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17 Dec 2007While I make no secret of my political beliefs, I ordinarily try to shy away from outright endorsement of candidates. I used to think that politics was kind of like religion: something that’s a very important part of peoples’ lives, but something that’s bound to offend people if you talk about it much. Plus, I [...]
Dear News Media, Please stop covering senseless shootings. They just make people depressed and encourage more people to do it. Sure, it assures you more material to cover, but we prefer a world where people don’t get shot for no reason. And dear jerks on the Interwebs: when someone gets shot in senseless violence, it’s [...]
In: Computers|Cool Links|Linux Tips|OCD|Programming|Security
3 Dec 2007I guess I’ve become somewhat of a performance nut. Truthfully a lot of the time is spent doing things for nominal improvements: changing MySQL’s tmp directory to be in RAM has had no noticeable impact on performance, for example. Defragging log files doesn’t speed much up either. I was reading a bit about LiteSpeed, though. [...]
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27 Nov 2007Last night I was in the police station getting data for the police logs. As I sat there in the lobby perusing the logs, some girl came in and approached the dispatch desk. “Hi, I don’t know what to do… This has never happened before. I think my car was towed.” A few minutes go [...]
In: Computers|Hero of the Day|Humanitarianism|Ideas|Insanity|OCD|Programming|Rants & Raves|Security
24 Nov 2007I’ve always like the idea of rewarding douchebaggery with more douchebaggery. And one bit of douchebaggery that really bugs me is that, running a webserver, it’s always getting requests for pages that have never existed. What’s going on is that people are probing for common vulnerabilities. I don’t have a /phpmyadmin, but I get multiple [...]
I periodically peruse access_log and error_log, Apache’s logfiles. There’s always weird crap. Here’s todays (odd linebreaks to make it fit): [Thu Nov 22 07:59:15 2007] [error] [client 80.32.3.251] File does not exist: /var/www/ardentdawn.org/htdocs/drupal, referer: http://72.36.178.236/drupal/?_menu[callbacks][1][callback]=drupal_eval &_menu[items][][type]=-1&-312030023=1 &q=1/<?passthru(%22echo%20IROCKTHEWORLD%22); There’s also some inept script kiddie later on who tried requesting the same non-existent page 112 times in [...]
Lot of 10 machetes, currently 99 cents. Do mind the shipping ($19.99), though. One may also wish to ask themselves, “Wait, what do I need ten machetes for?” (And, furthermore, “Is it legal to possess machetes on campus?,” which is a decided “Not at all” in my case.) But for those of you living where [...]
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3 Nov 2007This is surely not a revolutionary idea, but I’ve never seen references to it before. I forward my mail to my GMail account. I do own two domain names with mail services, though, but I just forward what I need to my GMail account. Some sites require an e-mail address to sign up, and they [...]
Now that I’ve gone over how to defend yourself against zombies, I have a shorter list. As always seems to happen with zombies, you’re going to have a couple times when you fight a huge wave of them. And, well, everything is better with music. If you’re taking over a Costco in the event of [...]
I’m pretty much an expert on zombies. I beat Dead Rising, and watched Shawn of the Dead the other day. (By the way, the catchy tune that is their themesong is The Blue Wrath by I Monster.) So a few comments: They’re none too smart. You can fool them by walking like a zombie. Throw [...]