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By: John McCreery

John McCreery — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:19:05 +0000

Bit off subject but if you haven’t seen these commercials, take a look at

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You will need Quicktime or Windows Media Player.

By: Kerim

Kerim — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 02:45:15 +0000

I’m actually thinking that there are only a couple of articles which account for most of the links to my wiki, so I might be able to do a special redirect for each one of them. Don’t change your links just yet!

By: lorenz

lorenz — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 22:24:21 +0000

Oh…yes this is really annoying. That’s the problem with dynamically generated pages. You have less control with them. I’ve linked to your wiki pages many times, I’ll have to go through the blog and update them. At least you have set up this error message. Most site owners don’t care (those of them who haven’t found out yet what the internet is about – it doesn’t consist of single isolated webpages but of a network of webpages linking to each other).

By: oneman

oneman — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 20:26:17 +0000

Yeah, when I re-uploaded the old install, it sent last November’s posts out through the RSS feed. I’m hoping that my new host, which is a business-oriented host that I’ve been using for other sites for almost 2 years, is going to lend me a hand with this. They were already nice enough to let me know that traffic had spiked way up — before they started charging me for bandwidth. The other host (Maxipoint, folks — don’t use ’em!) just yanked the site and didn’t let me know why until I opened a tech support ticket to find out why my site was down. Ironically, I had installed a blacklist program a couple months ago, and for the first time saw a marked decrease in comment and referrer spam — now I’m wondering if that didn’t only make some spammer all the more determined? I can’t imagine my 50 or so visitors a day would be that important to a spammer, though — so I’m thinking I offended someone, which is a good feeling, in a way, though not a fair exchange for losing the site completely.

By: Kerim

Kerim — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 20:16:28 +0000

I saw something about this in your RSS feed, but I didn’t realize how bad it was. Sheesh. I think Spam Karma which we use to protect this site has anti-flooding protection of some kind, but I’m not exactly sure how it works. I think if you try to post too many comments in succession you are automatically banned and blocked from the site. Although I doubt there is much that can be done if you have a determined hacker who has it out for you.

How they handle such attacks is one of the things I asked about at TextDrive before signing up, and I was fairly pleased at their response, which was that they would work with me rather than treating me like a criminal if something like this happened.

By: oneman

oneman — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 20:04:22 +0000

It’s a problem I’m in the middle of dealing with, as a DOS/flooding attack has knocked my personal site, One Man’s Opinion, of the net — nearly 5 gigs of traffic a day is not pleasing my host! So they yanked the site and (apparently) deleted all the files (don’t use Maxipoint hosting serivce, folks!). I moved the domain to my other webhost, and uploaded my most recent good backup, which is nearly a year old (I had a hard drive failure in June, and my backups for the beginning of the year have been lost; I was updating so infrequently over the summer that I didn’t bother backing up in July and August). The attacks followed, so I’ve pulled the domain completely and am considering starting over with a new domain name. While the content is mostly intact (thanks not to the Wayback machine, which coincidentally seems to have stopped indexing my site at the same time as my most recent good backup — go figure! — but via Google’s cache) they will no longer live at wherever people have linked to them, and if the domain name is no longer good, there’s no way to redirect traffic automatically. Such is the fate of the hyperlinked web — in one fell swoop, some a-hole has doomed not me but anyone who has linked to me in the past to link-rot.