Re: Sunday morning . . .
At 06:48 PM Saturday 10/6/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: >On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > > > At 11:28 PM Friday 10/5/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: > > > > > >> OK, so that was Venus I saw this morning. Wasn't sure. Now I am. :) > > > > > > > > If it's in that direction and at that time of day > > and it's bright and it doesn't move, it's > > probably Venus. If it does move, it's probably an airplane > landing light. :) > > > > > > > >> Julia > >> > >> usually not looking east before sunrise, but today was an exception > > > > > > > > I presume that unlike mine your bathroom window > > does not look east (or else you have trees or > > buildings or something in the way of seeing the sky from there) . . . > > > > > > -- Ronn! :) > >Bathroom window has privacy glass AND looks west. Only the lower half here. It would be difficult for someone to look in the upper half and see anything other than the ceiling even if they were standing on the roof of the house next door . . . > I look west and south >and north as I drive the kids to school, but not east. The exception was >walking from the front door to a sedan, parked east of the house, to go >somewhere I don't typically go. :) Maybe I should make it a point to >take a minute to look east once or twice a week in the morning. But of course! -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: SuperStorm Worm
On 7 Oct 2007, at 20:53, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: > Dave Land wrote: >> >> Of course, this worm depends on the idiocy of people who open >> attachments in emails from people they don't know. >> >> Those people should have their computers confiscated, the hard drives >> erased and Linux installed to be given to people who are worthy of >> them. > > I thought so some time ago. After using Linux for about 7 years, > and knowing > its vulnerabilities, I am glad that Linux is still a minority OS, > such that > evil virusmakers don't bother to attack Linux. They do attack Linux servers because pwning a server is more valuable than a desktop machine. There are enormous numbers of attacks on servers attempting to use vulnerabilities in misconfigured systems as anyone who runs a server and looks at the logfiles can attest. Here's a few bad requests from the logs of a (BSD hosted) website I run. /phpmyadmin/main.php /pma/main.php /admin/main.php /admin/phpmyadmin/main.php /mysql/main.php /horde/readme /myadmin/main.php /phpmyadmin2/main.php /admin/phpmyadmin2/main.php /phpmychat/chat/messagesl.php3 /mysqladmin/main.php /webadmin/main.php /admin/myadmin/main.php /phpmyadmin-2.6.3-rc1/main.php /admin/sqladmin/main.php /scgi-bin/awstats/awstats.pl /admin/db/main.php /admin/php-my-admin/main.php /php-my-admin/main.php /admin/mysql/main.php /websql/main.php /admin/phpmyadmin-2.6.3-pl1/main.php /admin/phpmyadmin-2.2.6/main.php /phpmyadmin-2.6.3-pl1/main.php /phpmyadmin-2.2.6/main.php -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." - Bertrand Russell ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: SuperStorm Worm
Dave Land wrote: > > Of course, this worm depends on the idiocy of people who open > attachments in emails from people they don't know. > > Those people should have their computers confiscated, the hard drives > erased and Linux installed to be given to people who are worthy of > them. I thought so some time ago. After using Linux for about 7 years, and knowing its vulnerabilities, I am glad that Linux is still a minority OS, such that evil virusmakers don't bother to attack Linux. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: SuperStorm Worm
On Oct 6, 2007, at 8:57 AM, William T Goodall wrote: > On 6 Oct 2007, at 15:51, Robert Seeberger wrote: > >> http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/ >> 2007/10/securitymatters_1004 >> >> http://tinyurl.com/2xevsm >> >> The Storm worm first appeared at the beginning of the year, hiding in >> e-mail attachments with the subject line: "230 dead as storm batters >> Europe." Those who opened the attachment became infected, their >> computers joining an ever-growing botnet. > > It vindicates what I've been saying all along: that Windows computers > are simply too insecure to be allowed to be connected to the public > networks. Microsoft's carelessness has cost the world untold billions. If I create an "attractive nuisance" on my property that causes harm, I am help responsible. Why not Microsoft? Of course, this worm depends on the idiocy of people who open attachments in emails from people they don't know. Those people should have their computers confiscated, the hard drives erased and Linux installed to be given to people who are worthy of them. Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Big shark, little kayak. Pucker Factor: 10
The first time I ran across the first picture, I thought it was a fake, and then I looked it up on Google and snopes. This is the caption with the picture from the magazine article: Sitting in a 3.8-metre sea kayak and watching a four-metre great white approach you is a fairly tense experience. The line down the middle is the page fold. The second picture is uninterrupted. http://tinyurl.com/klm6t (look about 2/3 down the page) http://tinyurl.com/qm6cz ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: SuperStorm Worm
On 6 Oct 2007 at 9:51, Robert Seeberger wrote: > > > http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/10/securitymatters_1004 > > http://tinyurl.com/2xevsm > > The Storm worm first appeared at the beginning of the year, hiding in > e-mail attachments with the subject line: "230 dead as storm batters > Europe." Those who opened the attachment became infected, their > computers joining an ever-growing botnet. Hmmm. Anyone seeing a few parallels with Curious Yellow from _Glasshouse_? Heh. Dawn Falcon ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
