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It's been stormy here all day, with sheets of water and high winds at times. ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
patgreene has been ill and in bed for most of the day, so I've been watching the kids and shopping online. Including for a new DSL provider -- telocity is going away in <90 days, according to today's newspaper. So we'll need yet another email transition in a month or so. Sigh. After reading online reviews, I signed up with DSLExtreme (despite the name *). But I'm tired of having to resubscribe to mailing lists and notifying friends -- I only just got around to updating the SFSI lists 2 weeks ago, so I could unsubscribe from AOL.
I need something more stable, more solid and predictable, address-wise. Carved in stone, as it were... so I'm registering my own domain name, lithic.net. I'll probably rename our machines (paleo, neo) and router (endo)... not a bad choice for a part-time geophysicist. Besides, "vitreous" was already taken...
Given Pat's condition, it is just as well that we had earlier bowed out of going to a party tonight, for complex reasons. I had had thoughts of going contra dancing, but am taking care of the kids instead. And there are rare flashes of lightning outside. Cool. I attempted to go shopping this afternoon, made no headway but had an entertaining 2-hour coffee withbrooksmoses instead :-).
patgreene has been ill and in bed for most of the day, so I've been watching the kids and shopping online. Including for a new DSL provider -- telocity is going away in <90 days, according to today's newspaper. So we'll need yet another email transition in a month or so. Sigh. After reading online reviews, I signed up with DSLExtreme (despite the name *). But I'm tired of having to resubscribe to mailing lists and notifying friends -- I only just got around to updating the SFSI lists 2 weeks ago, so I could unsubscribe from AOL. I need something more stable, more solid and predictable, address-wise. Carved in stone, as it were... so I'm registering my own domain name, lithic.net. I'll probably rename our machines (paleo, neo) and router (endo)... not a bad choice for a part-time geophysicist. Besides, "vitreous" was already taken...
Given Pat's condition, it is just as well that we had earlier bowed out of going to a party tonight, for complex reasons. I had had thoughts of going contra dancing, but am taking care of the kids instead. And there are rare flashes of lightning outside. Cool. I attempted to go shopping this afternoon, made no headway but had an entertaining 2-hour coffee with
brooksmoses instead :-).
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:-((( Hoping for rapid improvements...
lithic.net
Sounds cool!
(I always worry about easily-guessed themed machine names, for security reasons - am I just being paranoid?)
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In this day and age of frequent port-scans down all the numbers in an IP-address block, I'd suspect you're either being too paranoid, or not paranoid enough. Security through obscurity is obsolete; the machines need sufficient security to handle being found, whether or not they're given guessable names, and so the guessable names are pretty irrelevant.
Meanwhile, would I come across as cynical if I pointed out that paleo.lithic.net is unlikely to be "easily guessable" for a cracker-script (or its likely user)?
- Brooks
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I do hope Pat is better soon.
Oh, and the power was indeed back on when I got back to our house. It apparently was out for somewhere around two to three hours, though.
- Brooks