April 10th, 2007 by Andrew Wells
Is your phpBB board being overridden by spam? Most people may recommend that you go to their support forums and install a couple modifications, but what if they don’t work? The answer to that question is simple. All common solutions will not work. If someone puts out a common solution, the spam bots will adapt to it. Spam bots have adapted to captacha images, email verification, and other common defenses. Fortunately, the answer is simple, all you have to do is be unique. I will give you one tip on how you can do that and keep the spam bots at bay.
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March 15th, 2007 by Andrew Wells
If you actively use email like me, you have been receiving those stupid stock alerts. They claim “investors finally valued the product and started to invest” and “WE Will Just start it’s EXPLOTION. Market will make itself the rest”. I have noticed that these emails have suddenly come to a screaming halt…why? It turns out that the federal Securities and Exchange Commission suspended trading on the penny stocks that were hyped up through SPAM. It’s about time.
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March 9th, 2007 by Andrew Wells
This is one of the snippets that that I designed for Pivot.
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December 29th, 2006 by Andrew Wells
For the longest time, I was getting random 403 Forbidden Errors and the error log would say “client denied by server configuration”. This error happened when a lot of pages were viewed in a short amount of time, or when a page was viewed with several dynamic images. This problem was common in picture viewers such as Gallery where some images didn’t load or the whole page was a 403 error page. Sometimes refreshing the page fixed the problem, but it was still annoying. Read this entry to see what causes it and how to fix it.
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