Brokedown palace
Most of the furor over on my post on the G5 seems to have died down, which is... kinda nice. I've been holding off on some related posts until it did die down, so there'll be more coming in the next few days if work & life allows it.
I don't think most people would believe some of the email I got from that damn post unless I showed them, and some nice guy (24.75.137.254) who got there from a macnn thread decided it would be fun to try to hack my blog. Uncool. Noted & forwarded to your ISP. It was really kind of a trip, I'm still not sure whereall it's been posted, but geesh. 390+ emails and 80+ comments. Touched a nerve there.
Most of the people who were questioning whether or not my parents were married, or other various things seem to have gotten it out of their system early, so thanks for all the nice comments.
Since the blog was somewhat under siege, I decided to get underway on some upgrades I've been meaning to get to for, um, months, and made a little bit of headway.
So the list for things to do now stands at:
Cleanup the front page- Cleanup the left-hand side, lots of linkage not yet linked.
- Cleanup the
individual,monthly, category & search pages - Cleanup the comments
- Experiment with a richer RSS feed
- Experiment with some of the newer mt plugins
- Implement categories
I've upgraded 4 friends' installs of mt, yet mine is still running 2.6.2... should prolly look into upgrading the mt install- Add mt_blacklist to help stop comment spam
I added the mt_blacklist to the list... but the comment spam thing is insidious. It goes in spurts, so when I get nailed by several I am all up for adding getting around to adding in the blacklist, but then nothing happens for a week so I forget. I wonder if that's somewhat intentional.
Another thing of note... if your IP is 209.11.36.147, please check how you're trying to get to this RSS feed. Right now, you're trying to use /drunkenblog/index.xml several times a day, and I'm tired of looking at it in the log files. :)
Although, come to think of it, you probably aren't even seeing this message, so I'll make a file there letting you know what you're doing. When you do realize your mistake, please email me so I can remove it...
Last but not least, the last weekly snapshot of nasty things caught by clamAV over the last little while, which no one really cares about but I post them so I can have an idea over time... For your entertainment, the last few are linked here and here.
So, without further ado, the current:
Virus & Worm Count:
+++
2118 Worm.SomeFool
970 Worm.SomeFool.P
602 Worm.SomeFool.Gen-1
405 Worm.SomeFool.Gen-2
88 Worm.SomeFool.I
40 Worm.SomeFool.Q
36 Worm.Bagle.N
34 Worm.Bagle.Gen-1
24 Worm.Sober.F
22 Worm.Gibe.F
16 Worm.Klez.H
14 Worm.SomeFool.O
7 Worm.SCO.A
6 Worm.Bagle.Gen-rarpwd
5 Worm.Bagle.U
2 Worm.Dumaru.A
1 Worm.BugBear.B
+++
Worm.SomeFool just doesn't seem to be quitting. Considering how long it's been out, and how it's spread, I'm not sure whether to be saddened or impressed. Probably both.
Posted by drunkenbatmanApril 21, 2004, at 03:11 AM
Comments (5)
Posted by: TomServo at April 21, 2004 11:08 AM
Man, I saw your blog linked from a few different places and was waiting to see what the fallout would be.
It always sucks that some people can't 1)Take other's opinions without making some type of racial slur in the process and 2) Decide to then hack the site for fun and/or profit.
Well, nice job on the linkage. I need to write an article about why Steve Jobs' black sweaters are forged by lucifer or something so that I can rake in the hits as well :)
Posted by: Mindflayer at April 21, 2004 07:42 PM
His next blog entry is going to be three-pronged:
1) Apple needs to use AMD processors.
2) Microsoft should buy Apple, since Bill Gates is better than Steve Jobs.
3) He's selling all his gear and buying X86 Linux-based computers since it's what k3wl '7337 h@X0R5 do.
Stir. Enjoy.
Posted by: Ernesto at April 22, 2004 05:46 PM
Ei, it was a good article, well written and interesting. It made me add your blog to my bookmarks. Keep writting cool things!
Posted by: dekkers at May 3, 2004 04:38 AM
Nice ramble. You can't pay KDE. You *can* pay Trolltech, but that is a different issue. Your view about the "Freedom" of KDE is outdated and needs updating. Problem is, I don't know much about what is going on in the Apple space, so I take your word for it. Seeing as you get some basic facts wrong about free software, I can't really be sure that anything else you say is right, can I?
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