Hacker for Hire

It’s been a long time since I’ve actually had to think about using Denyhosts and if you’ve read my post before, you’ll know I’ll swear by it’s functionality.

Recently, we’ve been getting hit by lots of SSH brute force attacks at HTG … and hit hard. The most recent stat was more than 2400 failed login attempts from over 50 unique attackers in a 24 hour period. Most times, I don’t care as long as they don’t get in … but then I sat back and thought, “Man, those fsckers are probably costing on bandwidth somehow.” and that’s where I draw the line.

So once again, Denyhosts is up and running, more than 60 hosts have been banned just today and more are going to get taken down. Now, if only I could come up with a good legal reason to just give my servers the capability to attack back … but that’s not legal … yet.

There’s an updated version of Code Snippet. Fixed some bugs with GeSHi and the WordPress plugin API. Their site is not showing the right information now, so here’s an accurate link:
http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/codesnippet-20.2.1.4.zip

Let me know if there are any problems over on the Code Snippet page!

Just because I spent so much time looking for this last night and found so many broken carrier data files, I figured I’d keep this around for me.

Instructions

• Make a backup of your /Library/iTunes/iTunes Carrier Support/ATT_US.ipcc file.
• Quit iTunes
• Open Terminal and type “defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE”
• Open iTunes, select your phone and press “check for updates” while holding down the ‘Alt’ key on your keyboard. You will be prompted to select a file. This is the one that worked for me after numerous other failures. (found in gizmodo’s cache somewhere)
• After you load the file, make sure you restart the phone

Instructions for Windows are the same, but you’ll have to use the Windows Paths for stuff (C:\Program Files\iTunes\blah blah blah).

Right, and I’m not responsible for you running up a trillion dollar bill with AT&T or if your spine curves or if your teeth yellow or if you drink rat poison because you fell in love with a rough trick named Jim or anything else as a result of you trying to do something to your bejebus phone

Dear Facebook,

Your iPhone app is great … almost. Please fix the extremely annoying bug that doesn’t allow me to use apostrophes. It’s really annoying to have to type out “does not” or “do not” in place of “doesn’t” or “don’t.” I know, I could override the auto suggest and go with “dont,” but that just pisses me off. I already commit enough infractions against the English language without purposefully littering misspellings all over just because your application has to stupidly provide a server error every time I include an apostrophe in a comment.

Sincerely,

Wyatt

I don’t normally re-link to other blogs unless I really think it’s worth mentioning; however, there is currently a debate between boxee and what I can only assume is a content provider over here.

To me, it’s enlightening to the the other side of the arugument for a change. Generally, the only thing on the Internet is how the people on the Internet are always right and how other media/content providers are crazy.

I’ve read through both sides and, well, I just can’t agree with the content providers. I’m all for a la carte and I personally find the arguments made by the content provider to just be frustrating. One in particular about how “consumers think they want a choice” really got me annoyed. The plays into my hatred of how media really helps control the way the brainless masses think; however, freeing up that thinking and allowing real choice and hopefully removing the brainless from the masses.

Recently, I receive a comment from a gentleman named Ryan. Normally, I just trash messages from people I don’t know; however, this one caught my eye:

Wow, I was considering you for some work, but after reading some of your comments to other individuals I now will not solely for your lack of tact. You may be some geeky techy who knows a lot about computer systems and networking, but you know jack shit about common courtesy.

No, I’m not one of these morons who asked you a previous question and am now offended by it. I am offended that you are trying to run a business and feel the need to treat people like crap because they ask stupid questions. Get used to it and get over it…you’re gonna get stupid questions guy!

I nearly spit all over my computer monitor when I read this I was laughing so hard. Wow … just … wow.
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Super iPhone Blog can kiss my ass. Their crappy spam bot decided to visit my site and this is the result:

If you can’t read it, here’s what they wrote:

I eventually managed to intend a useful “hello world” app created for the iPhone and additional up on my site. The difficulty I was having was not exclusive were individual tutorials discover on the cyberspace inaccurate (i.e., using rattling older groundless techniques), but Apple’s cipher didn’t quite seem to provide me sufficiency information.I started mine completely from irritate with an Xcode iPhone analyse supported application, went finished the impact of adding my IBOutlet conjunctive it up, and then took the player travel of exercisin

Go here to feature the rest:
My First iPhone Hello World App

And my response:

I don’t care if you’re going to rip off my work; however, if you’re going to do it, at least take the time to write a spam bot that can actually do your job with a few more brain-cells that you. Your crap-ass rendition of my post doesn’t even come close to making a grammatically sound or remotely cognitive thought.

Write a better spam bot or just suck less in general. In fact, just leave the Internet before someone revokes your day-pass.

Go suck a spoon jackass. All of your links have been purged from my site and if I find anymore, I’m going to myspace-goatse “hack” your crap-ass spam bot.

I finally managed to get a functional “hello world” app created for the iPhone and added up on my site. The problem I was having was not only were several tutorials out on the Internet incorrect (i.e., using really old unsupported techniques), but Apple’s code didn’t quite seem to give me enough information.

I started mine completely from scratch with an Xcode iPhone view based application, went through the process of adding my IBOutlet connecting it up, and then took the extra step of exercising some memory management in Cocoa Touch (something I couldn’t find many places). I’ve tacked it up on my iPhone development section for your viewing pleasure.

Apparently, Google.com has developed a small glitch for today. Twitter and Tech Crunch are reporting that Google has labeled even itself as a possible malware site. I think it’s probably due to their server that does the malware checking being down (giving me 502’s). Here’s hoping they get it fixed shortly.

All Google Results Are Malware

Really .. they don’t. No one should every be allowed to “generate,” and I use that term so loosely, a website from what they create in Dreamweaver. Two of my friends and I have spent nearly 2 days fixing 5 pages that were “generated” by Dreamweaver. Has any one ever looked at the crap HTML it generates??? It’s absolutely nuts. The cramming of all the style sheets in to anonymous names and stuffed at the top of each HTML is beyond ridiculous. And don’t even get me started on the static layout of all the pages it trys to render by default. I took at page that was “generated” by Dreamweaver and ran it though the W3C Markup Validation Service … 138 errors. And not hard to catch errors … they obvious really stupid errors. Missing tags, improper style declarations, style declarations to absolutely nothing on the page; the list goes on.

So moral of the story … don’t let anyone use Dreamweaver to PRODUCE the live version of a website. Build it in a REAL editor like Notepad, Vim, The Programmer’s Notepad, or TextMate. Hell, build it in Visual Studio’s text editor … just don’t trust some bloated, crappy tool to produce something functional for you.