#OSGEO IRC Log - 2009-12-02

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09:38:30 : * miblon is getting a little drunk
09:39:49 miblon: train stopped at Tilburg, something wrong with the track. I can take a bus, but they expect to resume service at 20:00h. So I will wait, have some beers instead of crowding at the busstop
09:40:02 : * miblon loves public transport
10:37:36 sigq: osgeofeed: Ticket #511 ( task created ): Enable ticket details for PostGIS Trac <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/511>
10:51:41 sigq: osgeofeed: Ticket #511 ( task closed ): Enable ticket details for PostGIS Trac <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/511#comment:1>
10:55:53 pramsey: FrankW: any way to lock out osgeo user ids? there's some folks embedding spam links into trac now
10:55:54 pramsey: :(
10:57:16 FrankW: wow
10:57:27 FrankW: Can you provide a pointer?
10:57:27 wildintellect: pramsey, if that's really the case shouldn't we be canning those osgeo ids
10:57:43 pramsey: http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/timeline
10:57:44 FrankW: I hadn't bothered creating a utility to delete or disable userids.
10:57:45 sigq: Title: Timeline - PostGIS - Trac ( at trac.osgeo.org )
10:57:48 FrankW: But I can change their password.
10:57:58 pramsey: ayanasmith, richardhaguisan
10:58:18 pramsey: all good things must end, we've been discovered
10:58:41 FrankW: It's hard to imagine we are worth the effort!
10:59:04 pramsey: if the mapserver wiki was being spammed 5 years ago...
10:59:17 FrankW: but it was a generic mediawiki instance.
10:59:30 pramsey: a clean strong domain with good karma is probably always worth colonizing
10:59:32 FrankW: Someone must have programmed a bot specifically to create osgeo userids or at least done so manually.
10:59:38 pramsey: must be lots of links to us by now
11:00:03 pramsey: look for those firstnamelastname patterns
11:00:51 pramsey: my hacked phpwiki instance on hte old postgis site survived for a long time, but eventually it too got manually worked and bombed.
11:01:30 FrankW: This is frustrating!
11:01:48 FrankW: I'd like to visit the offender with a cluebat.
11:02:14 pramsey: since this form is both created and submitted into the same location...
11:02:33 pramsey: you could have it salt the form fields when it generates them
11:02:39 pramsey: https://www.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/ldap_create_user.py
11:03:49 FrankW: Mmm, I'm wanting some cheap pool products.
11:04:05 pramsey: I imagine they're all over the place.
11:05:44 wildintellect: qgis trac looks clean
11:07:07 FrankW: for interest sake I'm on the phone to cheappoolproducts harrassing them.
11:07:13 FrankW: at least it is on their 1800 number.
11:07:49 wildintellect: no toll call to the some island in the bahamas
11:11:04 FrankW: ok, those two ids have their password changed which could help.
11:11:37 FrankW: I presume they were manually created, so even adding an email confirmation or capcha wouldn't likely help much.
11:11:46 pramsey: true
11:12:04 FrankW: I'll email notice to sac.
11:12:44 FrankW: If we were really keen we could try and track them back to an IP and possibly block it.
11:16:50 FrankW: If I had a rocket launcher -- how appropriate to come up in my rotation.
11:33:15 CIA-15: osgeo: tmitchell * r2742 /marketing/website/ ( images/current-layout.svg sitemap.svg sitemap.mm ): cross linking old to new ideas
11:33:16 sigq: osgeofeed: Changeset [2742]: cross linking old to new ideas <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/changeset/2742>
14:39:22 spatialguru: hobu / FrankW - want to bring forward any hardware purchase recommendation for the board?
14:48:06 wildintellect: has that gone anywhere, I made some quotes but hadn't heard anything since
14:59:31 TylerM: wildintellect: we got some OSL as well, that's all I was referring to
14:59:40 TylerM: not much discussed since then
15:01:15 wildintellect: was that just for hosting or for hardware too?
15:07:08 TylerM: wildintellect: it was for both.. though the hosting costs are minimal compared our current environment
15:07:54 TylerM: they offered to get hw quote for us, no obligation to go with their suppliers, but hopefully they get some sort of better deal than we would :/
15:08:53 wildintellect: ah, I would be curious to compare the quote against what I looked up
15:09:06 TylerM: i can forward you a copy
15:09:47 wildintellect: sure, that would help so I can make a quote on equivalent hardware
15:10:26 TylerM: ok sent - let me know what you see
15:12:36 TylerM: quotes were for SAS drives, said he could get quote for SATA too if needed