Possible Spambot – idetrorce…

Got a weird comment a little while back.  I didn’t pay much attention to it, but found some interesting information today on it.   Apparently, “idetrorce” is a suspected bot that leaves a comment, “very interesting, but I don’t agree with you” on various blogs.  There is some concern that this is a marker for future [...]

Howto – Kubuntu, WINS, and Windows Shared Folders and Drives…

I was able to access Windows network shared drives from Kubuntu today. I started by just trying to ping a machine name (without the FQDN). That didn’t work, so next I Googled for a solution and came across this – http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-405662.html. I followed the directions and installed the required packages:

sudo apt-get [...]

Kernel 2.6.23.9 and vmware-any-any-update115…

Well, I upgraded another of my boxes from 2.6.23.1 to 2.6.23.9. This means it is time to recompile the vmmon and vmnet modules again for the new kernel. I tend to rely on the unofficial any-any-update patches, rather than the vmware installer for more recent kernels. Anyway, so far, everything works fine.
A [...]

Fun Script to Track Your Blog Hit Count…

I got the inspiration for this script from CoolTechie’s blog. He made a script to display cricket match scores from a web site. I decided to have a little fun with it, so made one of my own that periodically checks this blog and displays a popup window if the hit counter has changed, [...]