Today I received my first trackback spam, well more than 100 pings from several different IPs. Until today I had not even enabled MT-Blacklist for trackbacks. I had to disable trackbacks, this is depressing 🙁
Unfortunately MT-Blacklist De-Spamming seems to hit a system limit. I could only delete 5 pings at a time. Otherwise the server spits out an Internal Server error. Probably because the execution time gets too long. Maybe I should consider replacing my Webserver Epia with a Minimac (which btw boots FreeBSD) or the 1Ghz Epia.
While I was waiting for the de-spamming to process I updated the weather plugin to 1.1.9. Hopefully this fixes some oddities and does not introduce new bugs, because I don’t want to look at the code. If you want to know a reason why not to use php, look at the code
Last weekend i hacked on the rssfetch code. It is now object-orientated, because I started to write unittests after reading the Unit-testing chapter of “Dive into Python”.

MovableType release the nofollow-plugin yesterday. The big search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN) and blogsoftware companies (LJ, 6A, Blogger) have defined a new standard to fight comment spam. All links added via comments are now extended with a

rel="nofollow"

I am not yet 100% sure if this will solve the problem.
The plugin should work with the 2.661 version of MT, so I have installed the plugin, and if it works i will add the plugin to the FreeBSD port.

After rssfetch finally supports Atom feeds, it is about time to add an Atom feed to this blog.

I am still looking for a nice icon that fits into the sidebar style.

Via Jonas Luster. Let’s see if i get such a similar image.


Where are visitors to this page?
(Auto-update daily since 2004-11-05)
Update 2004-11-07: Hm, Unfortunately this does not seem to work, so I have to continue to rely on Webalizer stats.

I am hosting my blog at home, and I know why. My second blog at twoday.tuwien.ac.at today gives an error 500. And i didn’t made a backup …

I am blogging now for nearly 13 months. I wrote nearly 300 articles.
A snapshot of the mainpage in February was archived at archive.org
Not much has changed, I am still writing too much about Computers.
Now I can enjoy reading what happend in the past one year ago. For example one year ago i was on holiday at the North Sea. This year i will visit Berlin next week. For the first time I will travel by airplane, because the train connection to Berlin really sucks.

My Bloggercode:

B4 d+ t+ k s u-- f i o+ x- e l c-

While producing my code i somehow had the feeling, that i already wrote about this, but i couldn’t find it in the archive.

Today I noticed a serious MT Bug. If i delete a spamcomment and then click on SAVE instead of REBUILD the blogentry gets replaced with the spamcomment. Argh. A reason to switch the blog software…

Today I had to delete 6 comments from two sources. Obviously the spammers improved their software, so that they are no longer confused by the renamed mt-comments.cgi. Now I removed the Popup Window, let’s see if this affects the number of spam comments.

Horst put his blogtalk paper online. Unfortunately it is written in some Word-like Wordprocessor but the content makes it up as it is interesting to read.

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