tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192483752025-10-17T10:02:05.895-07:00Technology blog about all sorts of crap.<br>Strap yourself in, secure your crash helmet and turn on your profanity filter.IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.comBlogger750125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-9152637032216194412013-09-13T21:52:00.001-07:002013-09-13T21:52:23.891-07:00

If any of you read my post about "Where's Bill Been Hiding" you know I got really sick and just about died a couple of times. Then I got much better, was almost completely healed, or so it appeared at the start of 2013. Weaning. So the docs started weaning me off all the medication as it's kind of harmful as well but the disease was still too active it seems and weaning was once again premature

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-34175528578842540962013-08-03T16:20:00.001-07:002013-08-03T16:20:28.831-07:00

I've been playing around with WordPress on IncrediBILL.com and there's a pretty good article over there about Blocking Data Centers, a real smoking gun type of report. Check it out. Not sure what the fate of this blog will be, whether I'll import it into WordPress, leave it as-is, or what. The WordPress thing is just an experiment at this time and anything could happen so keep your eye on it as

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-59590069565278342772013-06-14T11:16:00.002-07:002013-06-14T11:20:24.202-07:00

Let's take a quick look at how Google has installed traffic monitoring systems all over the web, not unlike traffic cameras on the street, and they can collect enormous amounts of traffic information, probably the most extensive on the planet as they track across jurisdictions, networks, borders without any hindrance whatsoever. Everything Google does is quite literally just another traffic

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-59243604547063268622013-06-13T10:48:00.001-07:002013-06-13T10:52:58.448-07:00

Seems like I always run into some new bullshit every time I upgrade servers, control panels or a new version of PHP. Nothing ever works as expected, it's never just a simple upgrade no matter how much the marketing worms say it's compatible with the previous version, it's not. I know a lot of people have this same fucking problem because Plesk is a POS (piece of shit) so I thought I'd make sure

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-42734898326788071972013-05-22T14:43:00.001-07:002013-05-22T14:48:02.222-07:00

When the restaurant host, that person stationed at the front of the restaurant, sees me park right in front of the door, in the handicap parking spot, and limp inside, that should be clue number one. When I ask to be seated close to the front, that should be clue number two assuming you ever pay attention to what your customers say because I'm pretty fucking sure it goes in one side of your dumb

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-82640396235804105602013-05-22T13:01:00.000-07:002013-05-22T13:15:30.963-07:00

Most reviews and ratings are worthless garbage because typically only whiny bitchy joyless people post on review sites just to rain on everyone's parade. I'm pretty critical of everything and well known to be a cynic but there becomes a point where the bitching and whining of the average idiot isn't helping, it's often off topic, and doesn't add any value to the process whatsoever except just to

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-20553983296233314662013-05-08T14:44:00.001-07:002013-05-08T14:46:33.920-07:00

Typical, you think a simple upgrade to PHP 5.4 would so smoothly on IncrediBILL.net but it blew a gasket. Luckily not all my domains were running the new bleeding edge bot blocking code so only that domain took a hit, but still the things that caused it are mind numbing to say the least. Partly, I could blame myself as I know better and should always trim my white space off data before sending

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-84331385647751635602013-05-07T08:48:00.001-07:002013-05-07T08:52:29.879-07:00

Dear Blog, It appears that I have abandoned you like the drunk fugly girl at the bar after a quickie in the backseat of the car. Oh Blog. how we used to have so much fun talking about cats barfing all over the house or the lack of anything that would pass as beer in Florida. How we used to rant and rave about spammers, spiders and other such technical stuff with venom and just a little foam in

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-79808761249187179292012-12-23T19:05:00.001-08:002012-12-23T19:05:19.825-08:00

I thought I'd seen everything until I stumbled onto a service called "All Site Search" which has to following to say about robots.txt: Do you care about robots.txt? Yes, we do, but we will still index everything. However, the things indexed that match the statements in your robots.txt file, will be marked. This way,

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-77317423905933465032012-08-20T22:17:00.000-07:002012-08-21T11:34:20.818-07:00

The more I use these so-called programs or Apps for mobile devices I'm beginning to realize that these people claiming to be programmers cranking out this crap for $0.99&nbsp; don't know their collective programming asses from a hole in the ground. OK, forgive me for leaving the Wifi and 3G off when I start your program. Is that any reason to just exit the fucking APP without so much as an error

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-56483751251950013962012-08-20T21:54:00.000-07:002012-08-20T22:17:57.819-07:00

Went out for dinner tonight and I got all excited when I saw the place actually had beer taps. Then, with much dismay, I quickly realize they're the same beers on both ends of the bar, just 2 beers which were Bud and Sam Adams, ugh.&nbsp; So I suffered through a Sam Adams and barely gagged the last of it down. Sam Adams is just OK, probably better than Sierra Fucking Nevada, but neither are

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-9413147741673471662012-08-12T23:53:00.002-07:002012-08-12T23:53:23.282-07:00

I've been ignoring the blog, shame on me. Got lot's of stuff going on like playing with my new toys, a Nexus 7 and a Samsung Galaxy, Android Jellybean all the way! Also writing software, experimenting with HTML 5 frameworks, blocking bots like crazy, playing in several sandboxes at once and just need to set aside some time to post about it. Most importantly I'm probably going to make a cameo

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-65600552088221246172012-04-25T20:16:00.000-07:002012-04-25T20:16:56.553-07:00

Check out the new .htaccess code generation tools currently in beta on IncrediBILL.me. The current modules available will generate htaccess code to block IPs, block user agents, block by referrer, block by browser language, block by country, and a whole bunch more coming soon. The most interesting tool is the htaccess rewrite wizard&nbsp; that provides a list of fields to choose from. It allows

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I think we should stop shutting down phishing sites when we regain control of them and turn them into educational opportunities instead.First, change the message on the phishing landing page so when some idiot lands on it they get told in big bold letters "HOW FUCKING STUPID ARE YOU ANYWAY?" and explain how they've just been saved from credit card or identify theft with links to resources to

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-53939741672401579222011-12-27T10:33:00.000-08:002011-12-27T10:37:04.523-08:00

Some of you probably never thought you would see it happen, but CrawlWall LIVES!Even though I've been sick as a dog for months, I started plugging away at the damn thing and doing some unit testing of various components on IncrediBILL.net, and now it's close to going into alpha testing.Go signup if you want to be a CrawlWall alpha tester, I think you'll like it.BTW, approved alpha testers, and it

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-62522298355278173112011-11-10T19:56:00.000-08:002011-11-10T20:42:34.870-08:00

I'm still shocked that after all these years people not only are still practicing the ancient black art of blacklisting, but I'm even still more shocked to see several so-called website content security products being recently released that rely on blacklisting as their primary defense.Are they fucking kidding?Do people really pay good money to chase an endless supply of bots?Let's explore the

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-81130366784671102142011-11-08T02:48:00.000-08:002011-11-08T03:03:41.880-08:00

I've taken a recent interest in tracking down the shitload crawlers of the domain sites out there that scrape your homepage, keywords, etc. and even display your AdSense and Google Analytics IDs.Fucking asshats.Posted a bunch of them on WebmasterWorld so drop in there to get details about domainsoutlook.com, statshow.com, urbandata.com, zitetrendz.com, hostnology.in, dawhois.com,

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I actually haven't been hiding, I was on the endangered species list.I have been sliding down a slippery slope for about a year now and seem to be finally recovering.Hopefully.It all started around the beginning of the year when my doctor gave me a new drug that after about a month appeared to be causing a mild rash. We didn't stop the drug at the time because it also seemed to be working

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-42647913465856951012011-06-30T06:52:00.000-07:002011-06-30T07:13:09.518-07:00

After years of running an internal link checker that rocks, I'm taking it public!Why LinkScrubber?The answer was simple, the other link checkers sucked and just reported "200 OK" for many bad sites. They didn't catch domain parks, prize pages, SEO iujection hacks, soft 404 pages, so on and so forth, so it had to be written. Now LinkScrubber has a very extensive set of fingerprints for all of

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-53180679792642720472011-05-26T06:11:00.000-07:002011-05-26T06:12:11.931-07:00

I haven't blogged much for a variety of reasons this year, sorry about that.Got a lot going on, anyone even still listening?Probably not, don't blame ya.

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-64448631897812962762011-05-24T11:44:00.000-07:002011-05-24T11:54:10.302-07:00

Really getting sick of repeating myself as people just don't seem to get it when it comes to blocking bots that blacklisting doesn't fucking work.Blacklisting requires wasting time chasing bots in access logs, huge ass .htaccess files that slow Apache and impact server performance, and are easily bypassed with changing a single character in the user agent name.Whitelisting on the other hand only

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-56231342048173912542011-04-27T21:15:00.000-07:002011-04-27T21:54:15.130-07:00

A little project I've been working on has helped me unearth some of the sheer horrors that the search engines have to deal with on a daily basis and some web designers and webmasters should literally be shot.How about a fully functional web page that has no anchors on the HTML page, none whatsoever, yet you can obviously see a fully functional navigation menu on the page?That's right, some dumb

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-4976194560936009892011-01-28T11:04:00.000-08:002011-01-28T13:06:34.137-08:00

Started noticing some leeched content showing up on a site called GlueText so it got my curiosity up to see how they were gathering their content.Turns out initially they were using the default libwww-perl user agent back in '0999.231.221.217 "libwww-perl/5.820" Looks like they got a little smarter after being bounced by sites to switch to the old Netscape Navigator user agent for the Win 98

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-26174410004777932292010-12-21T10:06:00.000-08:002010-12-21T10:36:36.514-08:00

Several times now I've had buffering problems with Netflix or Hulu when being played over wifi via the Wii or Playstation 3 on the big screen. To quickly diagnose whether or not it was a possible "throttling" situation, the first thing I did was verify if my desktop computer, which is hardwired to the internet, not wifi, was having the same problem or not. The desktop computer was running full

IncrediBILLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14244934627308399202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19248375.post-27087521166383055122010-09-26T15:41:00.000-07:002010-09-26T16:24:33.227-07:00

Lately I've been seeing an increase in some domain parks using frame buster scripts and it really didn't make any sense to me.Why would a domain park need a frame buster script?Then I discovered a potential secret, these domain parks, whether intentional or not, are inadvertently hijacking sites that have been previously victims of the iframe injection hack!Let's examine how this works.The iframe

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