post-WoW doldrums
Mood: excited
Posted on 2008-05-13 10:09:00
Tags: math projects worldofwarcraft
Words: 147

seem nonexistent. (anyone know a good antonym for "doldrums"?) Last night we bought some exciting new books, I bought GTA IV, got a graduation present for my sister, and committed to working on my new project. (calculating the probability of satisfying target cards in the game of Target)

It seems that my computer is under attack from a botnet. I pretty frequently get ssh requests coming from wildly different IP addresses trying out a dictionary list of user names. I'm not too worried about them guessing a username/password combo but the fact that they're hitting my box in general is a little scary. I've started turning off ssh at night but I do use it occasionally during the day...

things younger than mccain

If you're in to electoral predictions (for the general election), fivethirtyeight.com is a godsend. Probabilities that each candidate will win each state, cartograms, graphs...

3 comments

Comment from anonymous:
2008-05-13T15:09:17+00:00
Hello my friends :)
;)

Comment from yerfdogyrag:
2008-05-13T17:29:18+00:00
BTW, when I see hosts doing that sort of thing, I just tend to add their IP addresses to /etc/hosts.deny. Sometimes I mask out the entire country (Bad Malasia! Bad Country!)

Comment from gregstoll:
2008-05-13T17:32:00+00:00
That's a good idea - I'll have to see if there's a pattern or what...

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