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Google Inc. will introduce a spreadsheet program will offer consumers and businesses a free alternative to Microsoft's Excel application. Main goal is to make it easier for family, friends or co-workers to gain access to the same spreadsheet from different computers at different times, enabling a group of authorized users to add and edit data without having to e-mail attachments back and forth.
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In Windows 95/98 use a little-known utility called WinIPConfig to see information about your TCP/IP network settings. From the Start Menu, press Run, type winipcfg, and click OK. In Win2k and WinNT type ipconfig at the command prompt.
How to prevent spammers from posting to your blog?
Wordpress
Use Akismet and you'll need to get an API key from
Wordpress. Or you may Use Elliott Back's WP-HashCash plugin to stop spam coming in through the comment form. Without getting into lots of technical jargon (though it's explained on his site for those who are interested), the plugin essentially forces the user's browser to prove that it's really a web browser and actually loaded the comment form, rather than a spam bot loading the comment script. The only downside is that if someone takes longer than half an hour to finish writing their comment, the session will time out and you'll lose the comment. Aside from that, though, it's got a 100% accuracy rate in my experience and I can't recommend it highly enough.
http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2005/10/23/wordpress-hashcash-30-beta/
2. Delete the wp-trackback file. Trackback is such an easy system to exploit that most people have turned them off anyway, and Technorati has finally reached the point of being a respectable alternative. PLEASE NOTE: It's not enough to simply disable trackbacks from the WP control panel- you must actually delete the wp-trackback file or it can still be exploited by anyone
smart enough to spider for files named wp trackback.php.
Neither of these things will prevent people from actually sitting down and typing the spam in to your comment form (which has also happened to me), but I find that with strong use of the moderation-by-word list, this is easily manageable. This is a much more workable solution than just moderating every comment that comes in- comment spammers use bots to exploit the script, so unless you're actively making your comment system less
exploitable, you're just going to get buried under an avalanche of spam in your moderation queue, making it hard to pick out the real comments.
