Yearly Archives: 2008

Nov 25

Life Update.

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Just gonna make it a list.

  • Work
    • Moved to the Secteam in Sept.
    • Back on 2nd shift (4pm-12am) in Oct.
  • Car stuff
    • Bart bought a 2004 Tahoe in Aug.
    • Its been in 3 times for repairs. Over $1600 spent before 2 payments were made.
    • Tahoe now has pretty white letters on the side expressing our unhappiness. [pics forthcoming]
    • Contour is still running like a champ.
    • Bonneville had to have the upper and lower intake manifolds done AGAIN, to the tune of $1200.
    • Both Bonneville and Tahoe have aftermarket remote start/car alarms.
    • Bonneville has back windows darkly tinted.
  • Other stuff
    • Still checking out apts in Grand Rapids, however moving to Marshall or staying in Lansing are now options as well
    • Apt building we are currently in had to have major sewer repairs a couple weeks ago
Oct 28

Car Annoyances

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Bart purchased an after-market alarm/remote start for my car back in August. We ordered 3 remotes (1 two way and 2 one way). The 3rd remote wouldn’t program. After a few weeks of fiddling with it, the guy who installed it finally got it programed, in the 4th remote ‘slot’, and the general consensus is that slot 3 doesn’t work.

A couple days ago, I was taking a nap and Bart was up working at his desk, and my remote started going off, like someone was trying to break into the car. He rushed out, but didn’t find anything suspicious at the time. We figured someone just lifted one of the door handles to see if it was locked, and ran away when the alarm went off.

Tonight when I got home, I got out of my car, locked it, and went inside. By the time I kicked my shoes off at the front door, my remote started beeping, and the shock sensor icon was on. I put my shoes back on and went back out. The alarm didn’t seem to be going off, but as I was standing there, the shock sensor gave warning chirps like someone bumped the car. Nothing was touching it. It wasn’t windy, and there were no trucks rumbling by.

I’m starting to grow very suspect of this alarm unit. My remote has also randomly rebooted itself on several occasions, despite the battery icon showing ‘full’.

Oct 23

Security Improvements

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Now that I’m on the Secteam at LW, its obviously got me thinking harder about implementing better security measures on this VPS. One thing I’ve already done is install CSF (ConfigServer Security & Firewall, available at http://configserver.com), and set LFD (the login failure daemon) to send me emails about detected security issues.

I also have Apache2/ModSecurity2 (with our latest ruleset), however I’m finding that I probably need to make a few other adjustments, such as enabling SuPhp and open_basedir, locking down permissions, and most importantly, keeping up with new versions of software (omg, WordPress 2.6.2 already?!).  These things I hope to accomplish very, very soon.

Oct 18

Translation: Thank you.

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My cat just woke me up from a rather nice late afternoon nap, because he was hungry. After I poured the food into his bowl, he looked up at me and went “Mrew!” Translation: “Thank you!” Then proceeded to eat.

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