It’s 11pm. Do you know where your fingers are?
(an u jukkubg tiyr vraub cekke=s>)
I’ll refrain from saying who wrote this, but it does make perfectly good sense with a bit of … umm… translation, in the most literal sense of the word.
February 2006 Archives
My Internet just dropped mostly dead for a few minutes. A traceroute to one of my servers revealed the following:
traceroute to 207.234.147.230 (207.234.147.230), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 cisco1a5-0-115.burl.sover.net (209.198.116.1) 58.986 ms 65.898 ms 92.352 ms 2 cisco1.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.234) 19.022 ms 19.163 ms 18.352 ms 3 cisco0.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.233) 59.861 ms 53.407 ms 91.498 ms 4 cisco1.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.234) 19.734 ms 24.390 ms 20.573 ms 5 cisco0.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.233) 113.912 ms 109.399 ms 97.806 ms 6 cisco1.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.234) 20.634 ms 22.583 ms 21.180 ms 7 cisco0.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.233) 43.129 ms 96.934 ms 101.408 ms 8 cisco1.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.234) 19.896 ms 20.742 ms 22.801 ms 9 cisco0.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.233) 78.262 ms 199.997 ms 31.985 ms 10 cisco1.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.234) 22.280 ms 21.385 ms 20.505 ms 11 cisco0.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.233) 45.854 ms 106.366 ms 132.269 ms 12 cisco1.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.234) 23.883 ms 21.418 ms 26.401 ms 13 cisco0.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.233) 53.322 ms 95.994 ms 101.256 ms 14 cisco1.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.234) 21.413 ms 21.735 ms 21.183 ms 15 cisco0.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.233) 29.445 ms 91.647 ms 151.457 ms 16 cisco1.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.234) 21.383 ms 22.214 ms 23.030 ms 17 cisco0.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.233) 66.311 ms 108.462 ms 99.356 ms 18 cisco1.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.234) 22.899 ms 22.923 ms 22.215 ms 19 cisco0.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.233) 32.794 ms 89.072 ms 87.786 ms 20 cisco1.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.234) 24.450 ms 23.727 ms 25.396 ms 21 cisco0.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.233) 43.146 ms 88.276 ms 139.861 ms 22 cisco1.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.234) 25.491 ms 27.851 ms 24.946 ms 23 cisco0.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.233) 32.683 ms 77.618 ms 92.793 ms 24 cisco1.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.234) 25.493 ms 26.225 ms 25.461 ms 25 cisco0.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.233) 28.209 ms 126.476 ms 98.565 ms 26 cisco1.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.234) 31.863 ms 25.874 ms 23.036 ms 27 cisco0.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.233) 36.228 ms 94.140 ms 149.968 ms 28 cisco1.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.234) 28.749 ms 23.773 ms 33.157 ms 29 cisco0.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.233) 83.023 ms 108.471 ms 97.169 ms 30 cisco1.wnskvtao.sover.net (207.136.212.234) 24.254 ms 25.225 ms 24.788 ms
Oops. :-) Fortunately, it went away pretty quickly.
Password authentication is now disabled on my SSH servers — if you don’t have a key, you can have a script try passwords until it’s blue in the bits without having any hope of getting in. And I did this without once locking myself out. :-)
The number of dictionary attacks was increasing, and while there was little hope of them getting in by trying usernames and passwords ‘til the cows come home (did I mention that PermitRootLogin is set to “no”?), “little hope” is still less secure than “no hope,” and the cost to change it was minimal.
Last night, I successfully set up a VPN between one of my remote servers and my desktop computer. It didn’t even require a reboot of either, though it did take a little tweaking on both firewalls.
This opens up some fun new possibilities (e.g. click on web link to send a job directly to the printer next to my desk).
Wow. I was just forwarded a link to a UCC church that had the following as their motto:
“If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.” — Luke 4:7 (KJV)
Out of context, that looks good. Jesus said something like that, right? And they even quoted it correctly.
But look at the context (say, Luke 4:1-7).
Wow.
This definitely unseats the first half of Proverbs 29:18 (KJV) as evidence for why the Bible is not to be taken out of context.
I just read a comment on the Drupal site saying that it makes no sense to use the blog module for single-person blogs, and that the story module should be used instead. That’s hardly intuitive…
He’s absolutely right, though, and it explains why I was so frustrated with the module that I created a new language in the program to rename all the “Steve’s Blog” links to “Random Thoughts” (after having originally modified the module itself to not include that link). Besides not being a fan of the word “blog”, I don’t need a link after every single entry linking to all my posts, since I’m the only person who posts on this site.
UPDATE node SET type = 'story' WHERE type = 'blog';
Fixed. No more links. Brian, this should make the “read more” links easier to see now, too. :-) I could turn off comments, which would make it even easier to see, but I’m still hoping to get occasional feedback (not that most of my posts really warrant any feedback).
Well, I’ve made my first official CVS commit to the Drupal project, by updating the Scripture Filter module (which lets me put in verse references like Romans 3:23 and have them turn into links automatically) to work with version 4.7.
Previously, my contributions have included comments in the support forums and project tracker, as well as a number of patches. I unfortunately picked a time to get involved when a large number of developers were getting ready to go to a Drupal conference in Vancouver, so most of said patches have so far been ignored. We’ll see if that changes in the coming week or two, now that the conference is over. :-)
In an E-Mail I just received:
You are currently subscribed to [list name] as: unknown lmsubst tag argument: ”
Most of the time, when I get mailing lists in a spreadsheet format, the titles are pretty bland — you know, “First Name”, “Last Name”, “City”, and the like. It can be a trick to have the software automatically match the columns that come in with the fields that I store in the database, but usually I’m dealing with variations like “ADDR1” instead of “Address 1”. It’s not a place I go to look for thrills.
Today, however, I got a new one that made me laugh: “SUPPORTERS IN CRIME”
This one irks me. I can understand that religious people want to portray themselves as servants rather than masters, but remember that “webmaster” means “master of the web site.” Changing “master” to “servant” in this case doesn’t get you any spiritual brownie points.
I guess it strikes me as false humility (besides being misguided). I have the same reaction when I hear of a student group’s leadership team renaming itself to be called a “servant team” instead. There’s no shame in being leaders (see 1 Tim 3:1). Yes, Christianity is not about lording your authority over others, but there’s a difference between saying “do this because I’m in charge” and being recognized as a leader in a particular organization or field.
If you’re called/appointed into a position of authority over a given organization, ministry, or area, don’t be ashamed of calling yourself a leader. And then lead — and serve — according to the charge given to you.
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I could probably knock it down to 10 in under an hour, but I’m done for the day .. er, night. I started the day with 117, as a point of reference. Four of the remaining E-Mails are long overdue inquiries from potential customers, so I might break my weekends “off” resolution in order to address them, or aim to take care of them first thing Monday.
(In order to reduce insanity in my life, or at least to get sufficient rest so that I can prolong it, I’ve been imposing a fairly light workday on Saturday and no work on Sunday, with the possible exception of Sunday night. Programming and certain types of web development doesn’t count as work.) :-)
