Musings of Wired Pig

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]