Gawd. Here we go again. IP – 65.19.167.132 Attempted to steal my password. A thief and a liar. I guess the US Naval Research Labs, calling itself Hurricane Electric, 760 Mission Ct., Fremont, CA 94539, (510) 580-4100, thinks there’s something of value here on my silly little blog server. Something worth trying to log in […]
Today I had plans to work on my pickup truck. It has a leaking clutch slave cylinder. It leaks so badly that now, it pees hydraulic fluid on the ground, just sitting in the driveway. I’ve got to change that thing but, today, it’s raining, and who wants to work under a vehicle, in the […]
The KDE people, if they can really be called "people", have completely hosed-up Blogilo and it’s predecessor, Bilbo Blogger. The spell checker in Blogilo doesn’t work because they chose an editor that doesn’t support in-line spell checking. And, to make matters worse, the KDE libs have changed to such an extent that you can’t build […]
What I do when faced with broken software I otherwise like.
Hopefully, someone who breathes, eats, and sleeps KDE software will stumble across this and start thinking a little. Blogilo, formerly Bilbo Blogger, a program written originally FOR KDE has now been absorbed INTO KDE. Because it’s become so tightly integrated into that desktop, it won’t run properly outside that environment (and from what I’ve seen, […]
Do the words “Jack” and “PulseAudio” send shivers up your spine? They should. A software patch bay for connecting different audio sources to different devices and an audio server/client so complex that even the developers can’t sort it out sufficiently to produce usable documentation. Yeah, that’s it, and I’m trying to get these things working […]
Today, our First President has a message, from out of the past, for us today. We would do well to listen to him and act accordingly. It doesn’t matter if we are talking about our current president, who lies about his lying and then apologizes to We the People because too many of us have […]
I’ve been, as the title says, fiddling around with Facebook again. I edited a profile picture that looks a lot better than the previous one and, I also added a cover photo of a truck coming through a short mountain pass. It was a welcome distraction from two days of doing battle with the DDoS […]
The above picture I found illustrates how some network engineers view Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. This is the sort of thing that we’ve been contending with the past couple of weeks. Thankfully, since reconfiguring the DNS servers to be non-recursive (they should come that way by default Centos folks) it seems to be […]
Wow! I must be really important to some loser with no life out there. My little domain has been the subject of and/or unwitting participant in a Distributed Denial of Service (DoS), using bogus DNS requests started by some jerk using hundreds of computers with broken (at least, mis-configured) DNS servers. I’ve made sure that […]