"The best firewalls won't save you from a weak password." So said someone who was compromised a few weeks ago by this attack.... What is it?  It's a botnet of several hundred compromised machines, centrally controlled to perform dictionary attacks against other machines.

So much to post, but, well, I'm busy and it's not all that interesting.... But I ran across this while parsing some police logs for a project:  

Wow, didn't notice that Sony signed a deal with Emusic in June... I just noticed a ton of Dylan music show up on my recommended list there... (Too bad I already had them...) This is huge, though, bring

Remember how Obama promised a more transparent government, where the people would actually be able to see government documents?

I finally got around to adding WFMUs blog to Liferea, just so I can find interesting things like the Rolling Stones from an alternate universe. Worth a listen even if you don't

CNN has an article about "10 Sites to help you navigate the new world of music" and although they are smart enough to include eMusic in the list, they list The Pirate Bay... and

Well I finally got annoyed by Tikiwiki's image gallery enough to move back to Gallery... and since I am lazy, I wanted it to integrate with whatever CMS I use... And since I have a bunch of Drupal sites already, may as well add another. So ugly theme. no c

It's been a long week, with Tiger needing to go to the Kitty Emergency Room, where he was transferred to Kitty Quarantine: Feline Distemper is highly contagious and often fatal. The good news is, after two nights at the Kitty Hospital, he is doing well: he eats and purrs and cuddles and ex

Okay, this has to be the best Christmas gift ever. MeriAnne bought me an Acer Aspire One which I spent last night installing Linux on (I left XP on with a 20G partition... maybe I will need it some day) and

hah, I see that for some reason Google think it is smart to run a match.com ad over on the left. Let's see, match.com is the one who introduced me to the woman who was in her 30's, and two weeks earlier broke up with he

In the past year, my job has changed drastically: from a bored Linux admin (even with a half dozen servers and a few thousand customers, really, my job was mostly boring...) to a Linux admin, webmaster for 5 sites (3 of which are very dynamic, getting a large number of page views per day)

Okay, so I don't have anything in particular to say that fits the title, but I still think it is a cool title. As I wade through my unsorted unlabelled and randomly named images, trying to make some sense of the stacks of chaos I have let build up, I ran across this one from a trip

(Okay, so I will confess to making scandalous titles just to boost bizarre search requests....) Did it start with TOP? Or was it The Daddies? Or something else entirely like

My Belkin and Linksys routers decided to become retarded: they reached a point where they would get "confused" and just get... well... stupid. read more

I actually managed to get Shilo the Monkey Cat to take a good picture. So cute I got it printed at 8x10, even. Gotta love online photo processing.