How To Use Robots & Spammers To Run Your Cron Jobs

March 25th, 2009 The cron daemon is a long-running process that executes commands at specific dates and times. You can use this to schedule activities, either as one-time events or as recurring tasks.

December 3rd, 2007 DROP (Don't Route Or Peer) is an advisory "drop all traffic" list from Spamhaus, consisting of stolen 'zombie' netblocks and netblocks controlled entirely by professional spammers. DROP is a tiny sub-set of the SBL advisory designed for use by firewalls and routing equipment.

April 12th, 2005 Site Owners often detest the fact that google caches an old copy of their site and displays it on searches which brings up the site pages. A simple way to prevent robots (including Google, Yahoo etc.) from caching your site contents is to include the following within the head section of your web page.

January 19th, 2009 You must have seen Transformers or what you call robots in disguise. Optimus prime with his team of autoboats fights a battle of life to save human lives.

August 26th, 2007 I have opened this blog for testing. Now any spammer can get to my moderation queue.

March 12th, 2005 A 'comprehensive' sweep of the net by 70 law enforcement organisations from 26 countries should help authorities combat phishers, spammers and scammers, says a leading consumer protection agency. It sounds too good to be true and effective.

December 2nd, 2004 Addiction is the only name I can give to the love for this intellectual challenge targeted for Java developers. You may remember from your school days about cRobots, a program which allows robots written in c language to compete with each other.

December 3rd, 2004 Lycos Europe as you probably know has created a screen-saver which allows a controlling lycos software to target the idle time of the machines which installed the screen-savers to flood the network of known spammers. Some people are getting concerned that it amounts to ddos attack.

November 28th, 2005 Imagine a pickpocket leaving a note in the pocket they have picked informing the victim that they are very sorry about picking their pocket and what he can do to rectify the situation. Neil found ethical spammers in his wiki (read about wiki spamming) who left a note after they spammed: < !– We leave content intact.

February 4th, 2007 I have added a job board to this blog. You can browse for jobs or post a job.

July 7th, 2008 Google search bot (Googlebot) parses robots.txt file to find excluded sections of the site like any good webbots. However unlike the other bots, Google bot behaves differently when you have a section for all bots (*) as well as a section specifically for Googlebot.

August 5th, 2009 While discussing the top 10 tips to improve your twittering, I had indicated that don't make yourself look like a spammer. In real world, with shooting popularity Twitter has also invited the spammers to have a party.

May 18th, 2005 A good article from JavaWorld which describes how you can build intelligent robots that can learn and show emergent behavior. It uses artificial neural networks.

April 1st, 2005 Scott Richter, the man behind OptInRealBig.com and billions of junk mail messages, said lawsuits had forced the company into Chapter 11. OptInRealBig was fighting several legal battles, most notably against Microsoft, which is pushing for millions of dollars in damages.

February 6th, 2004 After some deliberation, and seeing others, I decided to leave the commenting section on my blog un-moderated. Today I was mildly surprised to find almost all my posts had a comment to it.