Does anyone have any info on what source they used? Which snapshot (627, 632, 633, 638?), if any, did Sun use?
I've spent the last couple of days trying to build snapshot 638 (it definitely is not a build that you can just kick off). I'd just like to know which is the most recent source.
I just took another look at the "Core worm functionality" at eEye.
It seems that if you neglected to cleanup your IIS machine after being infected during the first round of CodeRed, you won't get it a second time because of its "lysine deficiency".
After spawning 100 threads, after rewriting your pages, but before entering spread-mode, it checks for the existence of c:\notworm . If this file exists, it goes dormant.
So, how many systems out there cleaned up that file but didn't apply the patch? How many vulnerable(unpatched) systems are there? How many new infections are possible?
Someone mentioned this back on the 19th : simply disabling the cisco6xx's web interface does not prevent it from parsing the input (and therefore locking up) If, on the other hand, you tell it to use a different port, you get to remain connected.
1) telnet into the device. You will need its passwd (likily my ISP volunteered that info quite easily).
2) type "enable" and repeat the passwd
3) type "set web port YY" were YY is something other than 80
4) type "write"
5) type "reboot"
ZDNet-UK put up some pages a while back doing this same kind to trick. They call it the Tool of Objective Truth (TOOT - http://www.zdnet.co.uk/athome/misc/toot/ )
Random samples : 52983 William Shakespeare 161536 Spice Girls
Back in 1993 or so, when the US was still in a recession, the Congress decided, in all its wisdom, to ax funding for the super conductiong super collider. And for that year, they were given the same amount of money to shutdown and fill in the holes, that they requested to continue construction.....some questions:
1) has spent eight years building its Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider...how did they get to maintain funding while the SCSC got killed?
2) Is there any difference between the two projects other than size? (RHIC is two 2.4-mile circular tubes, SCSC circled the town of Waxahachie)
3) Why don't we put some of this budget surplus back into "big science", like SCSC or a Mars mission, or do we have no interest in investments in our future?
It's easy to screw these two up. Anyone remember the print ads for the movie Jefferson in Paris from ~1995? They used "We the people.." in the image, even though Jefferson had nothing to do with the Constitution.
The point that I was trying to get at (but never got close to) was that the brain changes in fundamental/perceptual ways, but it doesn't happen overnight. A person develops with some of the new cognitive building blocks for a while and without the others. From a phychological point of view, this combination of underdeveloped/overdeveloped aspects of the psyche, this imbalance, probably leads to the emotional imbalance, confusion, etc, etc, etc that is synonmous with being a teenager. Ultimatly, the other building blocks develop, you become a well adjusted adult.
Yes, it was a very bad example. I would offer another example if I had one right now. But people who know far more about mental development would back me up in saying that something they call abstract thinking does develop (or better - increases) during adolescence.
Let me start by saying that I have read How The Mind Works and that I agree with much of the criticism that I've seen here (esp. Pinker's arrogance and statement of theory as fact) It is a great book, a great read, but the last 2/3 of the book seem very very far away from his initial disclaimers about Natural!=good. I, like our reviewer, found myself saying "But human beings are more complicated than that!"
Now, reguarding Biomorph's evolutionary psychology...I would argue that once you leave the realm of pure survival, and start what Pinker describes as a "cognitive arms race" your foundations are not quite so stable. "Evolution" in these area of emotions, abstract thought, stategies, etc. has been fast and furious and not necessarily proven.
Let's consider brain development. I these adolescent years, the human brain is developing many new capabilities....abstact thought for example. A friend's parents tried to teach her some algebra around the time she was ten. They solved the first problem : x=5. She went to the next problem, immediatly assumed x=5 for that one too. She was too young to abstact the variable x....this is one of the things that happens during adolescence.
If you made it through that age, look back at your journal or letters from those years...everything seemed so dire and immediate...events that today you would shrug off, seemed so huge. Consider the idea that many different emotional attributes also develop during these years....and none of them at the same rate.
This can lead to a mental/emotional house of cards....all the right pieces are there, just not properly developed.....and in a "social pressure cooker" like high school you are likely to get one or two to snap.
Ug. All these ideas and the best that I can come up with is "they snap".
Sorry about the rambling, I just think that humans and consciousness are just too complex to try to explain by a handful of heuristics about DNA that wants to reproduce. There are other factors like brain development during adolescence and the relative newness of all psychological strategies(compare how long it took evolution to produce the human form with how long it took evolution to teach us to build social structures)
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StarOffice6b comes from openoffice.org.
Does anyone have any info on what source they used? Which snapshot (627, 632, 633, 638?), if any, did Sun use?
I've spent the last couple of days trying to build snapshot 638 (it definitely is not a build that you can just kick off). I'd just like to know which is the most recent source.
It seems that if you neglected to cleanup your IIS machine after being infected during the first round of CodeRed, you won't get it a second time because of its "lysine deficiency".
After spawning 100 threads, after rewriting your pages, but before entering spread-mode, it checks for the existence of c:\notworm . If this file exists, it goes dormant.
So, how many systems out there cleaned up that file but didn't apply the patch? How many vulnerable(unpatched) systems are there? How many new infections are possible?
Too bad incidents.org is slashdotted
Someone mentioned this back on the 19th : simply disabling the cisco6xx's web interface does not prevent it from parsing the input (and therefore locking up) If, on the other hand, you tell it to use a different port, you get to remain connected.
1) telnet into the device. You will need its passwd (likily my ISP volunteered that info quite easily).
2) type "enable" and repeat the passwd
3) type "set web port YY" were YY is something other than 80
4) type "write"
5) type "reboot"
ZDNet-UK put up some pages a while back doing this same kind to trick. They call it the Tool of Objective Truth (TOOT - http://www.zdnet.co.uk/athome/misc/toot/ )
Random samples :
52983 William Shakespeare
161536 Spice Girls
1521 Earth is Round
1554 Earth is Flat
7454141 God
134036 Beatles
1) has spent eight years building its Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider...how did they get to maintain funding while the SCSC got killed?
2) Is there any difference between the two projects other than size? (RHIC is two 2.4-mile circular tubes, SCSC circled the town of Waxahachie)
3) Why don't we put some of this budget surplus back into "big science", like SCSC or a Mars mission, or do we have no interest in investments in our future?
(Score:-2 Bitter and politically off topic)
The Constitution :
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union..." (you can hear the School House Rock song can't you?)
Declaration of Indep. :
"When in the course of human events...."
It's easy to screw these two up. Anyone remember the print ads for the movie Jefferson in Paris from ~1995? They used "We the people.." in the image, even though Jefferson had nothing to do with the Constitution.
Just a little idea.
My example sucks, the idea remains.
Now, reguarding Biomorph's evolutionary psychology...I would argue that once you leave the realm of pure survival, and start what Pinker describes as a "cognitive arms race" your foundations are not quite so stable. "Evolution" in these area of emotions, abstract thought, stategies, etc. has been fast and furious and not necessarily proven.
Let's consider brain development. I these adolescent years, the human brain is developing many new capabilities....abstact thought for example. A friend's parents tried to teach her some algebra around the time she was ten. They solved the first problem : x=5. She went to the next problem, immediatly assumed x=5 for that one too. She was too young to abstact the variable x....this is one of the things that happens during adolescence.
If you made it through that age, look back at your journal or letters from those years...everything seemed so dire and immediate...events that today you would shrug off, seemed so huge. Consider the idea that many different emotional attributes also develop during these years....and none of them at the same rate.
This can lead to a mental/emotional house of cards....all the right pieces are there, just not properly developed.....and in a "social pressure cooker" like high school you are likely to get one or two to snap.
Ug. All these ideas and the best that I can come up with is "they snap".
Sorry about the rambling, I just think that humans and consciousness are just too complex to try to explain by a handful of heuristics about DNA that wants to reproduce. There are other factors like brain development during adolescence and the relative newness of all psychological strategies(compare how long it took evolution to produce the human form with how long it took evolution to teach us to build social structures)