Thoughts and Ramblings

Well, it has been another week since I have written here. Brian’s visit was interesting. I think the most interesting to see was how much he had changed after working out in the real world. Reality has set in and he has to do things like get up early and actually go to work. What a concept. It almost makes me scared of leaving and going out into the real world. It was fun to ride with him in his bright yellow vet though.

I used to think that spammers were some of the lowest form of life on this Earth, but I would have to say that the scammers are worse. I received the following scam a few days ago. I swear, I have never seen anything so despicable in my life:

Dear Beloved,

It is a privileged to hear from God and it gives me joy to relate my testimony to you haven received instruction from God through divine revelation.

I finally got some work done in my office today. Too often I had gone there and got nothing done. In playing with 10.4, I have discovered that it is not stable enough to really run. As a result, I think that I am going to switch back to just running 10.3. At least I got some coding done, now just need to get the socket connection back to working.

Well, I put the server back today, started her up, and watched the chaos begin. My first issue was running software update. The first run crashed, wonderful. I ran it again, and eventually got it all done. Then the guest account was still not completely locked down, so it was going up and down while the users gripped. After that, I looked at the web logs. There were several requests per second for the copyrighted material that cause the server to go down in the first place. I changed the .htaccess on the dir so that instead of presenting these users with a password, it returned a 410, GONE! Maybe the idiots will take a hint. I change it so that it logs the referrer URL as well, and found that this was linked from some ftp site. I may change it so it presents them with a page that says in not so nice terms to get lost.