>This leaves me with back-end connectivity across private "trusted" comm channels
Yup, this was exactly what hit us. I run a small departmental server and I got called Saturday. I was surprised, I had read about the worm that morning, learned that it attacked unpatched SQL2K, and immediately relaxed in the knowledge that my machine was patched and that the rest of the machines on our network were probably safe as well.
Then the phone rang. Our internal network was being flooded with traffic and could I please come in because my machine had been hit.
Well, of course my machine was fine. So were all real 'servers'. The problem was "personal edition" copies running on workstations. They went around pulling the network cables on these but still something was flooding the network.
What the hell? How did this even get into our internal network? We're pretty well firewalled off from the internet.
Yup. We have "firewall to firewall" private access points with some of our customers. In one case 1434 was specifically open because there was SQL server communication across that interconnection.
How they managed to get infected in the first place, I have no idea. But that is apparently how it got in in the first place. Once it was in, it hit only a handful of machines, but their combined spraying of the network caused some serious greif.
Interesing question. I predict that he won't come out and explicitly point fingers, but will probably make some kind of ambiguous statement to the effect of 'we will conduct a thorough investigation to learn the cause of this terrible event, and if we learn that it was not an accident, we will hunt down those responsible and bring them to justice'.
Well, _obviously_ it had to be the work of terrorists, now we just have to figure out who to bomb in response!
Probably Iraq!...or Afghanistan, or maybe, er... what's that other one? You know, the one with all the brown-skinned people that worship a different god? Evil, I tell you!! Evil!!
* I'm being sarcastic. Most likely this was some kind of mechanical failure and I'm sure I'll feel really bad for the families as soon as this sinks in a little. I'm still in shock.
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kind of like installing ISS/PWS on a 2000 Professional workstation. not a real server, but real enough to have the same (unpatched) vulnerability. connect that to a nice fat campus pipe and you are all set to wreak some havoc, it seems.
" I say we scalp him!" "Yeh!!!" "Then we tattoo him!" "Yeh!!!" "Then we hang him" "Yeh!!!" "And _then_ we kill him" "Yeh!!!" "I say we let him go" "No!!!"
well, it's an obvious hoax, isn't it? I mean, I would expect a presentation from MS to be with full-color, animated ppt slides and not something B&W that looks like it was made with wordpad! </t-i-c>
No, I agree.. no real evidence it actually came from Microsoft, and if it did, so what? No real surprises here.
Yeah, all those questions about art, literature, history....
Totally pointless.
Have you ever watched the show?
Granted, it's gone downhill since Jimmy Kimmel left. Now, the Man Show... if that show hasn't led to the decay of western civilization, I don't know what has (but I watch it anyway).
A producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the filmmaking process, but who is still responsible for the overall production. Typically an executive producer handles business and legal issues. See also associate producer, co-producer, line producer.
There were 7 other people credited with co-producing this little epic.
Steven apparently wrote the checks and had meetings once in a while to oversee what everyone else was doing.
Explanation: The Sun is a bubbling ball of extremely hot gas. In this false-color picture, light blue regions are extremely hot - over 1 million degrees, while dark blue regions are slightly cooler. The camera filter used was highly sensitive to the emission of highly charged iron ions, which trace the magnetic field of the Sun. The rich structure of the image shows the great complexity of the Sun's inner corona. A small active region can be seen just to the right and above center. This picture was taken in ultraviolet (extremely blue) light by the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, which is orbiting the Sun just ahead of the Earth, at the L1 point. SOHO was launched in 1995 and will continually monitor the Sun for several years.
I just think that's one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I'll use that for my desktop again, now that I've found it again.
Heh, thought the same thing in about.0001 second from seeing that image.
But, when I loaded it up, the color is just too intense. I tend to like softer blue patterns for my desktop (NT/W2k "Soap Bubbles" usually does the trick).
I used to have one that was rendered in blue (think it was an x-ray image or something) of the whole sun, made a nice soothing wallpaper on my CDE desktop. Wonder if I can find that one again (think it was originally linked from Blues News).
>I hope someone can confirm or deny that my experience stands with AOTC
the answer was only a click away:
"Clones" thus becomes the second live action re-release to be scheduled for Imax re-formatting since company unveiled a proprietary conversion process in March.
"Imax re-formatting" doesn't sound like it it just being projected on a bigger screen.
no,no... you forgot the part where the large-chested eye-candy cuts off the middle-aged car shop guy in mid-sentence while answering her lame question.
Man that guy might actually talk for 15 seconds and bore the sh1t out of the 13-yr-olds waiting for that next dorito ad with the hot chick to roll and make them change channels. Can't have that! Back to you, trite announcer guy #2!
>Is it just me, or does this sound suspiciously like an old Star Trek script?
Sure does. That was the first thing that came to mind, the "energy barrier" at the edge of the galaxy. I'm trying to remember which episode that was. Was that the one where the aliens took over the ship and turned everyone into little styrofoam blocks?
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OT: re your sig
Intersting, I hadn't seen that before. Did you try going into "Internet Options" to make that your home page?
res://mshtml.dll/about.moz
The hell is that?
>This leaves me with back-end connectivity across private "trusted" comm channels
Yup, this was exactly what hit us. I run a small departmental server and I got called Saturday. I was surprised, I had read about the worm that morning, learned that it attacked unpatched SQL2K, and immediately relaxed in the knowledge that my machine was patched and that the rest of the machines on our network were probably safe as well.
Then the phone rang. Our internal network was being flooded with traffic and could I please come in because my machine had been hit.
Well, of course my machine was fine. So were all real 'servers'. The problem was "personal edition" copies running on workstations. They went around pulling the network cables on these but still something was flooding the network.
What the hell? How did this even get into our internal network? We're pretty well firewalled off from the internet.
Yup. We have "firewall to firewall" private access points with some of our customers. In one case 1434 was specifically open because there was SQL server communication across that interconnection.
How they managed to get infected in the first place, I have no idea. But that is apparently how it got in in the first place. Once it was in, it hit only a handful of machines, but their combined spraying of the network caused some serious greif.
>Saying its toxic is as good a way as any.
Hmm, say it is illegal and carries a huge fine might also work?
Interesing question. I predict that he won't come out and explicitly point fingers, but will probably make some kind of ambiguous statement to the effect of 'we will conduct a thorough investigation to learn the cause of this terrible event, and if we learn that it was not an accident, we will hunt down those responsible and bring them to justice'.
Well, _obviously_ it had to be the work of terrorists, now we just have to figure out who to bomb in response!
...or Afghanistan, or maybe, er... what's that other one? You know, the one with all the brown-skinned people that worship a different god? Evil, I tell you!! Evil!!
Probably Iraq!
* I'm being sarcastic. Most likely this was some kind of mechanical failure and I'm sure I'll feel really bad for the families as soon as this sinks in a little. I'm still in shock.
Yeah, we knew about the "first Israeli Astronaut" because CNN was reporting about the heightened security.
I think what he means is that there is now rampant speculation that there might have been some kind of "attack" because of this.
At this point, there will be all kinds of speculation, just like with the WTC and the OKC bombing before it.
(or whatever its called - seem to remember seeing that there was a single-user desktop version that just limited the # of connections and stuff)
Indiana U seems to allow this:
kind of like installing ISS/PWS on a 2000 Professional workstation. not a real server, but real enough to have the same (unpatched) vulnerability. connect that to a nice fat campus pipe and you are all set to wreak some havoc, it seems.
almost...
http://average.matrix.net/Daily/markP.html
for 50 machines?
" I say we scalp him!"
"Yeh!!!"
"Then we tattoo him!"
"Yeh!!!"
"Then we hang him"
"Yeh!!!"
"And _then_ we kill him"
"Yeh!!!"
"I say we let him go"
"No!!!"
"You'll have to give me a pretty good reason to grant this continuance! Well?"
"I... CAN'T... LIE!!!"
That movie is one of my guily pleasures.
well, it's an obvious hoax, isn't it? I mean, I would expect a presentation from MS to be with full-color, animated ppt slides and not something B&W that looks like it was made with wordpad!
</t-i-c>
No, I agree.. no real evidence it actually came from Microsoft, and if it did, so what? No real surprises here.
>The most likely senario is someone buying enough plutonium to build a ~20Kton weapon which would be about the size of a washer or dryer.
or a pop machine?
for answering some pointless questions
Yeah, all those questions about art, literature, history....
Totally pointless.
Have you ever watched the show?
Granted, it's gone downhill since Jimmy Kimmel left. Now, the Man Show... if that show hasn't led to the decay of western civilization, I don't know what has (but I watch it anyway).
Ohm that is classic! Completely forgot about that one. I remember John Stewart said something like that when they showed that on the Daily Show.
I also remember Bush's sound bite from that as well (Think he was looking across the DMZ at NK at the time, right?)
something like "I don't need these binoculars to see that they are evil!"
Yeah, but don't watch. Max Headroom does the nasty with her. He looks like a skeleton covered with flesh-colored saran-wrap giving her tongue.
I had to go watch 3 hours of good old-fashioned porn after that to get that image out of my head.
Yeah really. Which part of "Steven Speilburg presents " is not understood?
There were 11 different people credited with directing, and Leslie Bohem is credited with the writing.
What did Speilburg do on this project?
"Executive Producer"
A producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the filmmaking process, but who is still responsible for the overall production. Typically an executive producer handles business and legal issues. See also associate producer, co-producer, line producer.
There were 7 other people credited with co-producing this little epic.
Steven apparently wrote the checks and had meetings once in a while to oversee what everyone else was doing.
er, sorry to reply to my own post...
APOD: January 6, 1997 - Blue Sun Glaring
Explanation: The Sun is a bubbling ball of extremely hot gas. In this false-color picture, light blue regions are extremely hot - over 1 million degrees, while dark blue regions are slightly cooler. The camera filter used was highly sensitive to the emission of highly charged iron ions, which trace the magnetic field of the Sun. The rich structure of the image shows the great complexity of the Sun's inner corona. A small active region can be seen just to the right and above center. This picture was taken in ultraviolet (extremely blue) light by the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, which is orbiting the Sun just ahead of the Earth, at the L1 point. SOHO was launched in 1995 and will continually monitor the Sun for several years.
I just think that's one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I'll use that for my desktop again, now that I've found it again.
Heh, thought the same thing in about .0001 second from seeing that image.
But, when I loaded it up, the color is just too intense. I tend to like softer blue patterns for my desktop (NT/W2k "Soap Bubbles" usually does the trick).
I used to have one that was rendered in blue (think it was an x-ray image or something) of the whole sun, made a nice soothing wallpaper on my CDE desktop. Wonder if I can find that one again (think it was originally linked from Blues News).
>I hope someone can confirm or deny that my experience stands with AOTC
the answer was only a click away:
"Clones" thus becomes the second live action re-release to be scheduled for Imax re-formatting since company unveiled a proprietary conversion process in March.
"Imax re-formatting" doesn't sound like it it just being projected on a bigger screen.
no,no... you forgot the part where the large-chested eye-candy cuts off the middle-aged car shop guy in mid-sentence while answering her lame question.
Man that guy might actually talk for 15 seconds and bore the sh1t out of the 13-yr-olds waiting for that next dorito ad with the hot chick to roll and make them change channels. Can't have that! Back to you, trite announcer guy #2!
Yeah, that walkman idea was a real flop, too. ;-)
we need a new moderation category:
(Score:-1, Didn't get the joke)
It's not just being seen as a baby. I don't get embarassed at anyone seeing what I looked like at that age.
Having a picture of you naked in the tub is another matter.
>Is it just me, or does this sound suspiciously like an old Star Trek script?
Sure does. That was the first thing that came to mind, the "energy barrier" at the edge of the galaxy. I'm trying to remember which episode that was. Was that the one where the aliens took over the ship and turned everyone into little styrofoam blocks?