May 2005 Archives
http://search.yahoo.com/info/ysearchbox_introduction.html .. such a hidden nugget.
The good news, is that I painted my motorcycle.
The bad news is, I posted a url to the pictures, and other folks are inline imaging that photo on various forums, and it is risking my colo bandwidth bill into overage.
The good news, is I've written a cache to offload these requests to, to run on a cheap shared hosting environment, where they bill by total bandwidth per month instead of on semi-peak usage.
Edit the file to suit your needs. Be sure to edit the part where you indicate what paths you are willing to cache and serve - this was meant to only serve the data I wanted to serve, and not to be the latest slashdot abuse host.
An example of the script in action:
http://cache.gigo.com/index.cgi/gallery.gigo.com/jfesler/st1300/.lowres/aag.jpg
index.cgi is the script itself. The path before it is where I placed it on a cheap host. The path after that, is the web url I want mirrored.
You can set the parameters on how often it should refresh a mirror. If there were no changes (and the source is not dynamic), then the mirror should be cheap to refresh.
There is no cache cleanup script (yet). I'll post that here, when I've gotten around to writing that. :-)
Looks like the latest virii and spam are forging gigo.com source addresses, and attaching zip files, with various subjects and bodies to try and convince you to open them. I got news for you - don't open those!. This seems to have kicked into high gear starting around 5/4/05. I am mostly getting the bounces from it now.
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UPDATE: This appears to be the Sober virus. I must stress again: DO NOT OPEN ATTACHMENTS.. even zip files.. from anyone. Really, email is a bad way to move files around - don't trust it.
Forgery is *very* trivial, and the virus writers are doing it.
I don't condone the use of spam around these parts. We do condone the use of the death penalty for virii writers and spammers, and advocate that the method of death either be viral, or severe overdosing of processed pink meat.
I don't think this is malicious or directed *at me* per se, but you may still want to read the definition of joe job.
It is done! My ST1300 is now a nice yellow.
