OK. I would say you probably have no bot registrations and are looking at about 100% human spam registrations right now, most likely Chinese or Russians. The Mac question might hel…

Hmm, sounds like an interesting solution. However, as I said above, we have had virtually no spam-bot registrations since adding the anti-spam questions to the registration form, t…

Hmm, sounds like an interesting solution. However, as I said above, we have had virtually no spam-bot registrations since adding the anti-spam questions to the registration form, t…

Any thoughts on the Mac question idea? I thought that was pretty good. Click to expand... Hell yes, definitely if it's a 4400-related question.

So it's just the individual files. You need a Mac with an 800k drive, select single sided when you format the disks. I have no idea how you "bless" the system file. The floppies …

This guy seems to be selling copies of system 1.1 on blank 400k disks. I don't trust this though. floppies

Clipboard File __________ Mar 31, 1985 ________ 4 KB Finder ________________ May 2, 1984 _________ 48 KB Imagewriter ___________ Jul 12, 1984 _________ 20 KB Note Pad File ___…

Is there one stick that is constantly not being recognized? Could just be a bad stick.

What does the "System 1.0" on your harddisk look like?

I finally have an M0001 original mac :beige: (no 128K badges) and I also have a copy of system 1.0 on my hard drive. I could probably figure out a way to make boot disks but I …

Hmm, sounds like an interesting solution. However, as I said above, we have had virtually no spam-bot registrations since adding the anti-spam questions to the registration form, t…

Hmm, sounds like an interesting solution. However, as I said above, we have had virtually no spam-bot registrations since adding the anti-spam questions to the registration form, t…

That suggestion you have about the input form has merit. In fact, you don't even need to put a value in it. Just leave it blank by default, and it if gets filled in, then abort the…

That suggestion you have about the input form has merit. In fact, you don't even need to put a value in it. Just leave it blank by default, and it if gets filled in, then abort the…

Most phpBB bots are pretty basic. Even if you have a bot that can beat the CAPTCHA, the bot will be confused if you make a simple modification to the sign up form. On the actual s…

Does the forum registration here not employ use of a CAPTCHA? Click to expand... It does. But there are two types of forum spam – automated and human. The CAPTCHA should stop a…

It does, but the captcha can be beaten using crafty image manipulation techniques and the use of OCR. The achilles' heel of captcha is that it must be possible to be read by humans…

phpbb has really loose security and a captcha system a blind mand could break without a keyboard i am a member of a phpbb forum for a game engine, it got so bad over there i had s…

Does the forum registration here not employ use of a CAPTCHA?

Congratulations ray11 on being our 1000th member Click to expand... I reported his one and only post as spam. So, no congratulations from this user. xx(

It's too bad most of those members never post. One has to wonder why they register in the first place... Click to expand... I wonder if maybe they are spam bot registrations, b…

It's too bad most of those members never post. One has to wonder why they register in the first place...

Congratulations ray11 on being our 1000th member

Sometime recently 68kMLA passed 1,000 registered members. We are also close to 10,000 threads according to phpBB. We already passed the 10,000 thread according to database ID.

I finally got my iMac G4 up and running. I installed 9.2.2 on a USB external hard drive via my G3. Starting up the G4 with the button pressed, the G4 did recognize the USB hard dr…