Arcterex

Asshats with Virus Infected Windows Boxes

August 15, 2003

To the asshats at h0004bd508ca5.ne.client2.attbi.com and dhcp160164059.columbus.rr.com, please get rid of the virii or trojans on your computers that keep on trying to exploit the non-existant IIS system on my IP. [many similar lines] h0004bd508ca5.ne.client2.attbi.com – – [15/Aug/2003:11:49:37 -0700] “GET /scripts/..%252f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0” 404 301 “-” “-“ dhcp160164059.columbus.rr.com – – [15/Aug/2003:11:49:53 -0700] “GET /default.ida?XX[lots of X’s]XX%u9090%u6858%[more […]

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Heading Out

August 15, 2003

Heading out to another SCA event on the Island for the weekend, getting up in approximately 5 hours (ugh) and should be back sometime Sunday afternoon or evening, hopefully sporting not only the completed unfinished recap from last weekends event, but new pix and whatnot from this weekends fun and drunkeness more fun. I’ll try

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Firewall Changes for Those Who Can’t Get to Userfriendly.org?

August 15, 2003

Couple of people have mentioned problems getting to userfriendly.org lately. The problem is that the IP that it recently moved onto (69.57.142.26) is still thought of as a restricted IP by your firecard or GGOS/Gateway Guardian based firewall (or maybe something else you have). If you have a Firecard (this is for all the ex-Merilus

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Male Bonding and Evasion Techniques

August 15, 2003

I was referred to in my dear friend Iambe’s column today as hunka hunka burning butt. I’m honored. And yes, men will stubbornly stick together even in the face of the most logical of logic. If another guy is there then we have one other person to come up with plausible explanations for whatever we

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Out Pimpin’ the PimperZ

August 14, 2003

I realize I haven’t posted any images lately, and while I can’t match the coolness of Tig’s latest offering, I have a few that have accumulated that need mention. Cat5 (whose watch can be seen here) and Iambe have been over lately sewing up a storm for next weekend, when we’ll be all heading over

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Hacked

August 13, 2003

Way #8,428 to tell if your server has been hacked: the sshd binary is a 4 meg executable with perms of 777. Way #8,429: there is an account in /etc/passwd that has a shell of “cd /usr/bin; ftp <ip>”. Yes, a fun day at work.

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On the State of the World

August 13, 2003

A quick little rant about the shit we have to put up with these days. I just want to know why it is that we/I/the consumer is always on the defense. We have to install spam filters so that we don’t get a flood of porn spam and virii every day. We have to keep

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Buying a New Computer

August 13, 2003

For the first time in…. well, probably 10 years or so, I bought a new computer. The previous one was bought from Cardz computers and was a 386DX-33 with a whopping 1 meg of ram and a huge 100 megabyte hard drive. I don’t recall if it came with anything but MS-Dos 5.0 The computer

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Happy Birthday Silverstr

August 13, 2003

A belated happy birthday to Silverstr. I forgot. I am a horrible person. Still a happy birthday to you my friend.

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Another Low Carb Diet

August 12, 2003

Found The Cyclic Ketogenic Diet on K5, claims to be better than Atkins as it allows more flexability and less something something something. Note to self to read this at some point.

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