Instead I owed my child molesting financially irresponsible uncle $600. So no gun for me, doubly so since I have to pay property taxes soon too.
I did however make myself feel a little better during the tail end of doing my taxes:
I wanted to avoid Turbo-Tax but it was the easiest for what all was involved this year. At least I had a little fun with it. I gave them a 1 because I actually used them.
Hey at least he stood trial. Though there has been no word about his job status after this incident. He kept his job after the charges were filed, no word if the conviction changes that status.
State Sponsored Criminal #569: David Clifford
Because when you get drunk in a bar and kick someone’s ass, by all means you should keep your job even though you broke the law in doing so.
via OldNFO
So we’re coming up fast on Boomershoot. I’ve got a pile of stuff I need to do to get ready and time’s moving quick. In the meantime here’s a pic from last years fireball.
+1 to Ry for convincing me to get the Adobe Cloud. Here’s the before and after on that photo.
Lightroom is fantastic with Raw photos.
If you are seeing this post that means that you are now staring at my new and shiny VPS.
There is a pile of stuff I’m still cleaning up and I’ve got a pile of sites to move over and this one only took me about 5 hours to do. I’m hoping the others go more quickly but the majority of the time was spent downloading and uploading with a bit of tweaking files here and there.
In the mean time if you find something broken or out of place. Please let me know so I can get it fixed immediately.
Thanks.
I suppose I could layout the entire email chain that went down yesterday that actually started Thursday night.
Suffice it to say, for those who aren’t aware there is currently a brute force attack against any and all WordPress websites. Overall this is not the most difficult thing to spot, most of the logins all use the same user name and overall they’re just not that intelligent. Evidently my current provider, My Hosting, was getting slammed and quite hard. In an effort to head the problem off at the pass they edited everyone’s .htaccess files to restrict access to the WordPress login page. This wouldn’t be a problem except they had a default deny so site owners were locked out. Most definitely that’s not Shiny.
The last email I got in the exchange as I was trying to fix the issues is here, along with additional comments.
Their Text.
Wrong Words My Corrections in Phrasing.
My mental commentary while reading.
Hello Barron,
Thank you for your patience and we are sorry that you are having an unhappy experience with myhosting.com. Because evidently the idea someone would be unhappy about being locked out of their own website surprises us.
Because 90% of our customers are not using Cloudflare for protection or wordpress plugins to stop unwanted access, we implemented this access restrictdecided to treat all our users like idiotic children that know nothing about anything. Luckily I have experience with being penalized because of the actions of the few.
Because you appear to have a very secure webspaceactually know what the fuck you’re doing and have previously educated our support staff, you would most likely to be safe removing the lines that have been added, but this makes your wordpress website vulnerable to this attacka brute force attack where they just randomly try passwords, so please proceed with caution and make sure all wordpress user passwords are complex and secure. Why in the name of god do you think I use keypass and generate 20 character password strings, just for the ease in memorization?
We have disabled the .htaccess files on those two websites and they appear to be loading currently, but we broke clean URLs so they’re still not working right, our bad? If you would like, remove all the added code and turn your cloudflare back on. You mean I can unfuck my websites if I so choose!? Here I thought you guys were just out to screw me in front of people I support. And yes I unfucked every one I could as fast as I could, even before I got your permission!
Please let it be known we are trying to protect our customers the best possible way, by nuking the site from orbit by treating our customers like children and blocking their access to their own sites just the same as the attackers. Because of the urgency of the matter, this was the quickest solution, because we were dumb and too lazy to implement deep packet inspection and notice that the brute force attempts always use the same username, admin. We hope this does not ruinare sorry this has completely ruined your experience with myhosting.com. We didn’t consider the ramifications of how our actions could possible make our customers look in the eyes of their own clients. We will think about possibly not treating all our customers like children in the future but don’t count on it.
http://statusblog.myhosting.com/
http://statusblog.myhosting.com/#oncloudRegards,
The same support guy I’ve been dealing with all day. +1 for that.
That final email just kind of shoved me over the edge with absolutely not wanting to stick around. Seriously, that’s pretty much how I read when it came in. I didn’t discover the .htaccess issue with clean URLs being totaled until this morning when Sean emailed me.
Seriously +1 to them on ownership for support. Other than this recent shit storm they’ve been a decent host but I’m biting the bullet and going to a VPS. Because of my love for Microsoft Exchange I’ll be getting a separate host for email just for the wife and I but at this point I’m downloading sites one by one and moving them to the VPS when possible.
This site will be the first to move and will hopefully be done by early in the evening. I still need to finish securing the VPS and doing other setup work.
For those unaware there is a massive attack on all WordPress sites currently. My hosting provider has taken some actions to “help stop the attack”.
Well their actions have caused me to have to disable CloudFlare and have effectively issued a denial of service attack against me and those I take care of site maintenance for.
I was able to get my blog unlocked, but I have not been able to gain access to the necessary files for the other blogs. I am now ripping support a new one and calling this a total customer service failure. Pissed barely begins to describe my attitude on this because their poor customer service has made my customer service look poor. AKA shit rolls down hill and it’s making me look bad.
It looks like for this reason this weekend I will finally fire up a VPS. Currently I’m getting a little cash to help subsidize the cost but I’m going to have to find a bit more. It’s an expensive route but it’s just about the only way I can make sure that “my hosting provider” doesn’t go !@#$ing around under the hood of my websites and screw crap up. I was going to do this when a friend was looking at me to host a site for him and was going to cover a decent amount of the cost. Looks like I’m just going to have to bite the bullet.
*Nitty details* The web-hosting provider has blocked all access to the WordPress Login page resulting in no access. The fix to this is to edit the .htaccess file and they restructured their “App Services” for security reasons and I can no longer find the other websites I’ve installed. This has left me unable to alter or change the access for the other sites effectively locking me, and the users out unless they were already logged in.
A person on twitter decided to make derogatory statements towards me, behind my husband’s back, so to speak. She had the audacity, without knowing me, to call me fat. My husband was in a debate/argument with her about firearms, more specifically the AR 15 platform. She went into PSH and escalated from there.
Her statement makes me believe that she is a bitter old hag who is angry at life for having a disability. The disability she mentions I don’t have much sympathy for.
Especially since she still has her fucking foot. My dad is an amputee. My disability, radial nerve palsy, has essentially rendered my dominate hand useless. I empathize with people who have disabilities. Also, she seems to not have reading comprehension since my husband did not generalize disabilities. He specifically stated that she doesn’t understand MY disability.
@68long old fuck? Dude you don’t know me or my wife’s disability.Run along ass.All you have is insults and feelings.
— The Minuteman (@barronbarnett) April 12, 2013
Further, the AR15 platform she is freaking out about has provided a way for me to safely and effectively shoot a rifle.
@barronbarnett @faithinscience1you have to be kidding me is that an assault riffle! Are you insane, in fear? afraid of death?????
— jnecolong (@68long) April 11, 2013
For starters, it has a low recoil and therefore doesn’t kill my muscle atrophied shoulder. The pistol grip allows me to hold the rifle so as to not torque my wrist like a standard rifle. The front post gives me stability to safely fire the firearm without causing strain to my good/working arm. Due to my disability a bolt-action rifle is not a viable option for me. I can not easily operate a bolt with my injured hand.
This woman is nothing more than a miserable old person intent on spreading her misery to others. Which isn’t surprising since “Gun Control is a Movement of Old White People.”
I’m not miserable or upset by my disability unlike that woman. Why? Because I had one of the best role models in the world for dealing with it. She is dead set on spreading her misery and ensuring that everyone be as miserable as her. Heaven forbid they find the freedom and empowerment that comes with shooting firearms.
Lastly, my family hunts to stock their freezer. The meat is by far healthier for our family and we know full well where our food came from. You don’t get much more “free range” or “organic” than bagging your own buck.
Then again she doesn’t really care, she just hates anyone who does anything that she doesn’t like. If you looked up the word “Puritan” in the dictionary, you would find her face next to it as a shining example.
Klingons do not procrastinate. It is a tactical delay.
Worf – Liaisons (Season 7 Episode 2)
Sep 27, 1993
[I’m totally using that from now on. -B]
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