December 2004


General&Photography30 Dec 2004 03:42 am

Front Page30 Dec 2004 12:24 am

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WordPress is doing Fibonacci sequenced version numbers! I do the same thing for UMLazi.

System Management08 Dec 2004 02:37 am

Two things:

When people create RRDs, why do they try to cram as many DEFs into a single RRD as possible? Why not just give the RRD file a descriptive name, and store a single value named, perhaps, “value” ?

Why are people so stingy with the datapoints? Storing a whole year of data at 5 minute intervals is only a 3MB RRD.

System Management04 Dec 2004 02:25 pm

Tackling Comment Spam is a page of information about comment spam, and plugins for fighting it.

Among them:
* Kitten’s Spaminator, which combines tarpitting (making multiple comments from the same source take longer and longer to post, in order to slow down bots), and a “three strikes” method, where the spammers IP is blocked after three spams.

  • Kittens Spam Words, which gives you a “delete as spam” option, which automatically adds the email address, URL, and IP address to your Spam Words File.

Not listed, but also VERY useful:
* URI Blocklist, which checks the URLs in your comments to see if they advertise known spammer sites.