Things specific to the GCW websites and related technologies
… the idiots trying to ssh crack my system would give up? My log files are filled with Mbytes of this…
Apr 10 19:03:07 xxxx sshd[7934]: Invalid user cstrike from 194.105.148.80
Apr 10 19:03:07 xxxx com.apple.SecurityServer: authinternal failed to
authenticate user cstrike.
/usr/sbin/sshd.
...
Bah! Why does the internet always have to be such a wretched hive of scum and villainy?
(In case you are wondering, yes, it’s disabled again. *sigh*)
Apologies to anyone who tries to check out the blog in the next few hours. I’m messing with it again, so I’ve got the default look up. It’s also likely to be up and down for the next little while.
Update: Of course, now I’m frigging around with random styles, so who knows what it will look like when you get here.
Apologies to anyone who was trying to access the site tonight and couldn’t find us. I was doing the grand re-org of my room in the basement and I had to take everything offline to move the wires about.
With luck there won’t be any more interrupts tonight.
(Just testing out the WP upgrade.)
Holy, mackerel! Not sure what’s changed, but suddenly, I’m getting about 50 spam comments per day here at NfGCW. Thank God for automated anti-spam tools, but sheesh what a waste of bandwidth!
Isn’t it time for these guys to give up on comment spam? Does it ever actually get through on anyone’s blog any more?
If you notice, any random behavior on any of the Great Castle Wilson sites, please let me know. I am doing some er… odd things to my machine (like upgrading from PHP4 to PHP5), in order to get some new software running on it.
More details once I get it all going…
Take a look at this chart (sorry about the size, that what it takes to get it to fit):
That’s the breakdown of the browser hits on my server over the last five days. Now given that I know *I* use Safari to visit the site, I find it interesting that Firefox (65%) is way ahead of Safari (26%), and IE is getting only 4% (best case just over 8%, even if all the “Unknowns” were IE). I wouldn’t bet the farm on the veracity of this data, and certainly wouldn’t attempt to generalize this further, but it’s still interesting.
I have never worried about who wanders around my website before. It’s not topical enough for most people to be interested, and I just assumed I didn’t get much traffic.
For grins last night, I decided I would start running some traffic measurements on the server. There weren’t many surprises, except for the number of hits that I get from the various crawlers out there (Google, Yahoo, MSNBot, etc.).
One thing that I did find odd though, was that last night, between 10:00 and 11:30, I had three separate, theoretically non-bot, IPs hit on the photo gallery site. I almost never update that site, and almost all of the content is password protected anyway. One of them was probably me, since I was clicking around while testing the web stats software, but who were the other two? Weird.
Apparently, I’ve been picked up by the Planet OTI — it looks like Planet OTI is gone now too — feed aggregator.
To any new readers this drags in: Welcome.
I must say though, this is a personal blog, and I expect most people will find that it has an extremely poor s2n ratio for anyone who isn’t one of my relatives, or otherwise interested in my home life. 🙂
In any case, I welcome comments from one and all. Akismet is my friend, but I do have moderation-on-first-post turned on, so there may be a delay before your words show up.
I finally figured out that the RSS feed for my wiki had stopped working. After some digging, I realized that it was caused by my last upgrade of the wiki software, where they had renamed the file containing the rss code which, of course, was referenced by name in my initialization file.
Anyway, if anyone was crazy enough to be tracking that feed, it should be working again. If you want to check it out, here’s the link.
