Musings of Wired Pig Archived

Due to a Database error I was unable to repair, I have moved the entire contents of the main blog to here.

I will continue to update the main blog and use this as a repository for all posts made before 04/30/2008

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April 30, 2007

Moscow Officer Killed

Filed under: Featured — Tags: , — Glenn AKA: Wired Pig @ 6:47 PM

From: Interfax – MOSCOW. April 30 (Interfax) – A police officer was killed in southwestern Moscow early on Monday while on duty. A police patrol stopped a man for an ID check at about 12:30 a.m. on Monday. The man produced a pistol and fired at a police officer, hitting him on the neck. The [...]

April 29, 2007

Dont Get That New Do!

Filed under: Featured — Tags: , — Glenn AKA: Wired Pig @ 2:59 PM

From CNN – TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) — Iranian police have warned barbers against offering Western-style hair cuts or plucking the eyebrows of their male customers, Iranian media said Sunday. The report by a reformist daily, later confirmed by an Iranian news agency, appeared to be another sign of authorities cracking down on clothing and other [...]

Bad User Agent

Filed under: Featured — Tags: , — Glenn AKA: Wired Pig @ 1:20 PM

In an earlier post, Chris asked why I had banned Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) from accessing my site. I thought about it and removed the ban thinking that maybe my reasoning was faulty. After a few days I was being inundated by this user agent from various IP’s from all over the [...]

Officers Down

Filed under: Featured — Tags: , , , — Glenn AKA: Wired Pig @ 12:40 PM

From: ODMP.org – Trooper David Brinkerhoff was accidentally shot and killed by another officer during an intense gun battle while taking part in a manhunt for an assailant who had shot and wounded a New York State Trooper the previous day. On April 24, 2007, a New York State Trooper stopped a stolen vehicle at [...]

April 27, 2007

Beaumont officer killed

Filed under: Featured — Tags: , — Glenn AKA: Wired Pig @ 7:25 PM

From: KBTV – A Beaumont police officer was killed Friday morning after being hit by a suspected drunk driver. The officer was identified as Lisa Beaulieu, a 6 year Beaumont Police Department Veteran. Beaulieu was struck by a car while blocking traffic for officers to work a motorcycle accident on the southbound lanes of Eastex [...]

Whoo Hoo! Bandwidth Down!

Filed under: Featured — Tags: , , — Glenn AKA: Wired Pig @ 11:50 AM

After implementing the htaccess changes my bandwith is down considerably. Now I’m at 300+ MB for the last 7 days and only 7.1GB transfer total.

Bad IP

Filed under: Featured — Tags: , — Glenn AKA: Wired Pig @ 10:05 AM

I was hit 92 times in three minutes by IP 63.209.14.60 using agent string Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1). As a result the IP is banned and a nasty gram sent to Level 3 Communications. I may add the user agent string back to the banned list.

April 26, 2007

Bye bye Vista

Filed under: Featured — Tags: , — Glenn AKA: Wired Pig @ 4:50 PM

I have removed Windows Vista from all but one PC at home. This is not a knock on Vista, but a knock on my Media Center PC. While its still pretty fast – 3.4GHz P4 w/HT – and has plenty of RAM – 1Gb – that isnt enough for Vista. As a result, I’ve reinstalled [...]

Great Blog

Filed under: Featured — Tags: — Glenn AKA: Wired Pig @ 10:28 AM

While using Twitter, I came across Steve Hodson’s blog called WinExtra. Steve has written several great Twitter clients for Windows called TwitBox. Anyway, Steve has this excellent blog and a few others. You can find his other blogs here.

April 25, 2007

More Friggin Bad Bots

Filed under: Featured — Tags: , — Glenn AKA: Wired Pig @ 8:24 PM

Okay… this is a tad rediculous… I seem to add bad bots to the htaccess file almost daily to deny. But I’m getting fewer and few to do it with… so it must be working, right? At any rate… band this user agent string – Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2 [...]

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