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Tobias Schlitt's Blog: PEAR::Image_3D
Proposed
Tobias Schlitt's Blog: PEAR::Image_3D
Proposed
06/17/2005 03:32 PMTobias Schlitt has
a new post with a proposal for
inclusion into the PEAR libraries -
PEAR::Image_3D.
Image_3D enables you to render 3D images using PHP. As I mentioned in
my last post on that topic, the usage of PHP to render 3 dimensional
images seems a bit ridiculous, but it definitly has a sense: Imagine
the rendering of 3D charts from database data (we plan to implement a
driver for PEAR::Image_Graph) or rendering of simple 3D images from
user data. Of course one should not render those images on the fly,
but cache them. Exciting is the fact, that rendering even complex 3D
images (about 16.000 polygones) takes an acceptable amount of time.
Try it yourself! :)
He also shares a few resources on the
subject, including: the
proposal, the
package itself, as well as an example of it in use...
Tobias Schlitt's Blog: PHP Conference
Quebec Ending
Tobias Schlitt's Blog: PHP Conference
Quebec Ending
04/04/2005 08:18 AMIn his own quick post at the end of
PHP Quebec,
Tobias Schlitt, including a
few great shots from the dinners and "after-conference activities".
Tobias Schlitt's Webl0g: Upcoming
Conferences
Tobias Schlitt's Webl0g: Upcoming
Conferences
09/03/2004 08:47 AMTobias Schlitt has a
quick new posting on his weblog about
some of the upcoming conferences, including the Itn'l PHP Con 2004.
Tobias Schlitt's Webl0g: PHP World
Kongress 2004
Tobias Schlitt's Webl0g: PHP World
Kongress 2004
09/23/2004 08:58 AMOn
Tobias Schlitt's weblog
today, he mentions the talk he's going to give at the upcoming
PHP-World-Kongress.
Trackback spam
Trackback spam
01/23/2004 02:25 PMThis is odd...just before I fell asleep last night, I thought, "I
wonder why no one has spammed Trackback yet. It's just so wide open,
hanging out there like a breaking ball that didn't break." And then,
magically, I'm surfing around this morning and ran across this report
of Trackback spamming as well as a TB throttling patch for MT to help
minimize the damage. If I believed in Star...
We got hit by Trackback Spam
We got hit by Trackback Spam
07/02/2004 07:42 PMWell as soon as you lock one door they came in the back. This
morning I woke up to over 100 spam trackbacks that where very nasty.
Some of you may have seen them in our trackback tracker on the main
page. I really love to give credit to those sites that quote us but I
cannot risk having them on the main page. They are getting smarter as
they are spoofing IP's so it's not like I can put in a IP block. So
those of you using Movable Type Version 3 the backdoor is wide open.
Six Apart getting hit by Trackback Spam
Also
Six Apart getting hit by Trackback Spam
Also
07/05/2004 09:10 AMOhhh feel the love. now they get to feel the same pain a bunch of
us have felt all weekend. Maybe someone now will figure out how to fix
this. You know Yahoo, Google, Hotmail solved a lot of problems by
making users verify they where a human by entering text that is in a
obscured box. This will not fix the trackback issue but could be a
option. [Six
Apart]
Comment and Trackback Spam
Comment and Trackback Spam
03/14/2005 05:05 PM Comment spam has increased to the point where I've reluctantly had to
disable allowing unregistered readers to post comments for submission.
I'm spending too much time cleaning it up as well as trackback spam. I
am also disabling trackbacks. This is a shame as it undermines the
connectivity that...
WordPress comment & trackback spam
WordPress comment & trackback spam
02/06/2005 03:07 AMspampop
candygenius.com/spampop
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Photo Matt » Trackback Spam
Photo Matt » Trackback Spam
01/06/2005 04:46 AMcaptchas are irrelevant, and you’ll just push the spammers to
TrackBack spam
photomatt.net/2005/01/05/trackback-spam
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Movable Type Comment and Trackback Spam
Tools
Movable Type Comment and Trackback Spam
Tools
04/11/2005 05:50 AMI have two tools I currently use to battle trackback and comment
spam on this site, they get about 85% of it but still some nasty stuff
slips through. In the next couple of says I am going to install a
third tool on this site to try and fight back even more.
It's ridiculous three tools to fight trackback and comment spam. If
I had any management decisions to make at SixApart this would have
been a high priority. They need to quit making strategic partners and
fix their tools so I don't have to spend my VALUABLE time cleaning all
this disgusting stuff up.
At least some third part developers get it. It's too bad that
SixApart keeps sticking their heads in the sand.[MT-DSBL]
‘Sending TrackBack pings
indiscriminately makes you a TrackBack
spammer’
‘Sending TrackBack pings
indiscriminately makes you a TrackBack
spammer’
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Blog Spam, spam en webl0gs
Blog Spam, spam en webl0gs
11/19/2003 09:18 AMSPAM on your BLOG?
SPAM on your BLOG?
11/27/2002 07:45 PM Blog Spam
Blog Spam
03/19/2005 02:22 AMWhat'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.
Even my bl0g is getting spam!
Even my bl0g is getting spam!
10/28/2003 11:09 PMWell, 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...
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..."
Rising bl0g-spam
Rising bl0g-spam
11/06/2003 05:07 PMWhile 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,...
Blog spam... I give
Blog spam... I give
12/24/2003 12:07 PMI 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....
A solution for bl0g spam?
A solution for bl0g spam?
09/06/2004 09:09 AMI 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 (not the usual kind)
Blog spam (not the usual kind)
02/01/2005 09:47 PMI got a mail advertising a new Finnish movie blog hosted on
blogspot.com. I was going to let it pass quietly and ignore it, but
apparently the same person has been mailing
other<
/a> bl
oggers, as they seem to have received the same spam as well.
Because spam it is - unsolicited mass advertising, quite illegal in
Finland.
Jussi whoever you are: that was really dumb. This is not the right
way to gain good publicity. In fact, it's not even a good way to gain
any publicity, as I will never link to your blog now
because of your spam (and will remember this for a long, long time,
too). Stop doing that.
"Tipping Point: Blog Spam"
"Tipping Point: Blog Spam"
06/21/2004 09:19 AMwhat martin tobias wants from the
nextgen web
what martin tobias wants from the
nextgen web
08/06/2004 11:34 AMall he wants is for it to be more human.
Porno bl0g spam turns nasty
Porno bl0g spam turns nasty
08/04/2004 08:22 AMSmut attack via compromised military proxies
Blog star 'fesses up to payola spam scam
Blog star 'fesses up to payola spam scam
03/31/2005 05:55 PMGoogle objects to CNET staffer's Adsense-bait
Blog comment spam solutions and the
coming arms race
Blog comment spam solutions and the
coming arms race
05/14/2004 10:16 PMJeremy Zawodny recently
wrote something about weblog
spam. John Battelle picked up on it
today. Six Apart has just
released a centralized comment authorization system called TypeKey. I've been thinking about
comment spam for some time, and I've got a radical solution - one that
I believe is the only one that has a chance at working.
I think that all these blacklists,
etc are the entirely wrong approach. They will serve to create an
ever-escalating arms race between spammers and bloggers, resulting in
the wasteland that we have today with email and Usenet (anybody
remember Usenet?)
The problem is one of accountability. Whenever you have a system
where someone can insert an unaccountable message into a message
stream, abuse always follows. This has happened with Usenet, email,
and now blog comments. As long as people see some gain to be had for
perpatrating the abuse, and the abusers are unaccountable, they will
do so. The protocols are fundamentally broken: for example, they
allow spammers to forge From: addresses in email and they allow
comment spammers to add arbitrary content to arbitrary blogs. And the
authentication services only serve as a minor deterrent - spammers are
now using the prospect of free porn to get people to fill in the
"only-humans-can-decipher" image codes (captchas) that spam
blocking services are using, for example. It is a classic arms
race.
Here's my suggestion: Turn off comments altogether, and let people
who want to comment get their own blog. When they link to you,
they'll get picked up by services like Technorati which will
automatically show their comments whenever doing a search for your
post. This is what the folks at BoingBoing (and many other
sites) have been doing, and it eliminates spam because it enforces
accountability - you've got to have a publically addressable place on
the net where your words appear - and that place is owned by you. The
cost of setting up the blog lies with the commenter, which is the way
things ought to be. We're working on some ways to easily show the
number of people who have linked to a particular post, in real-time,
which will make it easy to show the interesting articles dynamically -
e.g. "Blogs Linking To This Post (15)" instead of just "Blogs Linking
To this Post". Stay tuned.
Now, this doesn't completely eliminate spam - for example, I could
set up a SPAM blog, and create links out the wazoo to all of
the major sites. For a while, the SPAM blog site will show up
in the Technorati Link Cosmos
of each site that it links to, but it soon becomes easy to eliminate -
for example, the SPAM site will never get an inbound link from
people who I care about, and that can be used as a filter on the
inbound links page. The spammer (and his site) would also quickly
gain a reputation as a spammer, and could therefore be easily tracked.
For example, a set of spam-hunting sites could link to the
SPAM site, and you could have a filter that only showed links
as comments if less than 2 of the spam-hunting sites linked to the
site, or any metric that you wanted. Think of it as a distributed slashdot karma
system, if you will. And you wouldn't be limited to using
Technorati for this, other sites could come about that do a better job
than we do, and you could use them.
Some might suggest that this is a bad system, because people who
wanted to remain anonymous couldn't comment. That isn't true -
Accountability doesn't mean the end of anonymity, take Salam Pax's blog as an
example of this. Of course anonymity (or perhaps pseudonymity?)
does bring a set of challenges, like "Why should I trust someone who
won't tell me his name?" but these can be worked through if the
pseudonymous blogger proves reliable and trustworthy over time.
Of course, you may ask yourself, "If this Sifry guy is so against
comments, why does he enable them on his own site?" I have employed
anti- comment spam measures in the past, which are working for now.
Since I don't get enough blog spam right now to make the tradeoff, but
I have no doubt that the day will come. I'm also technical enough to
know how to do all this stuff, and my goal is to fix the underlying
problem in the system, not to just patch things piecemeal. And I'll
admit to not being 100% convinced that this is the right way to go, so
I'm testing the waters of both approaches.
And besides, we'll get a whole bunch more bloggers in the world
this way. More permalinks are good. Comments and feedback are
welcome. :-)
Fascinating interview with Jonathan
Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones
Fascinating interview with Jonathan
Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones
03/27/2005 02:51 AMForensic types
eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=119&fid=532
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Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)
Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)
05/12/2004 04:17 AMAFP - Canada unveiled a new action plan to combat unsolicited
commercial e-mail, nicknamed spam, which jams inboxes and clogs
Internet traffic worldwide.
Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up
Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up
05/24/2004 05:37 PMThe latest study on spam trends appears to show that
financial spam is outpacing pharmaceutical spam
- though, honestly, so much of both is coming out that it's really
hard to imagine that this matters at all. Meanwhile, it seems that
porn spam is increasingly less interesting to spammers as the numbers
have been on a noticeable decline for quite some time. No matter
what, though, it appears that CAN-SPAM has done absolutely nothing to
slow down the amount of spam sent.
Trackback
Trackback
12/03/2002 11:46 AMWill someone test my trackback for me? I don't believe that it
works. Or perhaps no one has ever used it. Please :-) Can you leave me
a comment that you did as well? Thanks!
"TrackBack (2)"
"TrackBack (2)"
06/11/2004 12:52 PMTrackBack (0)
TrackBack (0)
08/15/2004 02:34 AMdemsformars.com/blog1/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&entry_id=351
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06/18/2004 04:59 AM"Trackback [30]"
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