October 11th, 2009 / Website / 4 Comments »
I have removed the issue my webhost had with the website – there were way too many spambots coming over and using the same file to post spam, which resulted in that file being flagged as a “major resource consuming script”. Well, now I’m using some cookie magic coupled with some .htaccess rules to prevent that from happening.
As to why it took me so long to fix that, I really didn’t have much to talk about. I am pretty busy with my academic life at the moment.
Also, I will probably be sorting the posts from the “Old Blogs” into various categories as appropriate. Since there are so many posts I need to take a look at and I would like to do it all together, it will have to wait until I have a large chunk of time to devote to it.
So yeah, I’m back, and at least now you can browse through the archives, even if I’m not posting too frequently.
Have fun. :)
August 4th, 2009 / Poetry / 5 Comments »
I logged in to my admin place,
the place I write this stuff,
and in my tiny comment space,
I found a lot of fluff.
“What’s this?”, I said, a bit confused -
I clicked on someone’s name,
and with my psyche slightly bruised,
I guessed this person’s game.
A ploy to sell some shady pills,
to my friends and similar folk -
as if the cost of our own bills
was not making us broke.
“It’s not a human being at all,
it’s just a script on cron!”,
my I.P. bans would barely stall
the bullshit these things spawn.
Do note, I use Akismet much,
and yes, it works, a lot -
and quite a bit of spam, as such,
is by Akismet caught.
Yet this is one persistent bunch,
these scripts with no AI,
despite my heavy server crunch,
they’ll post until I cry.
So I took my very last resort,
(censored tools) and DNS,
and broke into their :80 port,
the rest is yours to guess.
Note: This is actually what I did this weekend. Inspiration.