It's weird. I have a list of about 1000 machines in my Apache log that I can just log into via root.exe.
1000 machines! If this is phase 1, and phase 2 is a massive dDOS attack, the internet in in for a rough ride.
I've refrained from logging into any of those boxes, but the more the attacks roll in, the more I feel I have to do something (like bitch slap anyone stupid enough to run an unpatch IIS, or IIS full stop for that matter).
Bringing up the websites of the infected machines is always good. One of the machines in my blacklist was touting "Advanced Network Security Training". I'm still giggling at that one:)
They maybe harsh on those who use performance enhancing drugs, but at least those idiots aren't forced into the life of near slavery that the Chinese Gymnastics team has to endure.
It's stuff like this that makes me yern for another Napster.
No, I'm not talking about a server centric P2P network, I'm talking about a banner/logo we can rally behind, get tatoos of and generally annoy record labels by showing/wearing.
18 months ago, I would have been proud to wear a Napster T-shirt while walking down the street "Take that! Geeks rule and there's nothing you can do about it", but now it'd be like wearing a t-shirt that reads "I'm the RIAA's bitch. Smack me".
We need an Anti-RIAA-Monopoly flag, something we can all be part of (eg, grip could say they're part of the "ARM" initiative).
Yep I sure hate New Zealand. As I sit here drinking some of the cleanest water and breathing the purest urban air in the world, I can't help but think that there are better places to live.
I live in the most wired city in the world. There are two competing fibre companies established in the city, offering blazingly fast internet connection at tiny prices (we get flat rate 100Mbit to the internet for just a couple of grand NZ a month). It takes me 20 minutes to walk from my house in the suburbs to my office in the city.
Basically, I live in geek paradise. An almost cashless society where I use my EFTPOS card for nearly every purchase (even paying the pizza devilery guy on a mobile unit is possible)
I've got it better than anywhere else I've visited and it would take a lot to make me leave.
Down here in New Zealand, we call it "Kiwi Ingenuity". If you don't have a windshield, you make one with the pieces you've got left.
The "Doing the best I can with what I've got" mentality goes a long way when you've got limited funds/resources to complete a task. If you've got exactly what you need, there's little thought going into completing the task (Windshield piece goes here, rather than 4 right angled plugs attached by technic rods make a frame, and if I want glass, I'll just borrow some of my Mum's cling film.)
New Zealand has a privatised electricity production industry and it keeps electricity prices down. It's a little thing called competition.
Repeat loud and clear: If any infrastructure of national importance is outsourced to a private entity with competiton, prices and service will plummet and sky rocket respectively. The reason? Money. If people don't like your prices or service, they'll likely to drop you and give their cash to your competiton.
Before New Zealand's power and rail systems were privatised, they were a shambles. NZRail employed people who did nothing but maintain disused stretches of track - what a waste of my money and on a service I don't even use.
So mate, next time you want to go ranting about privatisation being "bad", kindly remove your blinkers and look at more than one case before forming an opinion.
When I was a lad (a mere 10 years ago), Lego came in lots of little pieces. I had to think of ways to make the overall shapes using lots of tiny parts so all of those parts made whatever I was building, work.
Nowadays, Lego comes in HUGE custom pieces. The sheer number of blocks you get in a Lego set these days is tiny compared to when I was 10. It involves a lot less thinking.
You could draw a parallel with Windows/Linux. Linux comes in lots of little pieces (in a big box of course), and to get your OS to work the way you want it to, you have to make sure all those pieces are compatable.
With Windows, you get huge custom pieces that can't be used for much else than the picture on the front of the box.
Modern Lego just dumbs the whole process down if you ask me.
Like everything else in the video game kingdom, arcades machines and establishments will make a return.
The main reason is the social factor. Everyone knows it's more fun to play a complete stranger when they're standing right next to you than sitting on a copper wire hundreds of kilometers away.
The only thing people should really worry about is Sega or Konami pulling out of arcading. Then we'll be in trouble.
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Yep, he's the same guy who instigated the use of "football field" as a standard measurement.
Perhaps the reason Apache hasn't changed that much is because it doesn't NEED to.
Episode 3 is going to be called "Attack of the Clones 2", I can just feel it.
Especially since people are reporting attacks from Hotmail, of all places.
So Microsoft can't even patch their own servers? That instills a sense of confidence to no end
Damn, bloody nimrods.
1000 machines! If this is phase 1, and phase 2 is a massive dDOS attack, the internet in in for a rough ride.
I've refrained from logging into any of those boxes, but the more the attacks roll in, the more I feel I have to do something (like bitch slap anyone stupid enough to run an unpatch IIS, or IIS full stop for that matter).
Bringing up the websites of the infected machines is always good. One of the machines in my blacklist was touting "Advanced Network Security Training". I'm still giggling at that one :)
Moving stuff client side is NOT the way to go. If the client can view images and HTML, make it so the server does the rest.
Making anything reliant on the client is mind numbingly stupid. People are idiots, the more you can do for them, the less they're likely to stuff up.
Hasn't anyone learnt anything?
"Super Mario Brothers" is a pretty crap title, but it's one of the best games ever.
EPII doesn't really ecite me anyway, I want to play Rouge Squadron II on the Gamecube, that'll give me my Starwars fix for many years to come.
I'm sitting here, right now, drinking a can of Moutain Dew with the following words on the label: "Bottled in the North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand".
I've had 300+ on my 203.x.x.x box, with a majority of attacks coming from Korean servers.
My 202.x.x.x box hasn't recieved any V2 attacks yet, but 28 V1 attacks.
Just thought someone might be interested : )
Imagine the good press you'd get from that!
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They maybe harsh on those who use performance enhancing drugs, but at least those idiots aren't forced into the life of near slavery that the Chinese Gymnastics team has to endure.
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"Copy protection hits me, so hard
makes me say, oh my lord
thank you for blessing me
with a stable OS and MP3"
Hammer time : )
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No, I'm not talking about a server centric P2P network, I'm talking about a banner/logo we can rally behind, get tatoos of and generally annoy record labels by showing/wearing.
18 months ago, I would have been proud to wear a Napster T-shirt while walking down the street "Take that! Geeks rule and there's nothing you can do about it", but now it'd be like wearing a t-shirt that reads "I'm the RIAA's bitch. Smack me".
We need an Anti-RIAA-Monopoly flag, something we can all be part of (eg, grip could say they're part of the "ARM" initiative).
I want an ARM t-shirt, who's with me?
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I'm not bothered how .NET works, if MS is involved, I consider it to be a security risk. I can only hope that it'll be an optional feature.
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Just be thankful that Ted Turner, Jane Fonda, that guy who invented Coke, and a magician got out before it sank.
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They've mistaken millimeters and inches in the past, perhaps it's dollars and sense this time.
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I live in the most wired city in the world. There are two competing fibre companies established in the city, offering blazingly fast internet connection at tiny prices (we get flat rate 100Mbit to the internet for just a couple of grand NZ a month). It takes me 20 minutes to walk from my house in the suburbs to my office in the city.
Basically, I live in geek paradise. An almost cashless society where I use my EFTPOS card for nearly every purchase (even paying the pizza devilery guy on a mobile unit is possible)
I've got it better than anywhere else I've visited and it would take a lot to make me leave.
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Hasn't happened since, and NZ isn't threatened with rolling blackouts, I can tell you that much.
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The "Doing the best I can with what I've got" mentality goes a long way when you've got limited funds/resources to complete a task. If you've got exactly what you need, there's little thought going into completing the task (Windshield piece goes here, rather than 4 right angled plugs attached by technic rods make a frame, and if I want glass, I'll just borrow some of my Mum's cling film.)
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Someone needs to think of a way around this (such as two competing stretches of road perhaps, though in most cases, this'd be silly).
Perhaps something for Ask Slashdot?
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New Zealand has a privatised electricity production industry and it keeps electricity prices down. It's a little thing called competition.
Repeat loud and clear: If any infrastructure of national importance is outsourced to a private entity with competiton, prices and service will plummet and sky rocket respectively. The reason? Money. If people don't like your prices or service, they'll likely to drop you and give their cash to your competiton.
Before New Zealand's power and rail systems were privatised, they were a shambles. NZRail employed people who did nothing but maintain disused stretches of track - what a waste of my money and on a service I don't even use.
So mate, next time you want to go ranting about privatisation being "bad", kindly remove your blinkers and look at more than one case before forming an opinion.
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Nowadays, Lego comes in HUGE custom pieces. The sheer number of blocks you get in a Lego set these days is tiny compared to when I was 10. It involves a lot less thinking.
You could draw a parallel with Windows/Linux. Linux comes in lots of little pieces (in a big box of course), and to get your OS to work the way you want it to, you have to make sure all those pieces are compatable.
With Windows, you get huge custom pieces that can't be used for much else than the picture on the front of the box.
Modern Lego just dumbs the whole process down if you ask me.
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The main reason is the social factor. Everyone knows it's more fun to play a complete stranger when they're standing right next to you than sitting on a copper wire hundreds of kilometers away.
The only thing people should really worry about is Sega or Konami pulling out of arcading. Then we'll be in trouble.
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Would you? I'd call it stupid and switch ISPs. Or set up my own mail server (which ever caught my fancy at the time).
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