Why you don’t want to shard.

Real World Web: Performance & Scalability.

NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC.

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Anti-spam lawyer gets what he had coming. First he set up a phony ISP. Then he sued Virtumundo under CAN-SPAM. He lost the case and was ordered to pay Virtumundo $100,000. He appealed the decision. Debt collector took stuff from his home. Virtumundo offered to give him back his stuff if he drops the appeal. He refused.

Well, he finally lost the appeal. (via)

Decaptcher has a TCP socket and an HTTP API. This is a description of the socket API, deciphered from Decaptcher’s official PHP client. You can also look at my version of the Decaptcher PHP client that I posted recently. The following will come in handy if you’d like to code your own client.
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A useful example, plus source code, of setting Flash cookies via javascript. Also of interest: SWFObject and jsSO.

Tarpipe would make for an excellent spamming engine.