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Damn, this thing still exists
It has also not been taken over by spammy robots, and I am up two children since I last posted. -
Someone is really persistent...
At least, some botnet is. Over the last week, I have had approx. 30,000 failed logins into ssh on my server. It is amusing to watch them try, considering I only accept public/private key authentication, ssh2 protocol only, and root login by any means is disabled. However, they are cluttering my logs. Time for more drastic measures:
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git
I recently started contributing to the pm-utils project (my trees @ http://git.fnordovax.org/pm-utils/). For those who do not keep up with the details for power management on modern Linux distros, pm-utils is a small collection of programs that help manage suspend/resume ( Read more... ) -
Did someone say Dental?
So about 3 years ago, I had to have several invasive dental procedures to try to save one of my molars -- the center of it had mostly decayed out. I got a root canal and the Mother of All Fillings, but never quite scheduled the appointment to go get a crown on that tooth ( Read more... ) -
so, I no longer have a motorcycle...
...and a gentleman named Antonio is the proud owner of a 1997 Honda Shadow VLX 600. He had apparently been lusting after it for the last 7 months, and I was just not riding it enough to keep owning it. He had apparently been systematically working his way through the apartment complex looking for the owner, but never thought to look at the ( Read more... ) -
Mayhem on IH-35
moiety_tx and I were coming home from a yummy Indian dinner after work on IH-35, talking about nothing much and watching the traffic go by. Around the parmer overpass, we noticed two vehicles -- one kia sportage with a Dog Is My Copilot bumper sticker, and a rusted out blue Buick with two underinflated rear tires. Both of them pass us, the Buick going ( Read more... ) -
apparently, you really don't have to have qualifications to be in government.
Take George Deutsch, the 24 year old loyal republican and Bush employee who took it upon himself to educate NASA about complicated things like global warming ( Read more... ) -
Somehow, not suprising at all...
Graph
You scored 62% abstraction, 48% shape, 44% quantity, and 45% structure! You are a graph. Not a graph of a function or anything like that! Rather, you are a collection of vertices and edges connecting some of the vertices. You are flexible and can easily understand the relationships among various types of things, and you classify ( Read more... )