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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
Well, it took them 24 days to get around my simple spammer block, but last night they made up for it. I woke up to 377 spam comments this morning, so I'm afraid I'm going to have to make some more changes to the anti-spam system.
There was a single spam comment posted to one of the entries at some point in the afternoon, and the spam barrage didn't start until the late evening. That leads me to believe that my site was flagged up on a spammer's machine as not accepting their comments, and that ...
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Some of you may know/remember how addicted I was to Quake 2, err, 7 years ago (wow, I feel old). Since then my Quake 2 site has stayed online, but I lost touch with the people I used to play, and after a while all the servers shut down. Until now.
At the weekend I had an e-mail out of the blue, from someone in my old clan THG - he has set up a reunion site for all the players from the old Force 9 servers. There's a forum in there, and we've had a few games ...
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This is quite possibly the best thing that has ever been made: Tom Baker Says....
For those who haven't clicked the link yet, people sent things in to BT's speaking SMS landline service, recorded them and put them online. Really stupid, but so funny. Now click the link.
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It is with some hesitation and trepidation that I am pleased to announce that I have moved my diary across to a MySQL back-end.
Yes, until today my diary has been running out of a flat text file. A 500 KB pipe separated text file no less. Oh the shame.
Well, this site has been running on the same code I wrote back in 2000 before I had access to MySQL, and since then it has waited patiently for me to finish my CMS. But that's still months away, so I rewrote it all this evening.
While I was ...
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I can understand why nobody commented on the monitor question (I've now got a KVM by the way), but I was most disappointed to only recieve feedback from two people for my request for book suggestions, both saying they don't use books. If anyone else has any ideas, please leave a comment.
Anyway, on to the e-mail. Until this week, I have been using fetchmail to download my e-mails, and then feed them in to Exim. It all worked quite well, although the cpu usage had a constant average of around 10%, and this week, fetchmail started terminating ...
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