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Bayesian Tail
flok writes "We all know anti-spam-software using Bayesian filtering. The results with these are amazingly good. So that made me thinking: why not create a tool which monitors logfiles and determines using a Bayesian filter what events to display and what not? That's why I created btail. Btail is just that: it monitors a logfile and filters it with a Bayesian filter. The results are above my own expectations!"
The missing bit was that his expectations had been that the code would burst into violet flame, emitting strange new quantum rays that would turn his bones into mercury.
When it merely turned a couple of dogs inside out, he knew the time had come to offer it as a Slashdot story.
Why would you run this on an MS system? The critical errors are so common that btail would discard them with the rest of the log file.
Now even geeks can get a little tail!
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Never been known to fail..."