Journal Journal: Looking Back on Slammer 2
Wired published a nice retrospective on the Slammer worm, and as promised show the code.
Journal Journal: More 419 scams
I am an optimist and I keep hoping that if everyone was doing like me, spammers would just stop. But they don't. Anyway.. Here's my standard answer to 419 emails:
Not interested, but thank you.
On the other hand, you may be interested to hear that I have quite a subsequent backup to perform on our system (/dev/random seems to be the largest file or all) and I am asking volunteers all over the internet to help me keep a small portion of my backup for me.
Journal Journal: FireWire point-to-point link for networking 12
Windows ME and XP support FireWire (ieee1394) for networking. Linux too says this page. I never really thought about the usefullness, until this morning.
Journal Journal: Cisco to Acquires Linksys 8
The Boston Globe is reporting that networking giant Cisco Systems will acquire Linksys later this year for $500M, thus entering the consumers market. Linksys press release is here. The good news is that those who bought a Linksys access point now have a Cisco access point fo
Journal Journal: Certifications ? 12
So, which certification(s) do you have ?
Are you damn proud of it ?
- A. Adobe
- B. Cisco
- C. Compaq
- D. IBM
- E. Juniper
- F. Microsoft
- G. Novell
- H. Oracle
- I. Red Hat
- J. SANS Institute
- K. Sun Microsystems
- Other (details ?)
- None (Too good to bother / I don't work in the Tech Industry)
Journal Journal: Turning 419 schemes around to waste scammers' time and money 8
This person Brad Christensen has the best 419 page I have ever read till now.
I get a few pieces of 419 fraud myself every week, and I normally respond to them trying to be funny and informative (turning one against another for example, or asking the fraudster to ask my trusted CFO (whom I randomly pick from my list so far) for the bank details)... I thought I was clever, but this one has to be the best of all.
Journal Journal: New Nokia 2
Journal Journal: I praise you, my loyal fans 17
189 friends and 133 fans to this day. That's 41% of my 'users base' who like me as much as I like you, and other people. Not too bad at all !! :)
Are there people out there who also keep an eye on your fans list once in a while ? I am, for two reasons that I can think of:
- ego
- I like to list as friends all the people who took the time to list me as such to start with.
Journal Journal: How many characters in your password ? 7
From Microsoft KB article 276304:
- Your password must be at least 18770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30689 passwords. Please type a different password. Type a password that meets these requirements in both text boxes." (emphasis mine)
With an infinite number of monkeys, we should manage to type both passwords identical eventually
Journal Journal: Webwasher 4
What a splendid piece of software Webwasher is. In case you have never tried it, I urge you to download and try for yourself. It's totally free for personal, non-commercial use and what you get is a full, non-crippled version.
There is a Mac, a Linux and a win32 version of the software. The latest win32 version (classic v3.3) now even works with XP....
Journal Journal: How lame: posting at +1 14
Whatever happened to me, I'm posting at +1 instead of my regular +2.
This kind of happened overnight, for whatever reason only known to the admins (and even that point remains to be proved
Anyone else shares the same experience ?
