I agree with vermaden, that it isn't cheating: although I would use a cookie excepting perl script and a more robot-looking UA out of courtesy to the webmaster. As opposed to impersonating a *real* human user. Heck, my blog gets enough hits from Google-bot
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The problem is the temptation to network a couple hundred BSD boxes and hit distrowatch with each of them X times per second over cron jobs -- "Everyone says FreeBSD is a minority, but there's still enough users to crash distrowatch!" Boy, that would look cool.
Shame such things go against my sense of honour :-(.
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Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.