tail -f carlo.log

Feb 29th 2004, 16:51 GMT

I’ve just wrote a little PHP script to automatically deal with the inevitable referrer spam. After yesterdays server log file told me that the spam-to-“real”-traffic ratio was 70 to 30, I was pissed once again and decided to do something about it. I’ve wrote a script that sifts thru the last day’s log file, extracts all the referrers, and if a certain referrer is causing more than n% of the total number of accesses, it’s marked as bad referrer and added to the blacklist. The script runs once per day.

The script is named “Referrer Spam Fucker 3000”.

If anyone wants it, I’ll be happy to share it. Mail me at carlo at g-blog dot net.

Feb 28th 2004, 20:01 GMT

Yes, I’ve definately been there a couple of times by now. :)

PS: FUEGO!

Feb 28th 2004, 01:22 GMT

On a related note, I’ve scraped the official E&B news as well as the Net-7 (in character) news off the official site. The feeds can be found at the usual location.

Feb 28th 2004, 01:19 GMT

Great E&B session, these last few hours. Made a boatload of cash (looted some lvl7 items that where worth like 18k each), advanced a couple of levels (combat, baby!), had some nice group hunting going with a couple of fellow players, got some experience debt, but a new gun, saw new places, advanced some skills, and met bad Santa – huge Progen guy, handed me a number of high level items (one of it unique) for free, and laughed that I’d have to look at them in my vault for 235 levels since I can’t use ‘em until my skills have progressed quite a bit.

Still, I don’t know whether I want to join a guild or keep going solo for a while. I’m comfy with grouping and all, but I think I’m more the freelance player, even in MMOGs. It’s great to know that I am surrounded by human players, but somehow I like the old Elite approach. One man, a ship and a universe full of possibilities.

A propos “guilds”: every two hours I get an offer from a guild. They are handing out memberships to everyone. I mean, really, you just have to sit there, and someone will ask you whether you want to join his/her guild. You don’t have to do anything, they just want you to join. What’s up with that? Back in the old days we looked at skills and interests before we recruited anyone.

Well, I’m ranting. Anyways, off to bed.

Feb 28th 2004, 01:06 GMT

Interesting link of the second: OneLook Reverse Dictionary