Microsoft hasn’t learned from the scandals surrounding their paying bloggers to promote the Zune. Now they’re doing it with a new corporate slogan: People-ready business.
And, I kinda thought, I know of something that fits that bill better. It’s called Joomla, and it’s the swiss-army-knife of content-driven websites.
So, I figured I’d embrace and extend Microsoft’s slogan.
I’m seeing people coming here looking for help the same way I was trying a few weeks back.
I was operating under the mistaken impression that temporarily blocking Caravan.ru IP blocks would take care of the problem, but every time I lifted the block, they came right back, usually within seconds.
Here’s what you do:
1.) Get APF. (Advanced Policy Firewall) It installs very easily.
2.) Edit /etc/apf/deny_hosts.rules using your text editor of choice. (vi, nano, etc.)
3.) Add the following netblocks to this file:
212.24.32.0/22
212.24.48.0/21
212.158.160.0/21
212.24.56.0/21
212.23.128.0/20
217.23.133.0/20
212.158.168.0/21
217.23.144.0/20
62.213.64.0/19
206.74.0.0/16
144.94.0.0/16
212.24.36.0/23
217.23.128.0/20
212.158.160.0/21
212.24.56.0/21
202.53.8.0/21
Restart apf by issuing this command: /sbin/service apf restart
That should do it!
If you’re like me, and have had to develop websites for an Apple-oriented client, and you use a mix of WinXP and Linux, you are probably stoked by the fact that Apple has released a version of Safari for Windows users.
I remember one project I did where the turnaround time in communicating by e-mail, phone, and IM about differences between Firefox and Safari’s rendering took a considerable amount of time, and I’ve always wanted my designs accessible to Mac users, so I’m pretty happy about this.
