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Re: Running CloudFoundry with VirtualBox on OS X

robdimarco — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:38:10 -0000

Very cool.

Not sure if this is desired, but if you change the ssh command to include -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no, it should not ask you to accept the host key.

Re: How-to stop most people from spidering your site and stealing content

robdimarco — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:50:28 -0000

Anyone doing serious scraping will just use Tor or other anonymization tactics on their IPs. If you really want to block them, a couple of suggestions:

- Tie results to sessions rather than URL parameters. Tie the session to the IP. It makes it much harder to go through a result set across the multiple IPs. In the past, this could cause issues with some users as they came from places like AOL that shifted their IPs, but that is pretty rare now.
- If you DO recognize someone scraping, I would strongly recommend sending back bogus data rather than 404 or some other errors. In automated systems, that is much more of a pain in the ass to detect that there is a problem.

Re: What People Search First at Duck Duck Go

robdimarco — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:30:03 -0000

How often do people hit the "More Links..." link?

Re: Keswick Theatre Refund Policy Lame

robdimarco — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:11:46 -0000

Since we are bitching about tickets, can we please have someone destroy TicketMaster? Recently went to a show at TLA and 33% of my cost was wrapped up in TM "convenience" type fees. The most galling was the $2 / ticket fee for me to print the tickets myself!