Thursday, November 30, 2023

Neil Notes

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Thanks Akismet!

This blog was protected from thousands of pieces of SPAM (the last count was almost 160,000) by Akismet for many years. However,

On 2016-12-19, this blog came under attack by some kind of botnet. They were trying to log in to the admin interface,

I use Akismet to get rid of 99.9% of the spam comments sent to my blog. Occasionally, Akismet puts less

Well now I know what the PHP files dropped on my server by spammers do – they send out masses

This blog was struck by spammers (or spambots judging by how many posting came from so many places). They dropped

I was at a talk last week where a blogger encouraged people to allow commenting on their sites. I have

If my experiences, and the experiences of loads of other folks, are any guide, getting the Apple iPad to sync

A couple of months ago, I was unable to log in to one of my online bank accounts because I

This 1991 book by Carl Sagan has lost none of its relevance or power since it was written. Carl Sagan,

This 1991 book by Thomas Gilovich, subtitled “The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life”, is very readable and very