Rodent Regatta

The bots I talked about last week are still at it. You can see a (tiny) segment of the activity log which continues to fill up with their attempts to get to me.

All the talk of politics and web design has prevented mention of three technical matters of some importance:

• Wi-Fi Disruptions – I assumed it was something in my work area, but now I learn that Wired is running a story about unexplained interruptions of wi-fi signals that actually appear to be active. Lots of fingers are pointing toward Microsoft, but, naturally, they blame other things.
• Clearwire – Craig McCaw is getting a lot of press about an ambitious new venture. For the past eighteen months or so, I’ve wanted to live in a city or town underneath a wi-fi cloud. The fact is that I’d like to see the entire nation under such a cloud, but without government subsidies. I don’t want to pay more in taxes to fund the cloud! Clearwire is apparently aiming for solid wi-fi/WiMax coverage across the country.
• A $499 Color Laser Printer – I’m old enough to remember the introduction of the very first laser printers for personal computers. Apple and HP led the way. This week, HP announced a broad new initiative promoting digital color imaging. One piece of this announcement is a $499 printer called the Color LaserJet 2550.

Stupid software bots are still knocking every twenty seconds or so. Nobody’s home here.

Yesterday, Jay Allen tailored my MT-Blacklist file. It was a remarkable set of changes and I encourage anyone using MT-Blacklist to implement the blacklist.txt file that he altered for me.

At roughly noon yesterday two different bots(?) have been attempting to post comments here every twenty seconds. They try one second apart from one another. So, every twenty seconds, I get an attempt by one of them. Then, one second later, the other one tries.

My Movable Type Activity Log is an amazing thing right now. It’s catching every attempt by these morons. I’m assuming that the column in the Activity Log that shows IP address is showing the IP address of the offender. Both of the bots are using the same IP address. At the risk of giving these filthy thieves anything resembling what they want, I’m going to disclose (with some encryption) the two domains that appear to be behind this.

If any of you are able to do anything with this stuff, here’s the scoop:

IP address: 65dot91dot30dot30

Domain #1: l-i-s-t-b-a-n-x dot c-o-m

Domain #2: l-e-a-d-b-a-n-x dot c-o-m