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August 11, 2007

Protecting your forum logins from hackers

Posted by Sarah King in Technical Discussions

This is a hot topic at DigitalPoint right now as there is a bot working it’s way down the memberslist and doing bruteforce or dictionary attacks on the logins. Because the forum uses vBulletin it only gets 5 shots before there’s a lockout and it has to move onto the next member and then remember to return later. But it’s keen and has been running for a couple of days now. Reports indicate that it’s tried some other forums too.

Why? More »

June 29, 2007

A fool and his money are easily parted: e-gold and PayPal scams abound!

Posted by Sarah King in Other Stuff

People who do business online frequently have their earnings held by pseudo-banks such as PayPal and e-gold. A problem then arises when the same people need their money out of these pseudo-banks or transferred between them.

The most common way to do it appears to be to find someone who is happy to trade. So A puts money into B’s PayPal account and B puts money into A’s e-gold account. More »

February 17, 2007

Buying Expired Domains

Posted by Sarah King in Technical Discussions

There’s a stack of people out there buying up expired domains and selling them on, or using them to build sites related to their core business (which is sometimes buying expired domains).

I’ve noticed that there are some dos and don’ts associated with this: More »

December 15, 2006

Where the bloody hell are you?

Posted by Sarah King in Technical Discussions

That’s the catch phrase from an Aussie ad campaign but is quite apt when looking at some picks posted by lad called Ottodo.

Ottodo found some picks and in one the rock formations and sky look quite unusual so he posted them online. I was curious so I googled the photo’s image name and Google returned two pages of candidates and there at the bottom of page #2 was the photo.

Ottodo says the series of shots in the photo gallery aren’t his… but they are cool. See http://g.ozq8.com/categories.php?cat_id=647

May 28, 2006

Useful Sites

Posted by Sarah King in Technical Discussions

I’m working on a new project at the moment, it’s an intranet type thing so no point in linking to it, but I’m using CakePHP and thats been really interesting. Definately RAD, supposedly simple but it’s got so many really good features that while it is simple, it can be hard to discover the genius.

For instance,

1. $this->flash controls post save redirects, but doesn’t do the actual redirect if you have debugging turned on. You have to dig out the default template to know this though.

DigitalPoint remains the number one forum on the net, as far as I can see and I’ve recently been made a moderator. It actually changes the way I use the forum and it’s really very interesting.

Christian Mezei owns SEOPedia and a free directory WebXperience - and he has big plans for that. More »

December 7, 2005

DMOZ Scavenger Hunt

Posted by Sarah King in Directory Management, Fun and SEO Games

There are plenty who are quick to insult DMOZ and the people who work to make it work. I won’t go into that here, it will acheive nothing.

However, over at DigitalPoint a member (wrmineo) started a DMOZ Scavenger Hunt to find categories that had not been edited in years.

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June 6, 2005

Dates on Google Sitemaps

Posted by Sarah King in PHP & Web Development, Search Engine Optimisation

A big problem Google is going to have with their new sitemap intiative is the honesty and credibility of the people generating them. More »