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Category Archives: Technology
Bad bot
My web sites don’t get a lot of traffic. One of them dealing with the birther movement was getting 40,000 unique visitors a month, but after I stopped publishing new articles, that dropped sharply. What continued was search engine spiders … Continue reading
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Web attacks
All of my blogs were down yesterday and I spent several hours scrambling to get things back up. Someone started attacking the Contact Us page on one of my other blogs. I got over 76,000 spam emails from it, but … Continue reading
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Tagged ddos, Denial of Service Attack, hosting, hotlinking, vps.net
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Can I guess your password?
I probably could. Just give me a few billion guesses. Web sites that you log into don’t store your password; they use some cryptographic technique to store a scrambled version of it. When you log in, they scramble the password … Continue reading
I feel like I’m being followed
I posted a message last year on the Tesla forum about an upcoming round trip of about 200 miles and whether I could make it on my then Model S 60 in Winter. The consensus was that I’d have to … Continue reading
My new car
What? You only bought a new car in September! I upgraded my Model S 60 to a Model S 75 “over the air.” I paid some money and my old car turned into a different model. It took about 10 … Continue reading
Got my 15 minutes of fame
I’ve been trying to identify exactly what my personal “15 minutes of fame” has been. I have a new candidate, only this one is limited to Japan. Late last year Toyoki Nakanishi, a reporter from The Nikkei, the leading Japanese business … Continue reading
A radical solution to my data problem
My doctor told me to get more exercise, and so now I walk a couple of miles a day. I usually do it about 4 pm when “All Things Considered” is on NPR. There’s an app for that and I … Continue reading