Here fighting the bots. Is this still the best way to do it from the .htaccess ?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^aipbot [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Anarchie [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ASPSeek [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^attach [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^autoemailspider [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^BlackWidow [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Bot\ mailto:craftbot@yahoo.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ChinaClaw [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Custo [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^DISCo [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Download\ Demon [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^eCatch [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EirGrabber [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailSiphon [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailWolf [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Express\ WebPictures [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ExtractorPro [NC,OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Zeus [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^curl/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^HTMLParser [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Jakarta\ Commons [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Java [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^libcurl [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^LWP::Simple [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^lwp-request [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Microsoft\ Data\ Access [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Microsoft\ URL\ Control [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^MS\ Web\ Services\ Client\ Protocol [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^PECL::HTTP [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^POE-Component-Client-HTTP [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^PycURL [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Snoopy [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^VB\ Project [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WWW::Mechanize [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} RPT-HTTPClient [NC]
RewriteRule .* Server not responding [R,L]

Regards,
John

trying to get in touch with you about a blog that think will be of interest…

Emma

Keep blogging and hopefully meet for a beer/coffee (on me) soon!

Cheers,

@tommackroryhn

I just wanted to drop you a word of thanks for your excellent article on getting Samba working on OS X Lion. Not being able to access my test videos from my mac on my media player was a bit of a pain to say the least. Your article was really clear and straightforward to implement.

I added a link to your article to the main forums on the media player site as several other people were asking similar questions.

Thanks again!

Yours,
Keith

Well Hello John Large. It is weird to find someone else with exactly the same name 🙂

Hi Greg.

By the sounds of it, you either have a problem with how your chip is flashed, in which case I would reflash the banks on your chip. Either that, or you have a loose connection somewhere. I would reflash the chip first and try that. Does it boot with the chip turned off? If it does it definitely suggests a flashing issue. Remember your drive needs to be either the original locked drive, or a larger drive which you have locked.