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| Tech update... |
| 2007-06-05 |
| We're still being hit approximately every second by spambots, the most active at this moment being 62.231.243.136 in Muscat, Oman. I still have no idea where the Mastermind® of all this activity is, but I banned about 70 IP addresses yesterday and I'll be banning more today. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #52 tea Dear, I could use a cupa TW! ;-) |
| Posted by: RD 2007-06-05 23:51 |
| #51 It's Mr. Wife, of course. ;-) Although Wandering Fella would've worked, had I thought of it -- he's off for a quick 10 days round Europe, leaving directly after my brother's wedding on Sunday, while the trailing daughters and I take the opposite flight back home. Me a mod? No indeed, I'm much more the decorative type, between my naps admiring those who do actual work. You can rest assured that I haven't the slightest clue what you used to go by. But I do pour a mean cup of tea when the occasion calls for it. And I quite agree about the many Rantburgers I've learnt so much from. Rantburg U beats Harvard and Oxford quite hollow! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-06-05 23:43 |
| #50 Thanks TW, you are a princess. Mr. WF (Wandering Fella?) is a lucky guy. I think I've settled on this nym nough -- the other one was too close to home, as it whir. (r u a mod?) Anyway, after discovering Rantburg after 9/11, I've mostly lurked in awe and admiration at Fred, his readers and contributors. I used to think I was smart... |
| Posted by: Gabby Cussworth 2007-06-05 23:06 |
| #49 On behalf of all of us who started getting the shakes when that 404 message came up, thank you for adding to the pot, Gabby Cussworth. If you bring the lovely Mrs. Cussworth a single red rose (or whatever her favourite flower is), I suspect she'll be much too busy being happy to wonder about the twenty missing from the budget. Flowers are more expensive than usual, I believe, what with the increased price of airplane fuel to bring them here from wherever in Hispanic America the hothouses are. ;-) Oh, and I'm glad you dropped that anonymous number to stand tall under your own nym (or nic -- they keep explaining which is correct, but somehow I can't keep it in memory). |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-06-05 22:51 |
| #48 btw, the comment count isn't working on all but the WOT section... wish I could help Fred. |
| Posted by: RD 2007-06-05 22:48 |
| #47 ...but after 404 I had to go and re-enter the RB web site. |
| Posted by: RD 2007-06-05 22:46 |
| #46 i just got 404 but the comment went thru.. |
| Posted by: RD 2007-06-05 22:44 |
| #45 I sent twenny. First time for me. Went under the wife's name. Web, don't tell nobody. |
| Posted by: Gabby Cussworth 2007-06-05 22:40 |
| #44 It's at times like this I'm grateful you're terribly clever at this kind of thing, Fred dear. You're being hit with the kind of challenge Estonia's been facing recently, and they're an entire country. I'll be sending off an envelope with something out of my housekeeping money, toward doing something nice for the ever-patient Mrs. Pruitt, after. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-06-05 22:26 |
| #43 Ummm... That's a bad sign. I haven't had that happen. I keep getting the damned 404 off the main page, even after I've deleted it from the code and refreshed. I'm hoping IE has cached the page to torment me when I'm suffering from attention span deficit disorder. Otherwise, we're haunted, probably by Mullah Deadullah or Zark. |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-06-05 22:22 |
| #42 No, the 404 did not appear, Fred. Rather, the article page came up just as it would had I really posted... but my clever comment was not to be seen. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-06-05 22:19 |
| #41 OK.... I commented and got the 404 thingy, but my comment went though and I got back here on the first try after deleting Mr. 404. This could be some kinda sport. |
| Posted by: Gabby Cussworth 2007-06-05 22:15 |
| #40 I dunno if this means Bo (Diddly), but I couldn't reach here all day from "whirk" through MSN, but I got y'all the first time at home through AOL. |
| Posted by: Gabby Cussworth 2007-06-05 22:11 |
| #39 Comment Count is only displayed for "WoT" cat. Disappeared from the rest. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-06-05 22:10 |
| #38 Test comment |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-06-05 22:10 |
| #37 Did the 404 page show when they diappeared? |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-06-05 22:01 |
| #36 I'm hoping I'm fixing the problem right now, rather than making it worse. The next week or two is going to be aggravating... The 404 page seems to be lingering. |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-06-05 22:01 |
| #35 I'm hoping I'm fixing the problem right now, rather than making it worse. The next week or two is going to be aggravating. |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-06-05 21:59 |
| #34 Oh, and today the message telling me I can't get here from there addressed me as TRAILING WIFE (all in caps, no less). I don't think it's ever done that before. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-06-05 21:37 |
| #33 I don't know if this is meaningful, but lately about half of my comments have simply evaporated -- the most pithily erudite ones, of course. I'm not being sent to Roadside America, so it clearly isn't a vocabulary issue... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-06-05 21:31 |
| #32 I was getting a page, which said there was a 404 error and definitely not the browser telling me it could find the page. FWIIW, I thought someone had hijacked your DNS registration and was serving up the page I was seeing. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2007-06-05 21:08 |
| #31 Captn Ed and Ace of Spades, I believe |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-06-05 19:41 |
| #30 Fred, a thought: other bloggers have been griping the past couple weeks about some BlogAds (or Sitemeter) hangup. I'll see if I can find some of their posts. Have other RBers seen those complaints? |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-06-05 19:28 |
| #29 Registration is fine given suitable odds of entry. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-06-05 19:17 |
| #28 After the last comment, the updated page did display. I thought these here computers were supposed to be deterministic. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-06-05 19:06 |
| #27 Previously, I had seen the same blank page after a comment when java or javascript was turned off. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-06-05 19:04 |
| #26 I'm still not sure what's causing that... |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-06-05 19:00 |
| #25 Good luck in getting the site back online soon. |
| Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-06-05 18:52 |
| #24 After posting a comment, the updated page does not display, just a blank. Don't hit refresh or the comment will post twice. I am using Firefox 2.0.0.4. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-06-05 18:45 |
| #23 I'm fine with registering to comment |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-06-05 18:39 |
| #22 You're definitely pissing off the right people, Fred. They couldn't buy you out, so they're trying to shut you out. Little do they know of your powers.... Heh-heh. Bwhahahahahaha! |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-06-05 18:36 |
| #21 I thought you had already turned it off. I was getting 404s trying to load the front page and had to go to a bookmarked article. I see the front page is loading again. Emily Litella voice: Nevermind. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-06-05 18:34 |
| #20 I thought you had already turned it off. I was getting 404s trying to load the front page and had to go to a bookmarked article. I see the front page is loading again. Emily Litella voice: Nevermind. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-06-05 18:34 |
| #19 I have been getting 404's on 80 and 81, just sent an email, but lo and behold here we are. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2007-06-05 18:33 |
| #18 I could turn off port 80, but that'd be pretty drastic. |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-06-05 18:30 |
| #17 Fred thanks for your efforts. You are pissing off the right people in your little patch of the WOT. Is it possible to enable the front page only for the back door ports? |
| Posted by: ed 2007-06-05 18:28 |
| #16 I see what you mean. That's not supposed to happen. |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-06-05 18:27 |
| #15 I'll turn it off. |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-06-05 18:25 |
| #14 This sucks. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2007-06-05 18:20 |
| #13 When I type rantburg's url into my browser, I get redirected to a 404 page, but when I searched for it through google, I was able to reach the page. What's up with that? |
| Posted by: ou165 2007-06-05 18:20 |
| #12 Yeah, thanks Frd, but you can't ditch me. Everytime I post, a colorful 404 - file not found screen comes up. But I have defeated it! You can't keep me out! I am ADICTED!!! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-06-05 17:59 |
| #11 Thanks, Fred ... |
| Posted by: Rantfan 2007-06-05 14:20 |
| #10 Has anyone ever in their life been spammed for something that they'd want to buy? It's always a bunch of worthless shit that you couldn't give away at a flea market. Don't we have any hackers on this site, why doesn't someone put a blaster worm on this asshole's server. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-06-05 10:50 |
| #9 Now that you mention it, Rantburg is cheaper than the New York Times... |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-06-05 10:37 |
| #8 Most if not all of this activity is probably coming from zombie computers that have been infected with malware of which the owners and admins are unaware. So even if the address is from Oman or China it doesn't mean that's where the bad guys are located. It would be an interesting project to develop web server software with built-in ways to effectively and efficiently fend off these kinds of attacks with a minimum of effort from the admin. Sounds like a business opportunity. If you want to hire me for such a project I might be interested as long as I can telecommute from under a palm tree. Anyway, it's no suprise the bad guys would try to supress the free flow of information. It's like turning on a light in a dark room and watching the cockroaches run for cover. I dropped a little something into the tip jar the other day for the first time. It wasn't much but maybe now I'll do it more often. It sure beats subscribing to the local rag. |
| Posted by: treo 2007-06-05 10:33 |
| #7 The enemy nonetheless. Thank you, America for the internet, the information highway, the short line to useful data for all the world's people, the civilized world. That would of course, cause seething and hate among the eighth century goat boinkers. |
| Posted by: Grusosh Borgia9229 2007-06-05 10:23 |
| #6 Thanks Fred. We appreciate it. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-06-05 09:44 |
| #5 It's not just them. Another one from China's active and one from Germany. |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-06-05 09:10 |
| #4 Hey, Oman. Put down the spambots and get busy filling sandbags. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-06-05 08:54 |
| #3 Pardon. Civil, well-reasoned discourse. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-06-05 08:52 |
| #2 I prefer to think of this as Attacks by the Forces of Evil, trying to silence the last true voice of civil, reasoned discourse on the face of the planet. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-06-05 08:52 |
| #1 Typical Muslim respect for freedom of speech. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2007-06-05 08:30 |