I’ve took some extra measures against blog spam. I’ve tested it the last few days, and it seems like it’s working. 20 spam comments an hour aint funny anymore. Gmpc While working on making gmpc release ready, I decided that I am going to ‘scratch’ a long lasting itch and rewrite the (database) search. It’s read more
Monthly Archives: December 2006
There we go again, Part 3
December 21, 2006 – 5:19 pm
Well, I’ve fixed my pc. Replaced the motherboard. But stupidly enough, this new motherboard doesn’t spin down the cpu fan. So I bought (10E luckely) a new fan, some AC Silencer 64 ultra tcl. (yeah fancy name). It works pretty good, it regulates itself between 500-1000rpm, and keeps the cpu under full load at around read more
There we go again, part 2
December 19, 2006 – 9:13 pm
As (not clearly) posted before, my pc broke down again. This time it didn’t spring back to life after a few days. So I’ve decided to replace the motherboard (after testing every component beside the cpu in another setup). I was smart enough to remove the cpu from the old one, to check the socket read more
There we go again
December 17, 2006 – 5:37 pm
http://wordpress.qballcow.nl/2006/06/22/then-it-works-then-it-wont/ Just when you need it.
Custom keybinding
December 14, 2006 – 11:47 pm
This is something most more experienced gnome users will know, but today I could actually help somebody with it. So I will do a short writedown: The Problem: The volume up/down button on the keybord controls the Master mixer, but on his system this didn’t work, so he wanted to control the PCM mixer. The read more
gmpc
December 9, 2006 – 10:57 pm
What is gmpc? gmpc, Gnome Music Player Client, is a graphical fronted for the music player daemon. It’s written using the gtk+ toolkit. It’s one of the oldest, still active, clients. Gmpc is my quest/search for a good music player. Why mpd There was nothing else that could compare. I build a itx box, and read more
Blog spam and more. 2
December 9, 2006 – 11:56 am
Looking back in my e-mail to see what posts are recieving the spam comments, 90% is in the following post: Good Support From Linksys. The strange part is, comments aren’t even allowed on this post, so how it’s possible I am still recieving spam? maybe if you know the right “post” commands you can still read more
The horror
December 8, 2006 – 6:43 pm
Fedora core 6 ships gmpc 0.11.2 as latest version. That version is so old, that David (before beating Goliath) was responsible for most feedback on the Release Candidate.
Blog spam and more.
December 6, 2006 – 7:12 pm
I’ve been getting an awfully lot of comment spam on my blog lately. 20 a day is very common. I am also getting spam on my gallery (I forgot to turn of comments), 2-3 days after getting it online. It really pisses me off, what do they think to gain by it? Same goes for read more