I hate comment spam, but I found this in my moderation queue this morning… I marked it as spam and junked it, but I thought I’d preserve it here for everyone to see…
hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments ,
I can help you with this problem . I know a lot of spammers and I will ask them not to post on your site. It will reduce the volume of spam by 30-50% .In return Id like to ask you to put a link to my site on the index page of your site. The link will be small and your visitors will hardly notice it , its just done for higher rankings in search engines. Contact me icq 454528835 or write me tedirectory(at)yahoo.com , i will give you my site url and you will give me yours if you are interested. thank you
So, he can reduce my comment spam by asking the spammers nicely, and in return I get to spam my home page for him? Wow, seems like a good deal to me! Pity for him Akismet works so well and I never see the majority of my spam 
The question was recently asked on the CodeIgniter forums, and I’ve run into it in various forms over the years, so I thought I’d share my answer here as well. The problem in a nutshell. I want to make some images on my site “private”, and only make them accessible to certain users. How can I do this, if someone can look at the code and be able to “guess” the image URL?
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Installing Adobe Flash Player 9 on Fedora 7 is a piece of cake, only two commands! First, get a root shell (either log in as root, or su to become root), and type:
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
This will download and install the yum configurations and gpg keys necessary to install Flash via the yum updater. Next enter…
yum install flash-plugin
The system will then download and install the Flash player on your machine and register it as a Firefox plugin. You can make sure it worked correctly by opening a new Firefox windows and going to Adobe’s About Flash page. If it all woked, you should see a “Version Information” box which says something like “You have version 9,0,48,0 installed”.
Flash Player is really easy to install on Fedora, and having it makes the “new” web (e.g. YouTube, etc) a lot more usable, well worth the little time and effort required to get it installed.
Just thought I’d let everyone know that my I’ve posted two of my helper modules to the CodeIgniter Wiki. There’s a Credit Card helper which makes some common credit card operations a little easier, and an Australian Date helper which has a few functions to make working with Australian formatted dates (d/m/y) a little easier.
Hope someone else finds them as useful as I do.
