No … really boring. Click click click …. (iterate N times) click. You are done. Whatever happened to those fun moments of abject terror when you realized you just blew away an important DB table … Good job WP folk.

In moving to our new facilities, we changed from an 11 Mb/1.5 Mb line to a 6 Mb/0.8 Mb line. This was due to the availability of service to that area. Yeah, we could do a 1.5 Mb/1.5 Mb T1 line, but this is slow compared to what we had, and our experience with SLAs suggests that they aren’t honored as we might like. So we installed the 6 Mb line.

… and of course, I made it. And then went on vacation. No I am not kidding. Yes, I tested it. No, not the way I should have… Yeah, after our move, I redirected www.scalableinformatics.com to our new site. Yessirre. I really checked it out. Carefully. Wouldn’t want to make an error. Like directing it to the wrong machine. Nosirree. Wouldn’t want to do that. Too bad. Thats what I did.

… no, I haven’t left the building. Been on vacation this past week in lovely northern Michigan. In Mackinac to be precise. Going to St. Ignace and the Soo locks today (St. Sault Marie). Should be fun. Weather is lovely, had some great morning pictures of the sunrise over the waters on the north shore of the US … Back next week …

… day job just joined Automation Alley. Will put an official announcement up soon. Once this goes live, the day job will be offering discounted JackRabbit and HPC systems/consulting to other members. Part of this comes from a desire to grow our business in Michigan, part comes from an understanding of the Michigan economic realities. If you haven’t heard about the state of the economy in Michigan, there is simply no way to sugar coat it.

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Check your logs folks, someone is trying to crack into your systems. More … interesting … logs.

Have a look at this (safe, defanged) From a request: ?%27;DECLARE%20@S%20CHAR(4000);SET%20@S=CAST(0x4445434C415245204054207661726368617228323535292C40432076 617263686172283430303029204445434C415245205461626C655F4375 .... 655F437572736F72%20AS%20CHAR(4000));EXEC(@S); Neat… huh? Direct injection attack. Removed most of the payload. Didn’t succeed. Came from Malasia: 60.48.212.49 [W| B | U ] |MYS , Johor Bahru | 23-Jul 12:30:41 /?';DECLARE%2... 0));EXEC(@S); - 60.48.212.49 [W| B | U ] |MYS , Johor Bahru | 23-Jul 12:30:41 /?;DECLARE%20... 0));EXEC(@S); - And Brooklyn 24.184.25.236 [W| B | U ] |USA , Brooklyn | 23-Jul 12:04:02 /?

We are prepping for the move to the new facility. Nicer digs, and we are moving some infrastructure over. Our main internal server has been (until about 11pm this evening) up for 557 days. Continuously, no down time. Planned or unplanned. Of course, all this means is that, as time goes on, some klutz is gonna do something silly. Well, I’m the klutz. While pulling a power plug out of the PDU, I didn’t notice I had dislodged the adjacent plug.