Posts about computing and computing related matters
Yet more stupid spam arrived in my inbox today. Lets just take two examples from the small tsunami that arrived. What spammers forget is that sending TWO emails from different people to the SAME address with similar messages in it really does give the game away. Then why on earth should someone send Security alert […]
I’m planning on being on holiday later in the year (see Liverpool in the Autumn for more details ) and I’m planning on doing some blogging whilst we’re underway. So I want to be able to write my posts on my laptop when I’m disconnected from the internet and then connect and push the post […]
The mobile browser news feed for Facebook includes a section featuring “sponsored” pages which they think you might want to like. You can’t hide this section but their selection criteria is totally crap.. So lets start with this – I drive a Volvo…. A super car it isn’t and I’ve no real interest in […]
A few notes on how to restore dual boot after a Toshiba BIOS update.
The following emails arrived in exactly the order they are shown here…… something tells me the University has a bit of a botnet going on.
Or are they simply paying the people who spam such shit money that they can’t even run a script properly? Look at this pile of crap that I found as a blocked comment today : That’s only about 1/5th of the post….
I looked at what was over on canalplan blogs and decided that actually pulling the couple of live blogs over to here and closing down that site was the best thing to do. So I exported and imported the posts along with the images and put a .htaccess rule to force 301 redirects over to […]
So several days after reporting to Capita that they had a compromised machine on their network what do I see but the same IP address come back and start doing exactly the same thing. A search on the internet shows that other people have had this same IP address hitting them. So tell me Capita […]
Although I should be working on getting all the data loaded into the Canalplan Boats Database I’ve not been making a lot of progress on getting the new data and the old data mapped into a new structure which I wanted to use to make the data better. As well as that it’s been a […]
2014-10-23 04:39:51,514 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [apache-wplogin] Ban 198.23.155.76 2014-10-23 11:02:05,033 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 111.249.35.151 2014-10-23 12:44:57,061 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [sasl] Ban 63.152.242.19 2014-10-23 12:47:16,215 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 49.230.184.69 2014-10-23 12:49:02,731 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 185.7.100.97 2014-10-23 12:49:41,087 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 103.229.84.194 2014-10-23 12:51:27,010 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 59.94.15.250 2014-10-23 12:51:51,892 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban […]