Re: [SLUG] Re: turning off blog comments
On 04/06/2008, at 10:12 AM, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: Who says I want your comments? I have a link to my contact form on my blog posts. If people want to talk to me, they can. I don't know, who did say you want my comments? Wasn't me. Your conception of a blog is different to mine, clearly. My conception? I don't see it as a one way conversation. Especially being on planets. I have three wordpress plugins for comment spam. Great, not one but three pieces of software to maintain. Then I get to moderate messages too. Not like I've got anything better to do. There's no maintenance except for updating the plugins when a new version is released, which can be done with one click now. Anyway, my point is it's not a big work load, since you wouldn't know, I thought I'd be friendly and let you know how how I deal with it. I've turned comments off on this reply, don't respond. Michael Chesterton http://chesterton.id.au/blog/ http://barrang.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: turning off blog comments
This one time, at band camp, Michael Chesterton wrote: > A blog without comments is like posting to a list and not reading the > followups. Who says I want your comments? I have a link to my contact form on my blog posts. If people want to talk to me, they can. Your conception of a blog is different to mine, clearly. > I have three wordpress plugins for comment spam. Great, not one but three pieces of software to maintain. Then I get to moderate messages too. Not like I've got anything better to do. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Wavy Gravy once asked a Zen Roshi, "What happens after death?" The Roshi replied, "I don't know." Wavy protested, "But you're a Zen Master!" "Yes," the Roshi admitted, "but I'm not a dead Zen Master." - From Robert Anton Wilson's blog -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 29, Issue 5
On 02/06/2008, at 9:36 PM, Darryl Barlow wrote: The compromise occurred over the Christmas/New Year period when I was interstate. The server had ssh access enabled via password entry and fell victim to a brute force password attack. Fortunately I had software installed which alerted me to the problems. ... (But I also noted with interest the recent bug in Debian systems when generating keys, which would have made even this method insecure on these boxes). you rarely need to ssh into a box 120 times a minute, so I rate limit my ssh connections to 2 a minute with iptables. This stops (dare i say) all automated brute force attacks, when ssh starts timing out, the bots move on. Won't stop a person, though will slow them down to a crawl. There's other things like fail2ban, using a non standard port. Perhaps blocking any ip that knocks on the standard port. But these measures will only stop bots. If someone is determined, they will just change hosts/ip's and continue the attack. Michael Chesterton http://chesterton.id.au/blog/ http://barrang.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] turning off blog comments
On 02/06/2008, at 2:10 PM, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: Yet people regularly ask me why there's no comments on my blog. This and the fact I couldn't be bothered keeping it up-to-date with the latest comment spam blocking hacks. A blog without comments is like posting to a list and not reading the followups. I have three wordpress plugins for comment spam. bad behavior, I have no idea what it does, you just install it and it does its thing. I think it finger prints spambots on their access pattern. It blocks some, but some get through. When they get though, there is reCAPTCHA, it blocks some, but some get through. When they get through reCAPTCHA, Akismet blocks the rest. First time posters get moderated, posts with links get moderated. Moderated posts sends me an email. The net result is I get emailed with legitimate comments which I manually approve for first time posters. I don't bother looking at the Akismet spam queue, that silently blocks spam, no need to act on them. spam is a part of the internet atm, isolating yourself from the community to deal with it seems drastic to me. It's a slight chore, dealing with spam, but no biggy. Another thing you can do is set nofollow on comment links, that way if a spam does get through, google won't index it. Michael Chesterton http://chesterton.id.au/blog/ http://barrang.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] editing a wav or mp3
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 20:57 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > david wrote: > > > I've got a .wav voice file recorded on a JNC mp3 player. > > Thats probably MP3 audio data inside a WAV container (much > like you can have vorbis, speex or flac data inside an Ogg > conatiner). > > > I can play it in mplayer, amarok, vlc media player and others, but > > Audacity and Sweep don't like it, and I need to edit it. > > Audacity and sweep both use libsndfile which sees a WAV file header, > but isn't able to read the MP3 data [0]. > > > After some googling, I discovered that by changing *.wav to *.mp3, other > > programs (banshee for instance) will now play the file as an mp3 file, > > so it seems the JNC plays strange tricks. However sweep and audacity > > still don't like it :( > > > > I need to import the file into an editor. Any suggestions? > > Use mplayer to export it to a standard PCM WAV file and then > edit it in Sweep or Audacity. When you are done editing it, you > can re-encode it as Ogg (or even mp3). > > Erik Thanks heaps Eric $ mplayer -ao pcm test.mp3 produced an output file generically called which then opened in audacity. Reading is like reading the tax act. You know it's doing you good... but. I never did figure out the right options from the man page. Based on your email I googled and found: http://www.linuxtutorialblog.com/post/tutorial-playing-around-with-mplayer which was also a big help. David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] editing a wav or mp3
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 19:50 +1000, James Purser wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 19:02 +1000, david wrote: > > I've got a .wav voice file recorded on a JNC mp3 player. > > > > I can play it in mplayer, amarok, vlc media player and others, but > > Audacity and Sweep don't like it, and I need to edit it. > > > > After some googling, I discovered that by changing *.wav to *.mp3, other > > programs (banshee for instance) will now play the file as an mp3 file, > > so it seems the JNC plays strange tricks. However sweep and audacity > > still don't like it :( > > > > I need to import the file into an editor. Any suggestions? > > > > What does $:file [FILE] give you? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/wav $ file test.mp3 test.mp3: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, IMA ADPCM, mono 8000 Hz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/wav $ file REC14.080603.1000.wav REC14.080603.1000.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, IMA ADPCM, mono 8000 Hz -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] editing a wav or mp3
david wrote: > I've got a .wav voice file recorded on a JNC mp3 player. Thats probably MP3 audio data inside a WAV container (much like you can have vorbis, speex or flac data inside an Ogg conatiner). > I can play it in mplayer, amarok, vlc media player and others, but > Audacity and Sweep don't like it, and I need to edit it. Audacity and sweep both use libsndfile which sees a WAV file header, but isn't able to read the MP3 data [0]. > After some googling, I discovered that by changing *.wav to *.mp3, other > programs (banshee for instance) will now play the file as an mp3 file, > so it seems the JNC plays strange tricks. However sweep and audacity > still don't like it :( > > I need to import the file into an editor. Any suggestions? Use mplayer to export it to a standard PCM WAV file and then edit it in Sweep or Audacity. When you are done editing it, you can re-encode it as Ogg (or even mp3). Erik [0] http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/FAQ.html#Q020 -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - "Having a firewall that allows NFS to the Internet is like having a seat belt that lets your head touch the dashboard." -- Marcus Ranum -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] editing a wav or mp3
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 19:02 +1000, david wrote: > I've got a .wav voice file recorded on a JNC mp3 player. > > I can play it in mplayer, amarok, vlc media player and others, but > Audacity and Sweep don't like it, and I need to edit it. > > After some googling, I discovered that by changing *.wav to *.mp3, other > programs (banshee for instance) will now play the file as an mp3 file, > so it seems the JNC plays strange tricks. However sweep and audacity > still don't like it :( > > I need to import the file into an editor. Any suggestions? > What does $:file [FILE] give you? -- James Purser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] editing a wav or mp3
I've got a .wav voice file recorded on a JNC mp3 player. I can play it in mplayer, amarok, vlc media player and others, but Audacity and Sweep don't like it, and I need to edit it. After some googling, I discovered that by changing *.wav to *.mp3, other programs (banshee for instance) will now play the file as an mp3 file, so it seems the JNC plays strange tricks. However sweep and audacity still don't like it :( I need to import the file into an editor. Any suggestions? thanks David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
