OK, so I finally went back to see your response about A.B.D.D.D.D. Then I glanced at your email address and see that, not only did I recognize some random handle from USENET I'd last seen six or seven years ago, but that we both live in Gainesville.
We were hacked at work early this morning. We run RedHat 6.1, and the attacker used the PAM exploit to create a root account for himself. He downloaded and compiled programs from port scanning and for coordinating DoS attacks.
Fortunately our network admin was logged into the server at the time, so he watched the situation before pulling the plug on the machine. We investigated the logs this morning. We determined that he was coming from New York through a jump from a California IP, so he could definitely be a part of what's been going down.
The account he created for himself was "TEK". Does anyone know of a cracker group that uses that name or initials?
Um... no, they're back to Beta 4. Napster is still just as big a piece of crap as always. Their client is buggy as hell and their servers are crashing all the time. I mean really, these people could work for Microsoft.
How the heck did the quite witty post above get marked down to 0, and listed as "Troll" none the less?
Here's the joke explanation for our not-so-bright moderators: Seti@home sends fragments of the data they've collected to the clients for processing. The clients are looking for signals in these PIECES of data. This combines with the play on "We come in PEACE".
Idiot moderators are even more annoying than the J. Random Trolls. SOMEBODY fix the score on the above post.
...AGREES that people deserve it for living here. If idiot people would stop building right up to the fucking water, the damages from all these hurricanes would be minimal.
Yes, I do feel sorry for the people that chose to live a reasonable distance from shore but still lost life and property due to the severity of the storms. However, because the callous and cynical person I am, I feel *NO* sympathy for the fools that live in the waterfront condos and don't try evacuating until a minute before the gale-force winds hit.
All of shorefront South Florida deserves one big Darwin Award.
And, no, moderators, this is not flamebait. This is a rant against the $18-30 billion dollar damages that could have been significantlly reduced if people realized that they didn't need to rape every single square inch of Florida.
Flamebait? Why did that get marked flamebait? It might not have been a very original statement, and First Post Syndrome is always obnoxious, but how does it qualify as Flamebait?
...why Borland, who's main (non-Free) competitor in the compiler market is Microsoft, wasn't supporting any platform but Windows. Glad to see them branching out. Maybe we'll see a Delphi or C++Builder for XFree86 development?
...I'm not *at all* surprised. John predicted this when Romero announced his plans, and we all agreed. Look at Quake: it took a long time to come out, and really wasn't a spectacular improvement.
Why? Romero spent so much time "play testing" and not enough time actually coding. He thinks his a coding god on the same level as John or Michael, but he just isn't. And he's too egotistical to admit, or at least _see_, when he's taken on too much. Romero leaving id was a great boon for Q2. And QA is coming along quite nicely without Mr. Romero's "expertise".
And, so, Ion's product is going down in flames. Wow, John was *right*? I'm amazed...really...
Delphi is good. I'm the lead programmer at Gleim Publications, Inc. (www.gleim.com), and we've been using Delphi (1, 3, and I've been playing around with 4) for our Windows software. It's a great tool for Windows programming, because it takes so much of the overhead out of the picture, while still allowing you to directly access the API when you need. And damn, does it ever compile quickly.
BUT, Object Pascal isn't that great of a language. I have run into the languages limits, but I've been able to work around them. However, there are better lanuages, mainly Java and C. C++ is nice, but it appeals mainly to the esoteric nature of hackers. As a language, it's got some problems. So, I'm happy working as a Delphi programmer. Now, if only there was a Linux/X11 version, I'd be in heaven.
Fear & Loathing was by far the best movie to come on in 98. Gilliam captured perfectly the life behind Hunter S. Thompson's masterpiece. It's a very existentialist parallel to Dante's Inferno.
And B5, of course, is one of the greatest television programs ever. Plot and character instead of incorrect or inane technobabble? Amazing!
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God damn, the Internet is weird.
Fortunately our network admin was logged into the server at the time, so he watched the situation before pulling the plug on the machine. We investigated the logs this morning. We determined that he was coming from New York through a jump from a California IP, so he could definitely be a part of what's been going down.
The account he created for himself was "TEK". Does anyone know of a cracker group that uses that name or initials?
IT'S VERY VERY FUNNY! +6!
Very, very nice post. But I have a completely unrelated question. Did you used to post to alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die?
No, we're really that atheistic.
I'm sure.
Um... no, they're back to Beta 4. Napster is still just as big a piece of crap as always. Their client is buggy as hell and their servers are crashing all the time. I mean really, these people could work for Microsoft.
How the heck did the quite witty post above get marked down to 0, and listed as "Troll" none the less?
Here's the joke explanation for our not-so-bright moderators: Seti@home sends fragments of the data they've collected to the clients for processing. The clients are looking for signals in these PIECES of data. This combines with the play on "We come in PEACE".
Idiot moderators are even more annoying than the J. Random Trolls. SOMEBODY fix the score on the above post.
...I honestly think you're over-estimating the knowledge of the general public.
Monty Python's Flying Circus was filmed before a live studio audience.
...AGREES that people deserve it for living here. If idiot people would stop building right up to the fucking water, the damages from all these hurricanes would be minimal.
Yes, I do feel sorry for the people that chose to live a reasonable distance from shore but still lost life and property due to the severity of the storms. However, because the callous and cynical person I am, I feel *NO* sympathy for the fools that live in the waterfront condos and don't try evacuating until a minute before the gale-force winds hit.
All of shorefront South Florida deserves one big Darwin Award.
And, no, moderators, this is not flamebait. This is a rant against the $18-30 billion dollar damages that could have been significantlly reduced if people realized that they didn't need to rape every single square inch of Florida.
Flamebait? Why did that get marked flamebait? It might not have been a very original statement, and First Post Syndrome is always obnoxious, but how does it qualify as Flamebait?
...why Borland, who's main (non-Free) competitor in the compiler market is Microsoft, wasn't supporting any platform but Windows. Glad to see them branching out. Maybe we'll see a Delphi or C++Builder for XFree86 development?
Not have killed off my Amiga line?
...I'm not *at all* surprised. John predicted this when Romero announced his plans, and we all agreed. Look at Quake: it took a long time to come out, and really wasn't a spectacular improvement.
Why? Romero spent so much time "play testing" and not enough time actually coding. He thinks his a coding god on the same level as John or Michael, but he just isn't. And he's too egotistical to admit, or at least _see_, when he's taken on too much. Romero leaving id was a great boon for Q2. And QA is coming along quite nicely without Mr. Romero's "expertise".
And, so, Ion's product is going down in flames. Wow, John was *right*? I'm amazed...really...
Delphi is good. I'm the lead programmer at Gleim Publications, Inc. (www.gleim.com), and we've been using Delphi (1, 3, and I've been playing around with 4) for our Windows software. It's a great tool for Windows programming, because it takes so much of the overhead out of the picture, while still allowing you to directly access the API when you need. And damn, does it ever compile quickly.
BUT, Object Pascal isn't that great of a language. I have run into the languages limits, but I've been able to work around them. However, there are better lanuages, mainly Java and C. C++ is nice, but it appeals mainly to the esoteric nature of hackers. As a language, it's got some problems. So, I'm happy working as a Delphi programmer.
Now, if only there was a Linux/X11 version, I'd be in heaven.
Fear & Loathing was by far the best movie to come on in 98. Gilliam captured perfectly the life behind Hunter S. Thompson's masterpiece. It's a very existentialist parallel to Dante's Inferno.
And B5, of course, is one of the greatest television programs ever. Plot and character instead of incorrect or inane technobabble? Amazing!