Not without somebody to sue first. I've said before that the single best thing that the community could do is to find the actual virus author and be able to prove it.
Just out of curiosity: where do you get the "... 70% of the server out there run a version of *NIX." from? I use Linux exclusively myself, but I haven't heard any recent stats about *NIX. Last I heard, it ran some 90% of the 'net in 1985, and dropped to 65% in 1998, but I can't even remember where I heard that. Thanks in advance, I might need to know the stats someday.
Concentrated weed killer works better, because then he has to replace the topsoil and sod to make the grass shut up. A bulldozer costs a few $$$, ou know.
True, wish I had mod points for ya. As it is, I saved a copy of your post for future reference in case I run across somebody who believes all the FUD.
Just IMHO, the single best way to combat this is if Linux user(s) were to catch the author and claim the bounty. That might make a good "distributed.net" type project.
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Title: SCO Says Worm Hasn't Hit Yet; ISPs Are Blocking Them...Right. That's the Ticket.
Author: PJ
Date: Sunday, February 01 2004 @ 02:02 AM EST
The latest from Lindon is that Blake Stowell said on Saturday that MyDoom hadn't hit them yet. The reason they were not reachable was because ISPs have been blocking them. Huh? What about all those interviews? They told the world for days and the SEC in an official filing that MyDoom had hit them already.
Somebody must have finally told SCO that MyDoom was timed for today.Woops.
So now the story is that it's ISPs that are blocking their site, and of course no one in the media remembers what Darl and Co. said just a day or two ago, so of course there are no followup questions. They just print whatever SCO tells them: "US software maker SCO, target of the Mydoom computer virus, said Internet access providers had hobbled its website, fearing infection by what may be the fastest-growing worm ever. "'There are Internet service providers around the world who are blocking access to SCO,' company spokesman Blake Stowell said, adding it was because they believe they !"
I use RH with homebrew and "stock" kernels. Not sure how it compares in absolute numbers. My gut feeling (just desktop use) is that the -mm (Andrew Morton) kernels are currently a tad quicker, but RH patches their kernels like crazy for better HW support and misc bugfixes.
I'd like to see how much of -mm ends up in the RH kernels in a year or so. I did try 2.4.20 with the -ck patches; 2.6 still felt better. Dunno if the info helps at all, but figured I'd mention it.
FWIW, 2 machines here: Dual PPro at 200 MHz, 1Mb caches, 128 megs EDO Dual P3 Coppermines at 1GHz, 1024 megs PC133.
I'll bet: It was attatched as a funded mandate to some rider on some unrelated bill that nobody bothered to actually read. Sort of like what Congress does at the last possible minute, every damn time. Especially when they *know* it was pulled from some other massively unpopular bill. In other words, not enough legislators RTFM'd let alone Joe Regular citizens.
True. I remember both SuSE and RH had separate RPM's called "iBCS" back in the 6.x days. My understanding at the time was that Caldera willingly contributed them; after the Caldera-to-SCO switch, the iBCS started being included in the mainline kernels, hence there were no separate packages after that. Instead, its a config option now.
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You know, I've been wondering for *years* what would happen to the net flow if the US actually collected the interest on the Marshall plan.
asking Novell about this? It sounds like what they're trying to do with their SuSE acquisition.
Not without somebody to sue first. I've said before that the single best thing that the community could do is to find the actual virus author and be able to prove it.
Oh, if only you knew the horror of it all... the first week my ISP offered WebTV, 8 people managed to *crash* them.... AAaauuuhhhgg!!!!
I think this thing should include false *and/or* missing info. With that out of the way, will the gov't pursue spammers as much as anyone else? Hmmm?
Just out of curiosity: where do you get the "... 70% of the server out there run a version of *NIX." from?
I use Linux exclusively myself, but I haven't heard any recent stats about *NIX. Last I heard, it ran some 90% of the 'net in 1985, and dropped to 65% in 1998, but I can't even remember where I heard that. Thanks in advance, I might need to know the stats someday.
Yeah, stick with Murdock. FWIW the situation here in the US isn't much different from yours, it seems.
Double entendre?
thx, I thought it was just me...
Jozsef Kadlecsik:
* [NETFILTER]: Fix NAT leak with fragmented packets, missing conntrack put in ip_copy_metadata()
I can just hear the DeadRat jokes now...
Naaah... wrong addy, that's the goatse guy. He opted in big, and look what happened! You wouldn't want to be the guy that hurt him, would you?
Concentrated weed killer works better, because then he has to replace the topsoil and sod to make the grass shut up. A bulldozer costs a few $$$, ou know.
First one that came to my mind was Andrew Josey of the Open Group. But then, I was feeling particularly paranoid at the time.
Instead of giving India a basis for Indian software without strings attatched...
The folks at groklaw have a good discussion going on about this...
True, wish I had mod points for ya. As it is, I saved a copy of your post for future reference in case I run across somebody who believes all the FUD. Just IMHO, the single best way to combat this is if Linux user(s) were to catch the author and claim the bounty. That might make a good "distributed.net" type project.
" Title: SCO Says Worm Hasn't Hit Yet; ISPs Are Blocking Them...Right. That's the Ticket.
Author: PJ
Date: Sunday, February 01 2004 @ 02:02 AM EST
The latest from Lindon is that Blake Stowell said on Saturday that MyDoom hadn't hit them yet. The reason they were not reachable was because ISPs have been blocking them. Huh? What about all those interviews? They told the world for days and the SEC in an official filing that MyDoom had hit them already.
Somebody must have finally told SCO that MyDoom was timed for today.Woops.
So now the story is that it's ISPs that are blocking their site, and of course no one in the media remembers what Darl and Co. said just a day or two ago, so of course there are no followup questions. They just print whatever SCO tells them: "US software maker SCO, target of the Mydoom computer virus, said Internet access providers had hobbled its website, fearing infection by what may be the fastest-growing worm ever. "'There are Internet service providers around the world who are blocking access to SCO,' company spokesman Blake Stowell said, adding it was because they believe they !"
OK everybody, lets start jumping to conclusions!
I'd like to see how much of -mm ends up in the RH kernels in a year or so. I did try 2.4.20 with the -ck patches; 2.6 still felt better. Dunno if the info helps at all, but figured I'd mention it.
FWIW, 2 machines here:
Dual PPro at 200 MHz, 1Mb caches, 128 megs EDO
Dual P3 Coppermines at 1GHz, 1024 megs PC133.
ftp ://ftp.dc.aleron.net/pub/linux/fedora/linux/core/d evelopment
You mean like this?
I'll bet: It was attatched as a funded mandate to some rider on some unrelated bill that nobody bothered to actually read. Sort of like what Congress does at the last possible minute, every damn time. Especially when they *know* it was pulled from some other massively unpopular bill. In other words, not enough legislators RTFM'd let alone Joe Regular citizens.
True. I remember both SuSE and RH had separate RPM's called "iBCS" back in the 6.x days. My understanding at the time was that Caldera willingly contributed them; after the Caldera-to-SCO switch, the iBCS started being included in the mainline kernels, hence there were no separate packages after that. Instead, its a config option now.
I doubt it; they're hosted at ibiblio. Prolly one of the biggest pipes on the east coast AFAICT.
I've put copies in html here, postscript here, and PDF is here.