Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Panscient’s Naughty Bot

So I was log rummaging the other day, and came across this.

This isn’t the first time the Panscient crawler bot has been caught ignoring robots.txt. There’s absolutely no reason for their bot to be hammering sites like this. None whatsoever. For now I’m going to let them be, but if they return I’ll add them [...]

Spam from QAI India

Over the last couple of months I’ve been receiving a significant amount of spam from an organization called QAI Global. QAI Global seems to be related to QAI India, an IT group located in India. They seem to offer business training services and courses and, coincidentally, they also offer business ‘conferences’. Presumably these conferences are [...]

Blocking IP Addresses

I’ve just blocked a bunch of IP addresses.
Over the last few months, I’ve noticed a fairly odd pattern in my referrer listing. Every morning (my time), I seem to get a request that appears to originate from http://nitrocandy.com. Yesterday I decided to do something about it. I checked the extended logs and found that that [...]

Electronic Arts, why you gotta treat me like a criminal?

OK, EA, I’ve had it with you. I’ve had it with your stupid install processes that don’t work, I’ve had it with your online registration that doesn’t work, I’ve had it with your buggy software and I’ve had it with your complete lack of reply to emails.
Months ago, I bought the Battlefield 2 Complete Collection. [...]