bruschetta. picture of. taken with my, relatively, new nikon 35mm lens at f/1.8. tasty…the lens and the bruschetta.

some of the IP addresses taking part in the brute force attack on my server.

and here they are. there are many, many, more than this but i couldn’t be arsed extracting them from the logs. much kudos to cloudflare and login lock (which seems to have stopped development, sadly)

187.12.6.51
118.157.56.67
118.157.3.233
176.33.243.135
126.122.143.191
14.97.248.165
112.208.22.122
126.127.54.150
88.226.172.246
122.162.97.65
182.21.128.45
27.228.148.130
180.31.103.199
78.166.181.75
212.156.128.114
46.160.94.252
123.224.180.7
88.230.129.184
178.90.159.3
110.169.214.158
180.25.176.107
125.207.69.252
111.125.207.164
213.213.36.74
36.3.221.45
123.20.94.83
37.6.18.110
113.22.88.138
36.52.118.138
190.85.66.106
180.19.68.33
112.198.77.12
202.84.120.98
59.137.201.228
78.163.176.125
88.231.99.128
219.167.6.142
81.11.180.47
203.191.213.135
79.32.13.81
79.175.175.10
190.40.182.181
182.180.101.168
109.149.77.58
187.149.50.103
153.132.5.130
194.225.33.77
112.210.245.20
123.21.60.221
151.238.131.210
122.62.176.148
201.3.30.174
5.128.13.3
186.69.243.154
189.224.71.176
178.120.110.140
190.187.86.74
151.250.26.52
223.205.226.90
125.27.205.141
200.7.201.7
201.51.26.75
212.96.69.85
42.117.255.151
117.7.126.180

upgraded from debian 6 (squeeze) to debian 7 (wheezy). things have gotten rather complicated on the server i was upgrading and i didn’t have the time, or energy, to do a fresh install…so a dist-upgrade will have to do. backup all your data. all of it.
as root i made the required changes to (changing all instances of squeeze to wheezy)

/etc/apt/sources.list

then

apt-get update

then

apt-get dist-upgrade

and let it churn away for a bit…after downloading 550MB.
considering how many bits of software i’m running on this box i suppose a problem-free upgrade was never going to happen (part of me hoped it would though…).

first. apache. was complaining about a missing http.conf despite the fact that it was in place and hadn’t changed. had to comment out line 190 in apache2.conf…restarted apache and it came back up ok but there’s a problem with ssl redirects. still.

second. mysql. complaining of corrupt tables. why? don’t know. solution?

mysql_upgrade --force --username=yourmysqladmin --password=yourmysqladminpassword

third. php. was getting errors like this

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20100525/uploadprogress.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20100525/uploadprogress.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20100525/suhosin.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20100525/suhosin.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Fatal error:  Directive 'allow_call_time_pass_reference' is no longer available in PHP in Unknown on line 0

seems like suhosin doesn’t work well with this version of php5. time for it to go

apt-get purge suhosin

the other error ? remove the line

;extension=uploadprogress.so

from php.ini.
everything else is is stable and smooth…so far.

the nikon d3100 has a ‘miniature’ or tilt-shift mode that can be applied to photographs you’ve taken. it isn’t great…or maybe my choice of subject matter is questionable.