Collected these over the past few months, reverse chronological order. Seeing different machines attempting to connect hundreds of times a day each is just, wow.

Some might say that a SSH blacklist daemon might help, but it only increases the time taken for a brute force attempt, and is of no use against a botnet trying to brute force the ssh login.

There are plenty of things that can be done to lock down the ssh server, and restricting it to only publickey is by far one of the most effective, counting that the resource (the server) you’re protecting is pretty important.

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Valley of Vision

One of the songs from the Valley of Vision album by Sovereign Grace Ministries sung today at the Word in Song conference organized and run by Adam Road Presbyterian Centre and Emu Music. Think this song will be introduced in our congregation really soon

O Great God

Based on The Valley of Vision prayer “Regeneration”

Words and Music by
Bob Kauflin

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The Konami Code and goroawase are examples of how the Japanese can be really fun and creative people

For your info the Konami code works in Google Reader and Facebook too!