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Spammers trying to access my blog

March 10, 2009 | No Comments

In November of last year I suddenly got a more than usual amount of spammers hitting my blog and forum. I wrote a Python program that will retrieve my access logs, my htaccess file and a list from the website stopforumspam.com. It will update the htaccess file and can upload it back to the site and thus eliminating access to my site for those known spammers.

I thought it would be nice to share some statistics from the months December 2008, January and February of 2009.
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Git 1.6.2 released and packaged for Ubuntu Intrepid

March 4, 2009 | 5 Comments

A new main release of GIT has been released.
I have build the version for Ubuntu Intrepid and it’s available in my repository. If you already added my repository you will be notified about the update, if you haven’t added it, it’s time to do so.
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Announcing updates of my plugins

March 2, 2009 | No Comments

I decided to no longer write a post when I update my plugins, unless it’s a main release or major upgrade. It’s cluttering the blog a bit to much.
You may ask yourself what is a main release or a major upgrade.
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Managing the iTunes Library

January 21, 2009 | 1 Comment

I love my iPod, as do my family love theirs, but the thing that drives me nuts about iTunes is the inability to manage your library in a way you would expect. If I add/remove songs or movies to/from my library folder, iTunes doesn’t pick up on it. When you delete a song from within iTunes it’s not removed from disk, I know this has to do that I don’t let iTunes manage my folder, but I don’t want iTunes to manage my folder, I’ll do that myself.

I run iTunes on a Windows machine and had only a solution for one of the two problems.
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Stop forum spammers in your htaccess

November 25, 2008 | 3 Comments

Having spammers hit your blog or forum? Why not block them by rules in htaccess to start with! Adding the spammers IP to your htaccess file keeps it from hitting your site to start with and keeping the website more accessible for the real users. With the help of a website and a small Python program I wrote that is exactly what I did.
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