The first I heard about nimda was one of the senior engineers in our company telling me to scan my PC and let him know if anything showed up. The only thing that did was a java script trojan dropper which was relatively harmless, but by the time I'd finished everyone was sitting around waiting for the company network to be given the all clear.
Nimda seemed to show a preference for hitting file servers. Even though my machine was clear at the start, I was just checking through a shared folder and *bam*, as soon as the mouse moved across a file called readme.txt.js (The final extension was hidden, but this didn't make any difference.) a tftp connection was opened to the host, and fortunately the antivirus had been updated by that time, and so stopped it. The preview bug that caused this was a zero day.
I was on a win98 box at the time, some people on unpatched NT machines fared worse (Yeah yeah, I know patch or die.. but the company I was at didn't take endpoint security seriously, it was a wake up call to the IT department, this was the first and last worm to really own our network.) they got hit by the worm like behaviour, from directory traversal attacks with no assistance from the user needed. Nimda shut us down for days, during the first few all clears our antivirus provider was still learning all the attack vectors, so it kept coming back.
I'd like to throw a few bricks at Symantec over this, but it was a shocking learning experience for more than just them. I doubt another event like this will happen on well managed networks.. It will just be the odd trojan leaking information and joining a botnet. Or maybe some idiot connecting his personal modem behind the firewall, but I can only hope not.
... as well as the headaches and nausea, the vision in her left eye will become blurred and tired at the end of the day. Sounds like a textbook case of migraine to me. These can often be bought on by stress in combination with other factors such as diet.
Still, It would have been nice to add a disclaimer to the story stating your interest in it. I've seen a few open source politics/shennanigans stories roll through the front page of slashdot over the past year, knowing what POV the submitter has is nicer then finding it out in the comments section.
You are confusing KiloWatts with KiloWatthours, 14 KW per month would have no meaning unless you were talking about a rate of change of energy use.
1KWh is another way of saying the transformation of energy into waste heat (or maybe a useful form, but less likely) has occured at a rate equivalent to 1KilloWatt for one hour. The SI unit of energy is the Joule; not the Watt, which is expressed in Joules per second and means the rate of use or transformation of energy.
Just for reference 1KWh = 1000 x 60 x 60 Joules or 3.6MJ
From TFA: Most internal combustion engines operate at about 35 per cent efficiency. This means that only 35 per cent of the fuel is fully burned. The rest either turns to carbon corroding the engine or goes out the exhaust pipe as greenhouse gases.
Wrong, wrong, wrong wrong wrong.
1) Engine efficiency/= Combustion efficiency
2) Some products of complete combustion are greenhouse gases.. ie CO2
3) (and the first part of this I'm not completely sure about) Carbon deposits are not corrosive, however some combustion products (CO2, SO2) in solution with water are.
It's snake oil, pure and simple, I would have no problem If they were just claiming to increase fuel economy, but this is pure unadulterated hype.
Except for the fact that Vista won't be a pure 64 bit OS, not unless MS want to restrict it to AMD64 and EMT64 systems anyway.
Otherwise all the ordinary joes out there with a decent (sysreq above 1GHz + 512MB + ~64 MB Dx8 Compatible graphics card.) might aswell stop worrying about it and just stick with w2k/xp
props to the author of this article
It was never a 1/37, or 1/45, 1/63 or 1/233 chance of hitting earth. That had already been decided when the asteroid took it's present course, all the numerous astronomers that helped with deciding the actual course of MN4 were helping to do is to determine its real trajectory. Either it would hit us or it wouldn't.
I for one am glad this asteroid is not a threat, now on to the next one, and lets hope we live long enough enough to deal with it.
My favourite watch is a Casio Twincept, it's a standard analogue watch with an LCD overlay, About the most advanced function it has in this form is a 20 number phone book, but it wouldn't be too difficult to shoehorn a 20+Mb flash memory in the back, If the author has that big a problem with the clumsiness of digital watches, why not use a hybrid?
Rotary movements don't take up that much space nowadays, just have the digital display over the top till they reach the required power/resolution requirements
I agree, more knowledge of how to survive outside of the earths biosphere gives the human race something all of our ancestors never had.. The ability to outlast the current climate on earth right now.
Extinction is only one medium sized asteroid away given our current knowledge.
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Posting here to cancel the accidental offtopic mod.
How lethal was the gun. Was it covered by any arms regs?
I am not spews, as the rest of the world (with the assistance of nanae*) can verify. But if I ever meet a spews admin I will give them all the (meagre) computing resources and beer I can afford.
The fight against spam will be won through education of ISP's, sysadmins and users and it will be won.
Thats not so funny right now despite dubya's efforts the other hemisphere has just suffered a major atrocity. And some of us believe in justice for all.
How about showing the kids how toggling the power supply on the school server really rapidly can induce catastrophic network failure, not to mention a decent flash from the PSU if you do it well enough?
OK I fess up this wasn't my idea, see the bofh archives.
IANAL.. that said.. A few years ago the UK signed up to the EU convention on human rights. If any person who is asked this question does not wish to answer it and suffers as a result I believe they have grounds for legal action.
At the place I'm at we're required to wear footstraps. But I've never seen it go wrong directly...
OTOH about 10 years ago I got through 3 'super IO cards' (ISA IDE+RS232+parallel) in one night while repairing a mates PC, after installing them, they always worked first off then failed. If it wasn't static, I'm a banana.
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The first I heard about nimda was one of the senior engineers in our company telling me to scan my PC and let him know if anything showed up. The only thing that did was a java script trojan dropper which was relatively harmless, but by the time I'd finished everyone was sitting around waiting for the company network to be given the all clear.
Nimda seemed to show a preference for hitting file servers. Even though my machine was clear at the start, I was just checking through a shared folder and *bam*, as soon as the mouse moved across a file called readme.txt.js (The final extension was hidden, but this didn't make any difference.) a tftp connection was opened to the host, and fortunately the antivirus had been updated by that time, and so stopped it. The preview bug that caused this was a zero day.
I was on a win98 box at the time, some people on unpatched NT machines fared worse (Yeah yeah, I know patch or die.. but the company I was at didn't take endpoint security seriously, it was a wake up call to the IT department, this was the first and last worm to really own our network.) they got hit by the worm like behaviour, from directory traversal attacks with no assistance from the user needed. Nimda shut us down for days, during the first few all clears our antivirus provider was still learning all the attack vectors, so it kept coming back.
I'd like to throw a few bricks at Symantec over this, but it was a shocking learning experience for more than just them. I doubt another event like this will happen on well managed networks.. It will just be the odd trojan leaking information and joining a botnet. Or maybe some idiot connecting his personal modem behind the firewall, but I can only hope not.
Still, It would have been nice to add a disclaimer to the story stating your interest in it. I've seen a few open source politics/shennanigans stories roll through the front page of slashdot over the past year, knowing what POV the submitter has is nicer then finding it out in the comments section.
Props for stating it at all though.
Yup, since when were mechanical engineers qualified to speak about global meteorological conditions, or even had half a clue about climate change?
It's a shill
Great, I'll just run off to persuade the sysadmin to give me the rights to install the new layout wherever I am.. yeah right
You are confusing KiloWatts with KiloWatthours, 14 KW per month would have no meaning unless you were talking about a rate of change of energy use.
1KWh is another way of saying the transformation of energy into waste heat (or maybe a useful form, but less likely) has occured at a rate equivalent to 1KilloWatt for one hour. The SI unit of energy is the Joule; not the Watt, which is expressed in Joules per second and means the rate of use or transformation of energy.
Just for reference 1KWh = 1000 x 60 x 60 Joules or 3.6MJ
Oops, link is down, just do a search for tsrumble.avi, it's still available on some other sites.
Here:
:)
http://tekka.sys-techs.com/TSRumble.avi
A player in EVE completely lost it on teamspeak, the results had to be censored to get on the game forums, but the rest of us enjoyed it anyway
From TFA: Most internal combustion engines operate at about 35 per cent efficiency. This means that only 35 per cent of the fuel is fully burned. The rest either turns to carbon corroding the engine or goes out the exhaust pipe as greenhouse gases.
/= Combustion efficiency
Wrong, wrong, wrong wrong wrong.
1) Engine efficiency
2) Some products of complete combustion are greenhouse gases.. ie CO2
3) (and the first part of this I'm not completely sure about) Carbon deposits are not corrosive, however some combustion products (CO2, SO2) in solution with water are.
It's snake oil, pure and simple, I would have no problem If they were just claiming to increase fuel economy, but this is pure unadulterated hype.
Cliff
Except for the fact that Vista won't be a pure 64 bit OS, not unless MS want to restrict it to AMD64 and EMT64 systems anyway.
Otherwise all the ordinary joes out there with a decent (sysreq above 1GHz + 512MB + ~64 MB Dx8 Compatible graphics card.) might aswell stop worrying about it and just stick with w2k/xp
That of Bester in Babylon 5, I mean, it was far more complex and he really showed he could play a bad(ish.. depends on your POV) guy in sci-fi.
props to the author of this article It was never a 1/37, or 1/45, 1/63 or 1/233 chance of hitting earth. That had already been decided when the asteroid took it's present course, all the numerous astronomers that helped with deciding the actual course of MN4 were helping to do is to determine its real trajectory. Either it would hit us or it wouldn't. I for one am glad this asteroid is not a threat, now on to the next one, and lets hope we live long enough enough to deal with it.
My favourite watch is a Casio Twincept, it's a standard analogue watch with an LCD overlay, About the most advanced function it has in this form is a 20 number phone book, but it wouldn't be too difficult to shoehorn a 20+Mb flash memory in the back, If the author has that big a problem with the clumsiness of digital watches, why not use a hybrid?
Rotary movements don't take up that much space nowadays, just have the digital display over the top till they reach the required power/resolution requirements
Cliff
That's just incorrect.. The article refers to a current spam run, and they are still trying to trace the spa^H^H^H err scum responsible.
Yeah, I have to go with this, why is unstable software on an aircraft still-in-development such a big deal?
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I agree, more knowledge of how to survive outside of the earths biosphere gives the human race something all of our ancestors never had.. The ability to outlast the current climate on earth right now.
Extinction is only one medium sized asteroid away given our current knowledge.
Posting here to cancel the accidental offtopic mod.
How lethal was the gun. Was it covered by any arms regs?
Cliff
I'm tired of people invoking terrorism as a throwaway comparison for anything bad, when it represents something far worse in reality.
eeek. I think I replied to the wrong post,
I hope you aren't affected by the events in bali.
Cliff
Go SPEWS go!
Attaboy!
I am not spews, as the rest of the world (with the assistance of nanae*) can verify.
But if I ever meet a spews admin I will give them all the (meagre) computing resources and beer I can afford.
The fight against spam will be won through education of ISP's, sysadmins and users and it will be won.
*usenet:news.admin.net-abuse.email
Please don't mod, reply instead
Thats not so funny right now
despite dubya's efforts the other hemisphere has just suffered a major atrocity. And some of us believe in justice for all.
How about showing the kids how toggling the power supply on the school server really rapidly can induce catastrophic network failure, not to mention a decent flash from the PSU if you do it well enough?
OK I fess up this wasn't my idea, see the bofh archives.
Oh.. and I forgot
When was the last time this class of ID was needed to open a bank account?
IANAL.. that said..
A few years ago the UK signed up to the EU convention on human rights. If any person who is asked this question does not wish to answer it and suffers as a result I believe they have grounds for legal action.
The bug only provides information about the target server, that's not a root exploit last time I checked. Also it's a repeat story
Move along. Nothing here
At the place I'm at we're required to wear footstraps. But I've never seen it go wrong directly...
OTOH about 10 years ago I got through 3 'super IO cards' (ISA IDE+RS232+parallel) in one night while repairing a mates PC, after installing them, they always worked first off then failed. If it wasn't static, I'm a banana.