That’s right: more than one out of every two hits on this blog recently are spam attempts. I say that because that was the percentage of the last 1,600 or so hits that were on a single post with very little content… not coincidentally, the exact same post that spammers have been pounding on without [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Meta category.
Spam: More than 54.8% of Hits
27 October 2011, 9:04 am
Filed under Internet, Meta, Security (Digital And Otherwise), Spam and Malware.
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Site Moved
17 August 2011, 1:12 pm
(If you’re reading this, then you’re on the new site. Congratulations. ) After hosting my websites with Total Choice Hosting (TCH from here on) for more than eight years, I’ve been forced to move them. The issue: lost e-mails. A few months ago, a friend of mine called to ask if I’d gotten his e-mails. [...]
Odd Blog Problem
20 May 2011, 9:58 am
For some reason, when Geek Drivel’s hosting company upgraded PHP this morning, the server stopped handling PHP files at all. Any time I tried to go to a page on the blog, the server tried to send it to me as a download instead. Removing the “user defined MIME type” change that the company added [...]
Filed under Meta.
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And now, the news…
17 April 2011, 8:21 am
I think the spammer registration problem may be dealt with, at least for the moment. Since I added the new layers of defenses, only one spammer account has gotten through the first layer of registration (which checks its information against multiple online databases of known spammers). It failed the e-mail confirmation step and was auto-deleted [...]
Filed under Life in General, Mathematics, Meta.
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Spambot Purge
2 April 2011, 8:02 pm
I got tired of the nearly one thousand spambot “users” on this blog and mass-deleted any account that had never posted a non-spam comment and had no optional user information. I also added a confirmation-link requirement, and auto-removal of any account that doesn’t complete the confirmation within seven days. Apologies to any human users who [...]
Filed under Meta, Spam and Malware.
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Busy, busy, busy…
1 January 2011, 9:08 pm
…so busy, in fact, that I’ve decided to take a blogging hiatus. I’ve written a post a day for nearly two years straight, missing only a handful of days. I like that pace, and I plan to resume it, but not until I’ve got the bulk of Project M finished. That may be a few [...]
Filed under Meta, Productivity, Software and Software Development.
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Blog-Spam Attempts
26 November 2010, 8:11 am
Some spammer’s automated spam-bots have targeted Geek Drivel over the past few weeks, for reasons unknown. Well, okay, the surface reasons are obvious — but since they haven’t managed to get a single spam published, despite weeks of effort and hundreds of attempts per day, you’d think the spammer would notice and turn them to [...]
Bonus Post: New Theme
27 June 2010, 9:42 am
I’ve installed a new theme (F2, the successor to the Fluid Blue theme that I’ve been using for a while now), and made a child theme from it so I could include my icon. Let me know if you see any problems with it.
Filed under Meta.
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