Mark's Blog

Look what arrived in the post this morning , tickets for both legs of the Burnley v Spurs Carling Cup semi-final. Yay!

Three operating systems located on one physical machine. Windows XP on the right hand screen, Windows 7 Beta 1 (Build 7000) on the left; both on the Windows Vista Ultimate host machine using Microsoft Virtual PC.

While most of us are feeling well and truly stuffed from the mammoth amount of turkey and trimmings we’ve consumed over the afternoon spammers continue to unleash their rubbish on unsuspecting boards across the Internet.

Thanks to the invention of automated posting bots the spam barrage continues, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 365 (366 if we’re making the leap ) days a year. Let’s take a look at a couple of statistics from my honeypots over the festive 24 hour period:

• 40 spam accounts registered for the boards
• The spammers posted 35 posts over the 24 hour period in 30 topics

However most spam posted seems to be pretty automated, so maybe the head honchos of spam give the human spammers the day off; we can at least hope they do .

How very apt; a castle of hopes, dreams and fairytales for the Christmas photo.

May you all have a happy Christmas and all your wishes come true .

Remember the highly successful and entertaining Londonvasion held in June of this year? Well, Daniel (Greenweaver) and Kenny (cherekoee red) have decided to hold a general phpBB get-together and meet up in Scotland next January .

If you are available and interested in attending there are numerous phpBB team members that will be popping along including Raimon, camm15h, NeoThermic, ToonArmy as well as everyone’s favourite nub Paul. I’ll also be attending so come and join the fun.

As with any event like this, it doesn’t matter if you are a novice or an expert; everyone is welcome to attend, socialise and learn more about the great community we call phpBB.

For more information on when and where it is see the topic located in the events section over at phpBB.com. If you want more details then I’m sure Daniel or Kenny will be happy to answer any questions either in the topic or via PM .

An old relic from the grand tour of Florida (incorporating Disney World) 2006 .