Posts about computing and computing related matters
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 so I’ve been building up a new version in my spare time. Hopefully over the […]
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 sets up an array with the different ads in and then picks one at Random. […]
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 effort can be found at www.tty.homelinux.org/board I’m also working on a two stack parser in […]
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 now working on a simple Database extension which will allow wiki users to create simple […]
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 a lot of your spam as thats all they seem to host!
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 code and wrap it into the trackback script so that posts containing “banned” words get […]
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 than the .htaccess file which complained “order not allowed here”. I also adjusted it so […]
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
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 this poem round each other, and republished it – and every view was leeching the […]