A year ago, last thursday
I was strolling in the zoo
when I met a man who though he knew the lot.
He was laying down the law about the habits of baboons and how many spines a porcupine has got.
So I asked him:
'What's that creature there'
He answered: 'Oh, it's a h'Elk'
I might of gone on thinking that was true
If the animal in question hadn't put that chap to shame
And remarked: 'I h'aint a h'Elk
I'm a Gnu'
'I'm a Gnu
I'm a Gnu
The g-nicest work of g-nature in the zoo I'm a Gnu
How do you do You realy ought to k-now w-ho's w-ho's
I'm a Gnu
Spelt G-N-U
I'm g-not a Camel or a Kangaroo
So let me introduce
I'm g-neither man or moose
Oh g-no g-no g-no I'm a Gnu'
I had taken furnished lodgings down at Rustington-on-sea
Whence I travelled on th Ashton-under-lyme it was actually
And the second night I stayed there I was woken from a dream
That I'll tell you all about some other time
Among the hunting trophies on the wall above my bed
Stuffed and mounted, was a face I thought I knew;
A Bison? No, it's not a Bison. An Okapi? Unlikely, Really. A Hartebeeste?
When I though I heard a voice:
I'm a Gnu
I'm a Gnu
A g-nother gnu
I wish I could g-nash my teeth at you
I'm a Gnu
How do you do
You realy ought to k-now w-ho's w-ho's
I'm a Gnu
Spelt G-N-U
Call me Bison or Okapi and I'll sue
G-nor am I the least like that dreadful Hartebeeste
Oh, g-no, g-no, g-no,
G-no g-no g-no I'm a Gnu
G-no g-no g-no I'm a Gnu
Couldn't you get OS X? Then you could both be happy, she gets the shiny happy user interface, and you get BSD underlying the glitz and a command line interface...
The guy who said keyboards could release gas is Richard Blackwood, who is not (thank fuck) as the intro to this piece says, a member of parliament.
He's a crap comedian/singer who would desperately like to be Will Smith...
UK police say misleading warnings from the FBI led home PC owners to believe that their computers could be infected by the server worm
The Metropolitan Police has criticised the FBI for issuing confused messages about the Code Red worm, which led home PC owners to believe that their computers could be infected by a self-propagating worm that only attacks Internet servers.
Last night the FBI was on red alert for an Internet meltdown, due to begin at 1am BST once the malicious worm became active again.
As the Metropolitan Police's Computer Crime Unit points out, over-hyped warnings by the FBI have failed to acknowledge that only unpatched servers using versions of Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) would be vulnerable to re-infection. "Code Red cannot affect a machine unless it has a Web server installed, which is very unlikely as this does not happen by default," said DC Andy Cox of the Metropolitan Police.
The confusion has caused panic amongst some ZDNet News readers. Questions such as "how do we protect our PCs from this new virus attack?" and "should I shutdown my system Tuesday night?" have bombarded the mailroom in the last couple of days.
Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at anti-virus firm Sophos, agreed that FBI warnings should have clearly stated that Code Red cannot affect home PCs, and accused the organisation of imitating a "John Grisham novel".
"It's good news that the Internet didn't melt down, but the danger is that because the FBI issued such hyperbolic warnings with the suggestion that this has cost billions of dollars already, the average person will remember that nothing happened, and not take the next warning seriously," said Cluley.
The Metropolitan Police has confirmed that contrary to widespread warnings "nothing has happened" since 1am BST. The time-sensitive worm, which replicates between Windows 2000 servers, and exploits the so-called Microsoft Index Server flaw, is programmed to re-propagate itself on the first of each month, and so will no longer be lying dormant in previously infected machines. For British anti-virus firms a sleepless night was unnecessary -- reports confirm that few systems have been compromised this time round.
"Companies will now be thinking what a bunch of charlatans the FBI is," added Cluley.
Maybe they could buy Apache instead. Or perhaps just licence the Windows version for bundling purposes. This has just got to be bad publicity. "The web server that ate the internet."
My boss has just told our head of technical support to download the patches.
I said to our head of technical support "We don't need no steenkin' patches!"
Running Apache on Linux has turned out to be the right choice!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
All you have to do is convince Dubya that Saddam and the Chinese are going to build a moonbase, and there'll be Americans on the moon building a moonbase before Dubya gets kicked out of office.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
So where's the quality control in these 'open' encyclopaedias? They're only as good as the information they contain, and if you let any old fool write stuff for them without any editing or quality control then they're useless.
And who's going to pay these editors and quality controllers?
Sorry, I think I'll stick with established sources of information myself.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
I got those, on both our webservers. About 20 on each, late 19th early 20th.
I spread the news around, just to illustrate what a good idea it had been picking Apache on Linux for our webservers!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
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I always thought John Logie Baird a scotsman invented TV
He did. Someone moderate that last comment up. PLEASE!
Despite what some fools may seem to believe, Television was NOT invented by Americans in America. It was invented by a Scot, in the UK. So there!
You mind your language!
Yeah, but would you want to muck out the spaceship if pigs had been in it?
THE GNU SONG
A year ago, last thursday
I was strolling in the zoo
when I met a man who though he knew the lot.
He was laying down the law about the habits of baboons and how many spines a porcupine has got.
So I asked him:
'What's that creature there'
He answered: 'Oh, it's a h'Elk'
I might of gone on thinking that was true
If the animal in question hadn't put that chap to shame
And remarked: 'I h'aint a h'Elk
I'm a Gnu'
'I'm a Gnu
I'm a Gnu
The g-nicest work of g-nature in the zoo I'm a Gnu
How do you do You realy ought to k-now w-ho's w-ho's
I'm a Gnu
Spelt G-N-U
I'm g-not a Camel or a Kangaroo
So let me introduce
I'm g-neither man or moose
Oh g-no g-no g-no I'm a Gnu'
I had taken furnished lodgings down at Rustington-on-sea
Whence I travelled on th Ashton-under-lyme it was actually
And the second night I stayed there I was woken from a dream
That I'll tell you all about some other time
Among the hunting trophies on the wall above my bed
Stuffed and mounted, was a face I thought I knew;
A Bison? No, it's not a Bison. An Okapi? Unlikely, Really. A Hartebeeste?
When I though I heard a voice:
I'm a Gnu
I'm a Gnu
A g-nother gnu
I wish I could g-nash my teeth at you
I'm a Gnu
How do you do
You realy ought to k-now w-ho's w-ho's
I'm a Gnu
Spelt G-N-U
Call me Bison or Okapi and I'll sue
G-nor am I the least like that dreadful Hartebeeste
Oh, g-no, g-no, g-no,
G-no g-no g-no I'm a Gnu
G-no g-no g-no I'm a Gnu
It's very G-nice of you.
How about we don't see a telnet worm because nobody in their right mind puts telnet where it's visible to the internet!!!
It's high time that Telnet was retired, with extreme prejudice.
Couldn't you get OS X? Then you could both be happy, she gets the shiny happy user interface, and you get BSD underlying the glitz and a command line interface...
Duhhh! He was a snowboarder!!!
We'll all be using command line interfaces, surely!
"More money than sense"
It's the only possible explanation!
Well she's fucking stupid then, isn't she. That's child abuse, that is.
So why are they all called "Deep" something then?
I mean, calling one "Deep Thought" was vaguely amusing because of the Hitch-hiker reference.
"Deep Blue" sounds more like a porno movie. "Deep Fritz" sounds like it might be the sequel to the porno movie...
What gives!
Three more versions surely..
LLLLLL...
IIIII....
and
UUUUUU...
What's that spell!!!
The guy who said keyboards could release gas is Richard Blackwood, who is not (thank fuck) as the intro to this piece says, a member of parliament. He's a crap comedian/singer who would desperately like to be Will Smith...
Found this on ZDNet..
UK police say misleading warnings from the FBI led home PC owners to believe that their computers could be infected by the server worm
The Metropolitan Police has criticised the FBI for issuing confused messages about the Code Red worm, which led home PC owners to believe that their computers could be infected by a self-propagating worm that only attacks Internet servers.
Last night the FBI was on red alert for an Internet meltdown, due to begin at 1am BST once the malicious worm became active again.
As the Metropolitan Police's Computer Crime Unit points out, over-hyped warnings by the FBI have failed to acknowledge that only unpatched servers using versions of Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) would be vulnerable to re-infection. "Code Red cannot affect a machine unless it has a Web server installed, which is very unlikely as this does not happen by default," said DC Andy Cox of the Metropolitan Police.
The confusion has caused panic amongst some ZDNet News readers. Questions such as "how do we protect our PCs from this new virus attack?" and "should I shutdown my system Tuesday night?" have bombarded the mailroom in the last couple of days.
Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at anti-virus firm Sophos, agreed that FBI warnings should have clearly stated that Code Red cannot affect home PCs, and accused the organisation of imitating a "John Grisham novel".
"It's good news that the Internet didn't melt down, but the danger is that because the FBI issued such hyperbolic warnings with the suggestion that this has cost billions of dollars already, the average person will remember that nothing happened, and not take the next warning seriously," said Cluley.
The Metropolitan Police has confirmed that contrary to widespread warnings "nothing has happened" since 1am BST. The time-sensitive worm, which replicates between Windows 2000 servers, and exploits the so-called Microsoft Index Server flaw, is programmed to re-propagate itself on the first of each month, and so will no longer be lying dormant in previously infected machines. For British anti-virus firms a sleepless night was unnecessary -- reports confirm that few systems have been compromised this time round.
"Companies will now be thinking what a bunch of charlatans the FBI is," added Cluley.
What a bunch of charlatans the FBI are, surely...
Damn you, that's what I was going to say!
At least someone else picked up on his name.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Maybe they could buy Apache instead. Or perhaps just licence the Windows version for bundling purposes. This has just got to be bad publicity. "The web server that ate the internet."
My boss has just told our head of technical support to download the patches.
I said to our head of technical support "We don't need no steenkin' patches!"
Running Apache on Linux has turned out to be the right choice!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
All you have to do is convince Dubya that Saddam and the Chinese are going to build a moonbase, and there'll be Americans on the moon building a moonbase before Dubya gets kicked out of office.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Phil Collins: "I'm talking nonce sense."
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Nah, they probably do it to piss off people who still read the internet on stone tablets...
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
It was Jane Fonda in Barbarella!
Nancy Sinatra, indeed!
(pauses and waits for the uncultured people to think 'who?')
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Well perhaps we should spend the money on education to teach people like you how to spell!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
So where's the quality control in these 'open' encyclopaedias? They're only as good as the information they contain, and if you let any old fool write stuff for them without any editing or quality control then they're useless.
And who's going to pay these editors and quality controllers?
Sorry, I think I'll stick with established sources of information myself.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
I got those, on both our webservers. About 20 on each, late 19th early 20th.
I spread the news around, just to illustrate what a good idea it had been picking Apache on Linux for our webservers!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
You know, it's reading things like this that makes the time-honoured phrase "get a life" springs to the forefront of my mind...
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Nice article. I used to really want one of those when they came out, but I was on the dole and couldn't afford it...
Of course, the really cool thing about this article is that people are using this old hardware to do a job.
Not because it's 'Kewl', 'l33t', or Retro-Chic, but because they do the job required and can cope with the conditions under which the job is done.
Now that is far cooler than geeks farting about.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems