Too much furniture

So all the furniture arrived. The New England dresser has replaced the sideboard. We have a dry-sink unit to replace the butcher block – when we can work out where to put that. The “new” dining table is still propped up against the wall as until we move other stuff round we haven’t got space […]

Spring Cleaning

We’ve got some furniture arriving from the USA in a week or so and so we’ve been working on making space in the house for it and also making sure that there is space to bring it into the house through the garden as there is no way the bigger items are going to go […]

Botnet stopped…

Either its been taken off line or I’ve blocked all its IPs. No more new additions for over 24 hours:   Status for the jail: dovecot-disconnect |- filter | |- File list: /var/log/mail.log | |- Currently failed: 0 | `- Total failed: 718 `- action |- Currently banned: 699 | `- IP list: 50.97.183.121 45.55.11.188 […]

Totally lost for words

I use Akismet on this site to trap spam. But even if I didn’t and I just relied on manually approving comments what sort of stupid idiot pays people to post rubbish like the following: Obviously its junk and would never see the light of day on anyone’s site if they have even a single […]

So first it was the Chinese, then it was the Brazillians. Now its Capita trying to break into my site.

Capita – that company who the UK Government think can be trusted to run so much of our infrastructure can’t apparently stop their own network from being used to attempt to hack servers: 31.222.208.86 – – [03/Dec/2014:01:22:43 +0000] “GET /wp/wp-login.php HTTP/1.1” 301 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)” 31.222.208.86 – […]

Scribbled notes on fixing bad blocks

#smartctl -t short /dev/sdb then #smartctl -a /dev/sdb SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 20% 50556 1132724807 # 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 50556 490221916 # 3 Short offline Completed: read failure 20% 50556 490221916 # 4 Short offline […]