Due to the recent surge of comment spam on Nicolas's blog (160+ in 10 days), I've now implemented the most basic captcha I could think of for posting comments in our blogs. FWIW, I used a text input, instead of the simpler alternatives: a checkbox or a dropdown so that it is unlikely to be bypassed "unintentionally" by random content.
I wonder how long it'll take to get some spam again. I hope it will take a while as I think that even this utterly basic system should keep the spam bots away until a spammer investigate this site in particular, and I guess this shouldn't happen anytime soon (given that we only host our own blogs).
As it was a popular blogger's topic a few month ago, I'll start this blog with a very uninteresting post with some stats about my shell history...
fc -l -10000 | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
Unfortunately the sample is not large enough to be meaningful and so the result varies greatly from time to time...
Here is the result from my first try (on the beginning of May):
177 nosetests 161 svn 110 vi 109 ls 90 cd 46 python 44 sudo 29 rm 21 ps 18 top
And today:
174 ls 141 sudo 121 cd 117 vi 96 svn 54 nosetests 46 l 27 chmod 24 rgrepv.sh 13 rm
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