December 8th, 2003
Spam Wait is a Movable Type hack cum plugin that forces your visitors to wait for a set period of time before being allowed to post comments. A decidedly smart move to avoid comment spamming by spam bots. The idea behind it? Human users would spend some time to read your entries/articles first. Spam bots wouldn’t.
I won’t install this, yet, but it is a smart idea. MT-Blacklist has been very good at blocking comment spammers and only 2 have filtered past it since I’ve installed it. Besides, judging from the behavior of past comment spammer activity, the majority of spammers at this site are human spammers, not bots. And now that my PageRank has dropped from 6 to 5, I’m pretty sure I’d see a sudden drop in comment spam activity here. Sort of a mixed blessing, that.
December 7th, 2003
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 was released yesterday in quick succession to the two 0.4 release candidates. It’s all good, and worthy of a point release. If the servers are too slow for you, you may want to try the Thunderbird 0.4 (Win32) torrent, or the Thunderbird 0.4 (Linux) torrent.
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December 4th, 2003
The Abyss Web Server from Aprelium Technologies is one of the neatest, tiniest web server I’ve come across. It’s only 144 KB for the Windows version and the Mac, Linux and FreeBSD versions are around that size as well. It’s also free. What’s more, adding PHP support is quick and painless. Just follow the instructions for adding PHP support. I did all of it under 5 minutes (like Phil - see the source for this entry).
Adding ASP support and Perl support appear to be a snap too from a cursory glance.
Why is this cool? Because it is very useful as an easy-to-setup test platform for server-side scripts like PHP, ASP and Perl scripts. Being flyweight helps too, since there are no long download times for those still using dialup modems. Everything is run via CGI - there are no modules, unlike for Apache. There is a single config file, abyss.conf, which contains Apache configuration-like directives. The good thing is, there’s no need to go into the file to make changes - the web-based configuration interface provided by Abyss allows a simple click-and-point interface which is a breeze to use.
What a boon to beginners (AKA newbies) who often have trouble setting up Apache with PHP support. I’m going to recommend this as an alternative to Apache for anyone with difficulties setting that up in the future.
Source: Phil Wilson
December 4th, 2003
Remember iCapture? In case you don’t, read this.
Now it seems there’s also another neat little free service called Kcapture.
And I just noticed that IE isn’t the only browser that doesn’t listen to you when you tell it you want a dotted border (and NOT a dashed border you stupid piece of crap).
December 1st, 2003
redemption in a blog received 12,262 visits for the month of November 2003, working to a rounded average of 408 hits per day.
Most visited entries:
Other interesting stuff:
- I’ve been blogging for 6 months since my very first tentative steps into the blogosphere. I can say I’m thoroughly addicted to the weblog world and picked up a whole buncha stuff along the way. So yay for blogging!
- My Google PageRank is still 6! OK maybe that’s not so interesting. It will be when (or rather, if) I hit PR 7.
Once again, as always, thanks for reading!
Past monthly reports:
Spam Wait for Movable Type - Humans wait, bots don’t
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