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So Bluehatseo goes down because he’s been ddos’d. I’m scouring the Internet and I find this below. Now I don’t know whether this is made up crap or for real so don’t blame me if it’s not, I’m just saying what I see:

1. (8:25:42 PM) youkn0w: this si being done to eli, or bluehatseo.com to be specific

2. (8:25:58 PM) youkn0w: he is “outing” too many people and the people’s methods, which are meant to be private

3. (8:26:13 PM) youkn0w: messing with their business, you know

4. (8:26:24 PM) windfox: very interesting

5. (8:26:44 PM) kaveman: youkn0w

6. (8:26:47 PM) kaveman: he aint outing no one

7. (8:27:07 PM) youkn0w: not the people themselves, but the people’s methods

8. (8:27:33 PM) youkn0w: he was given some information which was meant to be private, and he ended up posting it on his website

9. (8:27:38 PM) kaveman: what? breaking a captcha

10. (8:27:49 PM) youkn0w: so a few people got mad, and thats why his site is down

11. (8:27:58 PM) Smaxy [n=Smaxildo@12-184-75-66.att-inc.com] entered the room.

12. (8:28:18 PM) youkn0w: there’s a few specifics in that article which he stole from other people, but he posted things in the past

13. (8:28:30 PM) kaveman: hwat that captcha breaking post? it was a guest post

14. (8:28:38 PM) youkn0w: a proxy-captcha-solver thing to be specific

15. (8:29:05 PM) youkn0w: if he was around, he would know what i am referring to

16. (8:29:31 PM) kaveman: so what, still doesnt deserve the attacks

17. (8:29:35 PM) adam-_-: yeh but (my guess) people who read it either a) already know about it b) are gonna be too lazy to get off their arse and implement it

If this is true some folks need to grow up. I mean come on, life’s just a game, why do they feel like they need to pull down someone’s server because he posts something they don’t like. Maybe they’re just jealous that Eli has a decent site with fantastic loyal readers.

According to this posted stuff I’ve gone down real well too:

1. Cdogg: which is the article in question the phpbb captcha breaker?

2. (8:49:31 PM) windfox: this one? http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:Vgqq8RCE_FAJ:www.bluehatseo.com/user-contributed-captcha-breaking-w-phpbb2-example/+%22bluehatseo.com%22+captcha&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

3. (8:49:38 PM) Gnaser: I’m guessing the one in which he mentions setting up a web proxy to get kids to break the captchas

4. (8:49:52 PM) youkn0w: not the whole article, but pieces in it. in addition to things he has posted int he past

5. (8:49:59 PM) Tobsn: that guy is so stupid

6. (8:50:01 PM) youkn0w: in the*

7. (8:50:27 PM) d0nuts [n=nnscript@71.231.1.74] entered the room.

8. (8:50:38 PM) Tobsn: funny thing is, hes so stupid he even converts the pic into pnm

9. (8:50:39 PM) kaveman: what things he posted in the past

10. (8:51:02 PM) Tobsn: nothing

11. (8:51:04 PM) Tobsn: hes a moron

12. (8:51:09 PM) trophaeum: youkn0w, you realize this will just get this article more attention?

13. (8:51:10 PM) kaveman: cause if its over that captcha thats some gay ass shit

14. (8:51:12 PM) kaveman: grow up

15. (8:51:22 PM) Tobsn: http://www.darkseoprogramming.com/

16. (8:51:40 PM) foucist: Tobsn: there’s an OCR for pnm files tho ?

17. (8:51:49 PM) Tobsn: …

18. (8:51:58 PM) YoungMaster [n=69@S0106000e08ed0133.vc.shawcable.net] entered the room.

19. (8:51:58 PM) Tobsn: okay we have a new dummy of the month

20. (8:51:59 PM) Tobsn: ;)

So before people all start taking chunks outta me what I will say is this. I ain’t even close to the best blackhat SEO, but I know a fair bit about programming so I chucked this site up. I’m learning more and more every day and I hope this site helps some folks out. Yeah, you can probably dig this stuff up from over the net in different places but here it is organised with downloadable zips to help if you aren’t so good at coding. Ah damn it, read it if you want and don’t if you don’t.

Hope you guys are keeping busy and enjoying life

Update: http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/25354-eli-working-white-house.html youkn0w tells us why it’s happening. I found the text here http://pastebin.ca/943272 and I didn’t post it earlier because I didn’t know if Eli would want what is highlighted as his pic broadcast widely, but heck it’s on WickedFire. Let’s all hope this gets sorted.

Your guide to becoming a preg_match/regex genius. Or just coding like me . Seriously though when all you want to do is prototype a script and you need to match a string regular expressions seem complicated. To write a proper regular expression there are a huge number of symbols you can use which make the expression more efficient all around.

The only symbols I ever really remember are:

(.*) - Matches anything in the same way as searching for a file by the name *.*
(.*?) - Same as above except it defaults to the fewest number of characters possible.

So if we had the phrase:

I am a pretty crazy guy. I am a pretty crazy guy.

and our regular expression was (note: all regular expression start and end with / unless you know what you’re doing and you have another plan):

/I am a(.*)guy/

our output would be:

 pretty crazy guy. I am a pretty crazy

now if we did this:

/I am a(.*?)guy/

our output is:

 pretty crazy

Welcome to the lazy way of programming

Just to further clarify the full php would be:

preg_match(”/I am a(.*)guy/”, “I am a pretty crazy guy. I am a pretty crazy guy.”, $matches);
echo $matches[1];