December 2004
Monthly Archive
General& Photography30 Dec 2004 03:42 am
Front Page30 Dec 2004 12:24 am
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.
- Laughing Lizard’s Comment Preview, just requires the user to click an extra button to post. Spambots aren’t smart enough to do that.
Not listed, but also VERY useful:
- URI Blocklist, which checks the URLs in your comments to see if they advertise known spammer sites.