Just Bizarre
No, really.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Many things about this are not good
Final update: I knew it… Here is the email I just got a few minutes ago from my hosting service:
Nope, don’t need them, as I know exactly what they are: they are randomly named directories, most likely contaiing at least a file named w.txt, and were uploaded from a machine in China, directly via FTP to your site (and probably dated Oct 24 and Oct 26). As you might imagine, all of this does not mean that I’m psychic: it means your password was cracked, and you need to change it ASAP. We’ve been going through the logs finding the people affected, as it looks like someone just ran a massive user/password combo dictionary type attack on various machines, and either got in that way, or logged in directly via the use of an FTP password sniffer (which would mean a client side machine somewhere is infected with a trojan - usually the result of an outdated copy of the adobe acrobat reader that has been exploited). Removing the files is fine and exactly what you should have done; we’ve already added the IP we captured to the network wide deny list. This doesn’t mean that someone won’t try again, only that the one host we foundd in common can no longer access anything here. Too bad for them.
So, two things: make sure the apps you have installed locally on your machine are up to date, particularly acrobat reader and filezilla, if you use it, and number two, change your password from that option in the control panel.
I’m putting this up here for anyone else on Hosting Matters, or heck, any other hosting service—check your server file system! Because I also had that w.txt file they were talking about in there. I’m putting the rest of the entry under the break and deleting the code as well.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
This strikes me as misconceived
The GOP recently redesigned their website. So many things are wrong with the new design, but what I noticed most was how much it looks like the flag of Communist China. I’m not crazy—here is a comparison of the two:
Their header graphic, which I nicked (click for a larger image):
And this is a photo of Red China’s flag (click for full size):
I almost thought the site was a parody, but it’s apparently authentic.
Anyway, it’s not that I haven’t had the urge to post, it’s that I can’t seem to get myself worked up to post anything here. I had set up this site on Posterous, just because it’s free and I wanted to see what they offered. Then I got a couple of emails saying people were following me, and I hate letting anyone down, so I wrote something. Here it is. I guess I’ll have to keep on updating the site from time to time. But a Posterous blog is easy to set up and use, any of you people who want a blog without having to go to a lot of trouble.
Update, October 18: I’m going to close comments on this one. It’s getting spam.
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Friday, October 09, 2009
I woke up this morning, my head was so bad
This is the worst hangover that I ever had…
Not really, but when I woke up and my friend told me this news I, like Kathy, at first thought it had to be a joke—an Onion article, or something. But it’s twue, it’s twue! Porcelain unicorns across the land are getting bathed in tears of joy! Just ignore that war we’re still fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq behind the curtain…
Added: the Volokh Conspiracy is starting a Top Ten Reasons Obama Won The Peace Prize list.
Added again: commentary on Ace of Spades.
And again: Tim Blair wonders, what for?
And one more time: how could I forget the Beer Summit? Of course, now it’s all clear. Those Scandis do love a good beer.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Gilding the Lilies of the Fields
Okay, somebody tell me why I shouldn’t reconsider my long-held suspicion that Conservapedia isn’t some sort of Moby website? I mean, what true conservative thinks the Bible isn’t conservative enough? I’d like to know who’s really behind “the Trustworthy Encyclopedia,” which is presumably where we are all supposed to go instead of Wikipedia, where you’ll get icky liberal stuff all over you. I mean, if you read the freakin’ entry, it’s like a parody of what conservatives are supposedly against in modern society. I’m calling this a scam and declaring that anyone taken in by this site got pwned.
Updated: I just remembered, there already exists a “conservative” bible: it’s called the King James Edition, and it’s written in hard, uncompromising Jacobean English. “But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” That’s Matthew 18:6, quoting Jesus, who was apparently not in a very liberal mood that day.
Thursday, October 01, 2009
This is just pitiful
Crazy old bag lady Charles Johnson’s street corner ravings have now encompassed the globe—in other words, he’s gone after Tim Blair. And so confident is La Charles in the rightness of his cause that he has banned Tim from being able to see his site. That must have been some re-education session.
Added: Ace comments.
Monday, September 28, 2009
They Lost Hitler’s Brain
Well, shit.
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