Software - Calefaction Wiki

After the wiki got spammed, I locked it down and added Textchas for new users. But there were still 50-something random users, and MoinMoin user data is stored in numbered files. So I threw together a script to get rid of them rather than delete them one by one. Feel free to gaze upon my shitty shell programming skills, ye Mighty, and despair. Summary: it looks at a file I keep of actual human beings, and if the user isn't on the list, it gets deleted. (Even though I could have just done this from the command line, writing the script means I don't have to write it again the next time I get hit with wikispam of that sort.)
Roadrunner DNS lookup was taking forever after I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on magrathea, so I Googled (as you do) and found this gem from 2006. The upshot: Roadrunner and Adelphi DNS can be slow for Linux machines (but not Windows!), so it's easier to set your DNS lookup addresses to use OpenDNS servers. Go figure.
- Rob Banz noted that OpenDNS "hijack[s] and muck[s] with query results" and that Google also has public DNS (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4). Roadrunner also throws a search page for mistyped URLs. I guess it's a matter of whether or not I care who's using my browsing data. I switched to Google servers, if only because they conform to DNS standards.