bot-trap allows your Web site to automatically ban bad Web robots (a.k.a. Web spiders) that ignore the robots.txt file. This does not include Googlebot and other well-behaved robots. The software requirements are Apache and PHP, but the principles would work with any Web server setup. The main advantage over other implementations of this concept is that bot-trap has a manual "unban" feature so that humans can unban, but robots can't.
C Parameters is a hash table library for C that is useful for passing complex parameters to functions. This allows passing named parameters, passing a variable number of parameters in any order, passing void pointers with runtime type checking, selectively merging or inheriting parameters, and more.
sweet! This upgrade just saved my hide! I installed Windows in the upper 10G of a 20G drive, and after reinstalled Lilo, I was stuck. The upgrade worked fine and now I can boot both systems again.
hard vs. soft and recognition There is also a view of development projects that separates them into "hard" and "soft", where "hard" projects are those which are lowe...
Freshmeat already too cluttered I find myself visiting Freshmeat less and less often, because the number of submissions is increasing, while the number of submissions I am interested in has not. A...