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Few days ago my site was hit by a bunch of really bad bots which crawl my site continuously until it overloads my web server. Now I’m publishing a way to block these so-called bad robots from ruining your website by their crazy crawling method.
Assuming you are using Apache Http server, create .httaccess file and append this line to the newly created file.
Continue reading “Using htaccess to stop Bad Bots from stealing bandwidth and crashing your server”
Few days ago my site has been subjected to bad http crawling bot which caused my site to be slower than usual. It become worse when somebody took advantage of the situation and launch a Denial-of-Service attack to my website which effectively took my website down for few hours per-day until today.
Rest assured the culprits has been identified and has been dealt with, you can enjoy reading my blog again. I’ve made few modification to my sites so it is more resistant to this sort of problem the next time around.
I sincerely apologize to those who have been subjected to hours of waiting for my site to load (and viewing the dreaded Internal Server Error messages) for the past 3-4 days.
And for those who are wondering about Gutsy Gibbon update will be able to read them at my personal blog : http://please.name.my.
Have fun !
[tags]gutsy,gutsy gibbon,ubuntu,feisty,feisty fawn,ddos,downtime,dreamhost,bots,bad bots[/tags]
After my first printer reached its end of life status (meaning that it has become too expensive to maintain it), I decided to buy a new printer. I haven’t bought a new printer for almost 6 years, I think I want to spend on a reliable and flexible printer.
After two weeks of window shopping, I decided to get the HP Officejet 5680 series, because I really wanted to have an ‘office look’ for my desk+workstation (yeah, I’m thinking of running my own business seriously).
Among its features are :
To summarize it, HP Officejet printer has all feature that I need to start my own SOHO business with functionalities that one expected to run day-to-day task. Best of all, the printer (CUPS) and scanner (sane) works well on Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn), w00t!
I’ve tested most of the feature of this little gizmo and is impressed with its performance, If you ever want to start a small-business like me, I would recommend you to get one too!
Recommended Product
Now you can do it all-print, all-print, phone, fax, copy and scan — from this compact, versatile all-in-one solution from HP. Create professional presentations and brochures with laser-quality black text, plus optional 6-ink and 4,800 optimized dpi color when you print and copy color documents. Send important faxes quickly and eliminate unwanted faxes using junk-fax barrier. Conveniently copy, scan and fax multiple pages with 25-sheet auto document feeder.
[tags]officejet,hp,printer,scanner,ubuntu,linux,debian,fax[/tags]
This is sweet! Ady Romantika has packaged a portable version of Pidgin which runs straight from USB drive!
Although the portable Pidgin only available under Windows operating system (just like other PortableApps applications), it is interesting to note that portable Pidgin allows you to try out Pidgin without installing it in your operating system.
You can download Portable Pidgin from this website : My Version of Pidgin Portable (.zip)
Other Resources
[tags]instant messenger,im,gaim,pidgin,portableapps,opensource,open source,windows[/tags]
This post will show you how to play old DOS games using DOSBox emulator under GNU/Linux operating system. This post assumes that you’re:
First unzip/copy the DOS game in a suitable directory (preferable your home directory),
Continue reading “DOSBox: How to play DOS games in Ubuntu Linux”
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After watching LOST , I never thought I ever come across sequence of real-life ‘bad numbers’ in the internet.
[tags]hddvd,numbers,the numbers,lost,dmca,dvd,hd-dvd[/tags]