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Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 15:20
by Quiff Boy
i shall be doing some upgrades one evening this week that will stop the bot registrations and take us up to phpBB v2.0.10...
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 15:31
by Quiff Boy
and that got rid of a few
have deleted all accounts that have been pending activation for more than 2 months. a good few of these were ".ru" spam bot thingies...
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 15:45
by Black Dahlia
Did someone say 666? ......................
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 15:46
by Hojyuu-obi
Quiff Boy wrote:i shall be doing some upgrades one evening this week that will stop the bot registrations and take us up to phpBB v2.0.10...
What exactly are
bot registrations?
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 16:07
by Quiff Boy
Hojyuu-obi wrote:Quiff Boy wrote:i shall be doing some upgrades one evening this week that will stop the bot registrations and take us up to phpBB v2.0.10...
What exactly are
bot registrations?
ro
botic registrations - done by automatic scripts written by tedious 12 year olds with no friends. probably using their mum's pc while she is in the kitchen drinking cheap scotch and being shagged over the sink by the old man from next door...
but i'm not bitter.
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 16:09
by hallucienate
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 16:18
by Quiff Boy
i prefer bile-fuelled rathan inspired
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 16:21
by christophe
Quiff Boy wrote:i shall be doing some upgrades one evening this week that will stop the bot registrations and take us up to phpBB v2.0.10...
are we gone notice something about this upgrade?
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 16:26
by Quiff Boy
hopefully not.
a few slight graphical tweaks to the various themes just to tidy them up, and i'll probably sc
rap a couple of the ones that aren't used that much, but by and large its a back-end upgrade: add a couple of new security features and fix a few security holes, etc.
i've been meaning to upgrade for an age - we run 2.0.3 and the software is now up to 2.0.10
i've been a little remiss in keeping up to date
the only new feature as such is that when you register you will be shown a randomly created gif with a sequence of letters and numbers, and you will be asked to confirm the sequence. dead easy if you have eyes and can type, dead hard if your a shi
tty little script kiddy with nothing better to do...
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 16:28
by Loki
Quiff Boy wrote: robotic registrations
And for the un-geek, the 'purpose' behind writing these scripts is ..?
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 16:31
by Quiff Boy
JB wrote:Quiff Boy wrote: robotic registrations
And for the un-geek, the 'purpose' behind writing these scripts is ..?
no idea.
probably to make yourself seem more important in lieu of having any friends or girlfriends.
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 16:33
by Loki
Quiff Boy wrote:JB wrote:Quiff Boy wrote: robotic registrations
And for the un-geek, the 'purpose' behind writing these scripts is ..?
no idea.
probably to make yourself seem more important in lieu of having any friends or girlfriends.
Where can I learn to write them?
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 16:43
by Quiff Boy
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 16:47
by Loki
"down wiv da kidz"
Thanks, but I'll stick to the one-liners.
Posted: 25 Oct 2004, 16:53
by hallucienate
Quiff Boy wrote:hopefully not.
a few slight graphical tweaks to the various themes just to tidy them up, and i'll probably sc
rap a couple of the ones that aren't used that much, but by and large its a back-end upgrade: add a couple of new security features and fix a few security holes, etc.
i've been meaning to upgrade for an age - we run 2.0.3 and the software is now up to 2.0.10
i've been a little remiss in keeping up to date
the only new feature as such is that when you register you will be shown a randomly created gif with a sequence of letters and numbers, and you will be asked to confirm the sequence. dead easy if you have eyes and can type, dead hard if your a shi
tty little script kiddy with nothing better to do...
which version has the built in coffee machine?
and what about blind people
