Author: Andy Scheffler

o/~ And it hurts to want everything and
nothing at the same time
I want what’s yours
and I want what’s mine
I want you
But I’m not giving in this time o/~

So i got here a bit early, so i’m killing time in YL. It appears that the most fun thing for kids to do here is hang out at Starbucks.

I’ve been having some problems with this so it might not work.

Anyway i’m on my way to LA right now.

This may be old news, but this scares me.

You can leave a message for the occupant of the stall on the lcd screen.

And just while I was watching this, I saw one of the stalls go from vacant to occupied.

Read this.

Then read this.

Yes, I know that first amendment rights aren’t exactly being encroached on here, as it’s the mediums that are rejecting the content, not an outside agency. It’s just still so very disheartening.

I don’t want to live in a country that is not willing to laugh at itself.

I am making this entry on my cell phone. Don’t ask me how… It’s complicated. Hooray for predictive text! Man, i’m such a geek.

Habitrail is alive again. No longer is it a RedHat Linux machine. It is now a Debian Linux machine.

Time will tell if this was a step forward or a step sideways. FTP will never again be turned on. (And for those of you who mentioned it, telnet hasn’t been running for almost two years.)

For those of you who use the IRC server, it’s back up, but I had to recompile the server… it should be functional (services are running and appear to remember all user information).

For those of you who had accounts, they’re there. (except for the bastard who hacked his)

Sometime over the weekend, I will be learning about firewalls.

Stupid rootkits.

I thought I had cleaned it all out. I removed the user accounts he created. I removed the cron jobs that he added. I changed the root password. I closed ftp (which was how he got in in the first place). Everything seemed fine, until I logged back in this morning.

My logfiles were pointing at /dev/null. Basic detection scripts like ps and netstat weren’t working.

I shut the machine down.

Tonight is not going to be fun.

What motivates these bastards to do this? “Because they can”? Not only are the inconveniencing me, they’re inconveniencing the 20 or so people who use my machine as an IRC server, as well as the handful of friends who have accounts on the machine. Yes, I should be the better sysadmin and keep my machine secure, but dammit I thought I was. It’s not like there’s any useful data on that machine. Go bug someone else.

I hate this. Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate. When one bastard can download a script and push a button, and it takes up almost a day of my time to fix, something’s wrong with this world.

My Linux machine was hacked again.

You absolute bastards!

Words do not describe the absolute contempt for humanity I have right now.

Dang, it completely slipped my mind… but two hours ago marks the one year anniversary of when I created my LJ account.

I suppose I could pre-date this entry… nah.