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 Wednesday, September 11, 2002
I choose escapism.
Tonite, since I've been home from the salt mine, I've had the following on the big electronic teat:
Far better than the "tearing off of the 9-11 scab" hearse-chasing that I've seen on the other channels. I still haven't read through all of the roughly 3,0000 names yet, for fear that I will know someone whose name is on that list. I spent too many years in the 80's and 90's in and around folks from the NY and NYC area. I am afraid to face that truth. Still. I'm comfortable in my self-induced ignorance, right now. I have been grabbing very good hugs from my family for the few weeks or so. I intend to keep doing this, too. I hope that you find and keep solace with your loved ones, for quite a while. 9:48:00 PM [] blah blah blah'd on this
Forgot to add the usual suspects...
Doh! Forgot to add this one to my Personal upstreaming conspiracy theories... 40% - 60% of net congestion is caused by p2p porn filesharing Actually, the claim is that users of Kazaa and Gnutella account for 40-60% of the net traffic, since they are constantly broadcasting packets to say they are online, are searching for foo, or are down/uploading bar... 6:01:45 PM [] blah blah blah'd on this [ blinked via FARK ]
So I began to wonder whatever happened to...
I hadn't noticed any referer hits coming from a certain Contributing Senior Editor for c't Magazin für Computertechnik lately. So I dropped by his website to see what he's been up to, and got quite a shock. If you are using IE 5 and "better", as Volker put it, you may want to consider opening this link in another browser... 5:22:43 PM [] blah blah blah'd on this
Personal upstreaming conspiracy theories...
Lotsa folks (me included) who use Radio and the Userland server for hosting have experienced upstreaming problems lately. Check the Radio DG for a sample of those who did chime in about it. I have no direct knowledge of actual insider info, but here's my own list of potential contributing factors to this: 1) The first XP Service Pack that was released recently. Having that many copies of a 32MB updates rumbling across the net can't help matters. Particularly when so many IT admins would have grabbed it because of the security implications it claims... Microsoft updates once shared the same ISP as Userland. Does anyone know if this is still the case? 2) Rumplestiltskin attacks on mail servers continue (sendmail is particularly vulnerable, it would appear), and an increase was reported by at least one source during roughly the same time frame when the upstreaming outage was ongoing.[When we checked our own mail server, we discovered heavy "Rumplestiltskin" ("dictionary") attacks towards the end of August and over Labor Day, originating from a variety of different networks. - MacInTouch.] Coincidences? I think not. But then again, I have seen the black helicopters. *glancing frantically over both shoulders* 1:01:24 PM [] blah blah blah'd on this
Now with Bayesian spam filtering!
Michael Tsai has just released a very cool applescript-based application to help users of Mailsmith and Entourage get the benefits of the kind of filtering that is built into the newest version of OS X 10.2's Mail.app. 12:37:15 PM [] blah blah blah'd on this
Keeping things in perspective Hey Al, thought you had a bad day? Security guard's worst day ever: Collects money, trips over stone, falls in canal, climbs out, anti-theft suitcase explodes while he's changing, ends up naked and covered in orange paint. Passers-by just laugh. Schadenfreude, schadenfreude, schadenfreude! Say it! Sure. I thought you could. 10:41:40 AM [] blah blah blah'd on this [ blinked via FARK ]
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