Well, I made it through Gustav with only several losses in power and a few trees blown down. Any hurricane you can recover from by rebooting a few servers is a good one. I hope everyone else in the path of Gustav made it through with no major losses.
Now I just need a vacation from Labor Day weekend.
Well, I know I have been a little quiet around here since I did my blog posts about Transfer. I have been trying to finish coding WhosOnCFC 2.2.2DB, the Transfer-powered version of WhosOnCFC. All the heavy work is done, mostly I have just been fine tuning the components and making all the associated helper applications work.
As some of you may know, this weekend the firewall in front of my main server was knocked out of commission. I was running an old machine loaded with IPCop firewall and I have been meaning to replace the old machine that was there with a newer machine running Untangle Platform. It was the perfect opportunity to replace it.
I apologize for the down time today. It would seem the firewall on my main server got zapped during a storm some time Sunday night which effectively knocked out my server. I noticed the problem first thing Monday morning and had a new Untangle server up and configured by mid-afternoon.
I am working on getting a few kinks worked out of the configuration and everything should be back to normal by Tuesday morning.
Well, for almost as long as I can remember I have been complaining about never taking a vacation. I either never have the time or the money, or some strange mixture of the two. Well, that is all about to change.
As you may or may not have heard, my friend Joshua is organizing the RIAdventure cruise. Five days of fun, sun and all the geeks you could pack on a cruise ship. It will be all the fun of a major conference, minus all the conferences but it does sound like a great time to mingle with all your fellow ColdFusion addicts.
I plan on being there and I hope to see you there as well. To find out more, check out http://www.riadventure.com.
It would seem 2008 is officially here. I hope everyone was happy and safe bringing in the new year.
Last year had it's ups and downs, but overall it was a great year. I have my health, a great family and good friends here and abroad. At this time last year the latest version of my agency management system was a little more than a page of roughed out divs, now its an application I am not ashamed to say I developed. WhosOnCFC has had more success than I would have thought, heck, someone other than me is actually using it. I have made the jumped to OO programming from the spaghetti code of the past and I even finally picked up an MVC application framework.
Take care all and I hope you have a great year!
Well, this will be my last post for a few days as me and my family celebrate the season. We are wishing you and yours have a very happy, very safe holiday. I shall return Thursday for business as usual.
Also, greetings and cheers to all my friends out there: Ray Camden, Dan Wilson, Scott Stroz, Scott Pinkston, Jen Larkin, Jim Carlow, and all the great folks out there in #coldfusion on DalNet and anyone else out there I forgot.
I hope Santa is good to you all!
I am in the process of changing my layout on the Blog and some how, some way the configuration files got ferked when I was moving them over from the development machine to the blog. I am getting everything straight now (I hope).
Well, it is not very often I have a distinguished author grace my blog other than perhaps Raymond Camden. So I was extremely surprised this weekend when I was going through the comments on my blog and found a comment left by Mr. Tim Cox. He will be back on the air with Walton & Johnson Thursday, December 13th at 8:30 AM. Anyone who does not know about Mr. Cox, I would highly recommend you check out his interview on the 13th. If you are not lucky enough to be in the Walton & Johnson listening area you can find his web site at http://www.goooh.com.
If you would like to know a little bit more about Mr. Cox and his web site, I will let him tell you in his own words:
The revolution is gaining momentum each day. Thousands of people are visiting www.GOOOH.com and becoming members. Many are already sending in there $100, though you do not need to make that decision until next Spring.
We understand many are skeptical when they first hear the plan; politics and politicians have worn us down. New ideas and inventions are not always easy to accept. But, we encourage you to engage and become part of the solution.
Tell eveyone you know about GOOOH. Let each person evaluate the merits of the process. GOOOH will work if we can get Americans to participate. The only thing that will cause it to fail is if we do nothing, and if we do nothing, the corruption will continue and our country will continue to decline.
If you are tired of being represented in Congress by politicians who tell you what you want to hear to get elected and then totally forget about you, this is your chance to actually do something about it.
Well, I have spent most of the afternoon pouring through web server logs and my file system. It would appear that someone in France was kind enough to infect my server with an IRCBot. I do not know exactly who is involved, but they were using irc.powerserv35.net:16667 in the #psyko_home channel. I tried to log on and find whoever was the bot master, however I was K-Lined from the server pretty quick. Such is life.
Going back through the directories and files they were kind enough to leave on my server I tracked down where the files originally came from. The server is hosted in Japan (p11093-ipadfx01kobeminato.hyogo.ocn.ne.jp [220.98.242.93]). You can point an FTP client to that address and login as anonymous/anonymous@OnThe.net . Konichiwa bitches.
Anyway, it looks like next week I am going to be plugging security holes wherever I can find them. I thought I had things tightened down pretty good. That is what I get for thinking.
