O-Gif writes:
if anyone can better explain these attacks or what best way to handle them, please email me for next weeks letter andy@lips.com
thanks!

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COMPLETEWEB.NET REPSONDS TO D. TREES from Gary
Gary writes
Yes, we see that all the time. People trying 1000's of passwords on a site will
do the head requests, because they don't return as much info, just if it was successful
or not. The reason coming from so many IP addresses, is they are using proxy servers,
so you can't track down their original location to block. There are thousands of these
proxy servers, and almost impossible to deny them all. They can send 10-20 requests
through each, x 50-100 servers, and they will all do their requests, which can load
the server down trying to auth them. Almost impossible to stop.
We do have software added into our apache to slow them down, and deny them eventually.
If we get more than 5 wrong userid:password tries from an ip address in so many seconds,
that IP is denied for a predetermined time (usually a few hours). That will stop it from
hurting it too bad, and also stops them from getting any passwords, unless they are
really determined, and just keep trying for weeks. But they usually give up and will
go on to an easier site.
www.completeweb.net

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IPROTECT FOR PASSWORD HACKS from Guru-O-Gif
Many ISPs use an apache module iProtect to help deal with these style of attacks
www.digital-concepts.net/cgi-iprotect.html

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VISUAL TRACE ROUTE WEBPAGE
Richard sent me to a great page on the visual route site that allows you to traceroute from them to anywhere...the great thing is that they add their visual map technology to the trace
visualroute.visualware.com

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ZONE ALARM AND GRC from Bruce
Bruce writes
From your newsletter, I'm not sure if you know this. We talked about this before, but you may have forgotten. You mention Gibson Research Corp and Shields UP Firewall Test and Port Scan and say that Zone Alarm must be doing a good job because the test said you are in full stealth mode. That's not a surprise because GRC are the guys that make Zone Alarm. GRC is the guys personal stuff and Zone Labs and Zone Alarm I believe are the products that he wrote and still works on, but sold.

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EUDORA 3 PROVES TOUGH from Stel
Stel writes
www.gfi.com/emailsecuritytest/
Test #1 VBS
Test #2 CLSID
Test #3 MIME
Teat #4 ActiveX

By the way. FYI. None of these exploits get through on Eudora 3.0.5. Oh
and I don't even have Outlook installed on this machine. Eudora does allow
the file to be saved for 1 and 2 but since I don't run attachments without
an virus check nothing gets through.

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KASPERSKY ANTI VIRUS from Dmitri
Dmitri writes
www.kaspersky.com
Regarding the antivirus software discussion: may I suggest that You have a look
at the best Russian antivirus program called "Kaspersy's Anti-Virus".
Obviously, it's got an English interface but what's more important is that this
software has an absolutely huge list of awards. Probably You've heard about it.
Right now it's the most popular antivirus in Russia. But, again, maybe we just
feel patriotic :)
The trial will let You search for viruses but not remove them. Oh, it also
comes with 1 year free updates and comes in many different versions for
workstations, servers, linux, etc.

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TCP-IP ANALYZER from Ansel
Ansel writes
Try the TCP/IP Analyzer (8th down on top left)
www.speedguide.net/

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PEGASUS EMAIL TO AVOID VIRUSES from Charles
Charles writes
www.pmail.com
I saw your mention of older copies of Eudora in your latest
newsletter. Older copies of Eudora may be very difficult to
obtain, but anyone can get the latest version of Pegasus Mail by
visiting the Pegasus Mail website. The
original Pegasus Mail was released back in 1990 at no charge, and
the latest version is available today at no charge. That has to
be one of the best software values available anywhere.
There are probably a lot of people that have never heard of
Pegasus Mail, and those folks would be quite surprised at what
they can get at no charge.
The down side is that it is a Windows program for those that want
email clients that run on multiple operating systems.

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ACTIVE X SETTINGS from Delay
Delay writes
First you were asking about activeX and if it was necessary. There are cool uses for active x but it isn't in widespread use generally. You may need it occasionally. You gave one example of an antivirus program online at housecall.antivirus.com . That program is a good example of activeX and some of the very interesting things that can be done with it. I would recommend switching your settings to prompt for activex. That way you could determine whether you want to run them or not.

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RANDOM PIC WITH FIXED PIC LOCATION from Delay
Second I noticed one of your users had a random pic question with a fixed pic location. This is a real simple script to do. I did one in about ten minutes. You just need to adjust a few settings at the top of the script. The script is very simple. It just looks to see if a pic is already given. If not... it pics one at random and refreshes the page with that pic. The url has now changed to reference that specific pic so a user can bookmark or send an email on that particular image. Feel free to put this in the next sexswap and pass it along to the webmaster who needed it. Here is a url to the script and a demo...
www.uv-ray.com/randompic/

Here are the parameters that need to be set.

$this_script_url put the full url to the script.
$picsdirurl put the url to the pics dir.
$imageextension put the type of image gif, jpg, etc.
$totalimages put the total number of images in the directory.
Finally label the images in the directory from 1 to the total number.
so for example 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, etc...

Here is the script.... Hopefully this will show up ok in an email...
If not check out the url above.

<?
$this_script_url="www.yourdomain.com/randompic/randompic.php";
$picsdirurl="www.yourdomain..com/randompic/images";
$imageextension="jpg";
$totalimages=10;

if(!isset($pic) || empty($pic))
{
mt_srand ((float) microtime() * 1000000);
$pic = mt_rand(1,$totalimages);

header("Location: $this_script_url?pic=$pic");
exit;

} else {
$imageurl="$picsdirurl/$pic.$imageextension";
}
?>

<html>
<head>
<title>Random Pic</title>
</head>

<body>
<center><img src="<?echo "$imageurl";?>"></center>

</body>
</html>

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SEARCH ENGINE FORUMS from Kaz
Kaz writes
Any idea where some active SE forums are?

Guru-O-Guf writes:
searchengineforums.com/bin/Ultimate.cgi

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BOOK ON WEBSITE USEABILITY from Delay
Delay writes
I picked up a book recently you may like. It is called "Don't make me Think". It is a book on web site usability. Most of it is common sense but the book does make some excellent points. Most books on this subject suck. Anyway here is the url at amazon. Check out the online excerpt.
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0789723107/

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C/NET BANDWIDTH TESTER from Guru-O-Gif
webservices.cnet.com/Bandwidth/?tag=pt.msnbc.tech.resources.is_bw

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AVG ANTI VIRUS GRISOFT from JaMi
JaMi writes
www.grisoft.com
I read last trips and tricks and you write have some problem with badtrans
virus, i used few years AVG 6.0 and is pretty good for a small price, catch
bad trans a searched for viruses in background. go and check www.grisoft.com

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INTERNET BACKBONE SPEEDS from Paul
Paul writes
Your readers ever wonder what a OC 192 is
www.pcin.net/help/articles/internetspeeds.shtml

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USE OVERTURE'S BID TOOL TO FIND SPONSORS by Steve
Steve writes:
Here's a tip in reverse, so to speak...use the Overture Get Current Bid tool to find sponsors for your site:

www.overture.com/d/search/tools/bidtool/

For example, if you want to find a dvd sponsor, check:

www.overture.com/d/search/tools/bidtool/?Keywords=adult+dvd
and check what other sites are doing. This works with anything...porn, fetish, etc. A good way to judge supply and demand.

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ONLINE BETTING ARBITRAGE from Peter
this is a very interesting subject. A few year back, teams of betters would stake out in Atlantic City and Las Vegas and place huge bets when odds makers had different odds on a fight...in such a way that you could not lose. Have you ever tried to use a cell phone in a casino? I never thought about it online, but it would be easy as pie. I think the problem online is that "will I get paid". In real life, guys make million dollar bets. Online, I don't think anyone would risk that. Here is the story from Peter
Peter writes:
I got a new way to make some money. It is done by arbitrage on sports betting. Bookmakers give different odds for games. Sometimes you win whatever the outcome of the match. This is called a "Sure Bet". BetBrain is spidering the bookmakers sites (nice piece of software) and publishes the results:
www.betbrain.com/

There should be a section "Sure Bets", otherwise come back later. Normally you can make between 1% and 3% per transaction. So if you play with $1000, you make $20 in one day. Here is a guy that is logging his transactions:
www.betonsuccess.com/

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PAY PER CLICK SEARCH ENGINE MONITOR from Delay
Delay writes
payperclick.neuroglyph.com/payperclick/index.html
Here is a program available to the general public that keeps track
and generates reports for pay-per-click engines.
I released this just to see if anyone would use a hosted web based program.
We use it internally quite a bit to keep track of things. Looking at how
much some people are spending on goto, more people should use our program.
I find it hard to believe people are making a profit at 20 to 50 cents per
click on Goto or overture?? or whatever they call it now. It amazes me that
Goto dominates the payperclick's... those guys just don't seem that bright.

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HOW DO I INCREASE MY SALES OR IMPROVE MY SITE from G.E.
Guru-O-Gif writes
G.E. sent me a great question that I get asked from time to time. Normally paysite owners ask it. He sells exotic clothes online and has a excellent site that even offers custom sizing
www.exoticclothes.com

G.E. writes:
if you have the time, would you mind giving the site a once-over peek and perhaps you'd have a suggestion or two that might make the improvement we're looking for

Guru-O-Gif writes
the site looks great...easy to navigate, huge slection and nice shopping cart. Generally I don't trust anyone's subjective opinion of a site, not even my own. Here are my two comments on your site. The first is something I preach daily.

1. TRAFFIC
if you site makes one sale on 1000 hits in a day, how do you double your money? You can fiddle fuck around with your site all day attempting to double profits and it is a tough way to do it. The simple solution to me is, get the site to 2000 hits. Double your traffic and you double your sales. How does any retail business make more money....get more people to walk through the door. I think webmasters often fall into the trap of thinking that "if I toggle this giff a little over here and then change this logo over there...my sales will skyrocket". They might, but I have never seen this happen. To triple sales, try to triple your traffic. Traffic is in direct correlation with income.

2. FRONT END TESTING
to get a smaller increase in sales from your existing traffic, I always suggest that paysites test different Front Ends to their site every 3 months. This means that you change your look and feel of the area where you ask for the sale, just for a week and test. This is easy with a paysite front-end since most are only 5 pages. It would be harder to do on a shopping site so I don't know if it is practical or not. If it is, maybe every 6 month, you might alter it for one week and see if it leads to an increas in sales. Let's make some numbers up. Let's say a paysite gets 20,000 hits a day and gets 1/1000 sign-ups per hits, and let's say they gross $50 from that customer over his stay. Now let's say that the test 2 new front ends and one just stinks and is 1/1500 ..but the 3rd one they test is 1/900. This means that they jump from $1000 a day to $1,111 a day. This simple change means they would make 111 x 365 or $40,515 MORE money at the end of the year, simply by testing and finding a front end slightly better in sign up ratio. Now this is a made up example, but I have seen this many times in real life and have seen it on my own sites. TEST TEST TEST.

Number 1 is the way to get the greatest increse in sales and number 2 is more fine tuning.

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EXCLUSIVE DOMAIN LIST from Stephen
Stephen writes
www.ExclusiveDomainList.com
Namezero just lunched a new site where they are selling all the domains
registered with them that were locked for some reason. I don't have the time
to go through them all but I know someone might.

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BMW $500 SKATEBAORD
the BMW CARVER made with the same suspension technology as the car. Fast and stable
www.bmwonline.com

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PLAYER HATERS BALL VEGAS
Karl sent me this link...very funny and some slick flash :)
www.playerhaterball.com/

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NEW CUTTING EDGE ADULT BROWSER PROJECT from Delay
Finally I know you are interested in hearing about new projects. We are finally finishing up a project we have been working on for a while now. It is an adult web browser. We are using a lot of cutting edge stuff, XML technologies... etc. I know many have done this before but we are unique in our affiliate program. We are the first browser I know of that gives 50% of the impressions generated from the browser to the affiliates. The affiliate just puts in his ID for some of the major sponsors we all use and then when ads are rotated in the browser, their ad code is used half the time. Here are the urls for the browser and affiliate program. We are looking for a few webmasters to help us finish beta testing the affiliate program before we release it.
www.xcentricity.com
www.xcentricity..com/webmasters.php

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RESULTS OF CLOAKED BROWSING IDEA from Delay
Delay writes
www.xcloak.com
Here is also something we designed a year or two ago.
Sorry there isn't much to look at anymore. This use to be a web based
proxy that would allow you to browse the web anonymously.... Back when all
the privacy stuff was real hot. The only problem was I forgot to factor in
all the bandwith a program like this uses.... Because you are essentially
serving all the webpages a user visits twice from your own server (once
coming in to create the privacy and once going out for the user to view)...
So we canned the project after it was pretty much done. But hey I learned
php from it so it wasn't a total loss:-)

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ADULT BUSINESS CENTER from Jerry
Jerry writes
we have just opened a new webmaster resource called the Adult Business Center. In addition to the standard fare of resource listings, surveys, message boards, etc. we also offer webmasters the opportunity to announce their new product and services, the latest news and more.
www.adultbusinesscenter.com

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CHECKOUTMYPICTURE.COM - AWESOME CODING from Dan
Dan sent me the link to a site he has been tweaking for a year. It is like amihotornot. The one this I love about this site is that....HIS CODE KICKS ASS. So many of these sites fail under load. It takes skill to get the code tweaked enough to perform under load. Dan's code does.

Dan writes
www.checkoutmypicture.com
I have a picture rating site with a twist, people get to leave comments. I have worked very hard on it and the code is very slick and very fast php/mysql I have almost 6,000 members, people really love it, some of the comments are extremely funny. I have over 5,000 uniques a day, over 200,000 page views a day with no advertising, but I don't know how to make money on it. I have tried many different banners and no one clicks on them, or they click and don't buy. All the non-porn banner programs out there a total joke and a Huge scam. Any idea's?

Guru-O-Gif writes:
I sent Dan about 6 ideas for testing to make a profit...here they are

BURST
www.burstmedia.com/
still around and been around for a while. I know a few sites that stick with them...not sure if they are getting coin like they used to. Give em a ring

CMG
www.cmgenterprise.com/publishers.htm
says 0.25 cpm ...that still would be huge for you
200,000 /1000 X .25 = $50 a day or $1500 a month

POPUPTRAFFIC
www.standardinternet.com/affil_popuptraffic.html
mojo says $3cpm...I think they filter on uniques so you would have to test

UGO
Ugo has had ups and downs and I am not sure where they are today. You need 1M impressions a month to be considered
www.ugo.com/services/partners/partnerinfo/default.asp?HPT=PARTNERS

FASTCLICK
$4CPM pop unders...seem to get solid reviews everywhere
www.fastclick.com/

PUZZLEDEPOT
here is an email sponsor...you might sub in their ad every 5th picture ? :)
www.puzzledepot.com/affiliates.shtml

here are some other ideas...sub in a pop up ad every 5-10 pics...OR a text based ad every 5-10 pics OR use a text based ad EVERY picture you could use textlinks. and then use then on every picture...maybe run 50 different text based ads...I think you will get clicks since they are quiet and subtle.

TEXTLINKS
www.standardinternet.com/affil_textlinks.html

if anyone has any other ideas for Dan, please email them to me for next weeks letter andy@lips.com

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PIMPHATS.COM from Paul
Paul writes
For Players Ball :-]
www.pimphats.com/

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PHONEBASHING.COM from Hollis
cel phone bashing and smashing. Funny and odd site
www.phonebashing.com/

GURU OF GIF
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NOW THIS IS SOME SPACE AGE HIGH TECH WILDNESS
www.dynomat.com/index.shtml
this company makes absorbancy materials for oil spills etc and some of the power absorbs like 2500x its weight which is more than diapers. Some of it will disolve to nothing in water. I just read in Business2.0 that they are not testing it to dry up clouds and control weather...NO JOKE...and the first test went way too well.They took a load of this crud into the air and flew over a cloud and dropped it. the cloud vanished....with proof from several radar stations. This may be the first break into weather control. They hope to test on some rain stoms and maybe some day...a hurricane. There are movies on the site QT and RP
www.dynomat.com/hpi.shtml

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DELAY AND I DISCUSS WEB PROJECTS
Delay and I must of sent back and forth 10 emails this week. We were discussing both porn and mainstream website ideas and projects. It was refreshing since we tend to approach the web in a similar manner and have have similar experiences with regards to projects, programmers, scripts and code. Take it with a Bag Of Salt as these are my opinions 8^) Many of you old timers will consider this old hack but some of you newer webmasters may find it fresh

1. SCRIPTS ARE POWER
scripts are like leverage. They take your muscle and multiply it by 100x. The more you start using and designing scripts, the more traffic and money you can make on the web. You don't have to be a programmer. You just have to say to yourself "hey, every day I do this same dumb thing 763 times by hand...it sure wuld be cool to have a script to do this". For $500 or less, you might be able to make that script a reality and then get tons more work done. If you can't think of scripts...no problem either...just hang out at the script sites and browse...what would save you time and make you money

2. IT TAKES A FEW IDEAS TO GET A BIG HIT
I think a lot of people are looking for that "home run". Well, there just aren't a lot of home runs out there. There are a lot of single and double base hits. There are a lot of strike outs as well. Legendary Lars wrote the definition on "TRY EVERYTHING". There is not a site in porn and non porn that this guy has not tried. I bet he has tried 20+ very different porn site ideas and 10+ mainstream site ideas. He just keeps building sites, buying code and testing and trying. Delay is the same way...he told me about 5 projects he has tried in the last 12 months. We all want home-runs but they are very rare. the key is to keep moving forward...if you have a bad idea and it fails...don't sweat it...move forward. Some ideas will cost you money. Some will break even. Some will make a little coin. Some will make BANK. I think I am about one in five for sites that take off vs ones that failed. Some of my idea history

REDHOTNAILS.COM (failed)
perl script to destribute to make your own TGP. Never got the code right. Gave up

PORNAUCTION.COM (failed)
didn't like the code. Never got along with the programmer. Decided it was too risky. Gave up

CALIFORNIA LIP SERVICE BBS (failed)
spent so much on hardware and code. Was all mac based. Lost a pile of money

AMAZON SPIDERING NEWSGROUP SPAMMER (failed)
was damn fun. Found it was next to impossible to make money at 5% commish. Newsgroup Nazi's wanted to slice my throat well I slept.

SIXCHICKS.COM (failed)
one of first paysites with 6 channels of live feeds. cost a fortune to run and I hated having paysites...it just didn't match what I wanted to do each day.

and then I lucked out and got the hit

SEXSWAP.COM (success)
I actually started sexswap to feed traffic to sixchicks.com. It was totally created as a traffic pusher. Then it took off, and had a life as its own.

The point I am trying to make...don't be scared to fail. Try try try.

3. THE TRICK TO PROGRAMMING IS PERFORMANCE
it is one thing to whip up a perl script that works with 10 sites doing a tiny amount of activity. It is a completely different challenge when you have 1,000,000 hits to deal with. 200,000 page views. This is where the shit hits the fan. The test od all projects is when it comes to getting code working under severe load. How many AMIHOTORNOT sites have you been to that SUCK TURDS because they load so slow that they are unuseable...Dan in the story above spent a year getting his site smoking along at 200,000 page views a day...that is PRO LEVEL programming. Gus the programmer makes SEXSWAP handle 13,000,000 hits a day...that is PRO LEVEL programming. Craig the programmer makes 600 spiders talk 200+ times a second to a MYSQL DB...that's PRO LEVEL programming. If you are going to go after a big site idea...you have to be able to have code that can handle load.

Enough banter...I got a little carried away there. Here are some snippets on these topics and what Delay has to say about them

Guru-O-Gif writes:
I think people don't realize that it takes a few tries to get a big hit.

Delay writes:
Yes you can't just have one idea and execute it and think you are going to
hit it big. Even if we do something and it is fairly successful within a
few days we are on to the next project. Usually we have several projects
going on at once. I think the key is if you do enough different things
eventually you will hit on something big. Also I am not one of those people
that can work on one thing forever. I like doing different projects all the
time. That is one thing that is really cool about the internet and working
in Adult in general there is lots of traffic to test ideas and it is ever
changing so you always have to keep developing.

Guru-O-Gif writes:
There are a zillion hurdles that must be overcome. This is what sperates the man programmers from the boys. Your thoughts?

Delay writes:
Tell me about it... When we were building that browser we spent more time
getting it to work with most versions of windows and IE than building it in
the first place. This was really tough since we had to interact so much
with the IE browser engine. It will be quite a while before we attempt
another windows program like this.

Guru-O-Gif writes:
the real trick is getting the code to perform under heavy load.

Delay writes:
That is always the trick to get code to efficiently work. I remember a
stats program I was working on and I spent month's getting it to quickly
process log files. Which is important if you need to process several
hundred megs per day. I finally was able to get it processing about 1 meg
of data per second. Not bad for a little perl script:-) So I have found
the language matters much less than how the code is written. And sometimes
changing how you look at a problem in the least little bit can make all the
difference. Of course picking the right type of language for the right type
of program helps a lot too. Right now we are beginning to work a lot with
xml/xsl technologies. It reminds me a lot of how HTML was in '94 or 95' ...
very rough around the edges.

Guru-O-Gif writes:
I have discussed this with others and with programmers...programmers love the thrill of the riddle...once the riddle is solved in their heads...the coding is just boring...but I need the code! :)

Delay writes:
I had never thought about it quite like that but you are absolutely right.
I know when I am coding stuff once and I finish the hard part... I am ready
to be done.
Can't tell you how many times I just wished I had an assistant and could say
ok here is how to do that tough part now finish up this and that. The other
problem I have noticed with hiring coders and this is my fault completely.
I have a picture in my head of the program with the hundreds of features and
how I want the program constructed. But I can't ever get enough detail out
in advance to explain the whole program correctly as I see it in my head so
we end up doing a lot of double work that if I explained it correctly in the
first place we wouldn't have. This is of course my fault. Have you found
this to be the case in your own programs? Have you found any solution or
system you like for getting ideas out of your head and into thorough
instructions other programmers can follow?

Guru-O-Gif writes:
I design the entire site in html...it just doesn't work (no DB back end)...know what I mean...so I design everything and say...make the numbers magcally appear in these boxes and then nothing is left to chance...so I do all the art and they do all the back-end. This seems to work well for Craig the programmer and I on our current project. I made the 10 major pages of the site and then Craig creates the PHP and MySQL that brings the pages to life. I want programmers to always do the backend where I do the front. I control look and feel, and they control the data. It is a lot of early work, but I have to design the site anyways so I usually do it at the start of the project. I find it also forces me to clarify exactly what I want and how the pages will interact with one another. I bet programmers are constanly fighting code buyers that don't know what they want and make a zillion changes, making life on a coder very hard.

Guru-O-Gif writes:
regarding internet advertising...It is the simplest medium in the world to test with.

Delay writes:
Yes I agree completely. Actually it is one reason why I think the net
isn't succeeding advertising wise atleast according to what all the big
advertising companies expect. Because the net can quantitatively define how
successful any given ad campaign is. Most other advertising is qualitative
on judging the effectiveness. I mean you don't know how many people are
really in your store from the ad they saw on TV or the Bilboard on the side
of the road. With the internet you know exactly how many people there are
and exactly who bought what. While this is very powerful it is also very
bad for those selling the ad placement because for the first time you can
judge the complete effectiveness of an ad campaign. That is one of the
reasons picing on goto amazes me. I see no way to make money at 50 cents
per click for 99.99% of products (like you said at one time in your
newsletter I think... "You couldn't sell crack at 50 cents per click and
make a profit":-). Yet I see people all the time bidding those insane
prices. This says to me these companies aren't measuring the effectiveness
of their campaigns. Of course who knows maybe they have some secret I don't
know... If so I would love to know it:-)

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ANYONE USING THE PAYPAL SUBSCRIPTION OPTION from Gonzo
Gonzo asks
Know anybody thats using the subscription mode of paypal for adult websites?

Guru-O-Gif writes:
email me if you want to share your experiences with readers on this subject andy@lips.com

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MORE OF GINGER'S COUSINS from Bruce
Bruce wrote me that they actually use some electric vehicles in the atomic energy plant he works in. He and I agree that while Ginger is interesting since it balances on two wheels, such four wheel models have existed for years and have not changed the world.

Bruce writes
I think this is it ! From what I've read, Columbia aquired Legend Electric Vehicles, formerly called Nordskog, of Redlands California. This is in the "utility cart showroom" section. Also, here is a somewhat poor pic of someone riding one. I think it is someone small, or a younger person, since they seem to be stretching a bit.
www.mapv.com/images/u-1267.jpg
sloan.stanford.edu/EVonline/evaosc/9402/page9.htm

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BIG BOXING SATURDAY - HOLYFIELD RUIZ 3
www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/stories/2001-12-12-holyfield-ruiz.htm

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those are my stories

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Andy
andy@lips.com