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Newberg [2007-09-04 22:34:27.692273-07 by 216.220.216.151]

naruto (the w007 webserver) has moved to Newberg, OR. It is being hosted on a FiOS connection with far more bandwidth than my DSL. Woot.

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More Moving [2006-10-23 16:23:41.212062-07 by 71.245.98.251]

aleath (AKA w007.org) has moved again. It now sits in our Beaverton apartment, serving over a Speakeasy DSL connection. Thank you Speakeasy for your reasonable TOS!

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Relocation [2006-03-19 19:56:16.071222-08 by 71.245.98.42]

the w007 is now running in Tigard. One of my friends was kind enough to let me host my server at his apartment and using his Commiecast connection, since Verizon's residential fiber plan blocks ports 80 and 25.

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Stupid Chinese Schmuck [2006-02-09 11:52:26.227382-08 by 128.193.141.4]

Some stupid Chinese shmuck is trying to crack my server. (See 218.202.151.87 for the Chinese part.) Check out these logs:

Feb  9 11:50:17 aleath sshd[3601]: Invalid user avenues from 218.202.151.87
Feb  9 11:50:19 aleath sshd[3609]: Invalid user sanderson from 218.202.151.87
Feb  9 11:50:21 aleath sshd[3642]: Invalid user courier from 218.202.151.87
Feb  9 11:50:23 aleath sshd[3644]: Invalid user duane from 218.202.151.87
Feb  9 11:50:25 aleath sshd[3677]: Invalid user erin from 218.202.151.87
Feb  9 11:50:27 aleath sshd[3679]: Invalid user exim from 218.202.151.87
Feb  9 11:50:29 aleath sshd[3722]: Invalid user greg from 218.202.151.87
Feb  9 11:50:31 aleath sshd[3809]: Invalid user rodney from 218.202.151.87
Feb  9 11:50:33 aleath sshd[3826]: Invalid user ryan from 218.202.151.87
Feb  9 11:50:36 aleath sshd[3849]: Invalid user testguy from 218.202.151.87
Feb  9 11:50:38 aleath sshd[3867]: Invalid user testgay from 218.202.151.87
Feb  9 11:50:41 aleath sshd[3904]: Invalid user whitecanyon from 218.202.151.87

Nice, eh? Lots more where those came from. Mr. China? Say hello to TCP wrappers and hosts.deny.

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Downtime [2005-11-10 19:01:01.894181-08 by 192.168.254.64]

The w007 experienced a couple days of downtime due to a PAM fiasco. Whatever you do, don't mess with Linux-PAM without several root shells open, and each of the PAM files open in case you introduce an error.

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New Server [2005-10-17 23:01:43.026536-07 by 192.168.254.13]

Thanks to a squirrel, my hosting provider (AKA parents) experienced a power outage. Stinking animals!

In any case, the result is that my beloved B&W G3 will not boot up. Thankfully, it just so happened that my employer had retired the old NT PDC, a dual-CPU PIII 450MHz NetFRAME 3100 server. As you can see, it's working nicely. Now I just need to haul it back to my parent's, so it can draw 4.6 amps there instead of on my bill...

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Another Move [2005-08-12 16:40:25.628508-07 by 71.111.79.213]

Alas, at the beginning of this summer I had to move my server away from beloved Exchangenet to that which I loathe. Verizon just needs to hurry up with my fiber installation so I can escape the communism...

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New IP [2005-01-25 10:28:30.737689-08 by 71.111.79.213]

I just love local ISPs. I went in to Exchangenet yesterday to pay my bill. While there I asked how much a second IP address would be. They said they would just give me one and would call later with the information. Sure enough, a few hours later I got the new IP -- it's now being used for subaru [edit: link down, see above]. I'm going to use it to test server stuff, and may eventually migrate some services from aleath to subaru.

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PHP 5 [2005-01-04 17:58:01.697728-08 by 10.0.1.25]

I've just updated to PHP 5.0.3 (still ~ppc on gentoo, ugh) and of course it went without a hitch. How can it have taken this long to go stable? It's still ~ on all arches!

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pg_escape_string acting up [2004-11-12 07:57:05.919871-08 by 128.193.54.46]

For some time now PHPs pg_escape_string() has been adding the wrong kind of escaping. Instead of double-single-quotes it's adding (as you can see right there) backslash escape characters. Postgres does not use backslash to escape quotes. WHY did this start happening? The end results are that my posts look stupid and every time I edit one I must remove all the backslashes--because it escapes those, too!

Update 12/7/2004: It turns out that magic_quotes_gpc was turned on by some mod_php update. It's funny that it was, because I don't usually use the updated config files, for precisely this type of thing. Oh well; it's fixed now.

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