Out of Control®

Today while running a yum update on one RHEL5 server, I got the following error and python traceback:
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yum update

Loading "security" plugin

Loading "rhnplugin" plugin

rhel-i386-server-5        100% |=========================| 1.2 kB    00:00     

primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.6 MB    00:01     

rhel-i386-: ################################################## 4462/4462

Skipping security plugin, no data

Setting up [...]

This morning I noticed a new feature on Google's Search engine when I am logged into my Google account. I didn't sign up for this feature, and apparently there is no way to turn this feature off. If you don't love it, you will hate Google for adding this feature.
What I am talking about is [...]

Yesterday, someone emailed me saying that their anti-virus software would not let them properly view this website. I keep my site fairly well up-to-date and check it regularly for strange behaviour, so this seemed like a strange complaint. However, I am not one to ignore someone saying they can't see my website. Doing my due [...]

I noticed on one server today a huge CPU load. A quick look at Netstat showed that most of the current traffic was coming from someone in Africa. I crossed referenced the IP address from Netstat with the access log files on the various sites on the server and saw that it had a UserAgent [...]