Weblog entry #97 for Steve
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Today I will be mostly implementing an online TODO list.
Tonight the first item upon my TODO list is to organise the hire of a van so I can go to Ikea and buy a new office desk.
In other news it is sad to see that Greylisting is losing effectiveness. I guess it was only a matter of time, but it is a shame as the greylisting approach was so simple and elegant.
Yesterday my server seemed to come under attack from about 20 IPs doing a massive spidering of my site. What was really strange was the format of the incoming requests, as logged by Apache:
.. "GET / HTTP/1.1 " ..
Notice the massive amount of whitespace after 'HTTP/1.1'? Weird huh?
Still it did mean that dropping the IP address became simple enough:
for i in `grep 'HTTP/1.1 ' access.log | awk '{print $1}'`;
do
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --source ${i} -j DROP
done
Update: There was probably a sort -u in there to make sure I only dropped unique IP addresses once.
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I currently have a bunch of DA bookmarks all named "Debian GNU/Linux System Administration Resources" :/
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PS. Note that if you're logged into this site you can create your own bookmarks stored here.
For example my bookmarks.
(I know this isn't the same as storing your own bookmarks, but it is worth knowing if you're unaware of it.)
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Thinks should be much better now.
I've added proper titles to :
- Weblog entries for a user.
- Single weblog entries.
- Poll pages
- "Submit a poll"
- "Submit an article"
- "Hall of fame"
More will be added when I notice them. There is still the problem that page titles are still long, so it might truncate titles on tabs, but that is a seperate problem.
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...Rob
The American Dream isn't an SUV and a house in the suburbs; it's Don't Tread On Me.
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There are no plans at all to allow the general editing of comments.
There are too many ways in which this could be abused to implement it. I can see some mitigating circumstances, such as only allowing edits if there are no current replies, or for a brief time period.
But honestly I find that comment editting comes from two seperate desires:
- To correct typos/bad command lines.
- To fix a broken argument.
Whilst those are both valid reasons they are things that can be fixed with a followup comment if desired.
(You say posts too. I'm not too sure how to read that, but generally articles and weblog entries are already editable by their authors.)
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...Rob
The American Dream isn't an SUV and a house in the suburbs; it's Don't Tread On Me.
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