Out of all the celebrity news sites on the Internet, picking WeLoveCelebs.com to scrape in order to fill your Adsense spam blog with quick and easy content is a bad idea.

GossipHeadlines.com has scraped 5,000+ posts from various celebrity sites over the last few days, and unleashed a torrent of trackback spam upon our site¹; both practices that qualify it as a spam blog in every sense of the phrase.

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This code makes up the file XXXX.php, and will ban the IP address of anything that accesses it (so don’t go typing random URLs into the address bar!). I have disallowed the file in robots.txt, and it is linked to from a file in the main index of my server. Any bots that follow this link will be behaving badly, and will be banned via .htaccess; the IP address will also be sent to me via email each time this happens.

<?php
$i = getenv('REMOTE_ADDR');
$handle = fopen("../.htaccess", "a");
fwrite($handle, "Deny from $i\n");
fclose($handle);
echo "You've just got $i banned from this domain.
You are a very bad person.";
mail("webmaster@example.com", "Banned IP", "Deny from $i");
?>

(via Bigbold.com.)

Receiving a chocolate-filled advent calendar from one’s much missed family back home never gets boring, even when you are 26 years old.

Firefox’s Nglayout.initialpaint.delay setting (found in about:config) controls the delay between receiving data from a website and displaying it in the browser. On faster connections this delay can leave you feeling like you’re taking a nostalgic trip down dial-up lane.

In about:config, right click and select new -> Integer. Call it Nglayout.initialpaint.delay and give it a value of 0. This will set the delay to zero.

(Via Mozillazine Knowledge Base).

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