Freeking COLD!!!
Was in town today for some errands -- so far we have had about a foot or more of snow at the farm - comes up to my knees in places.
Today, the sky cleared up and the temperature started dropping.
It is now around 11F and with the 20MPH winds, this puts the wind chill at around -6F. Going outside hurts! There was a reason I left New England!
Have the kerosene heater running at a very low level to keep the internal temp of the DaveCave(TM) over freezing and will be doing most of my work from inside the house as again, there wasn't enough time to build a good fire in the wood stove.
Still need to run a few scripts as I have been hit with a bunch of spammers, one of which is a a group of 26 different computers located at the Fairfax County Public Schools in Alexandria, VA.
This is not a new situation as two of these machines have earned themselves a listing in the global black-hole registry (I check for that as well).
Needless to say, an email has been sent and the entire netblock is temporarily banned.
Also, I was thinking about the IP honeypot and came up with what may be a very elegant fix -- one which will catch 99% of the low hanging fruit (stupid script kiddies which amount for about 90% of the spam) and will give a serious three-layer defense against the pros. I'll be working on this sometime after Christmas although the occasional proof of performance test will be run in the background.
Anything that effectively wins at whack-a-mole while saving me admin time is a good thing...
Posted by DaveH at November 27, 2006 9:30 PM