Print Story Stupid pointless spambots
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By priestess (Thu Nov 01, 2007 at 07:19:30 AM EST) spam, robots, spambots, ubuntu, gutsy gibbon, compiz, productivity (all tags)
My wiki's always had lots of spam. Mostly links to porn and viagra sites. You block what you can, revert the rest, and curse the wankers who write those bots for financial gain.

Lately though, I've been getting edits from bots that just put a single nonsense word a the top of the page. Words like "rellachizela" or "getsit" or "olodaracelt" with no link and no other text. I mean. I can't even see what the point of that is. Why on earth would you do that? Even the robots have gone insane.



In other news. I installed ubuntu last night, the latest gibbon one. Mostly coz my Sid install had broken when X had upgraded to a new version that drivers for my video card didn't seem to exist for yet.

This means that Compiz is working on my machine for the first time ever. The windows move around faster than they used to. Well. Until you turn on all the chrome at least. They're well pretty. Not good for productivity though. I seem to have wasted at least one entire night just turning on and off all the different effects to see what they do. Heh.

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