del.icio.us is a very cool web application where you share your bookmarks. My book marks are posted and shared in various different categories, its a great way to find new information as well. Its hard to explain exactly how it works – more information on their about page.
Project Honey Pot
Posted by Andrew
Well since I hate spammers, and I have the resources to help out, I’ve donated an MX entry, and have signed up to become a part of Project Honey Pot. Its a well thought out, and unique way to help catch spammers – it sure as hell can’t hurt. So join up!
Site Slow
Posted by Andrew
I don’t know if enough people read this to care BUT – my site has been extremely slow all day and I just figured out why. It seems that all the major search engines have decided to crawl it AT THE SAME TIME. Checking into my logs look who has been requesting everything:
Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html) msnbot/0.3 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; iebar; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) SurveyBot/2.3 (Whois Source) Jetbot/1.0
These guys along with a bunch of news aggregators have been demolishing my web server since about midnight last night.
SASL over TLS
Posted by Andrew
So I’m an insomniac and a huge nerd… I just spent the majority of the night getting SASL to work with Postfix so I can Authenticate with my mail server over TLS (SSL is the old name for TLS). This enables anyone who uses my mail server to relay using their system account and password – the catch is you have to do it over TLS, or you’ll get ingnored! This means that its just as safe as logging in via SSH or SFTP. Cool stuff IMHO.
On to a global LDAP server for a master contacts list.
Comments are back!
Posted by Andrew
After a few minutes of tinkering I’ve got an Image Authenitcation system in place. The system is essentially pretty simple. Every time a comment page is visited a random image is generated, along with its key. The user then just enters the key they see in the randomly generated image when posting a comment and the script checks this, failures will be rejected. Every 30 minutes cron goes through and deletes all the images more than 30 minutes old. Works for me.
