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Whither Spam?

6/14/2008 – 10:35 pm

When I switched to my new Slicehost server, I spent a while trying to decide what I wanted to do about email for my domains. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Hardware, Linux, Servers, Services, Software, Spam, Tech | Also tagged antivirus, clamav, Email, email spam, fighting spam, Linux, mail, mailscanner, mailwatch, Servers, slicehost, smtp, spamassassin, spamsnake, Ubuntu | Comments (4)

UPDATE 2008-04-16: Well crud. I was just re-reading the WP 2.5 announcement post for something else, and spotted a bit about security updates between 2.3.3 and 2.5. So my previous advice about 2.3.3 being okay was incorrect. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Search, Security, WordPress | Also tagged payattention, Plugins, Search, Security, Technorati, Themes, upgrade, Upgrades, WordPress | Comments (87)

glTail: Realtime Logfile Visualization

10/11/2007 – 3:50 pm

This screenshot shows how glTail visualizes a comment spam attack in my configuration.

A few days ago, in my usual daily link browsing, I ran across a link to something called “glTail“, which was described as “realtime logfile visualization”. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Applications, Open Source, Ruby, Servers, WordPress | Also tagged Apache, Graphics, logs, monitoring, Ruby, Servers, sysadmin, tools, visualization, WordPress | Comments (4)

My Favorite WordPress Plugins

3/13/2007 – 11:55 am

One of the coolest things about WordPress is the powerful Plugin API which allows us to create add-ons which can radically extend the basic functions of our sites. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Plugins, Software, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged Akismet, PHP, plugin, Plugins, this-site, WordPress | Comments (34)

Follow you, follow me

2/15/2007 – 12:42 pm

Two years ago today, we released WordPress version 1.5. This was a pretty major release that introduced several new features that are still major staples of the current 2.1 branch: the Dashboard, Themes, and Pages. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogging, Microformats, Plugins, Search, Spam, WordPress | Also tagged Akismet, commentspam, Google, Metadata, nofollow, PageRank, plugin, WordPress, yahoo | Comments (83)

Upgraded

2/5/2007 – 1:57 pm

Okay, I think things are finally (more-or-less) back in shape around here. Sorry about the problems you might encountered here over the past few days. I finally upgraded this site to WordPress 2.1, but I encountered some problems along the way. The problems were really indirectly related to the upgrade, and turned out to be my own dumb fault.

On Friday, I decided to use my lunch hour to perform the upgrade. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Announcements, Blogs, Personal, Plugins, Themes, WordPress | Also tagged Amazon, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Sandbox, this-site, Upgrades, WordPress | Comments (8)

WordPress 2.1 Released

1/22/2007 – 11:31 pm

Hot off the presses is the latest feature release of our favorite blogware: WordPress 2.1 “Ella”. You can find a bore-you-to-tears detailed list of bugfixes and feature changes in the Milestone report over on Trac. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Announcements, Blogs, Software, WordPress | Also tagged Akismet, plugin, Plugins, Releases, Web, WordPress | Comments (21)

Some blog spam cases you might want to watch for

10/27/2006 – 12:45 pm

I like to think that I’ve got some pretty decent spam prevention measure in place on my server. My mail server uses RBL/DNSBL services and sets maximum limits for certain protocol violations. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Plugins, Software, Spam, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged Akismet, commentspam, Email, PHP, plugin, Plugins, SpamValve, this-site, WordPress | Comments (9)

Sprint courting bloggers?

2/28/2006 – 12:34 pm

I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I’d have something about the Samsung A920 phone coming up. I don’t have the phone yet, but when I do I’ll surely be posting a review. But in the meantime, let me explain how and why I’m getting this phone, and do a little speculation…

Yesterday morning, mixed in amongst my usual slew of automated system emails and the slurry of spams that make it through my filters, was a message from Sprint. [...]