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Netcraft Jokes About SCO's Virus Fears
Elektroschock writes: "Through the media SCO Group sent the message that a virus writer that targets its website would be a Linux enthusiast. Netcraft has its own funny remarks in a dogfood article." Some of you might get a cackle out of the third solution.
I for one welcome our new "previously unknown Linux Thought Leader" overlord!
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
...and that makes me wonder if the editor only read that far. ;)
;) )
"Entire set of infected Windows machines is reached and either comes up running Debian or crashes stone dead trying. No denial of service attack occurs. SCO sends licence fee demands to owners of all the previously infected windows machines. They happily pay up and SCO splits the proceeds with Slashdot readers."
(And yes, I read the whole thing.
libertarianswag.com
Consequences: SCO Executives buy a small business shared hosting account at Yahoo, noting that it runs on FreeBSD, not Linux, and point www.sco.com at the new account.
Makes sense, Unixware and FreeBSD have much in common, according to Netcraft. Can you guess what they have in common?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
From the article: Spend Saturday soaking up the totally awesome graphics on the Stealth bomber flight simulators, and then obliterate most of Utah, sco.com name servers and all, on Sunday morning hours before the DDoS is due to hit Slashdot. SCO Execs still laughing themselves helpless about the /. Effect when the bomb hits.
:-)
Hey now, not everybody in Utah is a SCO exec or a polygamyist. I suppose this is the toll that association takes however, even if that association is geographic as opposed to ideological, political or religious. Believe it or not, there are good things to come out of Utah, such as much of the technology responsible for computer graphics, some kickin' genetics research, some of the best skiing in the world, good beer, and last but not least, is the home of computational molecular phenotyping.
Visit Jonesblog and say hello.
Maybe the person who wrote the virus is trying to tackle the real virus - SCO's lawsuits.
Seriously, SCO's DOSing every Linux user's stress level...
If they posted a slashdot story for every joke made about SCO, well, something!!
Anyway, I'll submit my 50 SCO jokes as stories. I didn't know there was such a shortage.
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
From the article: "SCO Execs point www.sco.com at the loopback address 127.0.0.1, end lawsuits, dismiss lawyers, and invest remaining corporate cash reserves in call options in Dell & Microsoft stock."
Since when do SCO and Verisign share corporate strategy for "net presence management?" Now that's synergy in action!
How many roads must a man walk down? 42.
(And yes, I read the whole thing. ;) )
;)
Are you sure you read this one?
Solution 5: SCO Execs point www.sco.com at the loopback address 127.0.0.1, end lawsuits, dismiss lawyers, and invest remaining corporate cash reserves in call options in Dell & Microsoft stock.
The IT section color scheme sucks.
Why not take the time to make a really insightful comment?
Looking at their uptime stats, a DDoS wouldn't really make much difference.
Why not just put multiple A records on the sco domain, as to spread the load across multiple servers. Besides, there will be enough traffic to take down many, many sites. Here's a short list, in order of importance...
c omn ux.com
kernel.org (and its mirrors)
groklaw.net
ibm.com
redhat.com
suse.
novell.com
sourceforge.net
slashdot.org
li
apple.com
sco.org (When we're finished, we'll be all you can see)
I thought Netcraft kept tabs on what webservers were used on the Internet? But now they are a news site taking sides in the SCO vs Linux argument?
What happened?
First Ninnle Post!
Fact: *Santa Cruz Operations is dying.
The whole front page of SCO's website is dedictated to the virus. If you were running SCO you wouldn't have this problem, so why is it freatured on their website? Probably just fodder for the next lawsuit is my guess.
J.
Some cats swing, and others don't. Don't you be the kind that won't.
Congratulations to Mike Peterjohn.
Who in btw is a founder and one of the Netcraft executives. So dunno about the dogfood. I wish other company CTOs could post dogfood like that.
Baker's Law: Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it
http://www.sigsegv.cx/
Everyone will have a favorite solution. That article is the funniest thing I've read in a long time. I laughed all the way through it. They were all great.
... the entire world starts to DDOS you, to see if an expected DDOS is taking place yet [huge grin :-] ... A company that monitors uptime starts a deathwatch on your site ... That same company publically ridicules you on their homepage :-)
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
PING www.sco.com (216.250.128.12) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- www.sco.com ping statistics ---
34 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 33048ms
It loads just fine for me. You need karma bad, hmm?
Well, the bomb on Utah? Aren't they all Christians in Utah? So I leave it to the Lord to punish SCO. Eternal doom proposed.
That's really funny commentary on the whole issue. I wonder how long before McBride sues the author?
... pleasa tella me you wear no
panties tonight, please, please, tella me thisa be true!"
Carmella smiles coyly and answers, "Yes Giorgio, I wear no panties
tonight."
Giorgio gasps and says "Thanka God ... I thought I had a CRACK in my new
$300 Bocceli leather shoes
World's Longest Sig to Follow
If you're bored, read this funny joke:
Giorgio is in this country for about 6 months. He walks to work 20 blocks every day and passes a shoe store. Each day he stops and looks in the window and admires a certain pair of Bocceli leather shoes. He wants those shoes so much it's all he can think about. After about 2 months he saves the $300 for the shoes and purchases them. Every Friday night the Italian community gets together at a dance in the church basement, so Giorgio seizes the opportunity to wear his new Bocceli leather shoes to the dance. He asks Sophia to dance, and as they dance he asks her, "Sophia, do you wear red panties tonight?" Sophia, startled, says, "Yes, Giorgio, I do wear red panties tonight, but how do you know?" Giorgio replies,"I see the reflection in my new $300 Bocceli leather shoes. How do you like them?" Next he asks Rosa to dance, and after a few minutes he says to her, "Rosa, do you wear white panties tonight?" Rosa answers, "Yes, Giorgio, I do, but how do you know that?" He answers, "I see the reflection in my new $300 Bocceli leather shoes. How do you like them?" Now as the evening is almost over and the last song is being played,Giorgio asks Carmella to dance. Midway through the dance his face turns red. He says, "Carmella, stilla my heart
I asked him his thoughts about SCO's foolish crusade, and he said, "Hey, we would have been out of business in December if they didn't."
So I guess Solution Number 1 may be plausible for fiscal reasons also.
Hopefully people who use Linux won't be denegrated as mere Fans, Fanatics or Enthusiasts for too much longer, as Macintosh users have been for years, now that the big boys are putting out ads backing the "OS that could".
This morning I saw my first Linux ad on TV, sponsored by IBM. The theme, a young child showing up all over the World and a voiceover saying something to the effect of "the child is growing up".
The combination of ads promoting Linux, and the $250,00 bounties offered by those who would prefer it dead and buried, just might finally be opening the public's eyes to what's going on in Lindon and Redmond these days!
Take a look at SCO's Mydoom page. It shows a photo of some guy watching a movie on a PowerBook in a big empty room. What does that have to do with viruses or their product? How pathetic.
Search for: Liars And Thieves *** Sorry, but search returned no results. Try to compose less restrictive search query or check spelling. *** Obviously their search engine is already DDOS'd
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
Linux geeks reveal that they've secretly controlled satellites in order to build a "Death Star" out of existing space debris. (you think the hubble is busted? Ha! We just borrowed some parts 'cause we needed some lenses and a gyroscope).
This "Death Star" goes Independence Day on SCO Land with pinpoint accuracy -- McBride castrated before being zapped like an ant under a magnifying lens.
Sir Gates and the Knights of the Old Republicans wage war against Geekdom because of this weapon of mass destruction. They device a plan to send a Mac to the death star in order to introduce a virus.
Upon pitching the idea to Steve Jobs, the poor man laughs himself to death, leaving Gates and Ballmer (in their Matrix outfits) to have their tablet PC plugged into the Linux-powered "Laser" via Samba.
The XP Tablet-PC edition spreads like a cancer through the ext3 filesystem resulting in many "I Told You So" comments by Reiser.
Linus, finally sick of all these events, sheds his impartial nature and embraces his dark side. Finally teaches everything he knows to that bleach-blonde IBM Commercial kid and dubs him Darth Tux. Geeks around the world cede their control of the Death Star to Darth Tux, who shoots down both Washingtons and proceeds to carve his face onto Mt. Rushmore.
Darth Tux declared supreme leader, quoted as saying "Choice is good...as long as you choose Linux" Proceeds to create his own distro -- Slim Shady Linux.
Geeks install distro, wave their hands skyward in apathy, and enjoy the new era of computing.
...reminds me of the old "ICMP REDIRECT to 127.0.0.1" trick.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Fascinating that they (=Netcraft) think that Slashdot is doing more damage to SCO than what Groklaw did.
bash$
This fucking sucks and the "Evelyn" by Clan of Xymox doesn't help the way I feel.
What's funny is that if you were familiar with gay porn, you'd be able to identify which movie intro was playing on the laptop screen.
As I pointed out on freebsd-chat (google link since the FreeBSD archives are broken right now), this DDoS attack could be handled relatively easily.
The attacking machines are easily recognizable: They issue distinctive[ly minimalist] HTTP requests. It is therefore easy to build a list of "evil" source IP addresses.
Given these IP addresses, all you have to do is filter those packets and send them to a LaBrea tarpit. Each connection hangs indefinitely at a very low packet rate: If I did my arithmetic right, the expected half a million machines would only require 85 Mbps of bandwidth.
Now, that's hardly a trivial amount, but it shouldn't be too hard for a company SCO's size to buy that sort of capacity. Defending against this attack might cost $100K, but that's still less than the $250K they've already offered as a bounty for catching the worm author.
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
Best...troll...ever.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
I choose B then
All this mockery might be cute and certainly generate advertisement hits, but ask yourself, do you truly want to rile the AntiTux before his Promised Era of Darkness is upon us?
Much like Pascal's Wager, this is just not very well thought out.
http://www.sco.com/mydoom/
...
What long-term steps should I take to protect against future viruses?
3. Do not download any documents or programs from any Website that you do not know to be reputable
This is just their way of stopping people finding what GPL stuff they're still giving away, isn't it?
I'm scared of numbers that can't be written as a fraction. It's an irrational fear.
Mormons, actually. It's like Christ++.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke
Object-Oriented Religion?
I don't get it. The image on their front page has an Apple iBook with a picture of two guys on it. Neither homosexuals nor Apple computers are affected by the MyDoom virus...
Best. Webhost. Ever. Dreamhost.
Notice how the laptop is an ibook too ? .exe files heh..
Using an ibook, I dont have to be "cautious" when clicking
Heartily concur.
Nah, we're talking about Mormons, not consumerists.
forgive my ignorance, im not too bright...
water, right?
This just in:
"D'Aloisio Marc observed some things about the DoS attack, and raised some preliminary questions:
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Has anyone seen the DOS against SCO actually happen?
I have the new critter in a test environment where we conducted a
preliminary and rudimentary functionality and threat analysis and the
only activity I can get it to perform related to www.sco.com is to
resolve the name. In fact, it seems very unhappy if it cannot resolve
www.sco.com. Once it can, it happily scans local files for anything
that can be construed (very loosely) as a domain and tries to resolve
mail servers based on these. In fact, right now it's trying to resolve
'mx.makewin.rsp'. "Makewin.rsp' is a file referenced in the help files
of my DigitalMars C++ compiler on a test machine, so it's not a very
smart worm. The worm also seems to like to increment the third octet of
the host IP by one and syn to port 25 of that address over and over and
over... I have played with the date, etc, but still no activity directed
toward www.sco.com. It did die after 12 February, but gladly
resurrected when the date was set back prior to that. "
From: http://www.math.org.il/newworm-digest1.txt
Yep. ;^)
He-he. Just kidding.
Hey, wait?! WTF? What's this? OMFG! ICBIFT...
Read outload with a nasally voice.
Solution 3 recommends redirecting the traffic to 'somone you don't like.' I'm not sure whether I should admit to this but I think you all will find it interesting.
On Tursday afternoon somone began trying to hack into an MS SQL Server that my company runs. They weren't able to get in, but their brute force method of attemting to access the 'sa' account estentially caused a DoS on the application. We got the guys IP address but his ISP doesn't seem very interested in helping out.
It just so happens that we KNOW that a number of users inside our network have contracted MyDOOM. It also just so happens that we have our own internal DNS servers. Jokingly, we mentioned to our Network Admin that he should redirect all the SCO traffic to this IP. You could see a little glimmer in his eye at the suggestion and he paused for a moment and said that was a very interesting idea and that he might just do that...
Anyway, glad to see that we're not the only ones with the idea.
"The worshippers, dressed alike in white seamless garments, performed a series of rituals on the hill 18 kilometres (11 miles) west of Mecca."
sco.com's ns machines have the ttl on www set to 60 seconds? wonder what their plan is gonna turn out to be...
1) be tqarget of DDoS
2) spoof story on netcraft
3) ???
4) profit.
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
The document you're looking for is here. But they're people too, and so they have an opinion of their own. Now they felt like letting the rest of the net know what their opinion on this matter is.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I am willing to bet they've done _something_. For example, many times I tried to connect and my first try was immediatly stopped by differing error messages "This document contains no data" or "You don't have access to this resource". Then on a second attempt I am connect. Pretty much 9 times out of 10. Also, the initial connection to the main page might be slow; But once I'm on the page it seems fine. My belief is maybe they are purposly putting a latency on the first connection and then using keep-alive and allowing those conections more bandwidth. This would be similiar to a tar pit in that it's supposed to keep the client in a state of waiting as long as possible. The longer it waits, the less DoSing it can do. Just my two cents.
> Aren't they all Christians in Utah?
You don't live in the U.S., do you?
Oh yeah. Back in the old days they used to have these whacky ideas about inheritance. It wasn't uncommon for children to have many parents.
"The words of the prophets are written on the Slashdot walls."
.. wrote the virus themselves ;)
IBM makes the impossible and loses the case,
IBM buys SCO
IBM owns Linux
spelling mistakes are in my nature, just accept it.
Oh, and "twitter may be weird"?? hahahaha!!! i love it!!
Fact: *Santa Cruz Operations is dying.
Fact: *Santa Cruz Operations is dying.
Ironically "Santa Cruz" stands for "Holy Cross" in Spanish.
According to the article
SCO Execs point www.sco.com at the loopback address 127.0.0.1 ... Millions of Windows users notice that their computer is running extremely slowly
I think the correct tense now is "was".
I worked at a hosting company once where we had something like this happen. We were getting a DoS attack against one of our servers, which we eventually realized was working by checking our name servers to see the IP of the domain, and then attacking that IP.
Before shutting it down, we directed the IP to a few other fun websites(i.e. other hosts & companies in the area) and brought down their sites.
Fun stuff
When the wonderfull department of home security calls us terrorists
because microsoft tells them thats what we are.... i mean, think people
read perens answer to all this....this is no fun. This is a fucking crusade
against us by big business. SpamCop group benefits from this, OSS antispam
is a threat to them because they make spam and sell anti-spam. Ms obviously
benefits from this. SCO was nonexistent. Its only there as a black-op cover
for MS and company.... We take the high road, and make them sweat it if they want us out of the
market. Thats the answer.
Mormons, actually.
Wonder why my brain edited out the second m there for a moment...
Seemed reasonable too...
How does loopback address make all Windows PCs go slow?
Because the windows machines are DDoSing www.sco.com, stupid.
OMG hahahaha U R TEH FUNNAY!!!`11~~1!!
But they most likely won't have an http listener, stupid.
If the DNS entry points to 127.0.0.1 (loacalhost) what they are trying to say is that everyone would DOS themselves. In reality each individual machine pinging its own loopback would not generate enough traffic to shut itself down.
Maybe IBM should offer to trade good network support for the company itself.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
The ban H2O this is way old. Predates Slashdot by many years. So it's nothing original or anything.
Dum dum dum dum dum, Joesph Smith was called a Profit, dum dum dum dum dum! dum dum dum dum dum
Consequences: No denial of service traffic whatsoever seen on the Internet. Millions of Windows users notice that their computer is running extremely slowly. Many buy new machines, which fixes the problem. Dell & Microsoft stock rises.
I can totally see Joe Sixpack doing that.
"Since you can't make money with Linux because it's free, maybe that's the new monetization system."
Zuh?
I submitted this story the other day and it was rejected -- what's with you people? One of your moderators has a real itchy trigger finger.
Maremon, I choose YOU!
Um, yeah that's the first time I ever saw someone try to get first post on Slashdot. How on earth could that be redundant?
Not that I'm siding with moderators here, I just wanted a chance to point out that you're apparently a fucking idiot.
/usr/src perhaps?
I had to re-read this three times and verify that it was actually a CNN article before I could believe it. Darl has got to be the world's worst liar -- he just keeps making shit up, never backs it up, and then makes up more. And if you don't buy his lies, he sends you a bill for stealing his company's IP.
After reading this, I can just imagine a typical SCO board meeting -- "y'know what Darl? this IP thing had a very tiny shot at success in the beginning, but the pump and dump strategy you proposed isn't working any more. And now you're claiming that we own the IP rights to photosynthesis!? Does that mean we own the patents to digital photography? HP already bought one of our *nix licenses. Do you think they'll be stupid enough to pay us more so they can continue to sell photo printers? If not, maybe we should claim ownership of cell-division --- might be able leverage that against the mobile phone companies."
...link so SCO again? This is getting fishy :)
So, if Christ is the Highest, wouldn't Christ++ wrap around (2's complement) to the lowest possible, meaning the devil? No wonder SCO is located there...
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
I hear that if you're from the island of Java, you can only have one parent.
Vegetarians, beware of the following statement:
;)), but at any rate at a Brazilian Grill, the name of which is nearly at hand, but oh, well. ("Rodizio Grill"?)
...
... it's hard to reconcile the idea of vegetarianism (the not eating animals part at least) with the tastiness of, well, ex-animals.
One of the most memorable meals I've ever had (and in a good way, not in the "... and then the waiter was stabbed by the Mob guys!" way) was a few years ago in Utah, I think in Provo (well, somewhere in the Provo / Park City / Salt Lake City triangle, anyhow
a) the good was delicious, and it was not heavy on the spinach n' cucumber side of things. Beef, chicken, pork, rattlesnake sausage
b) Good system, a sort of reverse buffet. Each table has a red / green wooden token, a traffic signal for the wait staff, who are bringing around food on platters. Red-side-up means "We're still dangerously full," green-side-up means "Please bring us more, we have discovered a leak and it needs to be plugged with, among other things, quail eggs."
I know that there are now lots of these Brazilian grills around the country. If only there was a good source of vat-meat
As impressive as the food, though, is the system which prevents the table-service game of trying to make eye contact with waiters etc. It's a more elegant solution than my long-contemplated idea which would be to have a sort of steward/ess light over the tables in restaurants. The wooden token is simple, uses red/green cues which (non-colorblind) people are used to. (Though the semantics are also reversable; it would be as sensible to say "red means Stop to the waiter, green means the waiter can pass you by.") I think there was a little guide on the table.
The rest of the state, perhaps, but SLC and Park City do not lack for excellent food, casual to quite formal.
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
Through the media SCO Group sent the message that a virus writer that targets its website would be a Linux enthusiast.
Because the SCO Group has Linux as their target, sinking to lower levels for each attack they do, why should it be news or strange that some Linux user would do so as well? SCO has chosen to fight a dirty battle.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Yet another expression I don't know the origin of. Where does this "good/whack" come from?
Oh wait, it's Ali G, isn't it? "Technomology... what is it all about? Is it good, or is it whack?" And then he made fun of Kent Hovind, hahaha... Ah yes. Am I right?
I think you meant Prophet, but it is funnier your way.
You can see it because it actually happens. I work a tier 1 helpdesk for a top 20 university. You'd think that the people here would be smarter then your average person simply because of the strict admissions requirements. However, I've had no fewer then four cases in the past four months where someone has bought a new machine because they're old box was running slowly due to spyware/adware. They'll bring the old machine in and either try to sell it or have us clean it up for a gift to a relative or something similar.
And those are just four where I happen to have found out about them. I can't imagine all the cases where I don't find out...
What do SCO's Product and Leader have in common? They're both UNIX (eunuchs).
Mod "Overrated" instead of replying "I disagree with you," you coward.
SCO has the power to direct their DNS anywhere. Why don't they save the Internet a lot of bandwidth and do
www.sco.com IN A 127.0.0.1
Case closed.
www.sitetronics.com/wordpress
I work in tech support for one of the major computer manufacturers.
I've had people call up claiming that their brand new computer came with the Blaster worm.
It'd be nice if the sales people had enough sense to give out a flyer with instructions on how to enable the Windows XP firewall and download the patch, but I probably expect too much.
Solution 2: Take www.sco.com out of the DNS.
Consequences: Everyone has a quiet weekend. SCO Execs drink Budweiser and watch the Superbowl. Global media considers that the virus author "has won". Anti-virus company Execs do not return journalists' calls on "What was all that fuss?"
The SCO execs are all Mormon I thought, they'll have to settle for a dixie cup of lemonade, that is if they're not at church.
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
VERY slow page loads now. Remember that it is already Sunday on the other side of the International Date Line.
-Ben
Dog is my co-pilot.
Are you sure you read this one? ;)
Solution 5: SCO Execs point www.sco.com at the loopback address 127.0.0.1, end lawsuits, dismiss lawyers, and invest remaining corporate cash reserves in call options in Dell & Microsoft stock.
Yeah, but at this point the author is just being silly.
What ever else you want to say about Utah, the snow
at Alta and some of the other areas is better.
It cold as hell and the air is too thin
(11,000ft) but the skiing is excellent.
I am from Oregon , I appreciate dry snow.
Number 5.
Object-Oriented Religion?
Isn't that referred to as 'idolatry'?
Like what I said? You might like my music
I think that new consumer Windows PCs should come pre-patched with the latest patches from Windows Update and have the firewall enabled on any pre-configured connections (SP2 will help the later).
Obviously due to the number and frequency of patches that Microsoft are releasing, this may not be an easy or inexpensive task for retailers.
www.sco.com doesn't resolve anymore, and check out their serial in the SOA 2004013103 Updated just in time!
"The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think." - Picard
Acording to netcraft the SCO web site is hosted on an OpenBSD or NetBSD box. But why don't they use Unixware, Solaris, Irix or anything 'Unix'? I know that some arrangement was made in a previous Novell vs BSD case and that SCO will probably not go after BSD again. But why don't they use their own products.
SCO has no motivation to stop the attack. They'll just ride out the storm, exaggerate their damages, and blame the Linux community for it. The PR value of being a victim is far greater than the cost of the downtime.
Kind of makes you wonder if SCO wrote the worm to frame the Linux community. Nah. . . if they had, they probably would have offered more than $250k for the reward.
Man, reading this post makes me thirsty. Mind you, I never drink Dihydrogen Monoxide on its own. I always need to dilute it with Dihydrocarbon hydroxide and various flavours. Hops and malt spring to mind. Mmmm.
You make the mistake of thinking you can educate the fundamental stupidity out of people. You can't.
> I leave it to the Lord to punish SCO. Eternal doom proposed.
I can't wait that long.
if i'm a grammar nazi, you're an illiteracy nazi.
Pay up or we point www.sco.com to your server.
I don't actually exist.
Well, it could be a Bignum variable too, or more likely a constant or a macro defined as MAX_INT...
Then again, God is real, unless specifically declared integer.
Well it's the first of FEB here in the UK, tried to access the $CO site and it seems that its completely broken!
I can't get to SCO. It's 12.35 here in Finland.
Entered "www.sco.com" on Netcraft. Received "Failed to resolve DNS name". Looks like SCO took themselves off the net.
I love it when some people try to show off with tech-talk but get it wrong. Netcraft's article says:
"... SCO can direct that Tsunami at an object of their choosing, simply by changing an A record in named.conf"
Nobody puts A records in named.conf, dumbass. A records go into zone files.
...and all the infected machines blew themselves out of existence.
I like the sound of that: millions of windows boxes simultaneously commit suicide. 8)
Cheers
Stor
"Yeah well there's a lot of stuff that should be, but isn't"
AFAIK, the rate would still be limited to 1 child/(woman*year), while a *normal* man such as myself can have up to five children/day, limited only by the availability of women. Polygamy would be a solution for that only if the number of women in the state was larger than the number of men.
So. Maybe the DDoS is the primary purpose of this? MyDoom.B is ready to hit microsoft.com on Tuesday.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
On Febuary 1st, at midnight, mydoom started DDoSing sco.com
At that very time, my ISP (one of the largest in the Midwest US) also increased the upload cap from 128kbit to 256kbit - an upgrade plan that was in the works for a couple weeks (at least) prior to the mydoom worm.
Furthermore, my ISP happens to be a huge fan of a certain freedom-supporting OS.
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
www.sco.com is still 216.250.128.12, as before:
As a low ranking member of the government, I'm ready to assist in anyway possible. The oath does say "All enemies, foreign, and Domestic.
Musn't Sleep, the Clowns will eat me.
Well well... While this post was just my poor attempt at humour, it received 1 'insightful' and 2 'flamebait' points. What gives? Jared
"Mormons, actually. It's like Christ++."
Hmm, isn't that ((Moses++)++)++? (Can't forget the jews and Muslims)
Enable 3D printed prosthetics!
They must not have opted for solution #3
boycott slashdot February 10th - 17th check out: altSlashdot.org
Unfortunately, once SP2 is finally released it will likely be about 6 months before we have it preinstalled on our new machines.
I'm looking forward to that time, but not the laundry list of things SP2 will break, like SP1 did.
If you're ever back in the SLC/PC/Provo Triangle, I highly recommend Tucanos.
It's the same concept as Rodizio, but with better food and service!
"Creativity is allowing ones self to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep" - Scott Adams
you could have posted as anonymous coward from the same computer that you moderated on and it would have wiped out the moderation, then it wouldn't have hurt your karma.
Karma is lame though.
"I accidently moderated this as funny...now am posting to wipe out moderation on this topic. Is there another way? God help my karma."
I can't believe this guy was modded down (twice?!) for doing the right thing. Metamodded as unfair, and I advise you do the same.
"Derp de derp."
Now we need to check if ftp.sco.com is up. Warm up your wget -m ftp.sco.com 's boys.