Why? Well, because if you a system administrator or webmaster responsible managing security on a server that is connected to the Internet 24/7, you could do what I did to prevent these bots doing the same to your server, by adding the IP addresses to your block list (black, disallow or whatever it’s called on your firewall). Now, my firewall is denying access from those IP addresses on any ports. I also changed the port for the SSH service from TCP/22 to something else. Though, this will not prevent human hackers finding out which port SSH is running on my server, it will prevent bots hammering the server with login attempts. I’m also working on a code, kind of an add-on to my firewall that will block IP’s automatically after detecting these kind of attacks in the future.

I bet most of administrator responsible for these IP’s have no idea that their servers got hacked and being used for attacking other servers. If you do your own searches using tools like domaintools.com and others, you will see that most of these IP’s are running DNS and Email servers.

Huhh, here is an idea: Maybe I should make a site to post these IP’s on and write about the type of attacks and user names and passwords tried, similarly to the email spammers site where I post spam emails getting caught by my email servers to help sys admins better protecting their servers against those spammers.

So here is the list of IP’s:
61.237.230.6 - China Beijing China Railway Telecommunications Center
219.93.40.67 - Malaysia Canteran Apparel Sdn Bhd
82.220.2.157 - Switzerland Solnet-pop-zuchwil
59.63.25.158 - China Beijing Chinanet Jiangxi Province Network
64.62.31.170 - United States Portland Verient Inc
200.118.110.91 - Colombia Santaf De Bogot Tv Cable S.a. Static Ip Block
124.30.164.50 - India Hyderabad Emrinet
60.206.8.251 - China Beijing Beijing Bitone United Networks
203.197.82.242 - India Pune Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd - India

Now you can see what a geek I am… As I started working on it, I was thinking how I should do it and just then I started thinking why. I guess everything was going backwards in my mind that day… Anyway, this is where got so far with my web-based command-line interface. Don’t expect too much, because I can only work on this in my free time, which is not much since I have a big family and getting ready for my summer vacation, oh and entertaining my European guest…

If you are a coder, you can see how simple the whole thing is. It’s based on AJAX: a bit of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, spiced up with a touch of ASP running on the server side.

What to do with the poor thing, once you have the page loaded? Well, you can start by crying for help (just enter help and hit enter). That’s always a good start with a text based interface like this. You could say hi if you don’t want to be rude. Then you can test all the commands currently available. And when you got tired of it already and if it’s a Friday, you can give it a high five by saying TGIF (at the time of writing it really is Friday!)

There is also personal developments that are keeping me busy which I cannot mention just yet due to privacy issues. Family members and close friends know about them. No worries. Nothing bad is going on. It’s good. It’s all good…

Now that I mentioned the delicate stage of my projects, I remembered what happened the last time I mentioned a project I was working on. I even linked to the site and two days later the site was banned on Google. The poor thing almost died. It barely survived. So I guess I better keep my current and future projects secret, until they are strong enough to survive after revealing them on my blog. What I can say about my very latest web project is that it could be the one that will contribute the most to my retirement fund. Well, my semi-retirement fund. I don’t know about you, but retiring to me would mean something very close to death. I would have to do something with my life. It’s not like I can’t relax. Sure I would love to go for long trips or spend a few days with my family, chill around the house etc., but retirement to me would have to be something more active. I would have to be productive. I’m not sure why, (maybe it’s the way I was raised), but I always feel the need to give, to provide, to be productive to help others in order to be able to sleep well at night. For example, a couple of weeks ago, my herniated disk (causing sciatica) gave me a lot of back ache. So much so that I was unable to walk at all. I had to stay in bed for a whole day! I thought, my life was over. It was so bad that I could not even move to grab my laptop and get some work done. I got so depressed that I didn’t even want to watch TV or listen to anything, so I tried to sleep instead (to catch up, since I usually sleep 4-6 hours at night). Though this 24-hour bed-arrest did good for my back problem, I could barely wait to get out of bed and start moving my lazy ass. Sure, it took me a few days to recover so I could be able to walk without crutches, but I’m so glad to be able to walk without pain again. Most importantly: being able to walk at all, so I could get things done. Since I’m not a believer of medications, I now have to pay extra attention to my health: what and how much I eat (which is pretty hard for a vegetarian geek who sits more behind a computer than does anything else) and how I lift things to avoid future injuries. I have to do some exercises and constantly have to remind myself to stand up from my desk every 30-60 minutes for a 5-10 minute walk and when I have to walk for longer distances, I have to remind myself to sit down or at least take a little break every 15-30 minutes to allow my spine to relax a bit…

This reminds me: I just sat here for too long again, so I better go.

So here I am, building newer and newer search engines again. This constant improvement on my web search technologies makes me think of it as the evolution of my search engines. It’s nice to see a bunch of my little search sites becoming more and more successful as going through their traffic stats. Of course they don’t just amuse me by getting their pages ranked on the top search engines converting to higher and higher traffic, but the pay-per-click ads placed on those sites are covering more than just the costs = generating some net revenue as well, which makes the whole thing even more fun.

You could do this at home by running cmd to get your command prompt and typing in telnet whois.internic.net 43 after the prompt. Once you’re in enter a domain name, like google.com and hit enter to get the whois info for that domain. As of today, this is the response I’m getting:

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM
GOOGLE.COM.YAHOO.COM.MYSPACE.COM.YOUTUBE.COM.FACEBOOK.COM.THEYSUCK.DNSABOUT.COM
GOOGLE.COM.WORDT.DOOR.VEEL.WHTERS.GEBRUIKT.SERVERTJE.NET
GOOGLE.COM.VN
GOOGLE.COM.UA
GOOGLE.COM.TW
GOOGLE.COM.TR
GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
GOOGLE.COM.SPROSIUYANDEKSA.RU
GOOGLE.COM.SERVES.PR0N.FOR.ALLIYAH.NET
GOOGLE.COM.SA
GOOGLE.COM.PLZ.GIVE.A.PR8.TO.AUDIOTRACKER.NET
GOOGLE.COM.MX
GOOGLE.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
GOOGLE.COM.IS.HOSTED.ON.PROFITHOSTING.NET
GOOGLE.COM.IS.APPROVED.BY.NUMEA.COM
GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PORN.IN.ITS.SEARCH.ENGINE.THAN.SECZY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.DO
GOOGLE.COM.CO
GOOGLE.COM.BR
GOOGLE.COM.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
GOOGLE.COM.AU
GOOGLE.COM.ACQUIRED.BY.CALITEC.NET
GOOGLE.COM

To single out one record, look it up with xxx , where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with =xxx to receive a full display for each record.

>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 08 May 2008 18:16:48 UTC <<<

Is it possible that InterNIC got hacked?

What’s strange is that when I go to their site and run the search there, it gives back the correct data: http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=google.com&type=domain

Imagine watching this video every time before eating meat versus watching a video about planting and harvesting vegetables and fruits before eating a healthy vegetarian meal.

A very common reponse I get from meat lovers when I tell them about my reasons being a vegetarian is “Well humans have been eating meat forever.” Doesn’t this make you think about how much smarter we got just in the past 100 years? Think about modern medicine, communications and all other sciences that make mankind so much better. I think it’s part of evolution that got us here where we are now. So can’t we lose a dumb barbarian way of treating other living things on our planet?

And this is only one of the many problems I see. Just one reason of the many I am a vegetarian. At the same time we are ruining our planet, letting viruses spread, casuing so many people get sick (allergies, cancer etc.)

ONE HUNDRED & ONE REASONS TO GO VEGETARIAN

PEOPLE
Every year in the UK we feed our livestock enough food to feed 250,000,000 people while in the world 30,000,000 people die of starvation
20 vegetarians can live off the land required by one meat eater
Every 3 seconds a child dies of starvation somewhere in the world
If Americans reduced their meat consumption by 10% it would free 12,000,000 tons of grain - enough to feed 60,000,000 people (the population of Great Britain)
If all Americans became vegetarian, it would free enough grain to feed 600,000,000 people (the population of India)
Intensification in animal farming has displaced 1,000,000’s of people from their traditional lands - eg. indigenous people in south & central america, native americans in north america & crofters in Great Britain - this is continuing today
People displaced from their lands into cities succumb to dietary deficiency, diseases, parasites & opportunistic diseases
In third world countries 1 in 10 babies die before their first birthday
The UK imports ?46,000,000 worth of grain from third world countries to feed our livestock
Due to overgrazing 850,000,000 people live on land threatened by desertification & over 230,000,000 already live on land so severely desertified that they are unable to sustain their existence & face imminent starvation
1,000,000,000 people in the west gorging on meat & dairy leave 1,000,000,000 to waste away & 3,500,000,000 teeter on the brink

LAND
If they continue to clear American forests to raise cattle at the present rate, in 50 years there will be none left
1 acre yields 165 lbs of beef or 20,000 lbs of potatoes
8/10 of cultivated land in the UK is used to grow food for animals (14,732,000 hectares)
It takes 16lbs of high protein soya to produce 1 lb of beef
Since 1945 in the UK we have lost 95% of flower meadows, 50% of ancient woodlands, 40% of heathlands, 50% of wet lands & 224,000 km of hedgerows all due to animal farming
Pressure on land due to meat farming leads to soil erosion 6billion tons/year in the USA
If everyone went vegetarian upto 90% of land used for animal farming could be taken out of production & used to replant woodlands, leisure activities etc.
25% of Central america’s forests have been destroyed for cattle grazing since 1960
Between 1966-1983 38% of the Amazon rain forest was destroyed for cattle grazing
90% of cattle ranches established on cleared forest land go bankrupt in less than 8 years as the land becomes barren due to nutrient loss & overgrazing
Overgrazing by cattle is destroying the land & increasing desertification, nearly 430 million acres in the USA alone has suffered a 25-50% reduction in yield since first grazed
An inch of topsoil takes 200-1000 years to develop - yet in the USA they have lost around 1/3 of their prime topsoil in 200 years (around 7 inches) due to animal farming
Land will be lost due to rises in sea level due to global warming due to animal farming

AIR
The destruction of the rainforest by cattle farmers is destroying the lungs of the planet & reducing the worlds capacity to replenish our oxygen supply
The 1,300,000,000 cattle in the world emit 60,000,000 tons of methane per year (methane is a greenhouse gas & leads to global warming)
Burning of forests, grasslands & agricultural waste associated with animal farming releases 50-100,000,000 tons of methane per year
Combining these figures, 25% of methane emissions are due to animal farming (not including the billions of sheep, pigs & poultry so the real figure is much higher)
Fertilizer used to grow crops to feed to animals releases nitrous oxide - thought to account for 6% of the greenhouse effect
Fertilizer, weedkiller & pesticides sprayed on crops enter the atmosphere creating a noxious carcinogenic cocktail
CFCs are released into the air from refrigeration units used to store decomposing flesh (meat), milk & butter - CFCs are destroy the ozone layer
Ammonia from animal urine also pollutes the atmosphere
CO2 is released by burning oil & petrol in lorries, ships, abattoirs, dairies, factories etc. associated with meat & dairy production
Emissions from large chemical plants which produce fertilizer, weedkiller & other agricultural chemicals are also poisoning our air

WATER
25 gallons of water to produce 1lb of wheat & 2500 gallons to produce 1lb of meat
UK farm animals produce 200,000,000 tonnes of slurry (liquid excrement) every year, the majority of which ends up in our rivers
Bloody waste water from abattoirs ends up in our rivers
In the USA every second humans produce 12,000 lbs of effluent while farmed animals produce 250,000 lbs
Nitrates & pesticides used on crops grown to feed livestock end up in our rivers
Meat & dairy farming uses 70 litres of water per day per animal in the UK or 159,250,000,000 litres per year in total
The water used to produce 10 lbs of steak is equivalent to the average consumption of water for an entire household for an entire year
Depletion of groundwater reserves to grow crops for animals & to supply abattoirs will lead to greater water shortages
Aquafers (stores of underground water) in the San Joaquin valley in the USA are being drained at the rate of 500,000,000,000 gallons/year to produce meat
18% of all agricultural land in the world is irrigated & as global warming increases (partly due to animal farming) it will cost $200,000,000 to keep these systems going
The water used to produce a 1000 lb beef steer is enough to float a Destroyer battleship
The liquid waste from the various parts of the meat & dairy industry flow into the rivers & from there into the seas polluting them & encouraging huge algal blooms to grow

EFFICIENCY
To produce 1calorie of energy from meat takes 60 calories of petrol, whereas growing grains & legumes to directly feed people produces 20 calories for each calorie of fuel used ( thats 1200 times more efficient)
Meat & dairy farming uses billions of gallons of oil to run tractors, fuel ships & lorries (to move animal feed & animals), pump billions of gallons of water to irrigate fields & run slaughterhouses, power refrigeration units to prevent the corpses from decomposing & to power sewage plants to clean up some of the pollution produced
Cattle convert only 6% of their energy intake (mainly grains & soya) into flesh, the remaining 94% is wasted as heat, movement (which is why they keep many animals in very close confinement), hair, bones, faeces etc
1lb of beef takes 1 gallon of petrol to produce
A family of four eating beef for a year uses enough petrol to run a car for 6 months (obviously depending on how far you drive!)
If the full ecological cost of meat was passed onto the consumer - the price would be quadrupled (at least)
The EC spends ·00,000,000’s to subsidise animal production resulting in lakes of unwanted milk & mountains of unwanted meat & butter. This money could be better spent encouraging organic fruit, vegetable & grain production
In the USA in 1979 145,000,000 tons of crops were fed to cattle resulting in only 21million tons of animal bodies - the cost of the wasted crops was $20,000,000,000
Between 1950 & 1985 grain production in Europe & the USA increased massively but 2/3 was fed to animals
70% of all grain is fed to animals
Eating vast quantities of animal flesh, eggs, milk & butter is a luxury that most of the planet can not afford

ANIMALS
Fishing with drift (and other modern) nets weakens & destroys ecosystems by indiscriminately killing billions of sea creatures & disrupting the sea bed
Fishermen’s nets kill 10 times as many other animals as the fish they are hoping to catch
Fish caught in nets die an agonising slow death of suffocation
Each year 15,000,000,000 land animals are slaughtered for food & an unknown but much larger number of sea creatures (including 1000’s of dolphins caught accidentally)
Chickens are crammed into battery cages with upto 3 other birds, they are unable to even spread their wings & many can not even stand up
Unwanted male chicks (because they can’t lay eggs) are gassed or pulped while their sisters go to the battery sheds
Chicks are debeaked without anaesthetic to prevent them injuring each other in the unnaturally confined conditions they are kept in - this is equivalent to having your fingernails pulled out without anaesthetic
Modern farming methods using growth hormones & artificial lighting mean that many chickens out grow their bones, resulting in fractured & broken legs
Sows are kept tethered in stalls 1.3 x 1 metre on concrete or slatted floors - they can not even turn around
Poultry raised for meat are kept in windowless broiler sheds, with around 20-30,000 in each shed, they live in an area of 10-20 cm square - fighting due to overcrowding is common & like battery hens they commonly suffer from supperating bed sores
Broilersheds are artificially lit 23 hours a day to produce rapid growth
Animals travel between farms & to slaughter in overcrowded transporters with no food or water - resulting in stress, injuries & deaths - legal requirements are widely ignored
95% of poultry suffer injuries before being killed & 30% suffer broken bones
Problems with stunning practices mean that many animals have their throats slit while still conscious (around 6% of cattle or 200,000 per year) & are then dipped in tanks of scalding water (to loosen feathers, bristles etc.) again while fully conscious
4000 animals die spurting their blood out every minute in a British slaughterhouse
Calf leather comes from animals killed at just 2 weeks old
Cows were fed on the ground up remains of other cows & sheep - the result is thought to be BSE (mad cow disease) in the USA cattle are fed partly on recycled plastic pellets
Cows only give milk for 10 months after they have a calf - so they are routinely artificially inseminated (ie. mechanically raped) to keep them pregnant & milking - their calves are taken away (usually at 12 hours old) for meat or export to veal crates
Cows would naturally live upto 20 years but are slaughtered after 5-7 years when their milk production begins to fall
In the UK animals are killed by first being stunned with electricity or a captive bolt gun (ie. a bolt is fired into their heads) before having their throats slit & being plunged into boiling water - all this happens on a production line with the animals being hung upside down from a moving conveyor belt - this is factory farming
“Animals are those unfortunate slaves & victims of the most brutal part of mankind” - John Stewart Mill (philosopher)
Veal calves are confined in stalls in the dark, unable to move & are fed on pigs blood , chocolate & dried milk (we are drinking the rich fresh milk of their mothers)
Cows naturally produce 5 litres of milk per day for their calves - under the intensified systems of modern farming they produce 25-40 litres per day - resulting in swollen & inflamed udders - at this rate they are soon worn out
Large areas of land are under monoculture to grow crops to feed to animals - these areas are wildlife deserts supporting fewer & fewer species.

HEALTH
Vegetarians have a 20% lower rate of mortality from all causes (ie. they live longer & don’t get sick as often)
Meat is full of traces of antibiotics, hormones, toxins produced by stress & pesticide residues that become concentrated from all the crops they have eaten
Fish contain heavy metals & other pollutants -many of which originated on farms
The world health organisation recommends a diet low in saturated fat, sugar, salt & with plenty of fibre - exactly what you get on a vegan/vegetarian diet
Farmed animals contain upto 50% saturated fat in their bodies
Vegetarians have 24% reduced risk of getting heart disease & Vegans a 57% reduction (heart disease is the biggest killer in the UK accounting for 50% of deaths)
Obesity is rare in vegetarians, obesity is related to many diseases
Vegans & vegetarians have lower blood pressure & cholesterol levels - high levels are associated with heart disease, strokes & kidney failure
Vegetarians have a 50% reduced risk of dying of diabetes
Vegetarians have a 40% reduced level of cancer than the general population thought to be because they have a higher intake of vitamins A,C & E
Vegetarians have a reduced risk of developing gall & kidney stones
80% of food poisoning is due to infected meat (faeces, bacteria etc.) after all meat is decomposing flesh - most of the rest is due to salmonella in eggs
Osteoporosis due to calcium loss from bones is mainly due to the sulphur content in meat & casein protein in milk that cause calcium to be lost in the urine - the countries with the highest meat & dairy consumption are those with the highest levels of brittle bones
50% of people do not have the enzyme to digest milk properly & milk allergy is related to asthma & eczema
Meat eaters have double the rate of Alzheimers disease as Vegans & Vegetarians - some people also think that Parkinsons disease is also linked to meat eating
Egg yolk is a dense concentration of saturated fat & the white is high in albumin protein associated with leaching calcium into your urine. Butter is 80% saturated fat, cream is 40% saturated fat & cheese is 25-40% saturated fat
Meat eaters are two and a half times more likely to get bowel cancer than Vegetarians
The cling film used to wrap meat in supermarkets & butchers contains chemicals linked to falling sperm counts in men
Chinese people (living mainly on a vegetarian diet) consume 20% more calories than Americans but Americans are 20% fatter
Of 2,100,000 deaths in the USA in 1987, 1,500,000 were related to diet (ie. meat & dairy)

AND I COULD GO ON !
Well their only real point is usually “Meat is tasty” - fair enough a lot of people enjoy the taste of meat - but there are plenty of delicious alternatives (just consider the huge range of vegetarian dishes in Indian cooking - one of the oldest & most sophisticated cuisines in the world) and if you really crave meat & dairy, nowadays there are plenty of healthy non animal alternatives - just look in the supermarket & health food shop. So I hope you will agree it’s pretty pathetic to consider all the evidence & then say “well I know you’re right about the environment & health & the animals - but I just love my meat”

The deal offered about 100 blogs running on WordPressMU. Each site was hosted on separate c-class IP addresses. Each member got a user name and password to the system where they were allowed to post a short blurb including a single link to site the member was promoting. SET regulations controlled that only one link was allowed per post and that each post had to be relevant to the content of the donor (linking) blog site. These regulations were strictly enforced by SET staff which kept the system clean of spam posts and made sure that the overall content on the blogs were relevant which helped the sites to get higher ranking on search engines, especially the high Google PageRank which made this whole thing so exciting. I became a member just to see how the system worked and tested it on some of my “test sites” which I was running to study search engine crawling and ranking technologies our current top search engines used. This and designing my own search engines allowed me to become a better SEO.

At the beginning, everything seemed to be working just as planned. I was lucky enough to lock down my startup membership fee of US$157 for being a “loyal SET member”. The number of blogs on the list was growing! Some sites got removed, but lots of higher PR sites got added on a monthly basis. I really liked the system so much that I even used some of the highest ranked sites (and there were some nice PR5-7 sites, even a PR8 site!) to help my customers’ off-bran sites, by sending them some relevant link juice. But we all know that nothing last forever, right? I guess Mr. Messe started making too much money or not enough? I was speculating, “Hmm maybe the company got sold?” Either way, the quality of the service started going down fast: Customer service stopped responding to support tickets, no more new sites were added to the list and worst of members started posting pointless/non-relevant articles with multiple links included to non-relevant sites which made most of these high ranked blogs go down fast. Most of them got banned in Google very fast which made our links in the previously submitted posts worthless or even dangerous. I was still doing my very best to post on those SET blogs according to their regulations, but a few days ago when I noticed that all the sites were down, I decided to cancel my PayPal subscription and write this post just to let it out of my system.

As the system was dying, I was so disappointed with the poor quality of the service I even sent direct emails to Mr. Messe, but he has never replied. His site (nicolasmesse.com) is now offering a new type of SEO service he is still developing. On his site he offered SEO’s to sign up for his new service. From the list he would pick the best ones. I signed up too, but no response. Maybe according to him I’m not a good enough SEO… His new “mastermind program” is called Everlasting (sometimes also called “Everylasting”). This is not a personal attack against Mr. Messe. I apologize if it seems like it. I’m just expressing my frustration. I am really sorry that SET didn’t work out, because I think it was a great idea. I’m sure he had his reasons to let it go.

Anyone interested in building a similar system? (Now that we would not have to compete with SET) 

After a good five minutes into thinking about it, I just pulled me shoulder like hundreds of thousands of others before me and started twitting. As often as I could, I went on that site to report every on every day of my life. Though I found it annoying that each submission could be up to 140 characters and that I already had a blog where I could report on my day-to-day life. So I only saw one solution: I started it twitting more often, so my thoughts could get posted right away resulting in 2-3 submissions in a row and I was twitting more frequently. Now, I was very careful not to become a twittercoholic or anything like that, so I never actually started using my cell phone to do such things.

Today, I found an excellent post on seotunes.co.uk titled “21 Reasons Twitter Is Bullshit” which made me think how stupid it is to waste my valuable time on such stupid thing. Especially because I cannot get any SEO value out of the damn thing since its outbound links are all stuffed with nofollows.

I think the day has come: I will stop twitting… well maybe not forever… just for a while… until the operators of twitter will do something to make some sense of their creation. Until then: the twitter box has to come off this site.

I came up with the name after doing a bit of research on peoples searching habits. I found that most people who would click on ads are not too computer savv (probably that’s why they do not noticed the ads by google sign at the bottom of the ad blocks) and they search by entering queries like if they were asking a question in English, such as “Where can I find…” or “How do I…”

I will try to get this site crawled and indexed by the top search engines as soon as possible and see if it will outrank sites not including these words in their URLs and TITLE tags: “Where Can I Find…” Then if the project turns out to be successful, I will build more sites like that. I’m sure it will be a lot of fun and I could even make a few bucks while entertaining myself this way.