After reading “5 Tips on securing your Wordpress blog from spam comments and pings,” at leftblank, I decided to try out Bad Behavior (although I think the correct way of spelling it is Bad Behaviour ), a plugin for Wordpress which blocks detected spam bots from reaching the blog. So far the combination […]

Akismet has caught 5,742 spam for you since you first installed it.
Akismet has done a great job catching spam on my website. I usually check Akismet once a week or so, and in the past there has been around a hundred, but now every time I check I’m getting upwards to 500 or 600, […]

I was just looking at Shaw’s website earlier and found out that Shaw unveiled a new high speed internet option Shaw High-Speed Nitro Internet (now they have 4) some time late last year. It costs about $100 per month, and you get 25 Mbps down, 1Mbps up, 150GB of monthly bandwidth.
Are we gaining on […]

mIRC scripts can be helpful in many forms. They can do almost anything from hosting simple IRC games, to keeping PM spam out, to protecting the user and channel. Scripted correctly, most of them don’t cause any annoyance or frustration. Scripted incorrectly, they can prove to be quite hilarious to watch […]

Although this feature may not be used by many, it is now possible to give usergroups permissions in the Admin CP (only if the usergroup has “Can Access Admin CP” permission).

When you edit the permissions, the permissions listed are the same as the ones found in the existing individual user admin permissions.
How do these affect […]