Happy day. Zoe’s Tale, a new book from John Scalzi, is on the way. He says, “I don’t consider it the fourth book in the Old Man’s War trilogy”. That’s good, because four books won’t fit in a trilogy. Well, maybe if that fourth book was very tiny. Then [...]
Entries from September 2007
Zoe’s Tale
September 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Observations
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DenyHosts
September 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Sysadmin
Over the last week I’ve seen a *LOT* of ssh dictionary attacks on the new shell server. I’m really not interested in manually updating firewall filter rules every time someone rattles the door knobs, so that’s where DenyHosts comes in.
While it wouldn’t be too much work to script something that will handle this task, [...]
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Evil Prank War
September 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Observations
Prank War.
These guys are not friends. They should just beat each other with sticks and stop pretending that they’re on good terms. It gets worse with each episode.
Via Elsewhere.org
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The Heavy
September 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Music
My favorite band of the day.
The Heavy, a dirty sounding “Experimental/Blues/Funk” act from Bath, England are planning to release their debut album - Great Vengeance & Furious Fire - in November ‘07. For now there’s just the three songs on their MySpace page and this video.
They’re starting to get some radio play on [...]
Plugzen
September 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · General
Tony’s car has a web site.
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