I've always been fascinated by spammers. They send millions of emails out in the hope that enough people will be duped into clicking on the link and visiting whichever site they are promoting or buying into whichever service they are selling. The phishing emails vary in their complexity, but you would have thought that the majority of people would have learnt to be more … [Read more...] about Fraud works
Techie :: Techno ::
Graphing RBLDNSD queries using MRTG
Some time ago I wrote about setting up a local mirror for a DNS blacklist using RBLDNSD and Bind. Although that works fine and definitely gives a speed up to servers on the network I'd really like to know what is happening ie. how many queries. … [Read more...] about Graphing RBLDNSD queries using MRTG
Search.ie soft relaunch
I've been trying to get the new look search.ie online for the last couple of months in my spare time. However, due to a number of factors, this has been dragged out for an inordinate length of time. I decided to launch it this afternoon (soft launch :) ) as quite a few people had been emailing me about link submissions. There are probably bugs and issues, but I can deal with … [Read more...] about Search.ie soft relaunch
SEO Spammers taking semantics to extremes
Some people's efforts at SEO are simply annoying. Spamming people after grabbing email addresses using some badly written bit of software is not the way to win friends online. Unfortunately some people obviously missed that message: Hi, I took a look at your site a couple of hours ago... and I want to tell you that I'd really love to trade links with you. I think your site … [Read more...] about SEO Spammers taking semantics to extremes
Blogging from your desktop on linux (Ubuntu)
If you have the inclination to write your blog from your desktop as opposed to via the web interface then you can. There maybe reasons why you would want to do this, though personally I am so used to using the web interface I can't see too much point. … [Read more...] about Blogging from your desktop on linux (Ubuntu)