The killing fields .. uh, yard.

It’s that time of the year again; the days are getting long, flowers are blooming, weather is getting warmer.. and [Summer http://www.miguelito.org/gallery/album02] is killing birds. I can’t really blame her.. I mean, she is a bird dog afterall. I just feel sorry for the poor sparrow chicks that she snags. My front yard is the […]

Screw the referer spammers….

So, because of what I talked about in my [previous http://www.miguelito.org/mig-archives/000213.html post] I’ve edited awstats a little and added in my own referer URL checker… so ha! Output from awstats shows this now: www httpd {566}$ /usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -update -config=www.miguelito.org Update for config “/etc/awstats/awstats.www.miguelito.org.conf” With data in log file “/var/log/httpd/access_log”… Phase 1 : First bypass old […]

Why you dirty mother#@(<*%s

So email spam is bad enough, spamassasin blocks a lot, but damn they still get through. Then I had to deal with comment spam.. which got bad enough that I require typekey registration to comment now.. and that spam is gone. Now, it’s referrer spam. For those that don’t know, apache (the web server software […]

Damn these little buggers are quick…

So I signed up and started using the new groups.google.com interface for reading usenet periodically, and made my first post a couple days ago. I always use new email aliases on my domain for each site I sign up for, so that I know where spammers got my email from. In less then 48 hours […]