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Jun 11, 2009
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Spam trackback attack week 2 statistics

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

The trackback spam attack is well into its second week now. The people who run blogs.msdn.com blocked all access from the IP address block, which not only blocks trackbacks but also prevents them from reading the content (and therefore prevents them from scraping). Undaunted, the sites just moved to a new IP address.

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Jun 11, 2009
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Why does Explorer use the term KB instead of KiB?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Although the International Electronic Commission established the term kibibyte for 1024 bytes, with the abbreviation KiB, Windows Explorer continues to use the abbreviation KB. Why doesn't Explorer get with the program? Because nobody else is on the program either. If you look around you, you'll find that nobody (to within experimental error) ...

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