Saturday, February 23, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Successful Circumnavigation!
Coral Florida. It was a great trip with a lot of scary moments and a
lot of energizing ones too. We all stepped up to things we didn't
know we could do. Try to get that from the a Hyatt resort.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Off Marco/Cape Romano
I know. This is a picture of the moon. But my iPhone can't seem to
focus on the lights of the coast this far out.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Ernie's Place
about his life and his adopted home town of Key West.
NOT a place to bring kids. They just aren't as interested in his
four wives or his beautiful yacht Pilar.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
The Galleon...finally
now, the mother of all slips. Two days in Key West to come.
Turtle Kraals
Gotta move to the Galleon today. Have 15 kts of wind pinning me to
the dock.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Key West! Finally
Temp slip for today. Moving to the Galleon tomorrow afternoon.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Sophia got her first kiss!!
We are all so proud. But really, this was at Theater of the Seas in Islamorada Florida. If you are in the area. It is worth the visit. They truly seem to care quite a bit about showing you wildlife in their own environment. Great time.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Leaving Fort Lauderdale
The start of our journey. Heading to Islamorada. Holiday Isle
marina. Woke everyone up at 4:30 am. They still seem happy. School
of 7 dolphins swimming in our wake for an hour now.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
I Love My Sailboat
simply exclaim "I love that ......" My 2001 Moody 38 is one of those
things.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
OLPCs and Nigerian Spam - Is there a link?
I own a network management company. One of our larger business lines is the Collocation Managed Services space. In this business line, my networking team manages the networks and servers that serve large clustered web sites. We have gotten very good at it over the years and are proud to call quite a few high traffic sites our clients. This makes it very easy to see trends in web site management as they occur.
Recently (early-December-ish) we have seen an amazing rise in the amount of spam coming form Nigeria. These spammers are much more than email spammers (although there are quite a few in this category clogging up our email spam filtering servers). They have more sophisticated tools like bots that create hundreds of user accounts on a site in order to spam the members; or bots that simply query large amounts of information from an eCommerce product database. All are dangerous, and all consume a large amount of our time (blocking subnets, filtering out firewall rules, et al). The one consistent fact is that they are all coming form Nigerian subnets. I think we have blocked so many Nigerian subnets that the entire country must be experiencing the equivalent of an Internet brown out. Because if WE are doing it, then so are most of the providers upstream from us.
The one event that seems to correlate with this onslaught (let me stress that there was a lot of abuse coming from Nigeria before, but not on this magnitude) is the mass release of the OLPC (much to Nigeria). [timeline] [Nigeria Article]
I have no other evidence than the correlation of the two events. However it does seem curious that an influx of cheap, easy to own and run PCs into a location already known for Internet abuse, correlates so closely to a notable increase of the same abuse. Could the OLPC project be off course? Could the rush to provide this clearly life-changing technology actually be creating a negative effect? I can only speculate. If you run a high volume web site, I invite you to email me. Please tell me if you are seeing the same thing. I would also be glad to share my information in aggregate (I cannot reveal any details about the sites we manage) to the OLPC organization. If we as systems professionals are going to do something so clearly good for all of mankind, then it makes sense that we should police and understand the impact of that generous behavior..
Recently (early-December-ish) we have seen an amazing rise in the amount of spam coming form Nigeria. These spammers are much more than email spammers (although there are quite a few in this category clogging up our email spam filtering servers). They have more sophisticated tools like bots that create hundreds of user accounts on a site in order to spam the members; or bots that simply query large amounts of information from an eCommerce product database. All are dangerous, and all consume a large amount of our time (blocking subnets, filtering out firewall rules, et al). The one consistent fact is that they are all coming form Nigerian subnets. I think we have blocked so many Nigerian subnets that the entire country must be experiencing the equivalent of an Internet brown out. Because if WE are doing it, then so are most of the providers upstream from us.
The one event that seems to correlate with this onslaught (let me stress that there was a lot of abuse coming from Nigeria before, but not on this magnitude) is the mass release of the OLPC (much to Nigeria). [timeline] [Nigeria Article]
I have no other evidence than the correlation of the two events. However it does seem curious that an influx of cheap, easy to own and run PCs into a location already known for Internet abuse, correlates so closely to a notable increase of the same abuse. Could the OLPC project be off course? Could the rush to provide this clearly life-changing technology actually be creating a negative effect? I can only speculate. If you run a high volume web site, I invite you to email me. Please tell me if you are seeing the same thing. I would also be glad to share my information in aggregate (I cannot reveal any details about the sites we manage) to the OLPC organization. If we as systems professionals are going to do something so clearly good for all of mankind, then it makes sense that we should police and understand the impact of that generous behavior..
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