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I've been playing with creating GTK+ widgets using Cairo lately. As I had to write some text for some bloody Word-task (university stuff) I started writing a widget for an "OXO" game, and make a little tutorial on how to make something alike. The task is done (I even had to remove some parts of the text :(), the tutorial isn't finished yet as there are some issues left with the widget.

Anyway, writing 2D drawing code using Cairo is really fun. Sometimes you need some maths to get some tasks done, but it's fun to experiment and the possibilities are almost endless.

Here's a little sample of what I got now, click on the image for a full-scale screenshot:

Some parts of the "logics" inside the widget are still buggy (-> the code to check whether a move is a winning one or not).

I start to get rid of the spammers on my blog. There's still some comment- and trackback-spam, but at least most spambots can't leech several gigabytes of my bandwith anymore. There are still requests done, but they get a 300byte answer, or even less.
One issue left: if I get 2 identical requests (same HTTP_REQUEST, HTTP_REFERER etc), one using HTTP/1.0 and one using HTTP/1.1, my mod_rewrite rules generate another response: 403 (5 bytes) when using HTTP/1.0, 301 (352 bytes) when using HTTP/1.1:

216.195.35.XX - - [16/Dec/2005:14:24:58 +0100] "GET /index.php/all?skin=stockholm HTTP/1.1" 403 5 "http://spamhost/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
216.195.35.XX - - [16/Dec/2005:14:25:05 +0100] "GET /index.php/all?skin=stockholm HTTP/1.1" 301 352 "http://spamhost/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"

Can anyone explain me what causes this?

Thanks to RubenV who helped me out when creating the mod_rewrite rules :)

Ikke • Technology, Linux, Desktop, Coding Corner 1 comment