What dates a man seek in this world? A Position, or a Throne? Man Seeks Peace of Mind and the Fear of Almighty God. As long as one knows that is a Judgement Day, He Tries to Keep HIS Conscience Clear and Do What He Can Hope For Is That A Day Will Come, When We Have All All Gone, when People Will Say That this Man Has Tried, and His Family Tried. This is all there is to Seek in this world.
Hussein Bin Talal (11/14/1935 - 7.2.1999)
When, at the end of October last year, King Hussein, after the next course of chemotherapy, arrived fromthe Mayo clinic to Wai River for mediation in the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, he had three months to live. So said American doctors who diagnosed the monarch of malignant lymphoma ( non-hodgkin ). As we now know, they were not mistaken. And sorry. In the cannibal fraternity of the Middle Eastern rulers, the Khahemitsky “enlightened monarch” (the expression of Alexander Evgenievich Bovin) was probably the only reasonable and decent person. In weak consolation, we can note that the fate of the king has not developed tragically, like many of his brothers (and cousins ) who tried to build an Islamic state with a human face in the current century - but neatly eaten in alien to all kinds of demon -vanity or pocket Fuhrers of the Soviet training. Hussein did not shoot Muslim fanatics (like his grandfather Abdullah or Muhammad Anvara El Sadata ); He was not blown up by a bomb by Syrian agents (like the Lebanese President Bashir Zhmael ); He did not die on the steps of his palace, defending himself from the Saddamov hordes (as the youngest of the Kuwaiti al-Sabakhs); He was not killed by the rebels (as the same pretty cousin Faisal, whose death in Baghdad on July 14, 1958 to this day is celebrated in Iraq with a state holiday, "Day of the Republic"). The Hashimitov throne did not scatter into the ashes under the feet of the raging crowds or under the boots of military couplings (as it happened during the years of Hussein’s reign in Iran, Egypt and several other former monarchies of the Middle East) ...
On the very day, July 20, 1951, when the accidentally worn Medal saved the sixteen -year -old Prince Hussein Bin Talal Abdalla from bullets, who struck his famous grandfather, the future Jordanian king fully learned the simple rules of his new craft . Live with wolves - howl to wolf. Good should be with fists. Every revolution is only then standing when she knows how to defend herself.
Hussein, of course, was one of the enlightened people in his kingdom. Excellent European education and life experience in Western countries were combined with his habit of military discipline. This was different from many Europeanly educated and equally pro -Western in the soul, but corrupted by the royal luxury of brothers from Iran, Saudi Arabia and Oil Emirates ... Hussein saw European and American democracy, and he sincerely wanted his subjects to use the same freedoms, rights and economic opportunities, which the inhabitants of civilized countries use. In this, King of Jordan also differed from the emirs of the Arabian Peninsula, who are quite content with economic prosperity for their own families, not at all embarrassed by either the disenfranchised and distressed position of their subjects, nor the medieval structure of public and political life behind the fence of the Emir Palace ... But at the same time, Hussein perfectly understood in which the environment he lives. He clearly realized that any social and political reformation, which could shake the foundations of strong royal power in Aman, is fraught with disaster for his country. It is worth the Hashimit throne to creak at least under the wind of democratic reform - immediately frantic wolves in a bloodthirsty frenzy in the throat will flip their teeth, stand on the chest with paws. And the names of these wolves were well known to the king: Hafez al-Assad, Yasir Arafat, Saddam Hussein. All of them would like to add to Jordan to his possessions if the king had taken the wrong step at least once in his half -century rule, discovering weakness and insecurity before neighbors or internal opposition.
King Hussein was, of course, an enlightened monarch and a big liberal in the soul. But with his mother Teresa should not be confused. When the preservation of the authorities demanded to kill him, to put pressure on the tanks, torture and chop his heads, Hussein Bin Talal Hamlets did not indulge in. In 1970, the king decided that the Palestinians, who found refuge in Jordan, were too unbelted - and he arranged a black September for them. In a few days, the Palestinian population of the Khahemitian kingdom decreased by 5,000 people killed. Tens of thousands of Arafat supporters were expelled from Jordan - without hope for a quick return. In this way, Hussein threw a threat to the Palestinian coup over the country. Supporters of arithmetic justice may noted that the Palestinians at that time amounted to more than 60% of the country's population, i.e. The democratic majority, and the Bedouins (to which the king himself and his entire Hashemian dynasty belongs) as they were a minority, and they remained. But such is the specificity of the feudal states of the East: the power of the democratic majority turns there Iran, and only the enlightened ruling oligarchy can serve as the only guarantor of any modern social model. Yes, and then only if she knows how to go in time in the caterpillars of tanks on the skulls of representatives of the democratic majority ... Shah Iran did not know how - for which he paid.
A separate remarkable chapter in the history of Hussein’s reign is his relationship with the Western neighbor. The Israelis will never forget the king that he saved the Jewish state from death in 1973. The Judgment Day war began with a very dramatic defeat of Israel on both fronts - the North (Syrian) and South (Egyptian). If at this critical time for Israel, the Hussein army moved from the Dead Sea to Jerusalem (as the Egyptians and the Syrians demanded), the Israelis would hardly have managed to break the course of the war, preserving the state and bringing their opponents to a crushing defeat, after which the Middle East received a vacation from the Arab-Israeli wars for a whole quarter He refused to help the Arab brothers in a fair struggle against the general Zionist enemy - by no means. The faithful to the slogans of the Arab unity, he sent two tank brigades to the north to help the Syrians. And in hostilities, Jordanian tankers participated, and the king even went to the line of fire and inspired the fighters to the battle. So you can’t formally find it: both in the Arab and English -speaking historical sources of Jordan is called a participant in the 1973 war. However, Hussein did not open the third front. And Israel survived. And why it happened - it is not difficult to understand the highest degree. The point here is not at all in the worship of Hussein in front of Rabin , his secret love for Gold Meir, or any other romantic considerations of Binl Bin Abdullah. There is simply only one force on planet Earth, capable of (and ready) to prevent Iraq or Syria to include Jordan in your composition. And this force is the Israeli military. Whose attitude to the king and his kingdom, too, was not discouraged by any romantic centiments. Just Israel for obvious reasons does not want to border on Iraq. And with Syria, he wants to have the boundary that is, and not a centimeter more. For this simple reason, Israel is a guarantor of the preservation of Jordanian statehood in its current form. That both the Israelis and Hussein was always equally well clear. Even when Hussein during the Gulf war expressed public support to Saddam. Maybe in El -Kuwait he was firmly offended for him, but in Jerusalem - at all ...
And now the king of Jordan is dead. For a good memory of him, we remained a completely excellent site with a fireplace, portraits of ancestors on the walls and a toy temple on a book shelf. The extremely high quality of this site is probably explained by one phrase from the official biography: He Also Enjoys Water Sports, Skiing, Tennis, Ham Radio , and Surfing the Internet .
| Stork, crow, Soloviev |
Designers of the Site of the European Union [🔗] recently opened a new section on Christmas Eurition [🔗] . And they announced it with the logo on the input page of the server. This logo very much reminded me of the graphic work of the pathos artist Solovyov [🔗] - a banner for the site of the singer Bogushevskaya [🔗] . Maybe this is paranoia, or maybe the designers of the European Union are really staring on the work of domestic masters ... I suggest that the reader judge this on his own.
| Soros: Deadment until March |
In the last issue of Vi, I was imprudently promised to devote the current results of the Soros Electronic Publing program . I regret to report that I got excited. Experts are experts, and the institute has an open society also a board. Which will have to consider the results of the work of the expert council and either approve them or to correct them. After that, data on the winners of the grant competition will become official. It is then that I can publish them. But this will happen not earlier than March. In the meantime, any information about who and how much Soros experts were awarded is, firstly, strictly confidential, and secondly, preliminary. I apologize to the reader for my haste and invite him to tolerate until March.
| Like flies, here and there |
A few weeks ago, a site of exclusive rumors with the eloquent address www.rumours.ru was born in the Russian Internet without unnecessary noise and advertising. The attendance of this site, according to Rambler , is highly modest, albeit with a clear growth trend: on February 10, 395 visitors (hosts) were noted on the server, while the January record was 159 hosts per day (can Rambler’s numbers be believed, and what their error is told at the end of today's note) ...
At the first glance at this site, it seems that we are talking about a new claw incarnation: the server was created by a group of comrades who wished to remain unknown (the “auditory window” agency) and is intended to drain scandalous news, under which neither the authors nor the publishers are ready to put their own signature. In the accounts of Rosniyros, the creator of the server and responsible for his technical supportis the same legal entity: a certain company Digital Design LLC . The only “lively” contact of this company and domain rumors.ru, a certain Anatoly E. Danilov is indicated in the Ripn database, aka admin@100mb.com . When entering 100Mb.com , we find out that the server moved to 100Mb.net . After proceeding there, we fall into the possession of a certain hosting company that guarantees its customers the lack of censorship and unlimited traffic, for only 49 cents/MB/month (with a more careful acquaintance with the price list, it turns out that traffic is nevertheless limited ). The payment is accepted as many as three credit cards. If you read deeper , you can find that the same company provides Dialup connection services in Moscow (as an ORC dealer). The site has a list of customers and even complete contact information . The address www.100mb.ru is also mentioned, entering which I remained in some deep bewilderment. There, a certain personal letter of technical content lies on the entrance page, in which neither the sender nor the addressee is indicated ... But the most remarkable thing is that in the “full” contact information there is no both the name of any company and any semblance of the Moscow address - be it legal or physical. Mysticism, and nothing more.
However, do not forget that this server brought us not curiosity about the conditions of hosting per 100 megabit, but the search for traces of the creators of rumours.ru. We found them - in the list of customers, but no new information is contained there for us: only Url and the name of the site. Therefore, we remain with our guesses. And the guess, in essence, is two.
On the one hand, this site can really serve as a kind of "homework" of the organizers of large political provocations - in the image and likeness of the claw, but this time with serious technical preparation. On the other hand, it can be assumed that this site created some political observers in order to drop the information that came to them there, and then publish it with reference to the Internet, maintaining the anonymity of their real sources in power structures. On the third party, given the political engagement of most of our leading media, it is not entirely clear where the line between the political provocation and the desire of the journalist to protect his sources? But this is rather a matter of moral and philosophical, from the consideration of which we will be able to refrain here.
The site rumours.ru in its current form is organized quite stupid and inconvenient. The transition from today's rumors (deployed on the head page ) to yesterday or the day before yesterday is carried out through the calendar archive , even remotely reminiscent of a table of contents. There are no tables in daily releases. Search for the server is completely absent. If you recently saw some rumor on this site, but forgot how much it was published - in general, you will have to rummage all the issues. A simpler and more obvious option (which the creators of the site, perhaps, are counting on) - download all the pages with a teleport or a disco and then look for the necessary information on the local disk. If there is no such opportunity or desire, you can see the rumor rating . This is the only page on the entire site in the genre of hypertext. That is what is interesting. Unfortunately, the rumors collected there are ranked according to the mysterious "three times ten -point" system, there are no dates of publication in the table of contents. In order of disinterested assistance to the creators of rumours.ru, whoever they are, I offer reader attention the option of how to make the same rating more convenient for navigation:
| Place | Date | Hearing | Points |
| 1. | 01/22/99 [🔗] | Anatoly Chubais will become the Prime Minister of Russia under President Alexander Lebed. [🔗] | 28 |
| 2. | 02/10/99 [🔗] | The Federal Tax Police Service will be liquidated. [🔗] | 27 |
| 3. | 02.02.99 [🔗] | "Russian national unity" works in the interests of Boris Berezovsky. [🔗] | 27 |
| 4. | 08.02.99 [🔗] | The main organizer of the murder of Galina Starovoitova was her lover Ruslan Linkov. [🔗] | 27 |
| 5. | 03/03/99 [🔗] | The Accounts Chamber discovered the sources of Yabloko funding. [🔗] | 27 |
| 6. | 02.02.99 [🔗] | The Administration of the President of the Russian Federation considers Alexander Lebed as a successor to Boris Yeltsin. [🔗] | 27 |
| 7. | 01.02.99 [🔗] | Behind the attack of the tax police on the “group of Sergei Lisovsky” is the “group of Mikhail Lesin”. [🔗] | 27 |
| 8. | 01/29/99 [🔗] | Mikhail Lesin will lead the struggle with Yuri Luzhkov in the Presidential Administration. [🔗] | 27 |
| 9. | 01/25/99 [🔗] | Vadim Gustov may be appointed Executive Secretary of the CIS. [🔗] | 27 |
| 10. | 01/22/99 [🔗] | Vyacheslav Prokhorov will become the new Minister of State Property in Russia. [🔗] | 27 |
I would not want to comment on the content of the rumors themselves. The reader no worse than me understands the ambiguity of the situation that has developed today on the Russian infustry. On the one hand, it would be better if there were no rumors at all - neither truthful nor slanderous, but there would be only reliable information, signed by those who are ready to risk their good name, under it signed. On the other hand, so that there are no rumors, we need a certain degree of information openness of power and the economic elite. It is ensured on the one hand, the existence of a free press, which will not spare anyone in its hunt for sensations, but at the same time values its reputation enough to check any information received. On the other hand, openness is achieved by the presence of clear (and binding) laws regulating the disclosure of socially significant information. There is neither one nor the other in Russia. Our political press carefully spares the one who feeds it, and any incriminating evidence on the enemies of its master dumps on the air without even a distant similarity of the actual test. The nationalization of the media can not change anything here, because no large domestic state building in our conditions can claim the role of a guarantor of publicity - in any particular television company, radio stations, a newspaper, nor in the media market on a national scale ... Hence the deficiency of truthful information, replenished with rumors. In a paradoxically, this situation should reach its logical limit so that all parties actively participating today in total public mud, are saturated with this occupation and concluded a pact that regulates the level of mud. An alternative to such a pact at the top could serve as a “revolution from below” - the emergence of solvent demand for an publication that would not be politically engaged and would not try to zombie the reader from the number to the support of certain candidates in the upcoming elections. There is only one problem: where to get the founder, quite distant from our political and economic squabbles and quite solid, so as not to get involved in them along the way? The answer, it seems, is known . Но Мэрдок еще не ступил и шагу по нашей земле, а его уже обвиняют все, кому не лень: от коммунопатриотов, традиционно озабоченных "разбазариванием национального достояния", до вполне демократически настроенных кругов... Я не считаю лично Руперта Мэрдока панацеей от российских информационных проблем, корни которых уходят не в застойные времена, и даже не в пушкинские, а в Византию. Но я читаю западную прессу (в том числе - мэрдоковскую) достаточно регулярно. И верю, что в одном отдельно взятом СМИ можно установить жесткие правила профессиональной ответственности, при которых данное издание станет значительно отличаться в лучшую сторону от известных нам сегодня образцов.
| КЛИКИ, ХОСТЫ, ХИТЫ |
Завершающая новелла сегодняшней заметки посвящена сетевой статистике. Читателю, которому эта тема не интересна, предлагается далее этой фразы не заглядывать.
В предшествующем выпуске Вечернего Интернета, как читатель, возможно, помнит, анонсировалась вторая версия Рекламы.Ру с разнообразными настройками. Исследовав их ассортимент, я не удержался от соблазна порекламировать ВИ с использованием возможностей таргетинга. Нарисовал несколько баннеров и прокрутил их через рекламную сеть. По ее статистике, за один день (пятницу, 22 января) пользователи 935 раз нажали на мои баннеры, переходя на текущую страницу ВИ. И тут меня, естественно, заинтересовал вопрос: как отразятся эти 935 дополнительных визитеров на показаниях различных счетчиков посещаемости текущего выпуска? Результаты экспресс-исследования, проведенного мною по этому поводу, показались достаточно поучительными и достойными внимания всякого, кто пытается оценивать популярность различных российских Интернет-серверов, основываясь на их локальной или сторонней статистике...
Каждый вызов текущей страницы ВИ обсчитывается, по идее, четырьмя независимыми друг от другом счетчиками: локальным , Рамблером Топ100 , Extreme-DM и баннерной крутилкой Рекламы.Ру. Изо дня в день четыре этих источника дают различные показания о числе вызовов страниц ВИ и о числе машин, откуда эти вызовы поступили. Теоретическое объяснение расхождений в статистике разных счетчиков достаточно хорошо известно, однако практика обыкновенно расходится с теорией. Предлагаю вниманию читателей данные статистики Вечернего Интернета за два дня: 21 и 22 января. Ниже будут обсуждены кое-какие практические выводы, которые из этих данных можно сделать.
| Analog 2.11 [🔗] | Вызовы страницы | ||
| 21.01, четверг [🔗] | 1656 |
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| 22.01, пятница [🔗] | 2618 | ||
| Rambler Top100 [🔗] | Вызовы страницы | ||
| 21.01, четверг | 966 | ||
| 22.01, пятница | 1771 | ||
| Реклама.Ру [🔗] | Показы баннеров | ||
| 21.01, четверг | 1123 | ||
| 22.01, пятница | 2034 | ||
| Rambler Top100 [🔗] | Уникальные хосты | ||
| 21.01, четверг | 841 | ||
| 22.01, пятница | 1408 | ||
| ExtremeDM [🔗] | Unique Visitors | ||
| 21.01, четверг | 835 | ||
| 22.01, пятница | 1670 |
Первый показатель в предложенной таблице - локальная статистика, которая, очевидно, является наиболее полной, поскольку теоретически в ней учитывается каждый вызов страницы, обслуженный веб-сервером. Однако далеко не за всеми этими вызовами стоят реальные пользователи: заметная часть обслуживаемых запросов приходится на долю всевозможных поисковых и индексирующих роботов, прокси-серверов, либо агентов, работающих в автономном режиме, без участия пользователя. Полный список всех агентов, обращавшихся 22 января к страницам сервера www.cityline.ru , доступен здесь . В нем мы находим отметки о посещении сервера такими программами, как индексаторы Яndex 'а и Рамблера-искалки , ДИСК о Качалка , ArchiText Spider , WiseWire-Spider , EmailWolf , Teleport Pro и даже загадочный Tovek WWW Feeder , о котором даже его собственный разработчик ничего определенного сказать не может... С точки зрения локального счетчика, запросы от всех этих программ являются полноценными вызовами страницы, однако очевидно, что к реальной посещаемости (не говоря уже о популярности) сайта такие обращения к странице не имеют ни малейшего отношения.
Иную статистику дают нам счетчики, оценивающие число вызовов определенного графического элемента на странице. Ни один из индексирующих роботов графику на странице не грузит, то есть запросы от таких роботов графическим счетчиком игнорируются. Teleport Pro, MSIECrawler и прочие однопользовательские "сосалки" могут при определенных условиях загружать и графический элемент, но во-первых, они это делают не всегда, во-вторых - кэшируют то, что уже единожды получено. В-третьих, создатели серверов Интернет-статистики могут вести учет роботов и игнорировать их персонально, по подписи. Такую политику применяет, в частности, Rambler Top100 по отношению к MSIE Crawler . Вот как эта "дискриминация" объясняется в Rambler FAQ :
В последнее время мы обнаружили, что многие современные бродилки (MSIE4 например) имеют встроенный механизм извлечения документов в локальный кеш без участия самого человека. При этом, такой browser работает как робот, извлекая все, что ему попадается (в том числе и наш счетчик) по нескольку раз в день. В поле User-Agent browser ставит значение MSIECrowler, которое говорит о том, что это робот, а не живой человек. Мы перестали засчитывать такие хиты с недавнего времени.
Впрочем, не следует думать, что графический счетчик имеет перед локальным одни только преимущества. Существуют случаи, в которых графический счетчик упускает заход совершенно реального, живого посетителя на страницу. Случается это по самым разнообразным причинам, например:
Легко заметить, что из пяти названных нами помех первая влияет на обе статистики одинаково. Если у пользователя отключена графика, тогда увы. Вторая помеха, насколько я могу судить, относится к области чистой теории. Рамблер Топ100 обсчитывает в сутки миллионы вызовов от многих сотен тысяч хостов во всем мире, и о существовании некоего статистически достоверного числа сетей, хронически не могущих достучаться до сервера counter.rambler.ru , мне ничего не известно. Третья помеха (нажатие Stop при загрузке) по вышеуказанной причине скорее привела бы к снижению баннерной статистики, чем рамблеровской. Четвертая относится, как уже объяснялось, к области чистой теории. Методом исключения приходим к пятому источнику погрешностей в рамблеровской статистике, и на нем останавливаемся.
Баннер Рекламы.Ру на тех серверах, где установлена ее локальная крутилка, вызывается через SSI с аргументом - случайной цифрой. Цифра эта именно затем и нужна, чтобы при всяком повторном чтении с сервера одного и того же HTML-документа бродилка воспринимала баннерную картинку как новый, незнакомый адрес. С точки зрения клиента, картинки с адресами, скажем, " /cgi-bin/banner/vi?3674235 " и " /cgi-bin/banner/vi?0101010 " не тождественны и не взаимозаменяемы. А картинка Рамблера лежит всегда по одному и тому же адресу, в связи с чем она может браться из кэша (cache).
Исправить эту проблему для Дмитрия Крюкова, создателя Топ100, не составляет ни малейшего труда. Достаточно разрешить вызов скрипта, показывающего счетчик Рамблера, со случайным аргументом после номера участника. То есть вместо действующей команды top100.cnt?60 вызывать ту же картинку с адресаtop100.cnt?60&тра-ля-ля . Где вместо тра-ля-ля подставлялась бы случайная цифра, как при вызове баннера. Сервер Рамблера эту цифру мог бы смело игнорировать. Осмелюсь предположить, что при таком синтаксисе вызова статистика Рамблера в точности совпадала бы с баннерной. По крайней мере, на тех страницах, создатели которых имеют возможность использовать SSI и генерировать скриптом случайные числа. Другой вопрос - как к этому относится сам Крюков. Насколько я помню, правилами Рамблера участникам рейтинга запрещено использовать серверные инструкции, препятствующие кэшированию страницы со счетчиком. В чем смысл запрета - я, честно говоря, не очень понимаю. Но если для создателей Рамблера это ограничение является принципиальным, то остается один способ приводить рамблеровскую статистику к реальным цифрам - накидывать 13% к учтенному количеству хитов...
| ВАМ, ЛЮБИТЕЛИ СТАТИСТИКИ |
Сегодняшний выпуск ВИ весит 50284 байта в формате UNIX, не включая dependencies/SSI, и содержит 197 внешних ссылок (ссылки на ресурсы, соответствующие маске www.cityline.ru /*. сюда не относятся, а www.user.cityline.ru /* - относятся; ссылки типа mailto: не учитываются).