Now we have our own server, time to put some good usage to it too: there is now an IRC server configured on randombase, for a number of reasons. We invite everyone to open a channel or join #randombase or #rootshell for more security orientated conversations.

randombase.com
Ports: 6667, 6697 (SSH)

Or a direct link for clients that support it. All credit for installing/configuring goes to Preddy.

I have finally fixed PerlForums, seems like RandomBase in general has been fixed now! Please report any bugs you see so we can fix them.

New server, new look. RandomBase.com will receive a totally new design very soon. The old red will be replaced by a more stylish gray, you'll see it soon enough!

Downtime sucks, moving sucks. I am still fixing up all the bad coded parts of randombase and subprojects to fit nicely onto the new server, but one script happens to be more annoying to 'port' than the other. Perlforums for example is full of errors, which I really don't understand since the server environment itself hasn't changed that much, we changed only some directory structures to be easier for editing and adding stuff. Also, lots of people experience DNS troubles but that's only a matter of time, luckily.

Glad to be back though!

Are you fond of proxies? Then check out RB proxy and IW proxy. I realise 'ironwarez' doesn't have much to do with proxies, but it is an old domain name that I had to put to use somehow, no? These lists are both (magically) updated at different times from different sources, roughly each 24 hours.

Recently randombase.com has been discovered by spammers, the comments were flooded with the classic viagra junk and stuff. Since I hate captcha's for verification purposes (they annoy the users), I wrote a small Javascript / PHP application. You need to know that spammers use automated software, mostly in a way they just read your html source, parse out the form data and send the POST request to your server. There are no 'real' browser windows involved, to get an idea on how a spammer sees your site, check out Lynx. They can not parse Javascript, and that's where it gets easy: just add a dynamicly generated and hidden form entry.

You could do this simply using a static type of text, using code as:

document.getElementById('commentForm').innerHTML += "<input type='hidden' value='nospammerskthxbye' name='nospam'>";

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If I come to think of it, I have created lots of websites before. For other people or for my own, for free or for money. If you're interested in viewing a list of my latest work, feel free to visit my portfolio.

The mystery of the haunted server is continuing. A deeper research in the matter has shown nothing, the cronjob files haven't been accessed in weeks. As a test, looking at the running process list didn't show any stuck Perl script. Even if something would trigger the scripts to run, it would be stuck at the friggin 500 Internal Server Error. Yet, all these things aside, it keeps updating, 3 AM, every night...