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Information overload

Information overload 12/02/2003 06:34 AM
vnunet.com Dec 2 2003 5:24AM ET

Overload your C# operators

Overload your C# operators 11/04/2002 12:34 AM
CNET Nov 3 2002 11:03PM ET

Bergman Overload

Bergman Overload 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
You order too much stuff online when you meet your UPS guy on the street (and not your own street) and ask him if he has any packages for you and he remembers your address and finds a package. In related news I now got Blue, White and Red from Amazon. I also got Cries and Whispers (review) and Trolösa (review). I also bought more cds which I right away will convert to mp3s and put away in a drawer...

X Overload 2.0 released

X Overload 2.0 released 12/12/2003 08:06 AM
Teng Chou Ming has announced the release of X Overload 2.0, a collection of utilities that allows users manage and maintain their Mac OS X and Classic System Folder...

Information Overload?

Information Overload? 12/10/2003 03:25 AM

Jona than Delacour talks about Information Overload and his attempts to escape blog addiction. A couple of people emailed this to me and asked "apply to you?" Oh, wasabi, yes it does!

Gadget Overload

Gadget Overload 04/26/2004 04:07 PM
We've all heard stories about convergence when it comes to gadgets, but for many people, all we've experienced is the nee d for a larger and larger gadget bag (and a corresponding increase in chiropractor bills). Of course, even worse than the gadgets themselves, may be each of the different chargers needed to make sure the devices actually run. The question, though, is whether or not this is a temporary state where the possible future we all like to talk about just isn't here yet - or if we're really moving towards a world where more devices is the norm, rather than the other way around. Right now, though, the situation leads to somewhat comic (assuming you're not the person involved) situations like the following: "After downloading some massive high-res files from the digital camera to my laptop, I needed to send them to my coworker's laptop. Of course, I didn't have a wireless local-area network (WLAN) card for that old IBM. Neither laptop had a disk drive. The PC didn't recognize a USB stick. There was no high-speed access at my funky hotel in downtown San Francisco, nor could I log the laptop into the LAN in the convention center's pressroom. And, the pressroom's dial-up connection took so long, the laptop's batteries died, the adapter being back at the hotel room."

PHPMac: Module Overload in OSX and PHP
4.3.6

PHPMac: Module Overload in OSX and PHP
4.3.6 05/07/2004 07:54 AM
For all of the Mac fans out there, there's a quick little tutorial that aims to help you install over 15 PHP modules using a combination of fink (quite the amazing tool) and a few extra source code compiles.

Wi-Fi overload in the Auckland CBD - New
Zealand

Wi-Fi overload in the Auckland CBD - New
Zealand 04/26/2004 12:54 AM
Reach Wireless has switched on its new Wi-fi hotzone in the Auckland CBD.

See below for details.

RoamAD and Reach fire up city wi-fi

15.04.2004 By PETER GRIFFIN

RoamAD has resurrected plans for a wireless internet network in Auckland's inner city, but this time it will supply only the technology, leaving the service to be run by growing "wi-fi" operator Reach Wireless.

RoamAD has also received a US$100,000 ($155,000) loan from Silicon Valley-based chip maker Intel, a small amount given the multi-billion-dollar investment arsenal of Intel Capital, but an endorsement of RoamAD's technology nevertheless.

Reach Wireless, which is backed by telecoms entrepreneur Chris Jones, will offer wireless internet access in a 3km-square section of the inner city spanning apartment buildings, cafes and offices, using the network built by RoamAD.

Previously the plan had been for RoamAD to run the network itself and seek a partner in a large telco to market and service the network. But no deal eventuated and RoamAD has spent the last year focusing on developing its technology. "RoamAD is an equipment vendor and we need to sell our technology to customers like Reach," said RoamAD chairman Martin Levy.

Overload Extreme Foundation

Overload Extreme Foundation 11/14/2003 02:54 PM
New Project and File Release

"Yetisports 4 - Albatros Overload."

"Yetisports 4 - Albatros Overload." 04/29/2004 09:52 PM

Net struggles with data overload

Net struggles with data overload 10/30/2003 11:47 PM
BBC Oct 30 2003 10:07PM ET

Overload for the wireless industry?

Overload for the wireless industry? 03/14/2005 04:30 PM
Instant messaging, ring tones and other services have cell phone industry scrambling to keep up.

Information Architecture Overload

Information Architecture Overload 11/08/2002 05:06 AM

One way to manage your email overload...

One way to manage your email overload... 12/17/2004 06:33 PM
...is to simply make it someone else's problem. Here's the Out Of Office -message from a colleague:

Thank-you for your recent email.

Your message has been deleted from CutBoy's inbox, and all trace of it removed from our server. He has no way of knowing the message even existed.

So, if you still think that he will find the contents of your mail important you are welcome to re-mail at a future date at your convienience.

Sincerely,

Mail assistant to CB

I love it - resending the email when you even don't know when the person is back causes a significant cognitive load to the person sending it. Therefore, only the really important messages will be resent, and thus, the problem of filtering out the good email from the bad is distributed to the senders. Whee, practical applications of distributed computing using human brains :-)

Behavior mod: Overload your C# operators

Behavior mod: Overload your C# operators 10/31/2002 03:16 AM
CNET Oct 31 2002 1:58AM ET

Information overload: You Need To Get
Organized

Information overload: You Need To Get
Organized 08/19/2002 08:48 AM

Beta: Audio Overload 2.0b4

Beta: Audio Overload 2.0b4 03/22/2005 04:35 PM
Audio Overload, from Richard Bannister (author of numerous game platform emulators), is a video game music player that supports a variety of formats, including Nintendo, Sega, and others.

Network managers hit by web traffic
overload

Network managers hit by web traffic
overload 01/05/2005 06:46 AM
Computer Weekly Jan 5 2005 11:20AM GMT

How Info-Overload Experts Unwind

How Info-Overload Experts Unwind 05/13/2004 04:57 AM
Scientists and spiritualists who specialize in the art of avoiding information overload gather in Seattle to discuss better ways to escape the tyranny of cell phones and always-on Internet. Kendra Mayfield reports from Seattle.

Manage both system folders with X
Overload

Manage both system folders with X
Overload 12/15/2003 02:03 PM
Mac OS X users who would prefer one handy window to manage their Mac OS X and Classic system folders should take a look at X Overload. Version 2.0.1 was released on Sunday.

Extending PHP Classes with the Overload
Extension

Extending PHP Classes with the Overload
Extension 01/19/2003 12:09 PM
An interesting article on using Andrei Zmievski's Overload extension which comes standard with PHP since 4.3.0. The overload extension defines three "magic" functions; __call(), __set() and __get(). If we place these in a class then declare (outside the class) that it is overloaded, PHP will use the magic functions if it finds that a member variable or function does not exist. PS: On another topic, there will probably be a patch release to fix bugs in PHP 4.3.0, so if you haven't upgraded yet, don't bother until the patch comes out. "zeldman.hgr"

United Airlines' honorific overload

United Airlines' honorific overload 04/28/2004 04:45 AM
United Airlines' Mileage Plus signup form has an unbelieveable array of options for "Title," including "Swami" and "Cantor."

Mr Ms Mrs Miss Dr 1sgt 1st Lt 2nd Lt Adm Baron Baroness Bishop Brig Gen Brother Cantor Capt Cardinal Cmdr Cmst Col Count Countess Cpl Cpo Dean Duchess Duke Elder Ens Father Fleet Adm General Governor Gysgt Hon Imam Judge Lady Lcpl Lord Lt Lt Cmdr Lt Col Lt Gen Lt Jg Ma Major Major Gen Mcpo Mgysgt Minister Monsignor Most Rev Mother Msgt Mstr Pastor Petty Off Pfc Po1 Po2 Po3 President Prince Prof Pvt Rabbi Rear Adm Rev Right Rev Scpo Senator Sfc Sgt Sgtmaj Sir Sister Smn Smn1 Smst Sp4 Sp5 Sp6 Sr Sra Srta Ssgt Swami Tech Sgt Very Rev Vice Adm

Link (Thanks, Ken!)

Data Overload: The Hidden Killer

Data Overload: The Hidden Killer 11/19/2003 08:11 AM
Well, the latest internet/computer related illness we all have to worry about is New Economy Depression Syndrome which comes complete with the nice acronym NEDS. According to this article it can "cause anxiety, fatigue, difficulty in making decisions or concentrating, sleep disturbances, loneliness and isolation." It's not, as you might think from the name, felt by those who got slammed financially when the bubble burst, but by those who can't keep up with all the information available to them. It's the classic information overload problem. The concept of NEDS, though, was first created by the guy who wrote that classic of pop business books, The Killer App Is Love. Now he's paid someone do some studies for him to prove that NEDS isn't just a figment of his own imagination. The results seem to show some correlation, but doesn't do much to prove causation.

CesarFTP v0.99g CPU OverLoad [Proof of
concept]

CesarFTP v0.99g CPU OverLoad [Proof of
concept] 12/22/2003 07:39 PM
zib zib (Dec 21 2003)

Research on New Tools to Manage Web Info
Overload

Research on New Tools to Manage Web Info
Overload 01/22/2004 11:06 PM
BeSpacific Jan 23 2004 3:03AM GMT

A Practical Guide to Managing E-Mail
Overload

A Practical Guide to Managing E-Mail
Overload 03/14/2005 04:21 PM
A Practical Guide to Managing E-Mail Overload
http://hbswk .hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4438&t=srobbins

Stever Robbins offers advice on how to author effective, efficient, and focused business email messages. He also recommends how to read and respond to email. Thoughtful, well constructed and brief responses, which you have taken time to consider before hitting the "send" key, will increase the value of this communications tool. And don't forget that sometimes it is easier to just use the phone. [beSpacif ic March 4, 2005]

Pupils bear spam e-mail overload

Pupils bear spam e-mail overload 08/10/2004 03:15 AM
BBC Aug 10 2004 8:02AM GMT

Wget helps you cope with MP3 bl0g
overload

Wget helps you cope with MP3 bl0g
overload 07/12/2004 02:11 PM
Great item on Jeffrey Veen's blog last week -- a helpful tech tip for compulsively-downloading MP3 blog junkies:

[H]ow to keep up? For a while, I just visited a couple of interesting and well written mp3 blogs, but then they'd link to a couple more, and I'd start reading those. And then that happened a few dozen more times. My desire to stay in touch was in conflict with my increasingly limited free time.

Wget to the rescue. It's a utility for unix/linux/etc. that goes and gets stuff from Web and FTP servers -- kind of like a browser but without actually displaying what it downloads. And since it's one of those awesomely configurable command line programs, there is very little it can't do. So I run wget, give it the URLs to those mp3 blogs, and let it scrape all the new audio files it finds. Then I have it keep doing that on a daily basis, save everything into a big directory, and have a virtual radio station of hand-filtered new music. Neat.

Link (Thanks, Skye Ashbrook)

Document Overload: Managing the Digital
Paper Chase

Document Overload: Managing the Digital
Paper Chase 06/03/2004 06:35 PM
Fortune (subscription)-2 hours ago ... Chicago, where Jenkins maintains his office. Open Text started in the early 1990s as the Google of its day. It was a highly praised ...

Healthcare Association Finds Rx for
Marketing Overload by Taking the
MarketingPilot ‘Cure’

Healthcare Association Finds Rx for
Marketing Overload by Taking the
MarketingPilot ‘Cure’ 06/05/2004 02:30 AM
In 2003, the six-member marketing team at the Chicago-based Healthcare Financial Management Association was facing a burgeoning workload spurred by the growing complexity of healthcare finance. With more programs to promote as well as a stepped-up membership recruitment and retention campaign, the association began searching for ways to optimize the team’s efficiency in the areas of information access, project management, collaboration, and strategic planning and analysis. Their remedy: MarketingPilot, a system that merges marketing data, tasks, results and more into one cross-referenced database specially built to meet marketers’ needs. [PRWEB Jun 5, 2004]

Solutions for SPAM, email overload, and
the stress they cause from time
management and Outlook expert

Solutions for SPAM, email overload, and
the stress they cause from time
management and Outlook expert 06/21/2004 03:02 AM
Solutions for stress caused by SPAM and email overload in new book and at live seminars and Web events. [PRWEB Jun 21, 2004]

SQL Log Shipping Overview

SQL Log Shipping Overview 07/13/2004 01:42 AM

Singapore overview

Singapore overview 12/19/2004 03:36 PM
Puhlease! I was there for three days. The only overview I'm entitled to was from the airplane when we took off, and on that basis I can report that Singapore is mainly cloudy. Now I'm back in the Newark airport, waiting for the flight to Boston. Is there a longer commercial flight than Singapore-Newark? I'm glad to be home, eager to see my family, and would love to find a way to go back to Singapore someday soon....

joatBlog: SSH Overview

joatBlog: SSH Overview 03/06/2004 02:05 AM
Via Joat: Information Security Magazine has an article which gives a quick overview of SSH. This is one of those tools that you should seriously consider substituting for FTP and Telnet.

An overview of PHP5

An overview of PHP5 03/11/2003 09:44 AM
I have spent the last few days playing around with PHP5?I'm preparing some material on it and I wanted to take a first-hand look at how it works and what it can do.My first impressions is that it's a giant leap forward from many perspectives, although the new OOP model ...

PDF Competition Overview

PDF Competition Overview 08/19/2004 10:16 AM

Beyond PDF: Digital Delivery Develops: Interesting article on the future of the PDF and competing platforms that have developed to knock PDF of its perch.

Yet it has its share of critics who complain that it's not the most effective digital distribution method. Among its most famous broadsides was Jakob Nielsen's June, 2001 Alert Box column in which he concluded that the PDF was great for printing out documents, but lousy for online reading. Others complain about Acrobat Reader's load time, especially on Web sites. In spite of these criticisms, the PDF has solidified its place as the leader in electronic document distribution.

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An Overview of MSXML 4.0

An Overview of MSXML 4.0 06/06/2002 06:00 AM
Microsoft's MSXML 4.0 is more than just an XML parser: MSXML expert Steven Livingstone gives us a tour of the functionality of the Microsoft XML toolkit.

Photoshop 7.0 Overview

Photoshop 7.0 Overview 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

Darl & SCO Overview

Darl & SCO Overview 01/25/2004 11:46 AM

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Referrer Spam

Referrer Spam 11/18/2003 12:51 PM

Gessaman: It appears that these sites, using a clean little weblog as a front, are hosting a large amount of porn.

Wow.  To me, it looks like a lot of effort for so little gain, but clearly I am missing something.  But it any case, the comments on idly's blog entry are worth reading, as is the update (scroll down to see it) to Mark Pilgrim's blog entry on spam.

robots.txt vs referrer spam

robots.txt vs referrer spam 12/02/2003 01:56 AM

Many people have been doing this for a while, but as a public service announcement for those who may not have thought to do this:

A site can set up a robots.txt file which tells robots (which includes Google) to not index a particular file or directory.

Here's mine.  It is pretty easy to do.

Will it stop referrer spam?  No.  Many spammers are quite satisfied with fractional percent return on investment.  But it allows you to opt out.

I hate referrer spam

I hate referrer spam 03/06/2004 01:59 AM

These people/sites really piss me off because they've been spamming my referrers:

xsonnerie.com
riaa.com

And... I won't be voting for John Kerry

blog.johnkerry.com

Those three sites have been spamming my referrers for the past month or so...

They just got added to my referrer spam list in my referrer scripts... oh, I also don't montior blogspot.com sites anymore thanks to the recent rash of weird blogspot.com referrer spammings that made the circle lately...

Referrer Spam Tool

Referrer Spam Tool 09/06/2004 06:24 PM

Ever find referrers in your logs that make no sense? Sites that couldn't possibly have a link to your site?

I found this product online, which is the first tool I've found to accomplish r eferrer spamming. No link or name because I don't want to promote it.

[This app] is a Windows-based mass referrer spammer, which means that it will make a connection to a buttload of sites of your choosing with any referrer URL and User-Agent that you specify.

This accomplishes several things. Firstly, it generates webmaster traffic from webmasters checking their referral statistics. Secondly, it boosts your link popularity and thereby your Google PR, because a lot of sites have public referral stats with linked entries.

How did I find it? Checking my referrers, of course. They counted on me being narcissistic , and it worked.

At least by calling it a "spammer," they don't try to put lipstick on a pig.

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Referrer spam: rel="nofollow" doesn't
work

Referrer spam: rel="nofollow" doesn't
work 03/14/2005 05:27 PM
Referrer spam is becoming a real problem. It hurts search engine results, and forces website owners to handle large volumes of spam traffic. Search engine vendors can fix most of this problem: Permanently.

Blog and Forum automatic submission
scripts

Blog and Forum automatic submission
scripts 12/19/2004 03:34 PM

A note to the spammers and potential spammers that come across this: if comment spam is so effective in boosting search engine rankings, then why is this blog entry so much better ranked than the submission scripts are? You’d think that if they were even a little bit effective the makers of the tools would be able to get a better ranking than I have.

Spammers are buying ever-more sophisticated tools to facilitate their comment spamming. These tools can find comment scripts, bypass many protection measures, and submit comments with alarming speed.

Perhaps we could make a dent in the comment spam by attacking these tools. Find shareware and “webmaster script” sites where these tools are sold, distributed, and marketed and get them shut down. A search for “blog submission scripts” will turn up lots of links to products (and now, I’m sure, this blog entry) that are designed to spam comments. Track these down, contact the places they’re marketed, like share*it and for the software to be removed from their catalogs.

After finding a spam package that’s being sold on share*it, I contacted them about removing it. I’ve removed the names and links to the product, because I don’t want to make it any easier for spammers to find products like this.

One of the pieces of software sold on your site is designed to spam weblog comments and message boards. Product ID [removed] is described and marketed as a blog spamming tool at [removed] Please don’t continue to add to the spam problem, and remove this product from your service.

If bloggers are powerful enough to take down a TV news anchor, I’d imagine that a concerted effort to choke off distribution sources would be successful as well.

MySQL for Linux on POWER and PowerPC
servers

MySQL for Linux on POWER and PowerPC
servers 06/06/2005 12:05 AM
In MySQL for Linux on POWER, Part 1 you will learn about the availability of MySQL Database Server for Linux. In MySQL for Linux on POWER, Part 2 develop apps for MySQL in PHP, Java, C/C++, Python, and Perl.

Asking Mail Servers About Spam?

Asking Mail Servers About Spam? 11/25/2002 10:11 AM
Asking Mail Servers About Spam? I see that Dave's looking for this: A feature for a mail server? What if every mail server supported a new feature.An XML-RPC interface with one entry point. It takes one parameter, a user name and returns a struct containing a boolean. The boolean is true if there is such a user on that machine. It's a struct so more info can be returned later.My email program could send a message to the server each piece of mail came from. Hey you got someone with this name, and do they send out spam? If the answer is no, filter it to the bit bucket.Maybe I'm missing something or it's too early in the morning, but couldn't we ask the servers if they know about this person sending me the spam. I have a feeling that most of the spam I get comes from made-up people. [ Go ] This actually exists already in the SMTP / POP3 spec although it isn't XML-RPC'd of course. One approach to do this is to simulate an SMTP session to the server and then use the RCPT TO smtp command to see if the mail server will accept email for this user. Please note that this idea isn't mine, I got it from Mastering PHP 4.1 which is a pretty kicking book (and where I pretty much stole this sentence from). [ Code ] I don't think that implementing this is all that hard and an XML-RPC interface could be wrapped around it easily enough. It is a damn intriguing idea and one that would be easy enough to implement in a webmail client. One problem with it though is that a lot of email address names aren't true accounts but contain metadata for bounce processing i.e. 23232 @ company.com is generally handled by a bounce routine so any replies to it trigger unsubscribe or something else. Note: This isn't really a problem since if there isn't an account then it's probably spam but it would blow up a lot of list serve like processes. Also there isn't anything to stop spammers from setting up their own mail servers. What it would address is header forging which is a huge problem.

PHP Blog: Things i didn't know about
MySQL

PHP Blog: Things i didn't know about
MySQL 07/11/2004 07:47 PM
Lately I have been going over the MySQL 4.0.x manual step by step. I thought I knew most of the things that MySQL has to offer but it seems that there are quite a few cool things that I didn't know. Some are cool and useful, some I have no idea what they are good for but since I'm already going over the manual I decided to share with the readers some of these things. I hope that some of them are new to you guys too. I'm not inventing any of this material and most of the text here is actually a quote from the MySQL manual so start reading....

Blog Spam, spam en webl0gs

Blog Spam, spam en webl0gs 11/19/2003 09:18 AM

71% of Spam Servers are Located in China

71% of Spam Servers are Located in China 05/20/2004 02:38 PM

BLOG - PHP/MySQL Diary/Journal

BLOG - PHP/MySQL Diary/Journal 11/07/2003 05:28 AM
Blog 1.5 beta

Mike Kruckenberg's Blog: MySQL and PHP
Best Practices

Mike Kruckenberg's Blog: MySQL and PHP
Best Practices 06/22/2005 02:48 AM
Mike Kruckenberg has this post over on his blog today with his take on MySQL and PHP: Best Practices.

Jim Winstead speaks about good practice for MySQL and PHP at MySQL 2004. Looking down this it appears that I've just duplicated Jim's slides, not sure how much value that adds if you can just go an get the slides yourself.

Some of the items he mentions include things we've all heard over and over:

• don't trust user data
• watch for SQL injection points
• benchmark overall page load times
• don't use * (asterisk) in SQL selects
• use the right storage for the right data (i.e. don't put files in the database)
• and much more...

Check out this post for the full list...

Object Overloading in PHP 5

Object Overloading in PHP 5 06/17/2005 04:45 PM
PHP 5 has greatly improved object-oriented programming support. It also has new hooks to overload methods and properties. How can you do this? Why would you want to? Martin Jansen demonstrates method and property overloading with PHP 5 objects.

PHPEverywhere: Overloading Your PHP

PHPEverywhere: Overloading Your PHP 01/20/2003 08:30 AM

Edit the Scripts menu scripts with one
click

Edit the Scripts menu scripts with one
click 01/05/2005 10:36 PM
FunkDaddy: "I wanted to look at the code of an AppleScript in the Scripts Menu. Normally, I would have to do this by navigating to the script in the Finder and opening it in Script Editor. But I took a wild guess and Option-clicked on the script in the menu, and it opened in Script Editor directly! This makes tweaking my frequently-used scripts really easy."

O'Reilly: Object Overloading in PHP 5

O'Reilly: Object Overloading in PHP 5 06/17/2005 03:32 PM
Using the object system in PHP5 just has a more refined feel that in previous versions of PHP, and one of the features that contributes to this is object overloading. In thi s new article from the O'Reilly Network, they explain to you what object overloading is and how you can really benefit from it.

A fine implementation of the object-overloading paradigm has found its way into PHP version 5. Thi s article explores the possibilities of the overload methods __call(), __set(), and __get(). After explaining the basic theory of overloading, it dives straight into the topic by using two practical examples: first, implementing persistable classes, and second, figuring out a way to realize dynamic getter and setter methods. If you do not yet know what these terms mean, don't be afraid--it will become clear to you when you see the example code.

On a basic level, obj ect overloading consists of two things: method and property overloading. They focus on the first, showing you how to create a "catch-all" call that will fail a bit more gracefully when certain things happen - like calling a method that doesn't exist...

China sets deadline to end junk mail
with blacklist of 656 spam servers (AFP)

China sets deadline to end junk mail
with blacklist of 656 spam servers (AFP) 02/19/2004 06:16 AM
AFP - China's Internet police has published a blacklist of 656 spam servers across the world, setting a deadline for them to stop sending junk mail, state media reported.

Building a Blog in Dreamweaver with PHP
and MySQL: Part 2: Creating an
Administration Section

Building a Blog in Dreamweaver with PHP
and MySQL: Part 2: Creating an
Administration Section 09/24/2004 08:03 PM
Create your own blog from scratch without writing a single line of code.

Operator Overloading in Visual Basic
2005

Operator Overloading in Visual Basic
2005 07/15/2004 01:41 AM
Operator overloading is a powerful tool that allows you to redefine many operators (addition, subtraction, and so on) within classes and structures, making them more useful and relevant to the class or structure in question. With the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, you can now create and use overloaded operators in your code. The use of operator overloading allows for much cleaner, readable code, and additionally makes it much easier to interact with some types in the .NET Framework that already expose overloaded operators (for example, System.Data.SqlTypes or DateTime). This article discusses the scenarios in which operating overloading can be a very useful tool for you when you write applications using Visual Basic. It shows examples of how you can introduce operator overloading into your classes and structures in such a way as to make those objects act in statements as if they were intrinsic types (such as String, Integer, and so on).

Blog Spam

Blog Spam 03/19/2005 02:22 AM

What's to stop people from spamming Feedster and other blog search engines? At what point does a blog entry cease to become "real" and crosses the line into shilling for a product or company?

I found this today. While searching for a particular term over at Feedster, I found several "blog entries" that were nothing but thinly veiled advertisements. They had the veneer of independent thought, but as you read them, it was obvious that they were pitching one thing or another. So these people essentially spammed Feedster.

And where is the line? On this site, we've talked glowingly about EditPlus , PowerGrep, PHPRunner, Image Genius, and lots o f books, but they were honest representations of how we thought. And we stood to gain nothing by posting them.

Is that the litmus test? If you stand to gain nothing, then it's okay? But if you have a financial interest, then it's not okay?

We tend to look at the "blogosphere" as this pure environment, but it's bound to get crapped up by spam sooner or later. It's already happened for penis enlargement. Everything is bound to follow.

MSN Goes After Blog Spam

MSN Goes After Blog Spam 08/12/2004 09:33 AM
"One good way to make money is to boost your "Google Ranking" by posting comments... Obviously, posting comment spam on MSDN blogs will really jack up your rank, because we tend to get linked a lot..."

SPAM on your BLOG?

SPAM on your BLOG? 11/27/2002 07:45 PM

Even my bl0g is getting spam!

Even my bl0g is getting spam! 10/28/2003 11:09 PM
Well, it was s upposed to happen sooner or later. My blog is getting spammed. That makes turning the comment feature off very tempting, but until it becomes unmanageable I won't. I appreciate the comments too much :-)The other possible...

EnGarde Secure Linux Advisory: MySQL,
MySQL-client, MySQL-shared, mod_php, php

EnGarde Secure Linux Advisory: MySQL,
MySQL-client, MySQL-shared, mod_php, php 12/16/2002 04:17 PM
"Stefan Esser from the PHP.net project discovered two vulnerabilities in MySQL which range from crashing the server to executing arbitrary code as the user under which the MySQL daemon runs (mysql)..."

Replacing Perl Scripts with PHP Scripts

Replacing Perl Scripts with PHP Scripts 11/26/2002 05:12 AM
With the introduction of version 4.2, PHP has started supporting a new SAPI (Server Application Programming Interface) called CLI (Command Line Interface). This facility was introduced to help developers create small shell applications (scripts) with PHP. So, now you can kiss Perl goodbye forever. -- Jayesh Jain

Hear hear. Thanks to my influence, other developers at Natsoft are using PHP for their batch scripts too. Hmm maybe it is because they report to me...

"zeldman.bang"

A solution for bl0g spam?

A solution for bl0g spam? 09/06/2004 09:09 AM
I am currently planning my own CMS geared toward blogging, since I either just don’t like the CMSes I’ve reviewed,...

Dealing with Blog Spam

Dealing with Blog Spam 03/14/2005 05:34 PM
For the past few days, we've experienced a bit of a slowdown in the timeliness of our data. To give you an idea, our normal median time between being pinged by a blog and having the data available in...

Blog spam... I give

Blog spam... I give 12/24/2003 12:07 PM
I already have the MT-Blacklist plugin installed, but manual updates to the blacklist aren't cutting it--too much would've-been-caught crap's making it through. Time to break down and automatically update the blacklist. Luckily someone's already got a tool. (Yeah, it's python, but I honestly don't care what's in the Happy Fun Ball so long as it works) At least I get comments mailed so the crap gets seen quickly and doesn't linger, but I'd rather it not be up in the first place....

Rising bl0g-spam

Rising bl0g-spam 11/06/2003 05:07 PM
While it's sad, and more than a little pathetic, blog spam, like all the other sorts of spam, seems to be on the rise. I've been getting more and more comments posted that aren't anything more than links to some pill site or other. Having some of the antispam MT plugins helps,but still, there's a bunch I need to go hand-delete. (After which I generally IP-ban the poster, which has worked as well to cut down on the spam, though I worry about the collateral damage) It's really sad, though. Yeah, it means more work for me, and more maintenance,...

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