I have observed a surge in attacks from the CodeRed worm. When it started I was getting about 20 hits a day from the thing. Today I have already gotten a boatload {78} of hits from it.
I have observed a different fill character in the buffer overflow. It used to be X's and now I see N's. I am getting both varieties now.
I have attempted to call the system administrator of the domains who are launching attacks. I have suggested that they alert the users whos machines are infested and take them offline.
I have observed an increase in attacks in my IP block. I have my own domain space in Pacbells network. I have an increase in attacks from Pacbell San Francisco and Pacbell Los Angeles. I have seen adresses from taiwan and Quebec {I'm in San Francisco}. I'm running Apache and checking my log hourly.
I can't wait till this thing is dead. Get people aware of what is going on, shut down the MS servers which haven't been patched.
I'm saving my computers, not for profit, but becaue I love the machines. I have a pretty big computer museum {1 bedroom in my house}. In it I have four Apple ][ models, from the original Apple II, the Apple II+, and the Apple//e. I have Disk II drives for each and parallel printer cards. I have music synthesizers, voice synthesizers, voice recognition, X10 controller, Paper Tiger printer, etc. I also have 2 C64s, 1 C128, 1 Commodore Pet, 1 Atari 400, 1 Apple Mac Classic and a Commodore Amiga 2000. I have software for all the machines. And they are all in working condition...
I am saving them because they were the best of the times. I couldn't care if they were worth $1.00 or $1,000.00. I'm inventorying all the items and will have a webpage with pictures and links very soon.
Aren't you scared that they are monitoring this/. site? I am pretty sure that they are, therefore I will not speak my mind.
I think that in order for us to speak, we must come up with a code language which will make it more difficult for the 'evil' forces {We all know who I'm talking about}. In light of the recent policy decisions of the FBI and the Bush administration, I think it is easy to see that our rights will continue to be taken away. The excuse is always the same. We need to sacrifice our rights for the 'greater good' of the country.
This is hogwash
I think free speech will be a fond memory within 10 years. It is inevitable, if we follow the path we seem to be following. It will be illegal to install your own Operating System, because it would require the FBI to learn something new {and cost some money to train the clowns}.
HERE COMES 1984 {Only 17 years later}....
BIG BROTHER IS IN YoUr LIVINGROOM!
Michael A. Uman Sr Software Engineer softwaremagic.net
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I was a developer for the Amiga platform. I wrote the Amiga Client Software package for the company I worked for, Oxxi Inc. This software was the only client software which allowed the Amiga 500,1000,2000, & 3000 to attach to the Novell File Server.
The reason for Amigas demise was simply due to Commodores lack of Marketing in the correct venues, and obviously from Microsofts pushing the substandard and buggy MS Windows 3.1 {Jeezus, please let us forget that piece o crap}. I remember the time well, I was really disturbed that Windows was being sold with all new PC systems when there was a better windowing system for PC's.
Amiga had superior hardware and the OS was leagues ahead of any Microsoft product. The kernel was small and fast, and very modular. Device drivers were much simpler to write than VXD's of Windows. For ACS I wrote all the network drivers, including Ethernet and ArcNet. I also wrote the Netware Core Protocol library and the FileSystem driver. I would love to resume developing for that Operating System. It was lightyears ahead of what MS was doing at the time. We had AREXX for inter-process communication {And it worked better than OLE at the time}.
I don't agree with the poster that real businesses didn't support the Amiga. I remember that Oxxi published a spreadsheet {SuperPlan}, a 3D rendering package , a text editor {TurboText}, a tax-preparation package {TaxBreak}, a database {SuperBase 4}, a video presentation system {AniMagic}, etc. I attended and gave presentations at the Amiga DevCon in 1988 and 1989 {Denver and Atlanta}.
Windows suceeded due to shady business practices, not due to good marketing or good business men....
Michael A. Uman Sr Software Engineer softwaremagic.net
This is excellent. I bought the original edition of this book and it did a great job of explaining device driver development for the Linux kernel.
I have written device drivers for Windows NT and Windows 2000, and have learned device driver techniques on those OS's. It is much easier to implement a driver on Linux than in Windows. The simple design of the Linux device driver compared to the Windows driver makes design and implementation go much quicker.
For example, the device driver I wrote for the hardware I am working on for Sonic in Windows NT took about 2 months before it was basically working in our software framework. I wrote the same driver in about 2 weeks for Linux.
I could recommend some good books for Windows NT device drivers, but this O'Reilly book is the best I've seen for Linux drivers.
I think G.W. Bush is depressing. I think Dick Cheney is depressing. I don't think the Internet is depressing, it just brings us depressing news.
I don't know about chatroom junkies, or script kiddies... But I use the Internet as it was intended to be used, to get information and to contribute to the software development community.
I started when all we had was Compuserve and The Source, and BBS systems. Back then it was very, very exciting to be a part of this communication thingy. My first ISP was called thegrid.net set up in 1994 and lasted for many years before being absorbed by onemain.com which then was absorbed by earthlink.net.
Things have become more depressing for me, and those around me due to the recent economic slowdown. I blame these problems on the current illegitamite president. He was talking down the economy before the presidency, then he {and his oil-company cronies} used their power to grip California with an Energy crisis as a reason to drill the Arctic... Now this is depressing... And the tech companies stalled due to the 'slowdown' Bush was hoping for to justify his 'tax breaks' {read giving a ton of money to rich freaks}.
The Internet is not depressing, the friggin country is. Until the 'dummy king' G.W. Bush is kicked on his butt, this country will remain depressed....
Michael A. Uman Sr Software Engineer softwaremagic.net
I have two machines on my home network, both of them have removable IDE drives. I swap between Linux, WinNT, and Win2000. I find it very convenient, and have recommended this technique to people who I work with.
I develop for several OS's, but prefer Linux. When I need to run Win2000 and VisualC++ I just slide in the Win2000 drive. I have several partitions on the SCSI drives, which I can share with Windows {Using a VFAT partition}.
I agree that this is not exactly leading edge news. But it is a useful technique none the less.
Michael A. Uman Sr Software Engineer softwaremagic.net
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I have observed a surge in attacks from the CodeRed worm. When it started I was getting about 20 hits a day from the thing. Today I have already gotten a boatload {78} of hits from it.
I have observed a different fill character in the buffer overflow. It used to be X's and now I see N's. I am getting both varieties now.
I have attempted to call the system administrator of the domains who are launching attacks. I have suggested that they alert the users whos machines are infested and take them offline.
I have observed an increase in attacks in my IP block. I have my own domain space in Pacbells network. I have an increase in attacks from Pacbell San Francisco and Pacbell Los Angeles. I have seen adresses from taiwan and Quebec {I'm in San Francisco}. I'm running Apache and checking my log hourly.
I can't wait till this thing is dead. Get people aware of what is going on, shut down the MS servers which haven't been patched.
Link to softwaremagic.net
I'm saving my computers, not for profit, but becaue I love the machines. I have a pretty big computer museum {1 bedroom in my house}. In it I have four Apple ][ models, from the original Apple II, the Apple II+, and the Apple //e. I have Disk II drives for each and parallel printer cards. I have music synthesizers, voice synthesizers, voice recognition, X10 controller, Paper Tiger printer, etc. I also have 2 C64s, 1 C128, 1 Commodore Pet, 1 Atari 400, 1 Apple Mac Classic and a Commodore Amiga 2000. I have software for all the machines. And they are all in working condition...
I am saving them because they were the best of the times. I couldn't care if they were worth $1.00 or $1,000.00. I'm inventorying all the items and will have a webpage with pictures and links very soon.
Check out my site @ http://www.softwaremagic.net
Aren't you scared that they are monitoring this /. site? I am pretty sure that they are, therefore I will not speak my mind.
I think that in order for us to speak, we must come up with a code language which will make it more difficult for the 'evil' forces {We all know who I'm talking about}. In light of the recent policy decisions of the FBI and the Bush administration, I think it is easy to see that our rights will continue to be taken away. The excuse is always the same. We need to sacrifice our rights for the 'greater good' of the country.
This is hogwash
I think free speech will be a fond memory within 10 years. It is inevitable, if we follow the path we seem to be following. It will be illegal to install your own Operating System, because it would require the FBI to learn something new {and cost some money to train the clowns}.
HERE COMES 1984 {Only 17 years later}....
BIG BROTHER IS IN YoUr LIVINGROOM!
Michael A. Uman
Sr Software Engineer
softwaremagic.net
I was a developer for the Amiga platform. I wrote the Amiga Client Software package for the company I worked for, Oxxi Inc. This software was the only client software which allowed the Amiga 500,1000,2000, & 3000 to attach to the Novell File Server.
The reason for Amigas demise was simply due to Commodores lack of Marketing in the correct venues, and obviously from Microsofts pushing the substandard and buggy MS Windows 3.1 {Jeezus, please let us forget that piece o crap}. I remember the time well, I was really disturbed that Windows was being sold with all new PC systems when there was a better windowing system for PC's.
Amiga had superior hardware and the OS was leagues ahead of any Microsoft product. The kernel was small and fast, and very modular. Device drivers were much simpler to write than VXD's of Windows. For ACS I wrote all the network drivers, including Ethernet and ArcNet. I also wrote the Netware Core Protocol library and the FileSystem driver. I would love to resume developing for that Operating System. It was lightyears ahead of what MS was doing at the time. We had AREXX for inter-process communication {And it worked better than OLE at the time}.
I don't agree with the poster that real businesses didn't support the Amiga. I remember that Oxxi published a spreadsheet {SuperPlan}, a 3D rendering package , a text editor {TurboText}, a tax-preparation package {TaxBreak}, a database {SuperBase 4}, a video presentation system {AniMagic}, etc. I attended and gave presentations at the Amiga DevCon in 1988 and 1989 {Denver and Atlanta}.
Windows suceeded due to shady business practices, not due to good marketing or good business men....
Michael A. Uman
Sr Software Engineer
softwaremagic.net
This is excellent. I bought the original edition of this book and it did a great job of explaining device driver development for the Linux kernel.
I have written device drivers for Windows NT and Windows 2000, and have learned device driver techniques on those OS's. It is much easier to implement a driver on Linux than in Windows. The simple design of the Linux device driver compared to the Windows driver makes design and implementation go much quicker.
For example, the device driver I wrote for the hardware I am working on for Sonic in Windows NT took about 2 months before it was basically working in our software framework. I wrote the same driver in about 2 weeks for Linux.
I could recommend some good books for Windows NT device drivers, but this O'Reilly book is the best I've seen for Linux drivers.
I found that the link on this page was incorrect. The actual link is http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/bookindexpdf.h tml
Michael A. Uman
Sr Software Engineer
softwaremagic.net
I think G.W. Bush is depressing. I think Dick Cheney is depressing. I don't think the Internet is depressing, it just brings us depressing news.
I don't know about chatroom junkies, or script kiddies... But I use the Internet as it was intended to be used, to get information and to contribute to the software development community.
I started when all we had was Compuserve and The Source, and BBS systems. Back then it was very, very exciting to be a part of this communication thingy. My first ISP was called thegrid.net set up in 1994 and lasted for many years before being absorbed by onemain.com which then was absorbed by earthlink.net.
Things have become more depressing for me, and those around me due to the recent economic slowdown. I blame these problems on the current illegitamite president. He was talking down the economy before the presidency, then he {and his oil-company cronies} used their power to grip California with an Energy crisis as a reason to drill the Arctic... Now this is depressing... And the tech companies stalled due to the 'slowdown' Bush was hoping for to justify his 'tax breaks' {read giving a ton of money to rich freaks}.
The Internet is not depressing, the friggin country is. Until the 'dummy king' G.W. Bush is kicked on his butt, this country will remain depressed....
Michael A. Uman
Sr Software Engineer
softwaremagic.net
I have two machines on my home network, both of them have removable IDE drives. I swap between Linux, WinNT, and Win2000. I find it very convenient, and have recommended this technique to people who I work with.
I develop for several OS's, but prefer Linux. When I need to run Win2000 and VisualC++ I just slide in the Win2000 drive. I have several partitions on the SCSI drives, which I can share with Windows {Using a VFAT partition}.
I agree that this is not exactly leading edge news. But it is a useful technique none the less.
Michael A. Uman
Sr Software Engineer
softwaremagic.net