From why at hobix.com Thu Feb 2 18:34:13 2006 From: why at hobix.com (why the lucky stiff) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:34:13 -0700 Subject: + Handling comment spam Message-ID: <43E296F5.3040504@hobix.com> I've had a dramatic uprise in the amount of spam I get on RedHanded lately. I've been putting off fixing it because I wasn't sure how to solve it. I kind of wanted some kind of a filter and I looked at Akismet, but no way. I also looked at integrating chongqed.org somehow, but it's not really kept up as I'd hoped. I don't mind moderating by hand, I really don't want to lose any comments to a filter and I don't want people to need to jump through any hoops. -- comment-chops.rb -- So here's a wee little script and all it does is process the .comments files in order of most recently modified. Place it in your weblog's directory and just run it. It dumps a list of all comments for a post to the screen with a number next to each comment. If I notice spam from comment #12 on, I enter: 12. It saves the old file with .bak and writes a new comment file with all the spam removed. Again: enter the number of the first spam comment. If I don't see any spam, I just hit to move on to the next post. It's so brainless simple that I'm embarassed to even mention it, but it fits perfectly into my routine of blogging from the command-line. Anyway, if you guys have comments, maybe we can roll this into Hobix proper soon. _why -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: comments-chop.rb Url: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/hobix-is-the-way/attachments/20060202/9c7e0ca6/comments-chop.bat From fusion at storytotell.org Thu Feb 2 23:49:31 2006 From: fusion at storytotell.org (Daniel Lyons) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 21:49:31 -0700 Subject: Offtopic: An Uneducated Opinion Re: + Handling comment spam In-Reply-To: <43E296F5.3040504@hobix.com> References: <43E296F5.3040504@hobix.com> Message-ID: <123E8C3B-CB9B-4BA3-AB89-1A11ECE352D2@storytotell.org> On Feb 2, 2006, at 4:34 PM, why the lucky stiff wrote: > I've had a dramatic uprise in the amount of spam I get on RedHanded > lately. I've been putting off fixing it because I wasn't sure how > to solve it. I kind of wanted some kind of a filter and I looked > at Akismet, but no way. I also looked at integrating chongqed.org > somehow, but it's not really kept up as I'd hoped. > > I don't mind moderating by hand, I really don't want to lose any > comments to a filter and I don't want people to need to jump > through any hoops. I too really hate captchas. Scott Stephenson added "enter the current year" on his form and that seemed to be sufficient to end comment spam on his site, and it's not much of a hoop, IMO. He probably used strange variables names also. For what it's worth: on a site I wound up maintaining, I noticed that if you have hidden variables with trash in them that shadow regular variables on the form, most comment spam bots override the real variables with the hidden ones, making it really easy to detect comment spam. But that was a few months ago and I wouldn't want to assure anyone that it would still work. -- Daniel From n8 at adullmoment.com Fri Feb 3 09:38:32 2006 From: n8 at adullmoment.com (nate) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:38:32 -0500 Subject: ruby 1.8.4 install broked hobix? Message-ID: <2E8F1F5B-2516-4A20-9CE4-36B943A7B5C7@adullmoment.com> all, i'm only a dabbler, not a buff progger, but it seems upgrading to freebsd 6.0 with ruby 1.8.4 has blorfed my hobix install. any calls to hobix return messages like the following: /home/n8/local/bin/hobix:2:in `require': no such file to load -- local/lib/hobix/commandline (LoadError) from /home/n8/local/bin/hobix:2 local/lib/hobix/commandline.rb exists. i even tried grabbing the the trunk version, but that fails, too. what am i missing? thanks, nate From why at hobix.com Fri Feb 3 11:17:24 2006 From: why at hobix.com (why the lucky stiff) Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:17:24 -0700 Subject: ruby 1.8.4 install broked hobix? In-Reply-To: <2E8F1F5B-2516-4A20-9CE4-36B943A7B5C7@adullmoment.com> References: <2E8F1F5B-2516-4A20-9CE4-36B943A7B5C7@adullmoment.com> Message-ID: <43E38214.3090509@hobix.com> nate wrote: >i'm only a dabbler, not a buff progger, but it seems upgrading to >freebsd 6.0 with ruby 1.8.4 has blorfed my hobix install. > > try running: ruby -ropen-uri -e 'eval(open("http://go.hobix.com/0.4/").read)' that one should be a bit better at figuring out the paths. _why From sl33p3r at free.fr Sat Feb 4 03:54:16 2006 From: sl33p3r at free.fr (Frederick Ros) Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 09:54:16 +0100 Subject: ruby 1.8.4 install broked hobix? In-Reply-To: <43E38214.3090509@hobix.com> References: <2E8F1F5B-2516-4A20-9CE4-36B943A7B5C7@adullmoment.com> <43E38214.3090509@hobix.com> Message-ID: <20060204085416.GA12694@hal.void.org> why the lucky stiff wrote : | nate wrote: | | >i'm only a dabbler, not a buff progger, but it seems upgrading to | >freebsd 6.0 with ruby 1.8.4 has blorfed my hobix install. | > | > | try running: | | ruby -ropen-uri -e 'eval(open("http://go.hobix.com/0.4/").read)' | | that one should be a bit better at figuring out the paths. Hi _why, Did it change from the "last" 0.4 ?? If not, it seems we had a problem with this version too: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/hobix-is-the-way/2005-November/thread.html -- Frederick Ros aka Sleeper -- sleeper at jabber.fr "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." (By dmeggins at aix1.uottawa.ca) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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From mental at rydia.net Sat Feb 25 13:18:26 2006 From: mental at rydia.net (MenTaLguY) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:18:26 -0500 Subject: umask Message-ID: <1140891506.13258.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Just a quick note that I committed a change to SVN trunk so that file permissions on created files and directories are set via the umask rather than an explicit chmod. Right now it's set temporarily, locally, but I'm wondering whether umask should be a weblog-wide parameter. Thoughts on this? -mental -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/hobix-is-the-way/attachments/20060225/c368cd68/attachment.bin From sean at iheartsquares.com Sun Feb 26 19:17:09 2006 From: sean at iheartsquares.com (Sean Wolfe) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:17:09 -0600 Subject: my hobix couldn't find his way... Message-ID: <1e8345c00602261617o3059e834rcc8cb0273c507cf0@mail.gmail.com> I downloaded and installed hobix version 0.3b from the command linelike it says on the hobix website onto my Mac, and I get the followingerror whenever I try to get hobix to do any thing from the commandline. /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/hobix/commandline.rb:25:in `join':can't convert nil into String (TypeError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/hobix/commandline.rb:25 from /usr/local/bin/hobix:2 --Sean Wolfemaster nerd ofi heart squares, Co. 3711 N. Ravenswood Ave. #147 Chicago, IL 60613http://www.iheartsquares.com