What does this mean? I was under the impression that once Nimda infected a machine it would attempt to propigate indefinitely unless the machine were cleaned. What was the propagation time cycle for the first run?
Mind you, I've not seen a significant dropoff in my firewall hits (hits doubled after Nimda first hit), but perhaps I've not been checking properly.
On IGN.com the advertisements only occur occasionally when you hit a link; it seems to be a random redirect controlled by the webserver. Salon links directly to the advertisement which then links to the content, as such you get the ad every time rather than just occasionally.
When IGN does it, you often can skip the ad quickly by selecting (through mouse-click or alt-tab) the address bar and hitting enter. This re-sends the GET request for the URL to the webserver and since the ads are a random occurance you usually get right in.
What bother me more about IGN are random Shockwave popups that start blaring unwanted sound, especially when I'm at work.
It's my understanding that the pink Klingon blood in Star Trek VI was used to avoid an 'R' rating from the MPAA. I believe that Klingon blood had been shown in a TNG episode prior to the move and it was red in there.
Of course, it's still confusing considering that 1) Their complexion should probably be different with blood of that colour and 2) McCoy specifically referred to their pink blood when he explained that he didn't know how to save the chancellor (or whatever his position was)
Like others have said, Linux is the OS and they keyboard is used to interface the shell, not the OS.
Besides, who knows, with the right tools/technology you might be able to hack out a cartridge that turns the GBA into a passable PDA -- at $99 that's pretty cheap and who knows what could be done through the link cable (true, getting *hardware* from the open source community might be difficult)
There are already dev tools of some kind for the GBA -- a number of homebrew games have popped up, mostly to be used with emulation projects -- but I dunno how easily one could hack out a Linux port.
Hell, perhaps you could turn a GBA into a really cheap webserver (er, if you could fit the site data onto something that would be compatable with the GBA cart slot or the link port).
Oh, and I guess I should say: Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
Went through the usual procedure of make menuconfig/make dep/make modules/make modules_install/make bzImage/lilo, etc. Reboot, rebuild the NVidia drivers and install them, but X keeps crapping out.
It seemed to be something like this in the log:
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (hsync out of range)
It did that for every possible display mode.
Is something broken here or have I just messed up?
What are you talking about? I would expect far more sophisticated reasoning, detailed research and intellictually honest jounalism from a script kiddie than what I see now on most news sites.
Did a file search on my computer and found 'admin.dll' in two places. One was in c:\windows\system32\dllcache and the other was in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\40\isapi\_vti_adm
I do have IIS installed because I have done some web development (it's for my company, I'd rather they use Apache or somesuch, but...) I've also seen the 'alerts' and they state that the wormed 'admin.dll' is a 56k file -- mine is only 20k. What worries me is that if I delete it from either location it reappears within seconds from apparently nowhere. Anyone else have info regarding the filesize or the persistance of admin.dll?
I don't have any.eml files or readme.exe, and I have patched against the Code Red exploits.
I would think that an ISP should be allowed to cut off access of people running infected machines. That's the surest way to get someone's attention without any legal ambiguities.
Of course, the ISP would certainly get calls from irate users who *inist* that they would *never* let their computers get infected with a virus and *demand* that their service be restored, and how *dare* anyone suggest that their computers are infected with anything. Bleah.
Hrmm...I'm on IE6 and I looked at a few infected pages. Admin.dll was planted in C:\winnt\system32\dllcache and some other MS-shared based directory, but I was able to delete the file without any problems (so it wasn't in use or locked). Do you know if the file is required for the program to run, or does it just start the worm and get unloaded after that? I'd hate to have an infected machine, especially if I end up infecting the rest of the company.
I checked those links from a computer running IE6 (I'm at work).
IE reported that I had clicked a multimedia link after loading the page (er...no) and asked if I wanted to run the media in IE (it didn't give me an option to just not run it at all). When I said no, it loaded Media Player which then informed me that the selected media was invalid.
Weird. They also both opened up the readme.eml pages in another window.
The new patches may well stop this one. No one implements the patches, which is why Code Red 2 packets are still flying all over every subnet on @Home.
Microsoft may be partly to blame, but it's not for being irresponsible in patching these issues; it's for allowing idiots who don't know how to properly administrate and who will never do security checks to easily run MS servers -- often without realising that the server exists.
Are you running a webserver that is getting these requests, or is it just a firewall that logs the entire packet content?
I'm using IPChains under Linux and I don't get much packet information (perhaps I could set up a more verbose logging, I'm a bit inexperienced and my first priority was shutting out all unwanted traffic) other than the originating IP, the outgoing port and the attempted incoming port when the packet was dropped.
And it suddenly had to back up once a week after Code Red started thwacking my machine. Perhaps I should write a script to exploit the root-hack and shut down the affected machines so that the local cable circuit won't be clogged with that crap. I can't imagine how bad this will get.
It's not like @Home (in my area) is doing *anything* to stop this. I really think that they should be policing for such disruptive activities and informing their customers when unsecured machines on their network are comprimised.
I think that I can understand 'Obla Di, Obla Da'. One of the lines in the song is 'Life goes on.' and I suppose that Clear Channel thinks that such advice is a bad idea, and might get people out of a blind murderous rage against all Arabs.
How dare we think that people should move on with their lives at some point.
I was thinking that flight consoles would be rearranged to look like gaming PC setups, so that training pilots would be easier -- just pop in your favourite flight simulator program and get 'em trained in a week. Hey, remember Star Trek: Insurrection? In the future starship controls will me manufactured by Gravis, Microsoft and Logitech.:)
(Here's hoping that Sony can get in that market too -- I rather like their Dual Shock design)
Sorry for the redundancy. I remember after the WTC and Oklahoma City bombings of reports of attacks against muslims and people of arabic descent, including harassment and mosques being vandalized.
I won't be surprised to hear organized calls to violence against a group of people as a result of this horrific act -- an attitude no better than that of a terrorist -- though I might be slightly surprised if such calls come from any standing politicians.
For an example of some rather nasty attitudes on a message board, check here [cnn.com].
Bleah. I'm a bit nervous because I couldn't get in touch with my sister who lives in Manhattan. My parents reported that she's fine and in Brooklyn, but she's absolutely frantic because she can't contact any of her friends.
This is attempt #4 due to posting problems (sorry if it shows up more than once)
I remember after the WTC and Oklahoma City bombings of reports of attacks against muslims and people of arabic descent, including harassment and mosques being vandalized.
I won't be surprised to hear organized calls to violence against a group of people as a result of this horrific act -- an attitude no better than that of a terrorist -- though I might be slightly surprised if such calls come from any standing politicians.
For an example of some rather nasty attitudes on a message board, check here.
Bleah. I'm a bit nervous because I couldn't get in touch with my sister who lives in Manhattan. My parents reported that she's fine and in Brooklyn, but she's absolutely frantic because she can't contact any of her friends.
Fahrenheit Entertainment, Sunncomm and the RIAA have announced a lawsuit filed against Ira Rothken of The Rothken Law Firm and his unnamed client for attempted circumvention of a copy protection device. Attorneys for the plantiff claim that by attempting to use litigation to remove a copy protection method the defendant is effectively circumventing that method and thus in violation of the DMCA. They also argue that if their clients were forced to identify products protected by this device it would weaken the effectiveness of the device and could ultimately lead to circumvention; therefore the defendant should be liable for contributory circumvention of a copy protection device.
The RIAA was not available for comment, but the FBI has raided the offices of The Rothken Law Firm on a sealed warrant in search of evidence.
This might mean something...
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This probably wouldn't have any effect on P2P programs themselves, as the courts would have to decide whether the intent of such software was to deliberately facilitate copyright infringement, but this could take the heat off of ISPs and give them more leeway when they are told by someone (like, say, the MPAA) that a user is sending pirated software through their service. Remember the salon.com story about a person accused of copyright infringement on USENET whose access was immedeately suspended while they were on vacation, no investigation necessary? ISPs may now have more freedom to say 'prove it' when the MPAA, RIAA or another such organization comes knocking.
Perhaps you could contact your cable provider and attempt to petition the addition of UPN to the lineup?
UPN had very little to offer in the beginning (Voyager was it, IIRC -- and even that was a stretch), but with Enterprise coming on as well as their aquisition of Buffy and Roswell it might start getting into higher demand.
Or you might see a case where Enterprise is shown by a local affiliate of some other network channel. That often happened with Voyager in places where the cable provider did not offer UPN.
Most of my old computer parts are sitting in storage should a day arrive when we have enough to build a test box, should we want to test anything.
I would consider donation, except that there's not much to donate that's very useful -- we have no spare hard drives, because any HD lying around is invariably tossed somewhere -- usually into the fileserver to give it more storage capacity. We have a few sound cards and some old video cards, but I'm not even sure what works anymore (I tried putting together a bare-bones Linux box from an old PII400; no video at post). Typically stuff sits around until I want to upgrade the NAT router (in case I want to run a local game server or something) which usually happens when someone upgrades their PC (our last upgrade occurred when an Athlon 500 was replaced with a 1.4Ghz...then the 500 took the place of a PII450 and the PII450 replaced a PII233 NAT router).
Since it puts NT and 9x together I'm kind of glad that a lot of home users will now have an actual stable OS.
When I, as a home user, wanted an actual stable Windows OS, I went to Windows 2000, as did quite a few people I know. We did lose some legacy and DOS-based support but AFAIK Windows XP loses most if it as well (I understand that there is some kind of DOS compatability mode, but I don't know all of the details) and after getting used to Windows 2K, I don't see a need to switch just to get the little extra that XP offers. Also, XP Home Edition doesn't even have all of the features supported in Windoes 2000 (off the top of my head: advanced security features and SMP support) -- to get a 'true' replacement we would need to upgrade to Windows XP Professional. Again, why go to the expense and performance hit of an XP upgrade when we already have most, if not all, of what we want anyway. .
One thing I do think about sometimes. A lot of linux distibutions come with various programs already on them that do things like cd burning and such. Now Windows comes along with new things built in.
Well...yes, but my understanding is that a number of third-party apps that people used to use for these purposes are crippled or non-functional. Apparently it's a 'bug' with the upgrades that XP has (and not an attempt for MS to force you to use their apps exclusively). Most of my friends with CD-R drives already have the software they need and they know how to use it -- it's pretty standard to get software with the drive. Maybe it's convenient for MS to offer seamless CD burning options integrated in the OS, but I could do without the overhead (and the crippling of my other choices).
Needless to say there are at least 50000 bullies (ie, industry lobiests) in washington alone, so killing is out.
Actually, if you could find a way to kill, say, just 100 of them and make it clear to everyone why they were killed then the remaining lobbyists might be shocked sufficiently.
Hrmm...
When Marilyn Manson's "Holy Wood" was released I had the resources available to download, for free, every song from the CD in a high-quality digital format from a number of sources. I did actually download one of the songs, and after listening to it I purchased the CD.
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What does this mean? I was under the impression that once Nimda infected a machine it would attempt to propigate indefinitely unless the machine were cleaned. What was the propagation time cycle for the first run?
Mind you, I've not seen a significant dropoff in my firewall hits (hits doubled after Nimda first hit), but perhaps I've not been checking properly.
On IGN.com the advertisements only occur occasionally when you hit a link; it seems to be a random redirect controlled by the webserver. Salon links directly to the advertisement which then links to the content, as such you get the ad every time rather than just occasionally.
When IGN does it, you often can skip the ad quickly by selecting (through mouse-click or alt-tab) the address bar and hitting enter. This re-sends the GET request for the URL to the webserver and since the ads are a random occurance you usually get right in.
What bother me more about IGN are random Shockwave popups that start blaring unwanted sound, especially when I'm at work.
It's my understanding that the pink Klingon blood in Star Trek VI was used to avoid an 'R' rating from the MPAA. I believe that Klingon blood had been shown in a TNG episode prior to the move and it was red in there.
Of course, it's still confusing considering that 1) Their complexion should probably be different with blood of that colour and 2) McCoy specifically referred to their pink blood when he explained that he didn't know how to save the chancellor (or whatever his position was)
Like others have said, Linux is the OS and they keyboard is used to interface the shell, not the OS.
Besides, who knows, with the right tools/technology you might be able to hack out a cartridge that turns the GBA into a passable PDA -- at $99 that's pretty cheap and who knows what could be done through the link cable (true, getting *hardware* from the open source community might be difficult)
There are already dev tools of some kind for the GBA -- a number of homebrew games have popped up, mostly to be used with emulation projects -- but I dunno how easily one could hack out a Linux port.
Hell, perhaps you could turn a GBA into a really cheap webserver (er, if you could fit the site data onto something that would be compatable with the GBA cart slot or the link port).
Oh, and I guess I should say: Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
Went through the usual procedure of make menuconfig/make dep/make modules/make modules_install/make bzImage/lilo, etc. Reboot, rebuild the NVidia drivers and install them, but X keeps crapping out.
It seemed to be something like this in the log:
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (vrefresh out of range)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (hsync out of range)
It did that for every possible display mode.
Is something broken here or have I just messed up?
What are you talking about? I would expect far more sophisticated reasoning, detailed research and intellictually honest jounalism from a script kiddie than what I see now on most news sites.
Did a file search on my computer and found 'admin.dll' in two places. One was in c:\windows\system32\dllcache and the other was in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\40\isapi\_vti_adm
.eml files or readme.exe, and I have patched against the Code Red exploits.
I do have IIS installed because I have done some web development (it's for my company, I'd rather they use Apache or somesuch, but...) I've also seen the 'alerts' and they state that the wormed 'admin.dll' is a 56k file -- mine is only 20k. What worries me is that if I delete it from either location it reappears within seconds from apparently nowhere. Anyone else have info regarding the filesize or the persistance of admin.dll?
I don't have any
Unfortunately for me, IE6 decided to automatically open readme.eml.
There was probably a setting to disable such, but IE didn't install with that set to default, so most people are going to get hit.
I would think that an ISP should be allowed to cut off access of people running infected machines. That's the surest way to get someone's attention without any legal ambiguities.
Of course, the ISP would certainly get calls from irate users who *inist* that they would *never* let their computers get infected with a virus and *demand* that their service be restored, and how *dare* anyone suggest that their computers are infected with anything. Bleah.
Hrmm...I'm on IE6 and I looked at a few infected pages. Admin.dll was planted in C:\winnt\system32\dllcache and some other MS-shared based directory, but I was able to delete the file without any problems (so it wasn't in use or locked). Do you know if the file is required for the program to run, or does it just start the worm and get unloaded after that? I'd hate to have an infected machine, especially if I end up infecting the rest of the company.
I checked those links from a computer running IE6 (I'm at work).
IE reported that I had clicked a multimedia link after loading the page (er...no) and asked if I wanted to run the media in IE (it didn't give me an option to just not run it at all). When I said no, it loaded Media Player which then informed me that the selected media was invalid.
Weird. They also both opened up the readme.eml pages in another window.
The new patches may well stop this one. No one implements the patches, which is why Code Red 2 packets are still flying all over every subnet on @Home.
Microsoft may be partly to blame, but it's not for being irresponsible in patching these issues; it's for allowing idiots who don't know how to properly administrate and who will never do security checks to easily run MS servers -- often without realising that the server exists.
Are you running a webserver that is getting these requests, or is it just a firewall that logs the entire packet content?
I'm using IPChains under Linux and I don't get much packet information (perhaps I could set up a more verbose logging, I'm a bit inexperienced and my first priority was shutting out all unwanted traffic) other than the originating IP, the outgoing port and the attempted incoming port when the packet was dropped.
And it suddenly had to back up once a week after Code Red started thwacking my machine. Perhaps I should write a script to exploit the root-hack and shut down the affected machines so that the local cable circuit won't be clogged with that crap. I can't imagine how bad this will get.
It's not like @Home (in my area) is doing *anything* to stop this. I really think that they should be policing for such disruptive activities and informing their customers when unsecured machines on their network are comprimised.
I think that I can understand 'Obla Di, Obla Da'. One of the lines in the song is 'Life goes on.' and I suppose that Clear Channel thinks that such advice is a bad idea, and might get people out of a blind murderous rage against all Arabs.
How dare we think that people should move on with their lives at some point.
I was thinking that flight consoles would be rearranged to look like gaming PC setups, so that training pilots would be easier -- just pop in your favourite flight simulator program and get 'em trained in a week. Hey, remember Star Trek: Insurrection? In the future starship controls will me manufactured by Gravis, Microsoft and Logitech. :)
(Here's hoping that Sony can get in that market too -- I rather like their Dual Shock design)
Sorry for the redundancy. I remember after the WTC and Oklahoma City bombings of reports of attacks against muslims and people of arabic descent, including harassment and mosques being vandalized.
I won't be surprised to hear organized calls to violence against a group of people as a result of this horrific act -- an attitude no better than that of a terrorist -- though I might be slightly surprised if such calls come from any standing politicians.
For an example of some rather nasty attitudes on a message board, check here [cnn.com].
Bleah. I'm a bit nervous because I couldn't get in touch with my sister who lives in Manhattan. My parents reported that she's fine and in Brooklyn, but she's absolutely frantic because she can't contact any of her friends.
This is attempt #4 due to posting problems (sorry if it shows up more than once)
I remember after the WTC and Oklahoma City bombings of reports of attacks against muslims and people of arabic descent, including harassment and mosques being vandalized.
I won't be surprised to hear organized calls to violence against a group of people as a result of this horrific act -- an attitude no better than that of a terrorist -- though I might be slightly surprised if such calls come from any standing politicians.
For an example of some rather nasty attitudes on a message board, check here.
Bleah. I'm a bit nervous because I couldn't get in touch with my sister who lives in Manhattan. My parents reported that she's fine and in Brooklyn, but she's absolutely frantic because she can't contact any of her friends.
Fahrenheit Entertainment, Sunncomm and the RIAA have announced a lawsuit filed against Ira Rothken of The Rothken Law Firm and his unnamed client for attempted circumvention of a copy protection device. Attorneys for the plantiff claim that by attempting to use litigation to remove a copy protection method the defendant is effectively circumventing that method and thus in violation of the DMCA. They also argue that if their clients were forced to identify products protected by this device it would weaken the effectiveness of the device and could ultimately lead to circumvention; therefore the defendant should be liable for contributory circumvention of a copy protection device.
The RIAA was not available for comment, but the FBI has raided the offices of The Rothken Law Firm on a sealed warrant in search of evidence.
This probably wouldn't have any effect on P2P programs themselves, as the courts would have to decide whether the intent of such software was to deliberately facilitate copyright infringement, but this could take the heat off of ISPs and give them more leeway when they are told by someone (like, say, the MPAA) that a user is sending pirated software through their service. Remember the salon.com story about a person accused of copyright infringement on USENET whose access was immedeately suspended while they were on vacation, no investigation necessary? ISPs may now have more freedom to say 'prove it' when the MPAA, RIAA or another such organization comes knocking.
Perhaps you could contact your cable provider and attempt to petition the addition of UPN to the lineup?
UPN had very little to offer in the beginning (Voyager was it, IIRC -- and even that was a stretch), but with Enterprise coming on as well as their aquisition of Buffy and Roswell it might start getting into higher demand.
Or you might see a case where Enterprise is shown by a local affiliate of some other network channel. That often happened with Voyager in places where the cable provider did not offer UPN.
Most of my old computer parts are sitting in storage should a day arrive when we have enough to build a test box, should we want to test anything.
I would consider donation, except that there's not much to donate that's very useful -- we have no spare hard drives, because any HD lying around is invariably tossed somewhere -- usually into the fileserver to give it more storage capacity. We have a few sound cards and some old video cards, but I'm not even sure what works anymore (I tried putting together a bare-bones Linux box from an old PII400; no video at post). Typically stuff sits around until I want to upgrade the NAT router (in case I want to run a local game server or something) which usually happens when someone upgrades their PC (our last upgrade occurred when an Athlon 500 was replaced with a 1.4Ghz...then the 500 took the place of a PII450 and the PII450 replaced a PII233 NAT router).
Since it puts NT and 9x together I'm kind of glad that a lot of home users will now have an actual stable OS.
When I, as a home user, wanted an actual stable Windows OS, I went to Windows 2000, as did quite a few people I know. We did lose some legacy and DOS-based support but AFAIK Windows XP loses most if it as well (I understand that there is some kind of DOS compatability mode, but I don't know all of the details) and after getting used to Windows 2K, I don't see a need to switch just to get the little extra that XP offers. Also, XP Home Edition doesn't even have all of the features supported in Windoes 2000 (off the top of my head: advanced security features and SMP support) -- to get a 'true' replacement we would need to upgrade to Windows XP Professional. Again, why go to the expense and performance hit of an XP upgrade when we already have most, if not all, of what we want anyway.
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One thing I do think about sometimes. A lot of linux distibutions come with various programs already on them that do things like cd burning and such. Now Windows comes along with new things built in.
Well...yes, but my understanding is that a number of third-party apps that people used to use for these purposes are crippled or non-functional. Apparently it's a 'bug' with the upgrades that XP has (and not an attempt for MS to force you to use their apps exclusively). Most of my friends with CD-R drives already have the software they need and they know how to use it -- it's pretty standard to get software with the drive. Maybe it's convenient for MS to offer seamless CD burning options integrated in the OS, but I could do without the overhead (and the crippling of my other choices).
Needless to say there are at least 50000 bullies (ie, industry lobiests) in washington alone, so killing is out.
Actually, if you could find a way to kill, say, just 100 of them and make it clear to everyone why they were killed then the remaining lobbyists might be shocked sufficiently.
Hrmm...
When Marilyn Manson's "Holy Wood" was released I had the resources available to download, for free, every song from the CD in a high-quality digital format from a number of sources. I did actually download one of the songs, and after listening to it I purchased the CD.
But I guess I'm not 'most Slashdotters'.