That Worm

Subject: Re: That Worm From: [email protected] (Thomp) Newsgroups: alt.fan.cecil-adams StarChaser Wrote: > [email protected] (Thomp) wrote: > >> OK, so my school computer has not been hooked up to the internet for 3 months. >> When I go back to school, I'

What every geek was too scared to say

<RANT> "These people should have their computers confiscated unless they can pass a minor proficiency test." -- John C. Dvorak John writes for PC Magazine and wrote an interesting article [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1224343,00.asp] regarding the latest attack on computer

Keep up to date on your favorite artist

From Rolling Stone magazine, comes this handy XML news feed search engine that allows you to type in an artists name, and it will spit back an XML page that you can use in your RSS News reader so you can keep track on what your favorite artist is up

Canada knows what its doing with copyright

Canada knows what its doing with copyright... who would have thought I'd ever say that,well after reading this article [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3680] (written by a very intelligent American ;p) That Canadian copywrite is updated to deal with file sharing as of 1998, and

A look into msblast.exe

Found this good article on how the W.Blaster worm works, by Rolf Rolles on Bugtraq the other day, if you want to read it I have attached it to this entry. Update: Looking at the following slashdot article [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1722203], I

Camping in the dark city

The only way to beat loosing your power for a couple of days is to go camping! Nothing much to say regarding the power failure that hasn't been already said with 1 exception, It was quite amazing to see so many stars from right in the city, sometimes

Ben Folds/Tori Amos Concert

Last night I went to go see the Ben Folds/Tori Amos Lottapianos concert. It was very good and I had a lot of fun. Ben Folds is really funny. My husband has always been a big fan of his so I have been listening to a lot of his

Punctuation (sad story)

From alt.humor.best-of-usenet comes this gem Subject: punctuation (sad story) From: "Pat Bowne" [email protected] Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.composition In my morning paper there was a photo of an irate protester. He held a sign which read: "No! Sexual predators belong in family area&

The Chewbacca Defense

While reading an article [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1521256] on slashdot, regarding the SCO case, and its views of the GPL it was mentioned that SCO was using the Chewbacca Defense [http://www.connect-dots.com/Poofs/chewbacca.html]. What does Chewbacca have to do with

Lottapianos Tour

I was going to write a long winded review of last nights Ben Folds [and Tori Amos's] concert, but someone named Vit Wagner beat me to the punch so I guess I'll just link to the article [http://www.thetorontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/