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I am back after the holiday break (had a great time in the south of Spain, thanks) – and I am swamped in post holiday IT issues! Always after holidays when people come back and turn on their PC’s, servers,…
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Off for two weeks
I’m away for a two week break – no computers are going too be (ab)used by me during this time – consequently, my next post on this blog will be on January 3rd. Until then, enjoy the break. Tom.
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How to secure your PC
Bruce Schneier, founder and CTO of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., has written an update to his earlier article on securing home PCs. The updated article is full of useful advice such as recommending that you don’t use Microsoft Windows (“Buy…
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Google Suggest Beta
Google have released Google Suggest as a beta release and it looks good. What is Google Suggest? In Google’s own words ” As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you’re typing and offers suggestions in real…
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AuthImage not displaying image
The initial AuthImage install didn’t go according to plan. When the plug-in was installed, no image appeared – therefore no comments could be left, genuine or otherwise. After scratching my head for some time, I remembered that this blog is…
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Stopping WordPress blog comment spam – the conclusion!
Renaming the wp-comments-post.php file had a drastic effect on the comment spam – it appears very many blog comment spammers go directly to this file to submit their spam. After changing the name of this file, not only did the…
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WordPress comment spam yet again
Unbelieveably, I am still getting comment spam through the various measures I have put in place. Just this evening, I have re-named the wp-comments-post.php file – previously I had edited the contents of this file, changing comment variable names but…
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Stopping WordPress comment spam continued
Well, the suggestion I tried in my last post has helped matters but not eliminated the spam completely. I have found another suggestion on Weblog Tools – to increase the minimum time between posts. WordPress’ default settings allows a comment…
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