User: EkiM in De

Re:What's the plural of virus?

On: Bugbear Windows Virus Making the Rounds

According to my dictionary "boxen", as a noun, is the sport of boxing. I have also seen "boxen" used to refer to speakers, but I think this is where the Germans have borrowed the English and added an appropriate Germanic plural suffix.

So So Tutorial

On: Secure Dynamic Content with Apache

I am a bit of a fan of the IBM tutorials and I usually spend a couple of hours each month reading through one or two. I have found that the ones I have read are not too hot on detail but I believe they are designed to be digested in an hour or so. So naturally they give a good introduction to a topic, but also provide a nice stepping stone to more complex material.

Re:what does it look like?

On: New Linux Worm Found in the Wild

Well I'm not entirely sure but I found that in my error_log a couple of bad hits from other Apache Servers. I found the Apache Test page on these servers which I suspect is a bit of a giveaway that perhaps these are not active servers.
Anyway I could be completely wrong, but since these hits were from Web servers I kind of suspect that these servers have not been patched.... God I hope that the log entries below don't indicate that I've been hit and damaged
Anyway the hits looked like this:

[Mon Sep 23 08:16:53 2002] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] client sent HTTP/1.1 req
uest without hostname (see RFC2616 section 14.23): /
[Mon Sep 23 08:16:53 2002] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] client sent HTTP/1.1 req
uest without hostname (see RFC2616 section 14.23): /
[Mon Sep 23 08:16:53 2002] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] client sent HTTP/1.1 req
uest without hostname (see RFC2616 section 14.23): /
[Mon Sep 23 08:17:04 2002] [error] mod_ssl: SSL handshake failed (server www.example.com:443, client xx.xx.xx.xx) (OpenSSL library error follows)
[Mon Sep 23 08:17:04 2002] [error] OpenSSL: error:1406B458:lib(20):func(107):rea
son(1112)
[ Mon Sep 23 08:17:18 2002] [error] mod_ssl: SSL handshake failed (server www.example.com:443, client xx.xx.xx.xx) (OpenSSL library error follows)
[Mon Sep 23 08:17:18 2002] [error] OpenSSL: error:1406B458:lib(20):func(107):rea
son(1112)
[ Mon Sep 23 08:17:18 2002] [error] mod_ssl: SSL handshake failed (server www.example.com:443, client xx.xx.xx.xx) (OpenSSL library error follows)
[Mon Sep 23 08:17:18 2002] [error] OpenSSL: error:1406B458:lib(20):func(107):rea
son(1112)

era of transparancy

On: USDOI Goes 100% Microsoft

Of course the good news is that this will herald a new era in government transparancy for the Department of the Interior.

With the security in Microsoft products transparency comes as an unwanted standard feature.

Time to dig out the P2P apps

On: Enterprise Season Premiere Tonight

Well it's that time of year; time to dust off the P2P applications and try and hunt down a copy of the show before I leave for work.

Over on this part of the great pond Enterprise is not showing on TV, so this is the only way I can get my fix.
Note to Self: must get to the shops and buy some CD-Rs.

Underwhelmed by the current catalogue

On: 'Harry Potter' Offered (Legitimately) on the Net

Warner Brothers is distributing several movies, including Harry Potter and Mars Attacks via the internet.

This is a slightly misleading lead since I took a look at CinemaNow's movie catalogue and saw exactly zero movies that I wanted to see. Films such as Harry Potter were not there and what I saw seemed to be an array of late night B-movies.

Perhaps I am wrong on this, but the current catalogue didn't seem to have anything has had a cinema release. Perhaps there are some gems in there but movies such as Star Warp'd and Olympic Greasy Watermelon do not exactly inspire me to spend some money.

Mandatory inclusion of Java?

On: "MS Killed Java" (on the Client) JL Founder

I know this is going to get modded out of existance, but what the hell anyway.

Surely I am not alone in feeling uneasy at the fact that a court has ordered Microsoft to include Java with Windows. Now IMHO Microsoft should be punished for the java license violations, but at the end of the day this is their product. I don't see many people screaming at Microsoft to include Netscape/Mozilla with Windows. (I believe that IE should not be included and people should be free to make up their own mind.)

At the end of the day Microsoft could have chosen not to include Java in the first place and probably would have stopped Java on the desktop in its tracks.

If only I had this the other night...

On: Scientists Create Lullabies From Brain Waves

... I could have made a fortune from the recording.

After the spending the entire night trying to coerce our new Dell linux server into submissions, and ODing on coca-cola, cigarettes and espresso, I guess that my brain waves could have been recorded for a quality high-energy e'd-up rave!

Re:Flying trains are great and all

On: A Maglev Train System for Florida?

Kevin Smith already covered this subject for us. Aparently some of us are not willing to throw their hat over the wall.
Selfish people!

World Cup Football Results

On: Creative Applications for SMS?

..which I could really do with since I'll be on a coach, somewhere in the middle of France on the way to Spain, whilst England are playing Brazil!

Reminder: Next time you book a holiday check your calender, and don't forget about major sporting events.

Just a tiny flaw in the plan....

On: Pardon, Is This Your File?

How do they know my email address? I'm reasonably sure
... hang on I'll just check ...
Yup my username is not my email address, so it looks like their plan falls on one of the hurdles.
As to emailing the ISP, well Deutsche Telekom is my ISP and they have just announced a massive loss, so I don't think they will be too quick to try and get rid of paying punters.

Atari Joysticks

On: Atari Announces an Official Portable 2600 System

I hope that they also resurrect and include with this system the almost indistructable Joysticks that came with the 2600. I shed a tear when mine finally gave up the ghost and I realised I would have to start buying feebly built joysticks.

Giga Games on NBC in Germany sounds similiar

On: G4: The Pong Channel?

In Germany, NBC runs a couple of related shows under the banner Giga, one of which is called Giga Games this runs for about 2 -3 hours a night, 5 nights a weeks. The overall quality of the show is OK, but sometimes they really struggle to find content for the show, so they end up playing a game and yapping for about 10 minutes just to fill up time slots. I hope that this channel has solved the problem that there just isn't that many games coming out to fill a completly new channel.