Slashdot | Why Do We Have to Use a Floppy to Flash BIOS?
"With all the time and technology that has come and gone with computers why must we still use a floppy disk to flash the BIOS anymore? Yes, some manufacturers are enabling BIOS flash from within Windows, but there are still a lot of motherboards out there that require you to find a floppy to flash the BIOS. It took me two floppy drives and four floppy disks just to find one of each that worked." Are there reasons why BIOS manufacturers haven't moved BIOS flashing to modern media like USB flash drives, or bootable CD-ROMs?
"blocker" is a small awk script for blocking packets from malicious hosts. It blocks the IP addresses from which ssh connections are tried to be established with wrong authentication information several times.
The small script is designed to be used as:
tail --follow=name /var/log/messages | blocker