08.22.01
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at 9 am
Yesterday I helped a co-worker remove a Trojan Horse from his Win98 machine. It seems that an MP3 encoder program that he had installed also brought along a friend or three that started adding advertisments to his web browser and his machine in general.
It was scary stuff. His machine needed to be cleaned up anyway, but there were a ton of things that he said was software he wasn’t using, so we Uninstalled a bunch of packages. One of them was SaveNow, which sounds like a utility I would use to save the work I’m doing in Word or something. But it turns out that it’s a Trojan horse and causes most of the unauthorized activity that was going on.
Sometimes it’s nice to be in the minority where it’s not as cost effective to build stuff like that.
ObWinComplaint: Does HomeSite really have to be *this* unstable?
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08.21.01
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at 11 pm
I hadn’t actually taken a look at the Macromedia Daze site. (Skip the intro.) You’d think that if I was going to give a presentation that I would have put a little more effort into looking at the materials of the conference.
It’s kinda fun to see my name up along side people who *actually* know what they’re doing. Feels like I’m sneaking in and riding the coat tails. And I was the only one who decided to write a tongue-in-cheek bio. Oops.
However, I’m still working on an article regarding the topic I talked on. If anyone would like to help me, what I really need is for someone with a high-speed line to go through http://www.adcritic.com and find one or two examples of commercials that look like they were done in Flash. Had I a T1 at home, I might try this myself, but I seem to be missing a giant utility closet and a bank account to pay for it…
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08.20.01
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at 11 pm
After seeing the results of the Coudal.com Photoshop Tennis matches, Amy had the great idea for us to play each other. I’ve served up the first image: a 640×480 canvas with a round gradient purple to black, and a layer of green fuzzy rectangles with drop shadows over it.
We’ll see how she returns the hand. 🙂
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08.18.01
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at 11 pm
Wow, what an article. Now I actually want to see Fight Club.
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at 10 am
I had this ad forwarded to me. It goes to show just how far the tech sector has fallen.
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at 9 am
It seems that in order to put a filter on what I read on the web I will only start reading articles that are linked to by at least two different web sites.
Now all we have to do is build a script that polls various web logs and then read only the articles that have reached a certain level of linked-ness. Anyone up for the challenge?
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08.17.01
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at 6 pm
In this column, Widget of the Week #9, What I’m hearing is not Noun/verb vs Verb/Noun, but more something like this:
Let the user Choose the Goal, then choose the Path.
A) Let Me Tell You (the program/computer/website) what I want to accomplish, then B) You’ll Ask me the questions that will get me there.
The interface designer’s first goal is to make sure that the first question “What Do You Want To Do?” is asked in such a way that it frames the answer into something the program can work with.
This is what I have found.
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It’s happened. The whole office has started playing with Jabber today. I pointed it out to a couple other people here and now it’s a full fledged event. I’m thinking that I’m going to try to get the IS Dept to switch over to it. Right now they all seem to be gravitating towards ICQ. I have that installed, but it’s got the worst interface I’ve ever seen for a modern GUI program. Now I’ve got both installed and they seem to play together pretty well.
If anyone is interested in my Jabber ID, e-mail me and I’ll send it.
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08.14.01
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at 10 pm
Wednesday night I’ll be ‘facilitating’ the Open Discussion forum at the Multimedia | Internet Developers Group. We’ve got a great panel of people lined up for discussion along with some seeding topics. It’ll be a great round-up of design, development and out loud thinking.
Imagine a mailing list, without the spam, and no ‘vacation’ bounce backs! Now imagine it in person. It’ll be great!
Tomorrow night at the PCC Traing Center, down by OMSI. See you there!
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08.12.01
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at 10 pm
The sheer number of hits on ordersomewherechaos.com that are from the Code Red Virus are pretty amazing. 195 in just 4 days. This is for a server that has only been active for a couple of weeks mind you. But that’s not so interesting. The much more interesting part is that 193 of those came from 64.*.*.*. Now I’m on a mission to see what the Class A 64 range is for. (Lookups courtesy of ARIN)
64.1 – 64.3: Concentric Networks (Don’t they do DSL?)
64.34 : Teleocity (I think they provide DSL)
064.040.058.020: a DSL provider
064.041.227.126: Exodus: They do hosting and (DSL?)
064.049.078.011: Another DSL provider
064.050.158.081: More Dial-Up/DSL.
We got 20 Covad addys, and 10 or so PAC-BELLs, more Telocity, Some Bell Canada’s and two hits from RIPE addy’s: i.e. hits from Europe.
Overwhelmingly I’m seeing CODE RED hits from DSL provider networks… It’s no wonder that Verizon and other DSL providers have been getting so nasty about shutting down ports and such.
I’ve decided to add this to my .sig:
‘For the CODE will pass through to smite the WindowsNT Admins; and when he seeth the LACK OF Xs or Ns upon the QUERY STRING, and on the two side posts, the CODE will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your SERVERS to smite you.’ – EXODUS.NET 12:23
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