Nov 27, 2001 Uncategorized
‘The UKbased Ministry of Sound told ABC radio today it had put forward a proposal to Ansett’s administrator to buy four jets.’ ‘”We’re going to be doing SydneyMelbourne to begin with where you fly from Sydney to Melbourne late in the evening, there will be DJs on board, special DJ decks will have been installed into where the business seats were,” Mr Mergler told ABC radio.’ Full article here.
As Rove would say, “What the?”.
George W Bush
Nov 16, 2001 Misc
“I’m not going fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit some camel in the butt.” — George W Bush
Nov 15, 2001 Uncategorized
Imagine every web page you looked at cost you 1 cent. Would you pay 1 cent to view wonk.org? I wouldn’t, but check this out anyway.
CodeRed
Nov 13, 2001 Security
I run a HTTPd on my FreeBSD box at home as a convenient way to serve up files I wish to share with people. Since there is no real ‘content’ on the site, you would expect the only visits to be from myself & my friends. This would be a bad assumption. Lets look at the data so far this month:
root@bozo~# grep Nov /var/log/httpd-access.log \| wc -l 6184root@bozo~# grep Nov /var/log/httpd-access.log \| grep -vw 404 | grep -vw 400 | wc -l 125root@bozo~# grep Nov /var/log/httpd-access.log \| grep -vw 404 | grep -vw 400 | grep -v Slurp \| wc -l 23
23 legitimate accesses, 102 from Inktomi’s bot, and ~6k from NIMDA/CodeRed. Come on people in 210/8, get your act together!
Connect drops dialup
Nov 9, 2001 ISPs
Connect.com.au has stopped offering retail dialup. Not a surprising step for these guys who once claimed to be “the ISPs ISP”.
Nov 3, 2001 Uncategorized
Infoworld concludes Windows XP is slower than Windows 2000.
The results of our benchmark tests indicate that Windows XP is significantly slower than Windows 2000, especially under heavy load. Unless investing in new hardware for demanding users is an option, companies should stick with Windows 2000.