Re: [vox-tech] how to modify .htaccess to prevent wget or the likes from downing my site?

2011-05-25 Thread Chanoch (Ken) Bloom
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 13:51 -0700, Tony Cratz wrote: > On 05/25/2011 11:50 AM, Hai Yi wrote: > > I first asked this question to the support of my web host, and they > > redirected me to this link: > > http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=437549 > > > > and the snippet on that page looks

Re: [vox-tech] how to modify .htaccess to prevent wget or the likes from downing my site?

2011-05-25 Thread Tony Cratz
On 05/25/2011 11:50 AM, Hai Yi wrote: > I first asked this question to the support of my web host, and they > redirected me to this link: > http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=437549 > > and the snippet on that page looks like: > > > SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Wget" bad_bot > > >

Re: [vox-tech] how to modify .htaccess to prevent wget or the likes from downing my site?

2011-05-25 Thread Hai Yi
thanks a lot, Ken! I love this mailing list! its not that a disappointing fact thou, I guess I can still enumerate downloaders and common user-agent strings. Do you have a link or something that lists popular downloaders? I still want to protect my site to some extend. Thanks, Hai On Wed, May 25

Re: [vox-tech] how to modify .htaccess to prevent wget or the likes from downing my site?

2011-05-25 Thread Alex Mandel
On 05/25/2011 12:10 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 14:50 -0400, Hai Yi wrote: >> Hello all: >> >> I first asked this question to the support of my web host, and they >> redirected me to this link: >> http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=437549 >> >> and the snippet

Re: [vox-tech] how to modify .htaccess to prevent wget or the likes from downing my site?

2011-05-25 Thread Chanoch (Ken) Bloom
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 14:50 -0400, Hai Yi wrote: > Hello all: > > I first asked this question to the support of my web host, and they > redirected me to this link: > http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=437549 > > and the snippet on that page looks like: > > > SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agen

[vox-tech] how to modify .htaccess to prevent wget or the likes from downing my site?

2011-05-25 Thread Hai Yi
Hello all: I first asked this question to the support of my web host, and they redirected me to this link: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=437549 and the snippet on that page looks like: SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Wget" bad_bot Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Deny fro

Re: [vox-tech] Bad blocks on my hard drive

2011-05-25 Thread Bill Broadley
On 05/24/2011 05:30 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > I discovered bad blocks on my laptop hard drive today -- the laptop is > nearly 6 years old. I ran e2fsck -c the drive to mark the bad blocks as > bad, and everything seems to be working now. That helps, on older drives. Not sure when the trans