To anticipate and prevent
Ok, so I love Gmail who other than Google could manage to provide 1gig of space for your email and a sweet interface, for free. Regardless of all this, I actually use their service for POP/SMTP access from Thunderbird (PS. Great email client). Recently, while I’ve been getting my email via POP just fine, the…
Little bastereds. Set up thunderbird to use SSL over SMTP (port 465), which luckly Gmail supports. Email goes out just fine now. Also in the mean time I port scanned my local DSL gateway (64.170.193.254 if you want to scan them too) and it came back with a snark load of ports that are filtered…
I found this bit on howto on The Perfect Setup of Debian (I being a fan of Deby). I dont think its the newest, but if you want a really really indept guide with ‘screen shots’ — This is it.
So I upgraded Serendipity for Snowulf here this evening. Yea. That was painful. Their update.sh file no longer applies — And there are almost no instructions anywhere on what you are suposed to do. Not only that I botched the upgrade both times (but I guess I botched different areas each time, which just somehow…
I’m amazed. I’m truly amazed. I managed to get rid of all my trackback spam (for the time), still avoiding the comment spam (thank god spammers dont readily have the tech to get around captcha’s — Though it has been developed). Now — Now — Referer spam. Its amazing — Its not like the referer…
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…