Thursday August 05, 2004
Thursday August 05, 2004
Tech '54, Where Are You?
I read this article in a chiropractor's waiting room while visiting my folks down in Arkansas. I liked it.
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Referer Spammer Management in Roller
As it stands now, each user is responsible for maintaining their own Referer Spam blocking list. I do this fairly religiously, but my wife does not. Her blog doesn't seem to attract as much spam as mine, but why shouldn't she benefit from my list? I think I'll add a Roller-wide blocking list to my To-Do list.
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Aug 05 2004, 11:00:25 AM
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Block By IP
I still haven't been able to build a new machine to host Brainopolis, so it's been running off of my personal/development machine. At times I notice Roller's JVM taking 99% of my CPU. Last night I jumped right into my access logs and noticed a particular IP has been pounding my box (with no referer). I tried accessing the IP directly, and did a reverse DNS lookup on it. Both failed to deliver me a website. So I googled it. The top entry was someone's /baniplist page (sorry, this was last night and I don't have the info handy).
Looking further down the google results I saw that the IP had been used to post several Comments on other sites, each referring to a site I recognized from my Referer Spam list. I'd like to ban this IP myself, but I don't use Apache. I use Resin directly and am unaware of any IP banning built in.
So I'll likely revive an old project, HoneyPot, which was an experiment of mine in detecting 'email harvesting' bots and banning them through a Java Servlet Filter. The question is, should I then bundle this ability into Roller, or is this better left out? I'm leaning toward the latter, your comments are welcome.
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Aug 05 2004, 10:53:58 AM
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Re: PC EZ-Bake Oven looks cool, but I see no evidence of a crumb-tray. Lack of such convenience would make this a dangerous, or at least odorous, device to insert into a computer.
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Thursday July 29, 2004
War is a Racket [Link]
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Jul 29 2004, 10:18:00 AM
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Wednesday July 28, 2004
The Great American Illiteracy Scare
I see this sort of doom at least every other year: Americans are reading less!
While I am no internationaly recognized research body, I have trouble reconciling this fear with the wave of "mass reading" that occurs with each new Harry Potter book release. I'd say every 10 years of so a new book arrives which captures childrens' imaginations and hooks them on reading.
Or maybe I'm just deluding myself.
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Hell is for economists via Boing Boing
Bizarro, dubious factoid of the day via Reuters:
Economists searching for reasons why some nations are richer than others have found that those with a wide belief in hell are less corrupt and more prosperous, according to a report by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
<sarcasm>Well, that would explain Mexico then, eh?</sarcasm>
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Tuesday July 27, 2004
Improved Search
Earlier tonight I committed a long-desired Search improvement: Paging. The results are broken into pages of 10 entries. Try this search.
At the top you‘ll notice a new select list labelled “Restrict by Category“. This allows the user to select a category to narrow the results. Also, after each entry is a link “restrict search to just this blog“ which will narrow the search to that entry‘s user and display in that user‘s template.
If you scroll to the bottom you‘ll see “1 | 2“ which are links to the pages of results. This is the href for “2”:
http://brainopolis.dnsalias.com/roller/search?q=help&username=&n=10&o=10.
The ‘q‘ is the query, ‘username‘ is obvious and optional. ‘n‘ is the number of results to display on each page, and ‘o‘ is the offset (the current page is displaying items 0–9). If ‘o‘ is greater than the # of results it gets reset to 0, so no thinking you can dink around and break it!
So you can play around with this href a bit and get different paging.
I haven‘t added the necessary velocity code to individual pages yet, so currently this is limited to the sitewide search only.
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