Ever had a user register on your blog and not really been 100% on whether they’re a real person or just another annoying spam bot? Most of the time you can tell the difference pretty easily, but every now and again you get one that looks normal but just seems a little too odd to be genuine.
Well if you’re just as paranoid as me, you could always double check them against stopforumspam.com. I’ve actually discovered that a couple of my very own subscribers were known spam bots by checking them against the stopforumspam.com website.
Remember it’s not paranoia if they really are spam bots.
After running on Wordpress 2.2.2 for just over a year, and having some spare time I thought it was time for an upgrade. So shellscript.co.uk is now running on the latest version of Wordpress 2.5.1 & the most recent k2 theme, hopefully this will help reduce the amount of spam comments and bogus users I get but I seriously doubt it.
The upgrade has been pretty smooth as far as upgrades go, there are a few glitches here and there but nothing I can not fix. The only real problem I’ve noticed is that IE 6 has stopped displaying some of my old floated images correctly, they just appear with out being floated left or right but only in IE 6. I’ve not tested it in 7 yet but Firefox and Safari display everything as it should be. The good news is that it’s easily fixable so I am not really that bothered by it.
While upgrading I have also change my site layout a little, I now have 3 columns instead of 2 and I have expanded the post content area by a whole 50 pixels. I know it doesn’t sound like much but I think it looks much better than it did. The only thing thats left to do is update my current theme but I think ill leave that for another time.
You scored as Donatello.
You are intelligent and peaceful…maybe you should consider going into a different line of work. Even though you are friendly, you should try to fit in with other more often.
I’ve been playing around with Zen Cart for a while now, and for the last couple of days I’ve been trying to get the home page layout to be completely different to the rest of the site layout. Most online shops seem to be able to do this, so I thought why not Zen Cart? After some searching and a bit of poking around I finally figure it out. the good news is that it’s really easy to do with Zen Cart.
“This is assuming that you have already created your Custom Template theme, or at least know how the Custom Template themes work in Zen Cart.”
Okay here’s how to create your custom Zen Cart homepage, starting from the base of your Zen Cart directory go to your custom made template directory “includes/templates/Your_Template/” and create a new directory inside that called: index
Next copy the tpl_main_page.php template from
“includes/templates/templates_defaults/common/” to the new index directory that you just created.
Then the last thing that you need to do is go to your custom css directory located in “includes/templates/Your_Template/css/” and copy the existing stylesheet.css to index.css
Success - Your Zen Cart home page is now completely independent from the rest of your site design, all you need to do is edit either of the the two files you just created tpl_main_page.php or index.css to make changes.
I haven’t really got around to posting anything for quite a while, so feeling the need to post something - even if it has been floating around the internet since November - I thought I would post this 4-minute sneak peak of the next Futurama film, set to be released towards the end of March. It’s going to be great - I can’t wait
I am sure it happens to every superhero every once in a while. You’re out fighting the forces of evil, and after tying up that last bad guy you just happen to notice you’re just across the street from a supermarket and you know if you don’t just nip across and get those needed items you’ll only have to go out and do it tomorrow; or in Batman’s case, send Alfred out. Clearly Batman’s too much of a nice a guy to send Alfred out just for milk and toilet paper. Classic video. Enjoy
Once again it’s time to upgrade your defences, well only if your a user of IPCop. And why wouldn’t you be, its very configurable has a nice clean interface and its really simple to use. As always you can download IPCop form the usual place either as an update from previous 1.4.x versions or as a ready to go ISO for a clean install.
From the IPcop website: Some changes have been introduced since rc2 related to NTP (fix ntp user with ntpdate), Squid upgraded to 2.6.STABLE17, timezone upgraded to tzdata2007i, Snort rules permissions again.
The update has been split into two part to accommodate free space limitation related to the numerous new packages added since the recent releases. A way to recover some free spaces has been created, allowing to select one of the two ‘kernel type’ installed. Most of the work has been made on bug fixes and update interface changes.
Good news everyone! Futurama has officially returned this week with its direct-to-DVD movie, which was released over in the US on Tuesday November 27th. Unfortunately, there is no release date set for the UK as of yet - which is annoying considering this is a monumental event and I am sure most, if not all, Futurama fans would agree: something this big should have been released globally, not just in the US.
The good news is, I’ve been reading a lot of good reviews on the film and thankfully it sounds like it’s way better than the Simpson’s movie which as I stated earlier here, seemed to tie things up a little to quickly towards the end. So far from what I’ve read it sounds like the Futurama movie doesn’t do that at all and actually has a very good, structured plot to go with it.
I have to say, Futurama is my favourite out of the two shows; and if the Futurama movie didn’t do so well, I think I would start to lose faith in Matt Groening. The Simpson’s is good, don’t get me wrong, I am just more of a sci-fi geek.
The only bad thing I’ve actually heard is that a lot of the humour is based on established themes and inside-jokes, so someone not familiar with the Futurama universe might not pick up on some of the jokes, but for me a Futurama addict, this doesn’t seem like a bad thing at all, as it will make it just that much more enjoyable.
The iPhone is now available in the UK, and officially went on sale from 6pm on Friday the 9th of November, but so far the release of the iPhone over here has been pretty calm and has been nothing like it was in the US. There have been reports of Apple fanatics queuing up on the 9th to be the first to get their hands on the iPhone, but compared to the US release these numbers were extremely small.
I thought that by the weekend it would have kicked off, but there still doesn’t seem to be any visible signs of demand for the phone; since you can walk into any store selling the iPhone and take a look at it without being hindered by large groups of people trying to do the same. Maybe it’s the fact that we have so many Carphone Warehouses and O2 stores scattered throughout the UK that it’s helped to distribute the demand a lot better than the US did. Still, I was expecting larger queues and pretty much chaos everywhere the iPhone is being sold, but that’s just not the case. A number of other sites here & here are describing the same lack of enthusiasm about the iPhones release, even The Register is reporting that the iPhone has flopped on its first day in the UK.
Unfortunately for Apple & O2 I too will be contributing to the low demand as I am happy with my current phone: it may not be cutting edge but it suites me just fine. I am more interested in the iPod touch than the iPhone. The only thing that is holding me back from buying one is the drive size; but I’m guessing it will not be that long until Apple release one with a larger capacity.
Ever had a user register on your blog and not really been 100% on whether they’re a real person or just another annoying spam bot? Most of the time you can tell the difference pretty easily, but every now and again you get one that looks normal but just seems a little too odd to be genuine.
