In what has to be the most controversial move in recent months Lycos have launched a DDOS campaign against spammers. If you have problems getting to grips with that concept I'll try it again. Lycos have launched a DDOS campaign against spammers. The site, makelovenotspam.com, is meant to offer users software to attack spammers. I say "meant to" as I can't actually view the … [Read more...] about The Empire Strikes Back .. Or does it?
Blog Spam
Wordpress has much better spam filters than Movable Type, but you can still get hit hard. Considering that we filter email spam effectively I was thinking about applying the same kind of logic as SURBL but to blogs. Someone beat me to it !! :mrgreen: John Sinteur's plugin seems to do exactly what I had in mind... … [Read more...] about Blog Spam
SCO defaced
The SCO site has been quite subtly defaced. One of the images on the main page of the site has been replaced with the one below: The image that *should* have been there is below: … [Read more...] about SCO defaced
Spam reporting for outlook
A handy little utility that integrates with Outlook 2003 (and older versions) is Spam Source Install the plugin and setup your spamcop (or other) reporting addresses and off you go. … [Read more...] about Spam reporting for outlook
Common Windows Software alternatives
There was an interesting post to ILUG this morning with links to alternatives for a lot of common Windows applications. Ken Guest's list of applications is an excellent starting point. I'll definitely be adding that to the resources section when I get a chance. There are still a couple of areas that it is hard for linux to compete, but things are definitely improving. I only … [Read more...] about Common Windows Software alternatives