To anticipate and prevent
Well so far so good on my spam blocking attempts. Only one trackback has been posted since I re-configured the spamblocks. I checked the blocked listings also this morning, 35+ blocks in just 3 days. I also picked up a new spam bot, but their not bright enough to use changing IP’s, so their Class…
I don’t think that anyone would argue that our world is becoming a “Global Village”, especially with the invention of the internet. I thought it would be intresting today to look at the news in other parts of the world, because frankly I don’t care about the U.S news. I found out something intresting, its…
I know its hard to belive but in CNet today they are carying an article about Hiring the Final Fantasy creator for at least two Xbox2 games. This is really good news for thoes of us that plan on buying an Xbox2 (Xenon, Xeon, 360, what ever the hell they are going to call it)….
So once again someone had made a mighty fine point that you should read the EULA on software you install, because you could get money.. Now while this is preety awesome, and If I had a small company, I’d do it too (give away money that is). Now of course, everyone should always read their…
Well I spent some time digging around the configuration of Serendipity. This was spured from my hatred of link spammers. I checked out the apache logs and found all the enteries, but they are all comming from different IP’s (smart bastereds) so IP based blocking is out. I enabled CAPTCHA’s on all comments (sorry, I…
Everyone’s heard of comment spamming right? Its where spammers use bots to drop links to their sites in peoples blogs (and wiki’s, etc). Its a meathod to increase their popularity on Google. While Serendipity (the blog software I use) has built in protection for this, there’s the “trackback” feature. Now trackbacks are cool, but they…