Long story but I now have a IBM T40 laptop to play with. I’ve been running Ubuntu Warty on it for a while and decided that since:
A. Ubuntu Hoary pre-release just came out and
B. The laptop came with XP and it might be worth having a 10G partition with XP installed around.
IBM in it’s [...]
Cable modem died yesterday. Payed ~$50 for it over a year ago so I at least got the value of renting one from “the company” at ~$6 a month.
Played with one of these last night. I’m such a geek, I so want one.
Bouncing email messages that are infected has to be the stupidest thing ever.
Repeat after me, “the From: address can be forged, the From: address can be forged……..”.
This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for
the sole use of the intended recipients and may contain
confidential and/or legally privileged information.
If you are not the intended recipient, please contact
the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the
original message. Any unauthorized review, use,
disclosure, or distribution is prohibited.
Why? Because of Winders, Outlook and OE [...]
User contacts the lab, complaining that they can’t SSH to one of our servers. The user in question claims to be a programmer and Unix knowledgeable. After going back and forth, we finally find out whats going on.
Lab: “What happens when you SSH in?”.
User: “All I see is luser@labserver:~$_“.
The conversation between Ash and neo85 is priceless. I wish I was evil enough to do something like that.
On a whim I ran Kismet on my laptop during the drive home today. To my amazement it logged a total of 35 access points.
21 of which are unencrypted
17 logged driving from the Lab before crossing the Ashley Bridge
4 from MUSC
8 in my neighborhood
I think I will do some more driving around [...]
Maybe it’s a good thing…
I’ve been reading a good bit about some cool Gnome projects[1][2].
What makes me uneasy about these projects is that they both plan to or are using C# as the language choice. Following a MS technology like this is bound to bite you/us at some point.
