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Spockie-Tech
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Joined: 31 May 2004
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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By the way - I notice a few people are gradually addiing pages to the Wiki (Thanks Guys).
However, given that its in its early days, chnages are only gradual, and its a lot of work to fiddle around and explore all the pages to see what might be new (and if anything has been added).
Most have probably noticed the Wiki's "Recent Changes" link http://www.robowars.org/wikka/RecentChanges at the top of the page.. Kind of like the "view posts since last visit" feature of the forum
But, There is also a feature that is probably old-hat to most computer-heads, but might be new to less surf-savvy users. The RSS/XML Feed.
As long as you are using a "real" browser (ie, anything except I.E. ; - Opera / FireFox etc), you have a built-in RSS reader.
Just click on the following link http://www.robowars.org/wikka/RecentChanges/recentchanges.xml and say yes you want it added to your news-feeds, and your browser will automatically notify you whenever anyone adds something to, or edits a page on the Wiki, without you having to check it. It even provides a link direct to the updated content.
For those of you stuck in Microsoft-Land, The soon-to-be-released IE7 will finally add RSS feeds and Tabbed browsing and *some* features that the better browsers have had for years, so dont worry, you can move into the 2000's as well, even if you prefer Internet-Exploder. 
It might seem like a bit of a bell/whistle, but if you havent tried RSS feeds and how easy they make it to keep an eye on lots of sites without having to visit them all every day or so to see whats changed, they're worth giving a go.. I have about 30 sites of RSS feeds in Opera, and I can see at a glance whats new to look at across ALL of the sites in Operas Mail-Tab.
It might help people feel that their efforts are being appreciated in adding content to the Wiki too if they know more people are reading it. 
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Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:52 pm |
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Spockie-Tech
Site Admin
Joined: 31 May 2004
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Yep, chances are its some low-life sitting in a basement in Russia getting paid to fart all over the internet just to get some viagra-peddlers google ranking up a few notches.
They search for phpbb forums via google, and then write a bot program that automatically registers users with links to their sites on every forum on their list. The more high-rank sites that link to their clients site, the higher ranked their client site goes.
What they dont know is that I've patched the forum code so their profile links dont get displayed when the google bot comes looking, so they are wasting their time trying to piggyback of us, but unfortunately, they dont know that, so they keep spamming us.
What I'd like to know is how they are spoofing the IP address.. either that or they're doing it through a bot-net and the registrations are actually coming via other peoples 0wz3d computers.
Theres another patch that will stop them even displaying as new members until I've verified them, but I havent got around to installing it yet, since patches-on-patches take some tinkering to get meshed in.
People who get paid to ruin things for other people give me the shits. I'd love to meet them and their computer with a cattle-prod in a dark alley one night. 
The Wiki Link is a good idea Angus. I'll try to do some website updates soonish and feature the Wiki and the Forum a bit more on the homepage since that content is a lot more dynamic than the pages that I have to edit myself.
Maybe over the weekend, although the round-tuit list is pretty long at the moment..
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RoboWars Australia Forum Index
-> Technical Chat
I dunno,just a thought 
