I saw this a few months ago while grepping through our apache log. Googlebot was submitting search requests for some weird stuff to our online catalog (for example: "Ctnblnd"). After some research I found that Googlebot was the only client which had ever searched for most of these terms and that they were abbreviations that our accounting department uses. I was guessing that they were doing something like this in the lab for words that they "didn't know" but ultimately put our search url into robots.txt because I didn't like our search results showing up in theirs.
I had a friend in highschool who registered (something to the effect of) billgates@hotmail.com and sent an email to every address that could be found in the headers. He claimed he was actually Bill Gates and need a name, address, and telephone number to send the checks to. A large number of the recipients actually replied with the requested information. Even worse was the number of people that replied believing they were really giving this information in order to receive a check.. but couldn't be bother to write their areacode, zipcode, state, or city with their reply.
I'd guess you were talking about Mattec? Although it was before this SCO mess, I was told by one of their techs that they had plans to move the product (Prohelp Millen I believe) to Linux. Of course this was over a year ago and it could have just been his plans instead of the company's.
I've still working out the details for the following experiment, so please bear with me.
Parts sealed in a metal box:
- Laptop "A" running WinXP, sharing teenrock.mp3 via [insert favorite p2p app here]. The sound has been removed from this machine. connected via an ethernet crossover to
- Laptop "B" running [insert your favorite linux distribution].
A twelve year old girl is placed inside the box with directions on how to copy teenrock.mp3 from Laptop A to Laptop B so that she can listen to it. There stands exactly a fifty percent chance that she will understand the provided directions (pretend with me). The twelve year old girl is removed from the box after one hour has passed.
The question: Did the bank account of any member of the Recording Industry Association of America just lose $150,000.
Bonus question: In addition to the possible $150,000 she might owe the RIAA, does she now owe Darl McBride $699?
>..and 421 compact disc burners There was another bust? I heard about one that involved "equivalent of 421 burners".
>is demanding a halt to illegal music sales This reminds of the "Do not make illegal copies of this CD" message on MS cds. In any event, are there really many "gas stations, convenience stores, groceries and some small music stores" that sell illegal music? I've never seen or heard of this happening in the US.. of course it's not exactly something that comes up at dinner.
>Buried in every e-mail he sends is a hidden code that sends back a message every time the e-mail is opened.
Web Bugs are the largest reason I dont view html email messages.
>...that can detect computers that are online and then be programmed to flash them a pop-up ad
I remember reading about this on slashdot.org awhile back and thinking "crazy", but would someone really waste the time/effort to port scan millions of computers just to send a winpopup? Then it came one day. "Ding!" and my game starts to flicker back to Windows. "What the?!?.. oh." Messenger service got turned off ten seconds later.
Bret A. Fausett is running an open relay. Instead of him trying to sue RBLs that I use to reject email from poorly ran servers such as his, perhaps he should start suing all the spammers that forge email headers.
I've had spammers use my domains in forged email headers before (note: not my servers, just email address from my domains) and after receiving hundreds of bounced pieces of spam from servers ran by dorks like Bret, I can testify that this is a major problem that should be tested on every RBL.
>(look it up on National Geographic - as "Kerala" was named as the one of the best 50 places to visit), the literacy rate is 100%. Can any other place in the world claim the same ?
As far as being one of the best 50, I bet 49 other places can claim that. Literacy rate? I don't have any numbers to support it, but I'm guessing that Sealand has 100% (could be 50%).
Okay, I'm just fooling around.
Kenny
Fun things learned about John Katz
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- He is rich enough to afford THREE internet accounts.
- He uses/used AOL.
- therefore he uses windows (but don't we all?)
- He believed "26 million subscribers" couldn't be wrong
- He bills everything to his credit card and is probably too lazy to long over it often (see first point)
- He keeps his passwords in his desk drawer
- He uses AOL keywords... hehehe
This is old technology, back in my day my father had all of this and MORE! It would change tv channels, answer the phone, and make popcorn. It was a wireless model, voice driven.. "Kenny! Bring me some coffee". Sigh, I need kids of my own.
LAST (http://www.sysadminsith.org/software/last/) is a very nice tool and has been working out great for sub-delegating administration of our LDAP server.
Unlike any of the other web-based tools I have seen, LAST doesn't assume (too much) about the layout of your LDAP server. There has only been one thing I had to change in source for this to work perfectly with our layout.
It allows you to build templates for different entry types/objectClasses (posixAccount, qmailUser, whatever). You can control access to these templates, verify the data being written, etc.
There isn't an online demo, the documentation only covers the bare basics.. pretty much comes down to you have to know a little bit about what you are doing to use this tool (but if you don't know what are you doing trying to setup tools to administrator an LDAP server?).
Kenny
Mail me if you actually want more info or a demo (kenny@muspellsheim.net)
Bowling? Playing poker? Paving driveways?
I don't do these things with my colleagues because.. well I don't do these things. However we do frag together, go to local linux sig meetings (okay, use too but they are so boring), go out to lunch and beam each other the latest games we download for our palms, swap tech stories and just normal nerdy stuff like that.
"It's not clear when the Open Source Edition (or whatever) will come out and I didn't find anything at the official Apache Site."
Here is apache 2.0 documentation and you can download 2.0.16 (public beta) or 2.0.18 (it's an alpha).. but what do you want them to open source? The 2.0 core (it is) or the proprietary enhancements (yeah right).
Kenny
at least slashdot didn't change my urls into http://slashdot.org/httpd.apache.org this time.
paypalsucks.com has quite a few horror stories dealing with paypal. Stories of paypal freezing people's accounts, well... after just checking it, it seems like they have taken a good number of them down from pressure from PayPal's lawyers.
In any event never have more money in paypal then you could afford to loss. Paypal is not a FDIC member, thus if the company goes under, decides to freeze your account, are any other number of wrong actions, you could simply be screwed.
Always send money to the seller via the US postal service, if the deal goes bad you can file a mail fraud complaint against them with the usps, with paypal.. well... good luck. Kenny
Well.. maybe not heat sink but fan.
I have a 1.33Ghz Athlon and had the cpu fan plugged into the motherboard, the motherboard (MSI K7T266 with Raid) decided to quit providing the necessary juice to spin the fan. I thought that the defaults in cmos would have been fine, so I hadn't changed the temperature warning/shutdown thresholds.
After running for 10 or so minutes (sometimes up to an hour or two) I'd start getting lockups/crashes/etc. Finally popped the case to see what was going on and found that the fan wasn't spinning.. plugged it into the power supply and everything has been fine since.
I will say I am never getting another MSI motherboard, besides the power for the fan failing and the system never noticing the chip was overheating, the mic on the onboard sound doesn't work either.
Yeah, I could get it RMA'd, but who wants to live a couple weeks without their motherboard?
I was I could mod that as flamebait.
Part of keeping society up and moving in a forward direction is for everyone to do what they are best at. Joe Blow who lives in Kansas can't do a single thing to help those people (beside give blood, money, pray, etc.), so what would you have them do?
By doing what we do best we are helping improve technology, which is always important in any time. Although serving X amount of pages an hour isn't as important as developing whatever new technology that could be used to save lives, it is society moving forward.... which is always important.
Someone could just put out a bunch of fake MP3 filenames without actually allowing anyone to download them (to verify content) and wait for the RIAA. They hack in, sue them. It wasn't copyrighted material thus they didn't have the right.
Are just wait until the next version of BO-XP, now the Cult of the Dead Cow (or whoever makes it) passes the ability to enforce it's ultra strict copyright enforcement on to whoever wants it... Heck, why not just email your target a copy of your cool 30 day trial software. If it starts up on day 31, it emails you with ips so that you can uninstall it.
Slashdot Mirror
I saw this a few months ago while grepping through our apache log. Googlebot was submitting search requests for some weird stuff to our online catalog (for example: "Ctnblnd"). After some research I found that Googlebot was the only client which had ever searched for most of these terms and that they were abbreviations that our accounting department uses. I was guessing that they were doing something like this in the lab for words that they "didn't know" but ultimately put our search url into robots.txt because I didn't like our search results showing up in theirs.
I had a friend in highschool who registered (something to the effect of) billgates@hotmail.com and sent an email to every address that could be found in the headers. He claimed he was actually Bill Gates and need a name, address, and telephone number to send the checks to.
A large number of the recipients actually replied with the requested information. Even worse was the number of people that replied believing they were really giving this information in order to receive a check.. but couldn't be bother to write their areacode, zipcode, state, or city with their reply.
Joe Doe
112 4th Street
Thanks, now Billy can get that new lung!
- John
I'd guess you were talking about Mattec? Although it was before this SCO mess, I was told by one of their techs that they had plans to move the product (Prohelp Millen I believe) to Linux. Of course this was over a year ago and it could have just been his plans instead of the company's.
Kenny
I've still working out the details for the following experiment, so please bear with me.
Parts sealed in a metal box:
- Laptop "A" running WinXP, sharing teenrock.mp3 via [insert favorite p2p app here]. The sound has been removed from this machine.
connected via an ethernet crossover to
- Laptop "B" running [insert your favorite linux distribution].
A twelve year old girl is placed inside the box with directions on how to copy teenrock.mp3 from Laptop A to Laptop B so that she can listen to it. There stands exactly a fifty percent chance that she will understand the provided directions (pretend with me). The twelve year old girl is removed from the box after one hour has passed.
The question: Did the bank account of any member of the Recording Industry Association of America just lose $150,000.
Bonus question: In addition to the possible $150,000 she might owe the RIAA, does she now owe Darl McBride $699?
Opps, I guess I "misspelled" spelling. :) I swear!
It was a pun
>and should send a warning _single_ to people
I think she is trying to win us over with slashdot grammar.
I smoke.
Can't wait to see some of the new domain names.
And of course a 90.iq pointing to goatsex
I was going to work for Google, until they found out my parents were married.
> ..and 421 compact disc burners
There was another bust? I heard about one that involved "equivalent of 421 burners".
>is demanding a halt to illegal music sales
This reminds of the "Do not make illegal copies of this CD" message on MS cds. In any event, are there really many "gas stations, convenience stores, groceries and some small music stores" that sell illegal music? I've never seen or heard of this happening in the US.. of course it's not exactly something that comes up at dinner.
Kenny
control panel->servies /etc/init.d/samba stop
control panel->administrative tools->services
you get the idea.
kenny
>Buried in every e-mail he sends is a hidden code that sends back a message every time the e-mail is opened.
Web Bugs are the largest reason I dont view html email messages.
>...that can detect computers that are online and then be programmed to flash them a pop-up ad
I remember reading about this on slashdot.org awhile back and thinking "crazy", but would someone really waste the time/effort to port scan millions of computers just to send a winpopup? Then it came one day. "Ding!" and my game starts to flicker back to Windows. "What the?!?.. oh." Messenger service got turned off ten seconds later.
Kenny
Heard the LRF (Little Rubber Feet) router upgrades didn't go as planned.
i d=3944 713
Credit where credit is due:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=36650&c
kenny
Forged headers? Oh my.
Bret A. Fausett is running an open relay. Instead of him trying to sue RBLs that I use to reject email from poorly ran servers such as his, perhaps he should start suing all the spammers that forge email headers.
I've had spammers use my domains in forged email headers before (note: not my servers, just email address from my domains) and after receiving hundreds of bounced pieces of spam from servers ran by dorks like Bret, I can testify that this is a major problem that should be tested on every RBL.
Kenny
All off topic of course.
>(look it up on National Geographic - as "Kerala" was named as the one of the best 50 places to visit), the literacy rate is 100%. Can any other place in the world claim the same ?
As far as being one of the best 50, I bet 49 other places can claim that. Literacy rate? I don't have any numbers to support it, but I'm guessing that Sealand has 100% (could be 50%).
Okay, I'm just fooling around.
Kenny
- He is rich enough to afford THREE internet accounts. ... hehehe
- He uses/used AOL.
- therefore he uses windows (but don't we all?)
- He believed "26 million subscribers" couldn't be wrong
- He bills everything to his credit card and is probably too lazy to long over it often (see first point)
- He keeps his passwords in his desk drawer
- He uses AOL keywords
This is old technology, back in my day my father had all of this and MORE! It would change tv channels, answer the phone, and make popcorn. It was a wireless model, voice driven.. "Kenny! Bring me some coffee".
Sigh, I need kids of my own.
LAST (http://www.sysadminsith.org/software/last/) is a very nice tool and has been working out great for sub-delegating administration of our LDAP server.
Unlike any of the other web-based tools I have seen, LAST doesn't assume (too much) about the layout of your LDAP server. There has only been one thing I had to change in source for this to work perfectly with our layout.
It allows you to build templates for different entry types/objectClasses (posixAccount, qmailUser, whatever). You can control access to these templates, verify the data being written, etc.
There isn't an online demo, the documentation only covers the bare basics.. pretty much comes down to you have to know a little bit about what you are doing to use this tool (but if you don't know what are you doing trying to setup tools to administrator an LDAP server?).
Kenny
Mail me if you actually want more info or a demo (kenny@muspellsheim.net)
Bowling? Playing poker? Paving driveways?
I don't do these things with my colleagues because.. well I don't do these things. However we do frag together, go to local linux sig meetings (okay, use too but they are so boring), go out to lunch and beam each other the latest games we download for our palms, swap tech stories and just normal nerdy stuff like that.
Kenny
"It's not clear when the Open Source Edition (or whatever) will come out and I didn't find anything at the official Apache Site."
Here is apache 2.0 documentation and you can download 2.0.16 (public beta) or 2.0.18 (it's an alpha).. but what do you want them to open source? The 2.0 core (it is) or the proprietary enhancements (yeah right).
Kenny
at least slashdot didn't change my urls into http://slashdot.org/httpd.apache.org this time.
paypalsucks.com
Kenny
paypalsucks.com has quite a few horror stories dealing with paypal. Stories of paypal freezing people's accounts, well... after just checking it, it seems like they have taken a good number of them down from pressure from PayPal's lawyers. In any event never have more money in paypal then you could afford to loss. Paypal is not a FDIC member, thus if the company goes under, decides to freeze your account, are any other number of wrong actions, you could simply be screwed. Always send money to the seller via the US postal service, if the deal goes bad you can file a mail fraud complaint against them with the usps, with paypal.. well... good luck.
Kenny
Well.. maybe not heat sink but fan.
I have a 1.33Ghz Athlon and had the cpu fan plugged into the motherboard, the motherboard (MSI K7T266 with Raid) decided to quit providing the necessary juice to spin the fan. I thought that the defaults in cmos would have been fine, so I hadn't changed the temperature warning/shutdown thresholds.
After running for 10 or so minutes (sometimes up to an hour or two) I'd start getting lockups/crashes/etc. Finally popped the case to see what was going on and found that the fan wasn't spinning.. plugged it into the power supply and everything has been fine since.
I will say I am never getting another MSI motherboard, besides the power for the fan failing and the system never noticing the chip was overheating, the mic on the onboard sound doesn't work either.
Yeah, I could get it RMA'd, but who wants to live a couple weeks without their motherboard?
kenny
I was I could mod that as flamebait.
Part of keeping society up and moving in a forward direction is for everyone to do what they are best at. Joe Blow who lives in Kansas can't do a single thing to help those people (beside give blood, money, pray, etc.), so what would you have them do?
By doing what we do best we are helping improve technology, which is always important in any time. Although serving X amount of pages an hour isn't as important as developing whatever new technology that could be used to save lives, it is society moving forward.... which is always important.
Kenny
Someone could just put out a bunch of fake MP3 filenames without actually allowing anyone to download them (to verify content) and wait for the RIAA. They hack in, sue them. It wasn't copyrighted material thus they didn't have the right.
Are just wait until the next version of BO-XP, now the Cult of the Dead Cow (or whoever makes it) passes the ability to enforce it's ultra strict copyright enforcement on to whoever wants it... Heck, why not just email your target a copy of your cool 30 day trial software. If it starts up on day 31, it emails you with ips so that you can uninstall it.
Kenny