Category Archives: Computing

Posts about computing and computing related matters

Forum Revamp

Posted on October 4, 2006 by Steve

In the background I’ve been working on a complete overhaul of the Camsigh Forums. I put the site up in January 2004 and I’ve bolted a few things on since then, but it was all getting very messy and tired … Continue reading →

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Google Ads

Posted on September 30, 2006 by Steve

Well I’m quite pleased with myself. The mod to support google ads in the phpbb forums only handles text ads. I wanted to put in some of the referrer ads so I wrote a little bit of php code which … Continue reading →

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Phew!

Posted on September 24, 2006 by Steve

Well the e-commerce site is up and running at www.ladykat.co.uk I’ve been working on a rather large silly project to “recover” some old phpbb forum posts from html file dumps. It was hard work but fun.. the fruits of that … Continue reading →

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Off doing other things

Posted on August 25, 2006 by Steve

Well I’ve been busy. I’ve been building an e-commerce website for my wife which has been taking up quite a bit of my time. I’ve also been working on a Wiki, including writing some really complex wiki extensions and I’m … Continue reading →

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So far so good

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Steve

Well my scripts automatically add the IP address to the .htaccess file if it works out they are spamming. Blocking a couple of domains in URLS got rid of a lot of crap. Block jo.pl and it will take out … Continue reading →

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All quiet on the Western Front – again

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Steve

Well the RBLs have trapped a lot of the spammers. Also I’ve put a bit of code in that at the moment is logging the IP of any person accessing the trackback script. The next step is to take that … Continue reading →

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Gone away!!

Posted on July 18, 2006 by Steve

Well after following the instructions here http://www.gotroot.com/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=2&postId=34 I’ve managed to get it so that spammers on my boards get a 403 message. The only thing I found was that the directives had to go into the apache2 config file rather … Continue reading →

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Its gets rather boring doesn’t it

Posted on July 12, 2006 by Steve

Tidying up after spamming scum who fuck up other peoples website to post ads for porn, drugs and other crap. Oddly enough it seems to come primarily from Korea or Taiwan. Hey ho

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Hackers, crackers and other annoyances

Posted on November 14, 2005 by Steve

My server was getting swamped the other day, checking into it I found that it was links from LiveJournal to a pic in my photo albums which someone had used to illustrate a tack poem. Livejournal users had then copied … Continue reading →

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