Daily Archives: October 22, 2015
Well, that was a letdown . . .
The big inrush of trucks for the flowback didn’t . . . inrush, I mean. Between 1pm and 6 pm, I had four vehicles come though the gate. And one of those four came in twice. So just three, really.
Jan had a few more, but two of them were at the wrong gate, and the rest were just the frack water guys running the pumps at the pond for the new frack up the hill.
Well, there’s always tomorrow. Or not.
So far we’ve dodged all the bad weather here with most of it staying to our northwest. And from the radar it looks like that was a good thing. We’re forecast for 40% to 80% to 100% rain for the next five days so we’ll see how that plays out. I know the farms around here really need the rain, but it sure makes our job a lot messier.
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In what’s too perfect to be coincidental, for each of the last three days, and today’s on track to be a fourth, there have been exactly 100 failed logins each day. And it looks like the hackers are spreading out.
Where most attempts used to be almost all from Russia and Eastern Europe, now they’re more diverse, also coming from Sweden, Denmark, France, Spain, and other Western European countries
I’m looking at a couple of plugins that would allow me to block IP addresses by country, if necessary. But I would have to block wide areas since in most cases, login-attempt IP addresses are identical only at the first octet.
I’m sure most of you, (some of you?) have come across a reference to your IP address on the Internet somewhere along the line. Something like 31.22.48.0 (Albania), or 5.79.68.161 (The Netherlands). Every single computer on the Internet has an individual IP address, and in most cases, unless you’re trying to hide, that IP address can be traced back directly to you, or at least, your household.
So by ‘first octet’, I mean the first set of numbers of the IP address.
More than you really wanted to know, right? I know my friend Nick Russell’s eyes have already glazed over. But he’s just dreaming of flying kites and drones.
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Well, then, let’s talk about something more fun: Gate Guard Sewer Systems.
Todd, our GGS service guy, should be coming by tomorrow afternoon to bring us more diesel, and a new sewer pump.
The sewer pump is the small green barrel that sits out on the ground, and is where you hookup your rig’s sewer hose. It contains a macerator pump controlled by a float valve that shreds and pumps the waste up into the big green tank. The whole thing is pretty much a portable septic tank system.
IP address discussions are starting to sound better now, aren’t they?
Anyway, about a week ago, the GFCI on the 20amp outlet on our generator was popping every couple of days, and not for any reason I could find. Then it escalated to every day, and several times a day.
Two things are plugged into this outlet, the sewer pump, and the light stands. And I quickly discovered that if I left the sewer pump unplugged, the GFCI didn’t pop anymore. For now I plugged the sewer pump into the 30amp outlet on the generator which doesn’t have a GFCI on it. This should be OK since there’s nothing electrical exposed on the pump housing as it ‘s all inside the fiberglass tank. So no shock hazard.
Tomorrow’s Wal-Mart/ bring home lunch day, and she says ‘surprise her’.
Think she’d be ‘surprised’ if I didn’t bring home anything.
No, me neither.
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