Monkinetic Weblog

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I used to follow Robert Scoble's blog: Scobleizer regularly, when he was a conference organizer and respectful M$ apologist. Since joining Userland as Marketing guru, it seems like every other day is a Userland ad.

Nooooooo: Jodi tells of an email exchange she had with network services regarding the forced migration of a LOT of Linux servers in her school system to Nt4/IIS. The people making decisions over there are ignorant of the events they are setting in motion.

playlist for today: misc R.E.M. favs

This page from the Washingon Report has a very enlightening review of a book published in 1998: The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict. It touches a bit on salient facts about the establishment of the nation of Israel by the British, and the removal of the indiginous Palestinians. Hard stuff, and the current conflict comes as no surprise.

In Up For Air, I commented that I could only absorb Dave McCusker's writings in short bursts. I've been following him more closely the last couple days, practicing as it were. I can "hold my breath" in his parallel universe for longer now - a couple weeks worth of postings. Maybe one day I'll be able to breathe there?

Ok, I found an infected site. (I notified the webmaster, who was already aware of the situation. The site is now down.) Anyway, here's the skinny:

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The Nimda virus uses IIS, Outlook, AND Internet Explorer. Um, HELO?? Ever wonder about the fact that ALL THREE of these products are made by one company?

"This means that if you go and browse a page and you don't have the correct security on your browser, it looks as though the Javascript attempts to forward the virus from your machine to everyone in your contacts book." Cluley said the suspicion is that only Internet Explorer is vulnerable to this exploit..."

I can't read more then 1/3 of the material on David McCusker's weblog without coming up for air. It's like being in a parallel dimension, it seems very like our world, but it very much is not. I should add I admire (or at least am greatly intrigued by) Dave a lot.

Another set to add to my reading list: Count of Monte Cristo (original by Dumas), and the 5 SF tomes David mentions here.

Heard on NPR:

INTERVIEWER: "What can we do to satisfy Osama bin Laden?"

EXPERT: "Pack up and move to another planet."

Israel and the Palestinians have called a truce. Astonishingly, it was Yasser Arafat to step out with a unilateral cease-fire. Isreal quickly followed suit. I say astonishingly because while I am generally pro-Israel, the Palestinians have had NO reason recently to lay down arms.

Sigh. Some script-kiddie decided one exploit per Outlook/IIS worm was not enough, so they've bundled 12 or so exploits into one worm. Lovely. Don't you guys have anything better to do?

[via dangerousmeta!] Engineers Tackle Havoc Beneath trade Center. Extremely intersting article about the challenges involved. The WTC was an engineering marvel in every way.

I have no idea if this proposal would work, but I like the idea of combining strength and compassion, something Americans have occasionally proven themselves capable of.

The Nimda virus uses IIS, Outlook, AND Internet Explorer. Um, HELO?? Ever wonder about the fact that ALL THREE of these products are made by one company?

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The Nimda virus uses IIS, Outlook, AND Internet Explorer. Um, HELO?? Ever wonder about the fact that ALL THREE of these products are made by one company?

"This means that if you go and browse a page and you don't have the correct security on your browser, it looks as though the Javascript attempts to forward the virus from your machine to everyone in your contacts book." Cluley said the suspicion is that only Internet Explorer is vulnerable to this exploit..."

Being a Christian, and having done some varied philosophical studies over the years, I'm interested to read Leviticus as LIterature, by anthropologist Mary Douglas. From the description:

Ich kanne auch ein bißen Deutsche spretchen.

Au jourdhui je me souvien que je peux parler un peu de Français. Zut alors!