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Stopping Bad Bots from Stealing your Content and Backlinks

If you run a blog, website, or have any type of web presense, we’ve all had to deal with the nasty robots / spiders / and nefarious individuals.  It’s become a sort of Cat and Mouse game.  The problem is allowing others to steal this content or to “probe” your site can be very problematic. (…)

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WordPress Dashboard Incoming Links Error (Solved)

When I log into my wordpress blog and look at my dashboard, I see an RSS error on my “Incoming Links” widget.  This has been a minor annoyance for me and has been going on for months now, but I never really got around to fixing it until today.  (Just needed something to distract me).(…)

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When your computer becomes unresponsive.  The fix via CPU Affinity

When your computer becomes unresponsive. The fix via CPU Affinity

It’s happened to all of us.  You’re working on your computer and you need to do something (like backup your computer, virus scan, photoshop work) and your computer becomes incredibly unresponsive.  How do you deal with this? It’s actually a very simple thing called CPU affinity.  What exactly does that mean?  Exactly what it stands(…)

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Google Talk (IM) reverting to old status messages? I found the problem.. and the solution.

It recently just started happening to me.  I have been using Google Talk client for years and out of the blue, it just started to revert back to a very old status message from election night I used.  “Watching the world end.. Election” kept on showing up. At first, I considered it might be another(…)

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The Dreaded Spamassassin db version 0 error

I use spam / ham auto learning with Spamassassin.  (It works wonders for me) combined with a few tricks and fail2ban I have a pretty robust and effective Spam mitigation system. The key to using bayesian learning of Spam and Ham is to keep it updated.  This is important if you want to keep your(…)

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Stubborn Browser Malware Removal

So I came across a computer today that consistently had a redirect to “toptrafficsources.com” on all address bar keyword searches.  Needless to say it’s annoying to have every little thing typed into the browser address bar redirected to a malware site.  After doing the usual things with Firefox like checking “keyword.url” and default search providers(…)

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