HACKED

My server company informed me twice in the last week that TBP had been hacked. I don’t know who or what successfully broke into my site. The server company was able to seal off the intrusion temporarily. This was somewhat annoying to me because I’ve been paying a company aptly named – Stop Hacker – to protect my website from being hacked. After asking them why I was paying them, they offered to patch my site’s weaknesses for a couple hundred bucks. They have supposedly fixed the site. I’m doubtful.

They also made a bunch of recommendations that I should implement, including restricting the crap you people copy into the comments. They say that is why Norton keeps warning everyone about the site. I don’t understand most of their suggestions. I’m not technically savvy and have no interest in becoming so. I now spend way too much of my life monitoring load times and trying to figure out why the site will operate perfectly for hours and then go down or take 20 seconds to load. I can’t stand running a website. My enjoyment level drops by the day. I just wanted to write articles and now I deal with IT glitches, trolls, spam, and assholes.

If these technical issues continue to get worse and more expensive to address, I’ll eventually have to pull the plug. In the meantime, I’ll continue to post articles I find interesting with a brief commentary when I feel it is appropriate. The long articles that I tried to write every week or two will be few and far between. Trying to keep the blog interesting on a daily basis and dealing with the daily technical crap wears me down by the time I reach the weekend. Throw in days like yesterday when I spend three and a half hours commuting to and from work and I’m completely burnt out.

I no longer have the time or stamina to spend 10 hours on my weekend writing an article. I prefer reading to writing, and I have piles of books waiting to be read. I’d rather go for a long walk or workout at the YMCA. I’d rather go to a movie or watch a football game. Life is too short to spend worrying about what might happen 24/7. I am responsible for preparing my family for an uncertain future and trying to find some enjoyment in my daily life. It ain’t easy.

TBP has become more of a chat room of doom, than my personal blog. We’ll keep it going as long as technically possible, but something had to give and that is the in-depth articles. I’m not looking for recommendations on how to better manage my time. So don’t make any. Life is full of choices and this is a minor one in the big picture. I can’t find all the good articles, so post anything that will make readers think or get pissed off.

The goal of this site is to provide an alternative to the propaganda you get on the MSM. My personal goal is to discredit the establishment and contribute to their downfall. I hope to see our efforts come to fruition.

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varnelius
varnelius

Should I mention Overclocking and Watercooling? It’s less so needed these days, PC’s have gotten so powerful without the following software killer that demanded more. In the early days, just getting +20% out of your hardware made the difference in a huge way. You also saw very quickly how fast was too fast (and what it broke).

Soldering on brand new motherboards & processors? Been there done that. Hell I think I was playing with 555 timers at age 5.

As I said, Llpoh is thinking I’m one of those clueless Millennials, when truly, I’ve been around the block, and then some.

Llpoh
Llpoh

V – I did not take you for a loser millennial. Just a loser.

varnelius
varnelius

And I take you for the asshole that you are.

varnelius
varnelius

Oh and if you didn’t notice in the past 15 min, Jim’s still hacked. Despite whatever efforts he’s made being totally IT inept. Should this continue (and worse yet start getting complaints from the targets that are getting hit by the hackers in command), the site will go down.

I hope you are happy. You again and again trashed those of us who were only trying to help out of our love for the site.

juan
juan

varnelius says:

“@juan Fuck Llpoh. I don’t give a shit what he is, he acts like an entitled white motherfucker.”

I have no interest in watching this match, LLPOH treats every match like the battle of Little Bighorn. I have yet to see him pull a punch but he’s real nice once you surrender.
I will not take sides here, bro.

varnelius
varnelius

Never asked you to juan. But between my indian and my stubborn sweed side, I’m not going to back down or apologize to a troll.

I got VMware running earlier. Need to slap some modifications on it, and I’ll be ready.

I declared war, and I wasn’t kidding.

varnelius
varnelius

What Jim needs to do, is move to a VM. Stop running a physical server at all, and move it to the cloud. Separate the blog database from the virtual OS. Make sure the OS (whatever is picked) is getting patched regularly.

That’s the final word on this subject.

As per Llpoh, he’ll feel the pain eventually. I’m not so childish to involve the TBP server in that effort. I value this community much more then he apparently does, which is why the day is coming.

Llpoh
Llpoh

Hey, V has a hobby! Attaboy!

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