Tuesday October 19, 2004
Tuesday October 19, 2004
lame feeds I checked out some Technorati Top 100 blogs that I haven't seen before (I live a sheltered life), culled from Kottke's list. Of the 10-or-so I think I'm still subscribed to 4: I hate title-only feeds. The title just doesn't incent me enough to find out what the post is about. A couple had summaries, about 50 characters. Useless.
The "amusing" thing is that a couple feeds were hosted by a site proposing to reduce your bandwidth by hosting it for you. But they only fed me titles. Argh.
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Scare Tactics
The morning radio show I listen to (while en route to the park-n-ride) was railing on Kerry for scaring seniors (retirement and prescriptions). Then today Cheney raises the spector of nukes. Which scare tactic is worse?
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Oct 19 2004, 01:46:02 PM
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What about the environment? Just a taste:
Source: Natural Resources Defense Council
JANUARY 20, 2001
White House freezes all rules set at end of Clinton term including tougher ones for raw sewage
JANUARY 20, 2001
Bush proposes opening Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling
FEBRUARY 12, 2001
Energy Department puts off enforcing new efficiency standards for air conditioners
kasia has the rest. Note that this is from a Sierra Club newsletter.
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Oct 19 2004, 08:32:07 AM
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Friday October 15, 2004
Re: Re: The Referer Spam battle rages on
I just had a thought: how about Referer throttling? Like implemented elsewhere for Comments (we should do that for Roller): don't increment Referer count, from the same IP, for 'X' seconds. Not sure exactly how we'd record this efficiently though.
This occurs to me because I see most of the spammers hitting me about 10-30 times in a short period. If they are limited to a hitcount of one they are more likely to be pushed off the bottom of my published referer list. Just an idea, discuss.
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Thursday October 14, 2004
The Referer Spam battle rages on
The referer spam scum have been coming on in waves the last few days. I keep deleting them and updating my blocking list. Dunno if it's doing much good, but you may want to update your list as well.
Anyone caught with a referer that matches from that list receives a 403. This is rather a viscious response I think, and now I'm afraid I'll have to get tougher (log the IP address of offenders and refuse them as well). I fear this will result in collateral damage as dialup dynamic IPs rotate from offenders to the innocent.
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Wednesday October 06, 2004
re: more travel Funny how things work out. Cameron was scheduled to be in town today. Unfortunately he didn't have time to get together for beer. So how serendipitous that I was invited at the last minute to attend a presentation on Coherence!
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Thursday September 30, 2004
Better now and busy. Back on the 5th of August I wrote about a couple spam problems I was having. Shortly afterward I rolled the new functionality into Roller (a Roller-wide Referer-Spam list), and I used it to block requests with those referers (they get a 403 Denied).
My site has continued to be stable ever since then and I haven't seen nearly so much CPU usage. Sadly, I've been very busy with work and family the last month and haven't had time for much of anything, let alone more Roller enhancements.
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Tuesday September 14, 2004
Tree of Life, Tree of Death
I don't know what Jen will think of this, but I like it. That page doesn't explain it all, so follow the Project link too. Warning: slow-loading site.
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