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(Following up on the last post about spam IPs) The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) published an IP list showing the allocation of IP blocks. According to this, all IPs starting with:

5 and 95 are IANA reserved
6 are US Army
18 are MIT

That leaves 85 and 75 as possibly real IPs.
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Previous discussions have identified that using a CAPTCHA may not be the best method of preventing spam comments while allowing accessibility. While the W3.org comments on the subject may have been valid a few years ago, even the most out of the way blog today risks being inundated with spam comments, which in turn can [...]

Skype is the world’s main provider of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) telephone services. It provides free PC to PC phone calls. Its paid services offer PC-to-phone calls and supply additional software like KishKish
The KishKish add-on analyses audio streams for signs of stress that are supposed to identify lying.. See BBC report.
However, according to [...]

Previously this blog, and the others managed by Compuskills web design service, has suffered from massive deluges of comment spam. This has resulted in the institution of practices such as the Captcha which was frowned up on for its lack of accessibility.
Since upgrading a multitude of sites to WordPress 2.1, the level of comment spam [...]

Smashing Magazine provides a helpful page of tips on how to use CSS to do things that would be difficult to use otherwise.
At first, it looks like a pretty useless list of CSS tricks. I was thinking “Well, they look like CSS things but they don’t tell you where to fiind the [...]

It looks like the upgrade to version 2.1 went faster than anticipated with (so far) no teething problems. Everything should be working now.
One comment though, I am not convinced any of the new “features” are actually all that worthwhile. So far, nothing the upgrade has added seems spectacular. Code view (in the write post panel) [...]

As previously mentioned, WordPress version 2.1 (Ella) has now been released and it is our intention to upgrade this site to take advantage of what this offers.
It is anticipated that this upgrade should take less than ten minutes to complete, but to allow for any unforseen problems it is expected that we will be unavailable [...]

What are the disadvantages of using AJAX techniques? In practice, AJAX applications are subject to the effects of latency, often leading to baffling delays for the end-user.
AJAX is not well integrated with any browsers; so again, users may experience unexplained effects, such as failure of the back button, incapacity to bookmark pages. Search engines may [...]

What are the advantages of using AJAX techniques? The combination of Javascript, XML, css, HTTPRequest / i-frame can add a degree of interactivity that greatly enriches the user’s experience. At the same time, less bandwidth is used when server requests are limited to be sent only on-demand.
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What is AJAX? AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Javascript had increasingly lost popularity among web designers until it was revived with the development of AJAX. The objective of AJAX technologies is to add interactivity through a combination of techniques. Frequent small exchanges of amounts of data between client and server mean that the [...]