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Fail2ban tweaks

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Steve | Category: Computing, Sad Spammers

So I tweaked Fail2ban so it picked up failed SASL auth sesssion… There are a LOT of compromised machines out there: 2014-10-21 15:57:08,236 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 222.247.167.96 2014-10-21 22:00:08,119 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 122.165.90.186 2014-10-21 22:00:09,089 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 77.42.202.232 2014-10-21 22:00:09,383 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 69.198.18.202 2014-10-21 22:00:09,828 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban […]

Wordbooker and Canalplan

Posted on July 6, 2014 by Steve | Category: Canalplan, Computing

Well since I decided to abandon Wordbooker due to the major changes in the Facebook API and changes in the FB newsfeed algorithms which mean that Wordbooker posts actually got poor “reach” I’ve been working on the Canalplan AC Plugin for WordPress and also working on the Boat Index part of Canalplan. The big changes […]

“Ignore the Security Certificate Warning”

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Steve | Category: Computing, Rants

EE have invalid SSL certs on their website. The OFFICIAL response is that you should IGNORE the warning: Remember EE are not some fly-by-night operation. They are a huge communications company and their SSL certs have been broken for in excess of a week but they apparently cannot fix it.

Wonderful Suggestion from Facebook

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Steve | Category: Computing, Sad Spammers, Witterings

Going to Suggest an Edit on Semalt’s Facebook page comes up with the following: Diahreaa is a pretty fitting suggestion!

Moronic Comment spammers

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Steve | Category: Computing, Rants, Sad Spammers

What a stupid comment spam: If you are going to post spam comments (which automatically get trapped by my spam filters) the least you could do is post stuff that is slightly amusing and makes sense rather than this complete bullshit The offending IP ( 84.232.199.214 ) is Canadian – which makes a change from […]

Semalt – the SEO company who lie to you.

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Steve | Category: Computing, Rants, Sad Spammers

On January 24th Andrew Timchenko from Semalt sent me a Private message on Facebook: Dear Stephen From now on your websites: tty.org.uk Canalplan.org.UK Canalplan.EU Canalplan.co.UK Pubnight.org.uk won’t be visited by our robots. I would like to bring apology on the behalf of our company if our service caused you some troubles. I’d told him that […]

Semalt really don’t get it

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Steve | Category: Computing, Sad Spammers, Uncategorized, Witterings

I posted on Semalt’s facebook and they deleted my posts. I made another post suggesting that deleting my posts simply confirmed that they were a rogue element. Then they tried to friend me… I have a rule on Facebook : If I don’t know you and I’ve not met you or had a drink or […]

Semalt.com – Rogue element? Or just scum?

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Steve | Category: Computing, Rants, Sad Spammers

So Google is full of sites posting about the above company … they would seem to be trying to do some sort of SE ranking or are they just complete arses? This is an example from one of my site logs … there is NO reason for this behaviour but their repeated use of IP […]

So much for Mobile broadband

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Steve | Category: Computing, Rants

In which Steve mutters about the O2 broadband dongle and its broken DNS handling.

Posting to WordPress MU by Email Part 2

Posted on October 20, 2009April 10, 2015 by Steve | Category: Computing

THIS POST IS OBSOLETE Warning: This post contains material of a technical nature, if you start reading and feel dizzy or nauseous then stop reading immediately and go and lie down. This is a follow up to my previous post where I outlined a prototype of an extension for WPMU which allowed posting to multiple […]