B10[mg]

All bloggers know the problem, you've got a one-liner in mind. A joke, message, concern, idea too small to dedicate a blog post too, yet maybe funny enough to post somewhere.

B10[m|g] now has a special place for such braindumps (for you RSS feed readers, check out the blog and look right below the header image ;-)

I'll try to update this as often as possible!

braindumps

You must get bored of my "header images" posts, but I promise from now on, they will not come by so often anymore, for I recently closed my European Tour with a visit to Berlin and Potsdam. Since Potsdam is nicer for photographers (and guys who pretend to be), the new header images only come from Potsdam (the Neues Palais and Orangerie, to be exact).

germany, berlin, potsdam

I've returned from Barcelona and Rome so here are three more header images (well, from the Colosseum and Pantheon only) ;-)

After my short city trip to Paris, I've decided to generate some more header images for this blog. If you're lucky (and aren't reading the RSS feed) you see one on top of the screen now!

The ones I've created are these. Click on the images to see the original (at Flickr).

Good blogger Bok noticed a major decrease in comment spam by blocking a single IP address. Of course, I had to see if this host was also spamming the heck out of my blog, but no. The IP address was not present in my logfiles, so I assume I'm still out of his/her reach.

Nevertheless, it got me thinking that blocking certain IPs might help stopping comment spam. I log the IP address and time stamp of each spam attack in a certain logfile (format: timestamp|IP address) so a list of top 10 offenders was easily created:

$ awk -F"|" '{ a[$2]++ } END { for (i in a) print a[i]":\t"i }' spammers.db  | \
  sort -n -r | head -10
604:    81.95.146.162
120:    69.46.16.231
74:     195.225.177.3
52:     85.255.119.74
50:     209.160.40.114
42:     72.36.226.10
41:     85.255.119.130
40:     66.36.229.227
35:     72.232.37.250
33:     75.126.21.163

I've added these addresses to my pf blocklist. Let's see if it'll work.

... why am I not surprised to see the ISP that refused to do anything about botnets at number 6?

comment spam, layeredtech