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…
68kMLAPowerPCby Mike RichardsonWed, 8 Jul 2009 - 13:48
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…
68kMLAPowerPCby Mike RichardsonTue, 7 Jul 2009 - 23:07
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…
68kMLAPowerPCby Mike RichardsonTue, 7 Jul 2009 - 22:26
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…
68kMLAPowerPCby Mike RichardsonTue, 7 Jul 2009 - 22:10
Does the forum registration here not employ use of a CAPTCHA?
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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…
Congratulations ray11 on being our 1000th member
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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...
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I wonder if maybe they are spam bot registrations, b…
68kMLAPowerPCby Mike RichardsonTue, 7 Jul 2009 - 19:21
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…
I had this exact problem not but a month ago. Something about this particular iMac i guess. Nothing I did worked. I tried every trick I could find: booting from various install …
Apologies ahead of time for my ignorance on the details of which models are affected by what I'm about to say, but...
... isn't there some issue with some PPC Macs not liking the …
just the basics of the 2 technologies suggest that an active matrix would use more power, but that doesnt mean that they didnt find a way around that
(and according to the post ab…
Further digging in the "PowerBook" sections of my ever-useful old copies of The Macintosh Bible and Macintosh and Power Macintosh Secrets has revealed that the commentators du jour…