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The International Mr. Leather Weekend happens this weekend, and my hometown becomes the world’s fetish focal point! I cannot attend this year, as a visitor can easily rack up over ,000 in total costs. No thanks, I’ll just use that money to build my business for the time being.
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There’s always next year. Here is IML’s website if you want to learn about the events and maybe plan your own heyday of hedonism! My bit of advice: Do it now while you’re still young.
Switching gears to the IT scene, we IT gurus have become aware of a new “Big Brother” kind of nuisance. The company is called Cyveillance, a big media search engine that churns up Internet dirt by looking for illegal use of copyrighted materials. As soon as I started publishing blogs regarding classical music, I started being attacked by Cyveillance’s bots. Countless other infuriated server admins also complained of the same issue.
Clearly, these cyveillance auto bots are unethical because:
- Cyveillance is dishonest about the real purpose of these bots vs. what they claim
- The bots can bog down your server if left unchecked
- These scumbots do NOT respect your robots.txt settings, thereby ignoring your server's rules and running rampant through your site
The solution is rather simple: Ban Cyveillance and its bots from all ports on all of your servers, and voila! No more creepy Cyveillance bots to gobble up your expensive bandwidth!
If you’re a server admin that wants to do this, here’s some simple code, for a Unix server anyway. Modify your httpd.conf to ban Cyveillance's entire IP block, like this:
<Directory /directory_attacked_by_cyveillance>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
deny from 63.148.99.224/27
deny from cyveillance.com
</Directory>
Also, Chris Gulker, an IT guru to the nth power, also make a great blog entry on this subject HERE.
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Re: Chicago’s Leather Weekend and Cyveillance
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by anonymous |
posted May 26th, 2004 around 12:18 AM
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die unsigned bots! cyveillance started bitch-****ing my site as soon as I posted a free public domain mp3 file. No matter becuase i think we all agree that company will be the victim of its own tainted reputation
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