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Ikku wrote:Congrats on the job!

Disliking wine to me is like disliking beer. It's just because you haven't been properly exposed to it. Cabernet sauvignon (room temp!) paired with pasta pomodoro, delicious. Or a nice chilled chardonnay. I bet you would like chardonnay it's the easiest drinking, tastiest wine ever.

there are many different chardonnays though...
when I buy wine I usually buy Riesling. as far as I have noticed they're usually very fruity and citrusy. it's white wine though, not red. not too much a fan of red wine unless it's with food. I also usually just buy the cheap stuff.. I am in no way or form a sommelier at all. it all just tastes pretty much the same.

lets all give a shout out to wine beverages
high school abbys bush party drink of choice lol

To combat the staggeringly high amount of spam we have been suffering from for a while now, I have set the registration to ADMIN. So no new users can be activated unless I activate them. If you register, please check back in 24 hours to see if your registration has been finalized, and if you encounter any problems, send word to weedguru.animal@googlemail.com.

Cheers for your patience and understanding.

Thanks man. Maybe i'll be able to post more on my lunch-breaks instead of just deleting spam.

good thinking I'd say. they weren't even any clever bots <.<

Unless the spambots have recently learned how to bypass the captcha routine, I can only assume that this plague is human spammers...hence the move to restrict registration. I will make moves to add the particular admin privilege to the moderators, so they can help me check the newly registered users awaiting activation in the control panel.

CAPTCHA is easily bypassed. I've been doing it for years. http://decaptcher.com is what I use. Just harvest the image, upload to a team of outsourced workers who send the text of the image back. You then submit the text.

Like I said in a previous post, all you really need to do is change file names (i.e. register.php / post.php) and control names.

Bots don't usually work by following links and clicking buttons. POST/GET requests are directly used instead. The only exception to this is if the writer of the bot has no clue what he's doing. The bot can't send a POST/GET request to register.php if you've renamed it to joinup.php, for instance. You'd just have to change all references in the source from register to joinup. A POST or GET request sends or receives data to or from the server.

A POST submits data to the server. A GET requests data from the server.

Here's an example.

What was happening before:

bot sends post request, after connecting to WG: followed by the headers (connection, referrer, charset, etc)
and finally by the data (which could be, for instance An example of a completed POST:
This is what the bot could send to make a new account. Now, if you were to change register.php to something else, they'd just get a 404 error.

All in favor of giving JTP access to the source? Aye

all in favour of JTP taking me in as an apprentice of the wonderful world of programming, say aye!

I'd give it a go, but not with FTP access; just the files zipped and uploaded or something. If something happens to the site again, I don't want to be the one to blame. I'm a new member, so naturally, I'd be the most likely suspect.

If you're interested in learning, sugar, I'd suggest starting out with a RAD (rapid application development) language such as VB and jump right in. I started with BASIC when I was 5 and moved on to VB in 1998.

BASIC isn't a very powerful language at all, don't start with it. C/C++ will more than likely be over your head as a new coder, Delphi just plain looks like shit, Java requires the user to have a gigantic and annoying dependency (Java), which isn't good at all if you plan on distributing it. If you want a list of pros and cons of my personal favourites, feel free to drop me a message.

I would be willing to work with anyone who wants to help me improve the outdated and far from secure phpbb installation we are presently using, but in terms of giving access to the WGinner sanctum, I am afraid not. The last time I did that, even to a trusted mate who thought he knew what he was doing, he fucked the site within a day...the less access, the safer. but any offers of help are greatly appreciated. as there are many of you who know a huge amount more than me regarding phpbb.

I wouldn't need access to anything. You'd just send the forum files (the user database isn't there), I'd edit and send them back. You upload. To test it, just make a separate folder (i.e. /forum2) on the server.

I used to do a lot of programming back in the day but for some reason I gave it up. Just developed other interests. I actually started with C and it really wasn't that bad, C++ might be a bit too complicated. In high school classes they taught us with Java, which isn't the greatest language, but I really learned object oriented programming from it, for some reason I never could get the hang of it when trying to learn C++ but Java basically forces you to use it and it became crystal clear. In college intro classes (which is as far as I ever got), they taught us with Python, which was probably the simplest language I ever learned. Pissed me off I got a B in that class even though I aced all of the assignments and tests. Got a B because I was a lazy bastard and never went to class so I missed all the quizzes. Le sigh.

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yep my vote is to send the files to JTP and then have him edit and send them back...
If its going to help this bloody spam problem then do it...


ps i would be pissed as a new user if i registered and couldnt get access to the boards straight away...
i wouldnt be able to see the point of it... even though on our side i completely understand