And please recall the name of the space craft: Out of Band II. It's full of in-jokes, like "Sandor Arbitration Intelligence at the Zoo", can we say Henry @ utzoo?
The.. prequil.. A Deepness in the Sky (Deep novels) suffers from Bloody Fat Book syndrome and Cast of Thousands. A good read, but some of the tech is just too advanced for the zone.
spammers: email me directly at root@192.168.1.10 and cc to root@127.0.0.1
Now that's an interesting thought, does Code Red's random number generator ever come up with 127.0.0.1? Code Red, meet Code Red.
Don't laugh, $cientology was looking for the eevil Major Domo, who operated a FTP site with cult secrets at 127.0.0.1.
http://www.xenu.net/archive/WIR/wir1-4.html#2
And getting back on topic, when True Names came out, the few copies around did a tour lasting a year or so. (And yes, I got it back.) And I added Alan to the security of SISPG's encrypted message store on PSBGM. (1981) We read True Names, and recognized it.
I was working on an opportunity management plug-in for a contact relationship management product. They wanted a graphical plug-in to go with it. (No idea of what the graphs should display, they just wanted cute graphs and pie-charts.) And, of course, there was an important demo coming up.
So I went home and banged off my best guess a demo in Delphi. (It was a C++ shop, but everything used COM interfaces -- no sweat!)
Management liked the demo, marketing liked the demo, I think the customer liked the demo.
So using feedback from the demo, we got a spec together, and I started on the real C++ version. Finished it even.
Marketing kept on using the demo. The demo that no security checking, the demo that used an obsolete method of finding its database, the demo that had to be installed manually.
So every month, I'd get an emergency request to install the demo at the last minute before someone headed off to the airport to a tradeshow or customer. (And I'd have remember how the demo worked.)
After a few weeks with none, I'm starting to see an increasing number of attempts on my HTTP port. I believe this is the port Code Red goes after on unpatched MS IIS boxes
I admit that's it's not exactly Internet-stopping volume, but if everyone is getting this, that's bound to be a lot of traffic. And note that if I was running an unpatched IIS, I'd be Code Red's bitch by now. (Or somebody's bitch if my ports 111, 139, 515, 31337, etc were open to exploits.)
Nolan Bushnell did Computer Space which wasn't quite Spacewar -- before Pong. Eventually someone did a real Spacewar arcade game, but that was years later.
Hmph! I've been part of local peaceful protests against the Cthurch of $cientology here in Toronto over the last four years. We had signs, and we handed out information flyers to the public.
These "G-8 protesters" make me ill. Their whole purpose is to make the news.
We were granted independence from Britain peacefully in 1867
Actually, we gained independance in 1931. Statute of Westminster. And we didn't eliminate high-level legal appeals back to London until the repatriation of the consistitution in 1982 or so.
On the plus side, I suspect any loud public squabble over this will cause the Liberals to back down.
Everything else is more or less correct, as far as it goes. (Offer not valid in the province of Alberta.) 2014: The bicentenial burning of the White House.
I always keep my ADSL modem where I can see the modem LEDs out the corner of my eye. If I see traffic that I can't account for, I start poking around to see where it's coming from. (I use ZoneAlarm, so if it was inbound, I'd probably get a warning.)
Sure it's a low tech and isn't exactly 7/24, but it's hard to beat it!
Hmmph. Perhaps he was bent over his work on his new bow, and shot from behind by someone who snuck up on him? That way the arrow would enter his back at an angle consistant with "below".
We'd all be hanging out in
dark places Check (no sense in dumping more watts into the only airconditioned room in my apartment) eating pills Nope. listening to electronic music I've got Tangerine Dream's Le Parc queued to go. Got a problem with that?
But don't forget the ghosts. (I've got a big whacking stick ready for them!)
Other than that, I can say that playing video games hasn't affected me a bit. Writing them, well...
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Finally, a use for our politicians!
Um, kind of adopted Canadian. American born.
Really? I don't recall True Names being published in Analog.
Ah, The Sims ex-machina.
Oh please don't cry, it's just a web-jazzed version of Pyroto Mountain.
Do not offend TSOTL!
Old school? Certainly after the Great Renaming.
.. prequil .. A Deepness in the Sky (Deep novels) suffers from Bloody Fat Book syndrome and Cast of Thousands. A good read, but some of the tech is just too advanced for the zone.
And please recall the name of the space craft: Out of Band II. It's full of in-jokes, like "Sandor Arbitration Intelligence at the Zoo", can we say Henry @ utzoo?
The
spammers: email me directly at root@192.168.1.10 and cc to root@127.0.0.1
Now that's an interesting thought, does Code Red's random number generator ever come up with 127.0.0.1? Code Red, meet Code Red.
Don't laugh, $cientology was looking for the eevil Major Domo, who operated a FTP site with cult secrets at 127.0.0.1.
http://www.xenu.net/archive/WIR/wir1-4.html#2
And getting back on topic, when True Names came out, the few copies around did a tour lasting a year or so. (And yes, I got it back.) And I added Alan to the security of SISPG's encrypted message store on PSBGM. (1981) We read True Names, and recognized it.
...is the PowerPoint presentation from Hell!
Shudder!
I was working on an opportunity management plug-in for a contact relationship management product. They wanted a graphical plug-in to go with it. (No idea of what the graphs should display, they just wanted cute graphs and pie-charts.) And, of course, there was an important demo coming up.
So I went home and banged off my best guess a demo in Delphi. (It was a C++ shop, but everything used COM interfaces -- no sweat!)
Management liked the demo, marketing liked the demo, I think the customer liked the demo.
So using feedback from the demo, we got a spec together, and I started on the real C++ version. Finished it even.
Marketing kept on using the demo. The demo that no security checking, the demo that used an obsolete method of finding its database, the demo that had to be installed manually.
So every month, I'd get an emergency request to install the demo at the last minute before someone headed off to the airport to a tradeshow or customer. (And I'd have remember how the demo worked.)
Next time I'll put a timebomb in the demo code!
Whitehouse hell! Code Red II should go after microsoft.com
:^)
Then we'd see some fast patching of bugs, you betcha!
After a few weeks with none, I'm starting to see an increasing number of attempts on my HTTP port. I believe this is the port Code Red goes after on unpatched MS IIS boxes
date,time,source,transport
2001/08/01,00:39:43 EDT,64.224.192.128:4482,80,TCP (flags:S)
2001/08/01,09:29:53 EDT,203.239.44.55:2464,80,TCP (flags:S)
2001/08/01,09:43:29 EDT,61.157.184.52:4273,80,TCP (flags:S)
2001/08/01,11:25:13 EDT,217.126.188.106:53726,80,TCP (flags:S)
2001/08/01,11:54:00 EDT,193.70.29.42:2668,80,TCP (flags:S)
2001/08/01,11:56:41 EDT,210.119.9.196:4754,80,TCP (flags:S)
2001/08/01,12:22:11 EDT,64.81.148.7:3924,80,TCP (flags:S)
2001/08/01,12:29:15 EDT,61.144.181.223:1319,80,TCP (flags:S)
I admit that's it's not exactly Internet-stopping volume, but if everyone is getting this, that's bound to be a lot of traffic. And note that if I was running an unpatched IIS, I'd be Code Red's bitch by now. (Or somebody's bitch if my ports 111, 139, 515, 31337, etc were open to exploits.)
Nolan Bushnell did Computer Space which wasn't quite Spacewar -- before Pong. Eventually someone did a real Spacewar arcade game, but that was years later.
Hmph! I've been part of local peaceful protests against the Cthurch of $cientology here in Toronto over the last four years. We had signs, and we handed out information flyers to the public.
These "G-8 protesters" make me ill. Their whole purpose is to make the news.
Umm.. Not quite. If you want the equivilent of the NSA, you're looking at the CSE, or whatever they're calling themselves these days.
CSIS is more CIA.
And exactly who owns the deeds to Camp X these days? (Largest spy training school of WWII, near Oshawa, near Toronto.)
All your comedians are belong to us!
We were granted independence from Britain peacefully in 1867
Actually, we gained independance in 1931. Statute of Westminster. And we didn't eliminate high-level legal appeals back to London until the repatriation of the consistitution in 1982 or so.
On the plus side, I suspect any loud public squabble over this will cause the Liberals to back down.
Everything else is more or less correct, as far as it goes. (Offer not valid in the province of Alberta.)
2014: The bicentenial burning of the White House.
Didn't I see you in a cave painting episode of Clubs where you were driving a mastidon after eating many fermenting fruits?
Possibly, but it's also a story by Bruce Sterling.
It is, of course, a reference to the "morning after" drug RU-486. (I have no idea if they've since upgraded from a 486.)
Leggy Starlitz also appears in the short stories Hollywood Kermlin and Are You For 86? in the collection Globalhead.
I'm not sure the review answers the most important question: Is it a good read?
I always keep my ADSL modem where I can see the modem LEDs out the corner of my eye. If I see traffic that I can't account for, I start poking around to see where it's coming from. (I use ZoneAlarm, so if it was inbound, I'd probably get a warning.)
Sure it's a low tech and isn't exactly 7/24, but it's hard to beat it!
Hmmph. Perhaps he was bent over his work on his new bow, and shot from behind by someone who snuck up on him? That way the arrow would enter his back at an angle consistant with "below".
Police are now looking a suspect in the Iceman case: "Thargg of the Mountains". He is considered armed and dangerous.
When asked about the 5000+ year age of the case, Inspector Podder replied "There is no statute of limitation on murder."
Anyone with any information on Thargg should call 1-555-222-TIPS.
The Atari 400/800 had a pretty rugged setup with cast aluminum case around expansion cards.
We'd all be hanging out in
dark places Check (no sense in dumping more watts into the only airconditioned room in my apartment)
eating pills Nope.
listening to electronic music I've got Tangerine Dream's Le Parc queued to go. Got a problem with that?
But don't forget the ghosts. (I've got a big whacking stick ready for them!)
Other than that, I can say that playing video games hasn't affected me a bit. Writing them, well...
Perhaps they should get Woody Allen to write the next script?
A tale of angst as a dinosaur, dysfunctional reptile families... oh yeah, and big teeth and crunchy lawyers.