Category Archives: Computers

django-cms 2.0.2 and Django 1.2 – 1.3

Posted on February 1, 2012 by benjamin

If you are running an old version of django-cms, you can still upgrade Django. I would strongly suggest doing this since it’s very uncomplicated. However, if you are running django-cms 2.0, you should first upgrade to 2.0.2 and run the … Continue reading →

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Stopforumspam Django Middleware

Posted on September 18, 2011 by benjamin

I have created a new Django app for keeping out spammers on the basis of data collected by stopforumspam.com. Read all about it here ยป It’s free, open source, and I hope people will make it better on github.

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Automating stopforumspam.com ASAP (updated!)

Posted on September 17, 2011 by benjamin

In case you need a quick way of getting rid of spammers on your apache server, use this method as a temporary solution until you find a better one. Please take not that it will evaluate EVERY SINGLE REQUEST through … Continue reading →

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Automating stopforumspam.com

Posted on September 16, 2011 by benjamin

THIS DOES NOT WORK WITH APACHE SINCE IT DOES NOT USE /etc/hosts.deny – See this post instead Use the following Python script to maintain a file in the hosts.deny syntax so that your Debian/Ubuntu box (or other Linux server) is … Continue reading →

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Boycutt Paypal: Installing BitCoin on Ubuntu

Posted on July 28, 2011 by benjamin

BitCoin is a free and open currency that will exist safely and decentralized online. Read about it. This method is reported to work on 10.04 (Lucid), and I can confirm that it works on 10.10 (Maverick). I don’t yet know … Continue reading →

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