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Usefullness of SiteUptime

Paul Westbrook | 04 September, 2005 19:22

In a previous post, I mentioned that I use SiteUptime to monitor some of my servers.  This service is supposed to allow me to be notified when one of my servers goes down.

Over the past few weeks, I have been getting pages stating that one of my servers is down, but when I attempt to log into the server, everything is working fine.

These false positives decrease the usefulness of this service.  I do use WebSitePulse, for monitoring as well, so maybe I will switch to use them.

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Spam comments

Paul Westbrook | 04 September, 2005 18:18

Today, I got over 150 comment spams, within the span of a couple minutes, from one spammer.  This spammer was not very smart.

  1. All of the posts came from the same host (This will allow further spam messages to be blocked, and be added to dnsbl)
  2. All of the posts have the exact same body and title.  (This will make it VERY easy for the bayesian filter to train on these messages.

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random password widgets

Paul Westbrook | 04 September, 2005 17:05

I just saw this post about a problems with some Dashboard widgets that are supposed to generate random passwords.  It seems that some of these widgets use Javascript's Math.random() function, which does not take a seed.  So when on every reboot, the same passwords will be generated.

[via DashboardWidgets News]

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