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- 11 February 2009 03:30pm: Is there NOTHING that will covert a flow tools file into IPFIX? Without UDP buffer overruns? Of course? It's always the UDP buffer overruns.
- 12 February 2009 07:14am: Suddenly Google talk is working with my Jabber server again. Awesome guys only took you forever and a day.
- 13 February 2009 10:16pm: Annoyed I found a bunch of E-6 to scan this weekend but I left it at The Point and the scanner and I are in Wyoming :(
- Yesterday at 11:25am: I just blew my share of the federal stimulus handout on camera gear and I haven't even gotten it yet.
- Today at 10:01am: the graveyard looks pretty after rain with the sun shining on it.
- Today at 11:10am: it's like we have our weekly meeting every week now. crazy.
- Today at 11:26am: Lenny is finally blessed as stable. We've been using it production for over a year.
Figured out how to configure Squid to filter out about 90% of the advertisements on websites pretty much regardless of which web browser or operating system I happen to be using at the time. Flashing screen garbage when I am trying to read something is really painful.
Somewhat relatedly, gave Chrome a whirl. There are countless little things that I like about the spunky little browser, but nothing terribly earth shattering. The comic Google released to explain it was made by the same guy who did Understanding Comics, which was pretty brilliant and approachable, even if you aren't a comic nerd (which I'm not). This comic seems more geared for developers though. Given Chrome is only Beta guess that makes sense.
somewhat disturbing
Feb. 25th, 2008 10:24 pmI was reading /. today, (can’t remember what the subject was, but it isn’t really important), and a poster was portraying Microsoft as evil and google as honest, true, good and all American. Now, I know Microsoft has been persona non grata on the /. since before time began, but how is it that google isn’t at least equally evil? All they want to do is index our lives and sell it back to us one piece at a time. At least when Microsoft was the main corporate overlord in the computer industry, we had some pretence of privacy.
Big-ish News
Mar. 15th, 2006 08:10 amI am now in Sydney, finally. I had a fun weekend
in LA with Tyler. We did all the usual kind of stuff, except when we
were playing video games I was getting a professional tour.
I had originally wanted to go to San Francisco and see Joanna and Padraic as well, but I needed a lot more time in Salt Lake to finish things up in America than I thought. Hopefully I will be able to see them on my next visit to America. It doesn't seem strange to talk about "my next visit to America," at least, not yet.
There is a wonderful view of the opera house and the bridge from our apartment. When I get a faster Internet connection I will post some pictures. Right now we are using some kind of neighborhood wireless connection which is real slow and tends to cut out from time to time.
The company my friend Mike works for just got bought by google[1], so now I know someone who works at google. They were already working closely with google, but I think this will be even better.
More later.
[1] http://www.sketchup.com/index.php?id=1439
I had originally wanted to go to San Francisco and see Joanna and Padraic as well, but I needed a lot more time in Salt Lake to finish things up in America than I thought. Hopefully I will be able to see them on my next visit to America. It doesn't seem strange to talk about "my next visit to America," at least, not yet.
There is a wonderful view of the opera house and the bridge from our apartment. When I get a faster Internet connection I will post some pictures. Right now we are using some kind of neighborhood wireless connection which is real slow and tends to cut out from time to time.
The company my friend Mike works for just got bought by google[1], so now I know someone who works at google. They were already working closely with google, but I think this will be even better.
More later.
[1] http://www.sketchup.com/index.php?id=1439
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Steve Gilmore
Jan. 15th, 2005 12:07 amThe year is 1997. The treacherous Lecturians have conquered the student residential network. But, from secret staging grounds from two of the campus dorms, the students prepare to SYN flood Steve Gilmore's PC.
White Dactyl The ResComp chronicles
So this obsession with the toothbrush picture of mine has more layers than an onion. I was re-reading the article Mitch Gitman wrote about ResComp back in 1997 and noticed it quotes Steve Gilmore's e-mail threat to crack down on software piracy and pornography. I greped for the e-mail in question using the text in the article and sure enough, I found it in my mail archive. [ side note: before there was the verb to google, there was the verb to grep. I never even thought about that because it seems like to grep has been around forever, but of course it has not. Even relatively pedestrian verbs, such as to search or to find have not. ]
( Gilmore's Rant... )
"What" "I" "find" "amusing" "about" "this" "e-mail" "is" "the" "words" "which" "Gilmore" "decided" "to" "put" "into" "double" "quotation" "marks". Whew! That's enough of that; beginning to sound like William Shatner. Take this sentence for example:
All you own is a "license" to "use" that software.
Steve Gilmore The ResComp chronicles
What is remotely confusing or foreign about the words "license" and "use"?
Some prankster then spoofed this e-mail in response to Gilmore's rant:
( Spoofed... )
Let me just say that spoofing e-mail is the lowest form of hacker expression. It was a little funny though. But anyway, it was a really sad comment on the state of affairs on the ResComp LAN that the mailing list was unsecured and apparently not moderated correctly. Gilmore was totally out of his depth. Tyler was called into his office once for using a port scanner. Actually they didn't call him into his office, they just turned the ports off in his room and Tyler had to do some digging to even find out why. The point is that when Tyler finally talked to him, it became quite clear that Gilmore had no idea what was going on at all; this is apparently why he didn't see disabling his port as an unreasonable escalation. If I recall, there was no specific ban on port scanners in the ResComp user agreement, although I base this statement in part on the fact that ResComp had difficulty dealing with spoofed e-mail let alone understanding the simplicities of port scanners.
( Gilmore's Response )
I wonder if they ever worked out who sent that spoofed e-mail.
So a couple of weeks back, I posted to The Twilight Report a story based on my life back in Arizona (Arizona Fish Story : A Life Less Serious), which included a reference to someone Tyler and I met "virtually" but never in real life. Last night Tyler and I are running around a virtual maze chatting about the good old days, and somehow we talked about our eventual goal of actually having Pizza with I_SUCK, one of the Quakers on our LAN at school. Like all of the Quakers we ran into from those days, we knew his real name and Tyler put it into google (or something) and found his web page, and e-mail address. The crazy thing is he works at The Company, just like I do. Had I known that I could have just searched the The Company employee data base. Big Brother has got to keep an eye on us after all, so we are all in there. Tyler sent him an e-mail and we swapped a couple of messages today. The thing is, after all of these years, and after telling the story (mostly to each other) for so long, I_SUCK has achieved a sort of mythic status. I doubt the actual guy could live up to it. Still, we must have pizza sometime, until that happens my life will remain incomplete.
