Thursday, July 17, 2003

Answer to the "serious router flaw"? You gotta love Juniper.  Take a look at their Cisco bashing http://www.juniper.net/nettoons/  Too funny.  Boy, are they ever smiling after todays "internet ending" revelation! Joff_NZ writes "CERT has released an advisory regarding a serious flaw in all Cisco routers and switches which run IOS and process IPv4 packets (i.e. pretty much everything), which causes the device to stop processing inbound packets, and so: 'The device must be rebooted to clear the input queue on the interface, and will not reload without user intervention.' There are apparently no known exploits (yet), and Cisco have this advisory with a workaround and available fixes." ~~Rus on Slashdot has it right I think.... "I'm going to say an exploit by tommorow. End of the internet by Sat. All back to normal on Monday"   Nice... just when my DSL got provisioned.... the internet going down for the whole weekend is like being on AOL. It takes about as much time to download something. ~ Randy 6:37:07 PM

Shades of 1995! Mozilla Wants to Rumble With IE. Think the browser wars are over? The newly formed Mozilla Foundation claims open-source innovation will allow it to challenge Microsoft's near-total domination of the market. It's a mighty tall order. By Amit Asaravala. [Wired News] 3:09:41 PM

Oh great, this sounds fun.. Cisco warns of serious router flaw. A flaw in its router software could allow attackers to freeze Cisco routers and stop the flow of network data through the devices. [CNET News.com] 7:51:40 AM

Adam Curry has an intereseting Blog Source: Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog; 7/16/03; 11:08:33 PM. shipwreck hunting. Wow, missed a day writing! All for good reason. We decided to fly out to the tricolor shipwreck, which contains hundreds of thousands of liters of oil and 3500 luxury cars. The salvage operations are about to begin so we took an early peek. Turns out we had to fly halfway across the english channel! Took some excellent fotos, which I'll post on the blog in the ayem. Tonnes of oil is leaking steadily from the wreck, which porduced chilling pictures. There's also 3000 luxury cars on board, I'll be sure to go back when they start bringing those puppies up :) [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] Good stuff Adam! ~RP 12:12:05 AM

Midnight in Tulsa... Swarthy Temperature: 94°F Humidity: 44% Dew Point: 69°F Barometer: 30.08R Winds: S10 Sunrise: 6:19 a.m Sunset: 8:40 p.m. Moonrise: 11:10 p.m.     This really is the temp at Midnight.  Tulsa is wonderful in the summer. 12:05:23 AM