The UDP exploit currently thrashing many internet backbones isn’t really all that interesting, but it makes for interesting graphs…
Update: Microsoft is now using the common name for the vulnerability: Slammer.
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MSSQL-UDP worm spread
Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon January 25, 2003 - 11:10 PM and archived here at /blog/2003/2003-01-25-mssql-udp-worm-spread/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2003/2003-01-25-mssql-udp-worm-spread/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
Linux usability
If there was ever a better article, it probably used the word “fucktard” even more times than jwz.org’s video on linux rant.
It’s like reading my own rants!
Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon January 24, 2003 - 11:53 PM and archived here at /blog/2003/2003-01-24-linux-usability/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2003/2003-01-24-linux-usability/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
Ninjatune Records
I can’t get enough of this shit.
I wish they’d open a shop in DC (tips well rewarded if there is one). They don’t have the new Solid Steel release in the ninja shop =/
I snagged the last Solid Steel cd, Now Listen! at Borders in my huge post-christmas-gift-certificate-shopping-spree and really dig it.
Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon January 19, 2003 - 5:21 PM and archived here at /blog/2003/2003-01-19-ninjatune-records/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2003/2003-01-19-ninjatune-records/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
Disney > public domain
Boing Boing "…will be wearing a black arm-band for the next day in mourning for our shared cultural heritage, as the Library of Alexandria burns anew."
My gut reaction is that this is a bit overreacting but at the same time - the powers of corporations to continually extend their patent / copyright lifetime with no regard for the interests of the public is certainly scary. Damn, I just sounded like Erk.
/me pinches himself.
The big deal is about this recent supreme court ruling…
Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon January 15, 2003 - 7:10 PM and archived here at /blog/2003/2003-01-15-disney-public-domain/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2003/2003-01-15-disney-public-domain/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
Speaking of the EFF...
A few months ago I sent an e-mail to our Maryland representatives. The letter was pre-composed for me by a digital rights organization - all I had to do was fill in my e-mail address street address. Right now I’m too busy working on client issues to dreg up the link - hopefully I’ll find it later and update this post so that those of you interested can petition your sentators…
Read on from the response I got from Senator Mikulski…
January 13, 2003
Thank you for getting in touch with me. I appreciate hearing from you. I understand your concern that copyright laws have become too stringent. As you know, the Digital Choice and Freedom Act of 2002 (H.R. 5522) was introduced last year to provide increased safeguards for consumers who lawfully obtain digital entertainment. This legislation was not passed before Congress adjourned, and has yet to be reintroduced in the current session of Congress. You can be sure that I will consider your thoughts should the Senate debate this or other legislation dealing with copyright laws in the future. Again, thank you for contacting me. Please let me know if I can be of assistance to you in the future. Sincerely, Barbara A. Mikulski United States Senator
P.S. If I can be of any further assistance in the future, please visit my website at http://mikulski.senate.gov or call my Washington office at 202-224-4654.
Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon January 14, 2003 - 12:49 AM and archived here at /blog/2003/2003-01-13-speaking-of-the-eff/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2003/2003-01-13-speaking-of-the-eff/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
riaa.org defaced
The RIAA website front page has been “replaced” without permission. 😉 Because the site is currently down, check the below screenshot for what was done:
Figure 1. owned.jpg. The last time they got hacked, it was becuase the admin stupidly treated their robots.txt file like a security device.
No word on the method used for the current defacement but I would garauntee that it has something to to do with this. Look at all those reboots!
For more info, check fark.com’s discussion and, the article on The Register.
For my non-geek friends: the riaa is the industry association responsible for the (admittedly understandable) demise of Napster. The RIAA is responsible for ridiculous prices on compact discs. They are headed by fools that can’t or refuse to comprehend how technology is driving their business model to fail.
I’ve been putting off joining the EFF for too long. =/
Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon January 12, 2003 - 7:17 PM and archived here at /blog/2003/2003-01-12-riaaorg-defaced/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2003/2003-01-12-riaaorg-defaced/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
Winamp Skins
Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon January 01, 2003 - 3:00 AM and archived here at /blog/2002/2002-12-31-winamp-skins/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2002/2002-12-31-winamp-skins/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
Litestep
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Curious Yellow, My High School Rock Band
Brent introduced Eric and I to Dan some time around '95 or '96. The lineup was generally a three-piece of myself on guitars, Dan on drums and Eric playing bass with occasional contributions from Brent on keys, Travis on guitar, and Kevin vocals.
I was reading a lot of SF at the time and was on a kick of using objects and characters from Jeff Noon’s novels in everything from Quake and IRC aliases to song titles to computer names - which hasn’t exactly stopped, 8 years later my 15" powerbook’s DNS name is scribble. Oh, and ‘jokerbone’. At some point after a jam at Kevin’s house, I suggested naming the group Curious Yellow after an object in Vurt. Noon got the name from an infamous swedish film, over which the Supreme Court overturned anti-obscenity laws that regulated motion pictures. High school kids eat up that kind of name and I thought it sounded pretty hip.
Curious Yellow’s only real gigs were at battle-of-the-bands events. One was at our high school, another at the community pool. We placed second of the four at the pool show, for whatever that’s worth. We also made the local gazette’s front page with a large color photo thanks to our spot at first in the line-up. I think the photographer wanted to get in and out quickly. The reporter dubbed our sound revved-up blues rock. We played some sappy song that we’d written specifically for the gig and never ever ever played again, covered Zeppelin’s arrangement of The Lemon Song and probably something else, as a trio with no vocals. All of our parents have this newspaper clipping, I’ll update this with a copy at some point. The high school auditorium setlist was I believe a two or three track medley including me playing a 12 string acoustic on a stand with a violin bow before switching to my strapped-on electric. I don’t have recordings of either event.
Eric got a four track at some point and we began recording our practices. I only have a mix-cassette tape of various things that emerged from these weekend jams from which I’ve converted a few tracks. Brent and Travis were both around to contribute to a cover of The Funky Meter’s Cissy Strut, a song we played just about every time we got together in the style that was bootlegged into Pastorius’ Live in NYC, Vol. 2 with Hiram Bullock. Another song around this time with Travis on guitar was a cover of Jimi Hendrix’s Ezy Rider. We did have a handful of originals but the only two I have recorded are Eric’s Krista’s Eyes and a rhythmic experiment Dan directed called simply, Himeola.
Eric’s parents were generous enough to pay for studio time to record a three song demo at The Studio, a basement operation in Frederick from which was tracked two originals - English Voodoo and Sirens, as well as a cover of Pink Floyd’s Interstellar Overdrive. Not appreciating that studio time is an hourly arrangement, I was able to go back the next day and run through guitar overdubs on every track.
When we spread out to attend college, practices grew farther and farther apart and I gradually lost interest in playing guitar. Eric went on to play in a handful of other bands ranging from accoustic folk to metal.
Around 2001 we briefly toyed with jamming at UMBC by sneaking into an equipment room after hours in the fine arts building and setting up. From the second night of this, the simple but fun Drowning was snagged to Dan’s mini-disc recorder. This was one of the last times my guitar was out of its case for a few more years but I’m pretty proud of what we put together on almost no practice or planning. Dan and Eric formed a group with another guitarist closer to them that was in the wings at the recording of Drowning and living with Dan at the time which has since disbanded but recorded some really neat stuff.
MP3’s
Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon January 01, 2003 - 3:00 AM and archived here at /blog/2002/2002-12-31-curious-yellow/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2002/2002-12-31-curious-yellow/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown. -
mozilla power
From the css discussion mailing list, an interesting use for mozilla’s userContent.css. Most impressive css3 + mozilla
action.The original post was written in October! Yet more evidence that I spend too little time in front of a computer…
Posted on Blog over 23 years agoon December 23, 2002 - 9:01 AM and archived here at /blog/2002/2002-12-23-mozilla-power/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2002/2002-12-23-mozilla-power/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.
