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Some Spams
August 7, 2009 by Guru, under Annoyances, Fun, Geekscribes.
Introducing the spammers messages.
Your blog is very new, I like! I would like you to update it often! I like your recent posts. You obviously have a natural ability to blog!
- By some s.o.a.b*
Good post! I plan to move into this stuff after I’m done with school, as most of it is time consuming. It’s a great post to reference back to. My blog needs more time to gain in popularity anyway
-By another s.o.a.b*
This is a great article. I’m new to blogging but still learning. Thanks for the great resource.
-By another s.o.a.b*
This is great! It really shows me where to expand my blog. I think that sometime in the future I might try to write a book to go along with my blog, but we will see…Good post with useful tips and ideas
-By another s.o.a.b*
*s.o.a.b = Son of a female dog
Checking the comments I saw 4 new comments and they were all spams. I need to activate Akismet to deal with the spammers. Do not forget to share your spam comments.
Edit by Inf: redacted the swears! 
Also, it seems we have new kinds of spam comments now. Those s.o.b of spammers are very crafty! They put a legit message in the body, and then, put their links as the URL field. This effectively kills the protection offered by most spam-detection plugins.
I’ll put Akismet up today, to see what it can do. Let’s hope for the best. And my greatest F.U to all the spammers out there! F.U S.O.B’s!
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How many spam comments do you get?
July 31, 2009 by Guru, under Annoyances, Internet, Tips and Tricks.
Today is my last day at work at Vinivi. Kind of I have completed everything I had to do albeit I took more time I normally would have done these “things”. Just approved 2 comments and I thought, “lets see the stats for the number of spam comments blocked”.
21,257 Spam Comments Blocked
What are your current spam count?
A definition of spam from Wikipedia.
Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, social networking spam, and file sharing network spam.
Source: Wikipedia
An example of a Spam Comment as outlined by the SecuriTeam Blog
<strong>malware blocker…</strong>
Your topic %TITLE% was interesting when I found it on %DAY% searching for %KEYWORD%. Thanks, %URL%…
Some Links of Interest:
- What is Comment Spam
- Preventing Comment Spam (From Google)
- How to Stop Comment Spam
- Comment Spam (Six Apart)
You might also be interested in Protecting yourself against Plagiarism.
Note: This is in no way material to protect yourself against comment spam.
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The Mauritian Blog Brethren – The Story Behind?
June 15, 2009 by Guru, under General, MBB.
Did I spell wrong or is it everything is wrong? For a very long period of time, the SysOp and maintainers of thembb has not been active. Of all the day, today I decided to looks for some inspiration from fellow bloggers to write an article and boom. What did I saw?
- thembb.com
- thembb.blogspot.com
This definitely make me hint at account takeover. Anyone else noticed this?
I tried a whois on the domain name and got the nameservers:
NS1.SEOBUMMER.COM
NS2.SEOBUMMER.COM
Must be a weak password or what?
The lesson, don’t use weak password and change your password frequently
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Backup your hamachi profile
June 1, 2009 by Guru, under Software, Tips and Tricks.
Many times you need to format your PC and start anew. What about your so loved Hamachi configs and your so long “had”, ip address? Backing it up need only a minor copy-and-paste. (In a safe location).
The easy way
- Launch Hamachi
- Click on the “pulley” looking icon on the bottom left corner of Hamachi – “Configure Hamachi”
- From the pop-up menu choose “Preferences“
- On the left pane of the opened window entitled “Status and Configuration“, select “System“ (again presented with a pulley icon)
- Now, you would be presented with 3 buttons. Click on the one with caption, “Open Configuration folder”
- Hamachi configuration folder will be opened. Go up one level
- Finally you will see a folder named “Hamachi”.
- Copy it in a safe location and you would be safe.
The “not so lengthy” way
C:\Users\Guru\AppData\Roaming\
Replace “Guru” by your username, open location and finally copy and paste folder “Hamachi”
You can open the location by navigating one level at a time to the required directory or simply press Windows Button + R to open the “Run” dialog box, paste the location in the text box and hit Enter to go to the “Roaming” directory.
Easy?
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We are back
May 26, 2009 by Guru, under Geekscribes.
On the 22th we were free from all the pressures and sleepless nights, a.k.a “The Exams”.
We would be writing very shortly. But what? Actually we are pretty much drained and got no clue what to write of. (Those who had the exam flu how is it going for you?). My best bet would be:
- Tips and Tricks
- Tutorials
- Some random stuffs
Well, the usual stuffs. Now that we are on our own for like 2 months we can tweek GeekScribes and give you readers more. Want to give a helping hand? You can always propose ideas of what we can do.
We were thinking of brining on some more authors. We really need it. Still searching.
This is my short post. Bussiness will resume soon.
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Changes Coming
April 12, 2009 by Guru, under Geekscribes.
Test week has been over since Friday and we were late to write somthing new. Moreover, exams coming in 3 weeks 
That is the sad part. I had a talk with InF, I proposed that we make some changes. As you must be aware, we saw a major hike in numbers of subscribes. We are happy and we want to give a new experience to our readers.
What we want you to do? Subscribe by feed, email, follow us on twitter or bookmark (CTRL + D).
Want to help us make you have a better experience at our place? The comment box is here. Propose, we will consider and implement if we see it in our scope.
I end here today. Keep visiting and commenting. 
I will update you on any changes.
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Test Week and Exams Ahead
April 2, 2009 by Guru, under Geekscribes.
Readers, InF and me are taking a break with blogging for the time being. We have got exams and tests killing us. So bear with us and wait for the next article. Thanks for reading.
Well, maybe in between my revisions I may write a bit.
From InF:
I need to write my part for this post! Seriously, we are being overkilled by UoM this time. We got test week as from April 6th. That’s next week. We got 4 assignments pending, one which needs to be returned on the last day of test week. The other 3 can be considered major ones.
After test week, we have 3 weeks, 2 weeks + 1 revision week. 3 weeks. 3 assignments. Major ones. Do you think that’s feasible? The best part is that I considered 3 assignments, 3 weeks. I didn’t include revision for exams in there. CSE expects us to do all the assignments, learn 3 language (Scheme, Prolog, AJAX), learn 1 program (PostgreSQL) for the assignments then revise and pass our exams. All this in the 3 weeks to come after test week.
I swear that after the exams are done, I’m going to write a “Rant against my Year 2″ post as a Special Post here on GS. I’d even throw in some doodles just to show how the semester went. That’s what I’m going to use my first week of holiday for!
Damn you CSE. You will either drive us mad, or kill us! This shows just how weird UoM can be. Weird and unrealistic! :/
