This shit is happening earlier and earlier every year.
Maybe they should just leave it out year round and save themselves the trouble of setting it up every year...
Speaking of Home Depot...
The reason I was there was to purchase some mouse killer.
As you may recall, I had a sprinkler system installed this year. The system has eight zones being controlled from two manifold boxes set into the ground in my backyard. When the company came to blow the water out of the lines the other day, they opened the box covers and found a rather sizeable mouse family living in the boxes.
The solution to the problem is to simply kill them with D'Con which is why I was at Home Depot. For the record, D'Con works just fine and with the help of my shop vac, my manifold boxes are now pest free.
Personally, I think the solution to the problem is figuring out how the rodents are getting in there and blocking it off so no more of the little bastards can get in.
I'm still messing around with servers and such on my microcomputers. The Raspberry Pi camera project was a success so I've moved on to working with my Zima board.
I'm building a Apple TimeMachine backup system that my wife and I can use to backup our laptops without ever having to plug in an external hard drive. I want the laptops to back themselves up automatically without us worrying about it.
Don't get me wrong, we're both pretty good about plugging our external hard drives into our laptops to back them up every so often but having it happen without us even thinking about it would be far better.
Of course, I'll need to buy a new hard drive because the Zima only has enough space for the linux system I installed, not for backups, but once I get that installed, mounted, formatted and shared out on the network, we should be good to go.
Yes, I know, I'm a nerd.
But none of that is what I came here to tell you...
In the process of installing and configuring linux on the board, I included a webserver instaltion because who doesn't want a webserver running in their basement!
After clearing some muck from my brain and trying to figure out how to code in php again, I remembered enough to code a quick little website that does nothing except display the word "Success!" on the browser. Well, it actually does more than that. It stores the IP address of the computer that visited. Then, because I am a wild and crazy guy, I decided to see how long it would take for someone to find my website so I opened up port 80 on my router and pointed it at the webserver.
I opened the port up around 3:15 or so and within 2 minutes, I had someone from China find the webpage. Then, 14 seconds later, someone else from China found it. Then, 54 seconds after that, someone from the Netherlands found it.
Man, that was fast. Those Chinese hackers are speedy little devils. The people from the Netherlands are a little slower.
Trust me, anyone that is scanning for open ports on individual ip addresses is up to no good. People who spend their time and resources looking for open ports are really looking for ways to break into small networks and take control of whatever they can find.
Here are some links:
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The definition of insanity is
doing the same thing over & over again and expecting different results.
Psycho Vlad owns him... - I can tell you right now, they aren't going to win.
- Looks like Lindholm won't be available this evening.
- Researchers: Contributing to the betterment of society or a complete waste of perfectly good oxygen.
- Cops: We don't pay them enough.
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