Stop the Killings! A bar tour for peace
Filed under: Music
Conrado de Quiros is organizing a series of concerts/bar tour against the continued killing of political activists and journalists. The first leg of the tour kicks off tomorrow, Sept 21, aptly enough on the anniversary of the declaration of martial law in 1972. Here’s the lineup:
Foreign Film Festival at Greenbelt 3
Filed under: Film
There’s an ongoing Foreign Film Festival at Greenbelt 3 this September through early October. A friend emailed me the schedule. Have a look:
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WordPress: Getting rid of comment spam with Bot-Check
Filed under: WordPress
This is one great plugin. Using the Captcha approach for fighting comment spam, Bot-Check embeds an image with a code in your comments page, and humans are required to type in this code when commenting. It effectively stops the attempts of those ad spambots to post their spammy link comments. Well, at least until they upgrade their smarmy carpetbagger tricks, that is.
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OpenBSD: OpenOffice makes it to the ports tree
Filed under: BSD
Checking out Undeadly, I ran across this item. Seems like OpenOffice has made it to the official OpenBSD ports tree at last. This means goodbye time for the cobbled-together efforts to make the suite run on our favorite OS. Sweet. While those past efforts were in the main successful, nothing beats having it there on the tree, officially.
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Eggdrop: Quick and dirty upgrade to 1.6.18
Filed under: Eggdrop
I’ve been neglecting this blog’s “Eggdrop” category. I never even realized there was already a new version release out. Eggdrop version 1.6.18 came out 14 July, 2006. per this news item on Eggheads. If you’re interested in what’s new with the latest version, it’s over here. If you’re interested in upgrading, read on.
Filipino blogger profiles: The Teenster(tm)
Filed under: Blah
You’ve surfed across the blogs wriiten by the teensters I’m sure. Whether you stayed and bravely read on, or quickly reached for the next browser tab, or called on your friends to “Look at this crap!” I leave to your remembrances. Why are they around? Why do they “publish” what they do? What’s the point? Who cares?
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OpenBSD: Traffic monitoring with trafshow
Filed under: BSD
Every network/server admin is hit by that occasional, often manic urge to find out what traffic is going in and out of his network, what services get hit where and by whom, what the effect all of these have on server resources. Or maybe he’s just bored. One lightweight tool I find nice is trafshow.
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