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Start receiving 1000′s of trackback spam comments on previous post articles.  Very annoying considering we were receiving lots of emails for each of these. Decided to install mod_security and block and IP that does the trackbacks and will also add some RBL look ups later on. Installed mod_security with: apt-get install libapache-mod-security mod-security-common Used parts [...]

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For some reason Firefox search bar was redirecting me to google.de search results.  Initially thinking it was something to do with firefox I tried changing the google.xml file in the searchplugins directory, however, that didn’t help. Then, in firefox going to www.google.com the browser was redirected to www.google.de.  So, wasn’t the search box. Had to [...]

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Thought this article was pretty cool for a finals project: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/offtheshelf-expedition-takes-flight-20091014-gw6o.html The idea was to launch my system into the stratosphere to an altitude of about 100,000 feet (30,480 metres) using a weather balloon. At that altitude, it could take pictures (hopefully) showing the blackness of space above and the curvature of the Earth below. [...]

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Thought that this was interesting.  Power cut and fault information. URL: Central Networks – Power cut information map

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Most hits to this site must be from bots!  Why?  Well, the content isn’t overly exciting or stimulating and most entries are written in under 5 minutes which would reflect on the quality of them.  Also, the vast majority of comments were comment spam with 100s of links in the comment. All this comment spam [...]

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