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Archive for April, 2007

Moscow Officer Killed

Posted by Wired Pig April - 30 - 2007 - Monday ADD COMMENTS

From: Interfax -
MOSCOW. April 30 (Interfax) – A police officer was killed in southwestern Moscow early on Monday while on duty.
A police patrol stopped a man for an ID check at about 12:30 a.m. on Monday. The man produced a pistol [...]

Dont Get That New Do!

Posted by Wired Pig April - 29 - 2007 - Sunday ADD COMMENTS

From CNN -
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) — Iranian police have warned barbers against offering Western-style hair cuts or plucking the eyebrows of their male customers, Iranian media said Sunday.
The report by a reformist daily, later confirmed by an Iranian news agency, appeared to be another sign of authorities cracking down on clothing and other fashion deemed [...]

Bad User Agent

Posted by Wired Pig April - 29 - 2007 - Sunday ADD COMMENTS

In an earlier post, Chris asked why I had banned Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) from accessing my site. I thought about it and removed the ban thinking that maybe my reasoning was faulty.
After a few days I was being inundated by this user agent from various IP’s from all over the globe.
That [...]

Officers Down

Posted by Wired Pig April - 29 - 2007 - Sunday ADD COMMENTS

From: ODMP.org -
Trooper David Brinkerhoff was accidentally shot and killed by another officer during an intense gun battle while taking part in a manhunt for an assailant who had shot and wounded a New York State Trooper the previous day.
On April 24, 2007, a New York State Trooper stopped a stolen vehicle at the Sunoco [...]

Beaumont officer killed

Posted by Wired Pig April - 27 - 2007 - Friday ADD COMMENTS

From: KBTV -
A Beaumont police officer was killed Friday morning after being hit by a suspected drunk driver. The officer was identified as Lisa Beaulieu, a 6 year Beaumont Police Department Veteran.
Beaulieu was struck by a car while blocking traffic for officers to work a motorcycle accident on the southbound lanes of Eastex Freeway. She [...]

Whoo Hoo! Bandwidth Down!

Posted by Wired Pig April - 27 - 2007 - Friday ADD COMMENTS

After implementing the htaccess changes my bandwith is down considerably.
Now I’m at 300+ MB for the last 7 days and only 7.1GB transfer total.

Bad IP

Posted by Wired Pig April - 27 - 2007 - Friday ADD COMMENTS

I was hit 92 times in three minutes by IP 63.209.14.60 using agent string Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1). As a result the IP is banned and a nasty gram sent to Level 3 Communications.
I may add the user agent string back to the banned list.

Bye bye Vista

Posted by Wired Pig April - 26 - 2007 - Thursday ADD COMMENTS

I have removed Windows Vista from all but one PC at home.
This is not a knock on Vista, but a knock on my Media Center PC.
While its still pretty fast – 3.4GHz P4 w/HT – and has plenty of RAM – 1Gb – that isnt enough for Vista. As a result, I’ve reinstalled XP MCE [...]

Great Blog

Posted by Wired Pig April - 26 - 2007 - Thursday ADD COMMENTS

While using Twitter, I came across Steve Hodson’s blog called WinExtra. Steve has written several great Twitter clients for Windows called TwitBox.
Anyway, Steve has this excellent blog and a few others. You can find his other blogs here.

More Friggin Bad Bots

Posted by Wired Pig April - 25 - 2007 - Wednesday ADD COMMENTS

Okay… this is a tad rediculous… I seem to add bad bots to the htaccess file almost daily to deny. But I’m getting fewer and few to do it with… so it must be working, right?
At any rate… band this user agent string -
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
In particular, the [...]

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