Code Red II hit the ‘net this weekend. It’s bad. At 4000x the speed of the original Code Red, it’s spread very, very quickly. Given that I only run Linux and BSD on my machines, I’m not particularly concerned about my machines. But the potential weakening of Internet infrastructure is very much my concern. With …
Author Archives: Waldo Jaquith
I am, I am Superman.
My friend Jen once said that after her 1997 thru-hike, she felt “invincible.” I just remembered her saying that, and remembered that feeling. I think that may be the greatest part about long-distance hiking, is knowing that one’s body is damned near perfect. While hiking, it’s easy to pick up on the aches and pains …
Secret pen pal.
After my entry on the 26th on the topic, I wrote an essay about the Sircam virus and sent it to NPR the following morning. Today, they finally wrote back. Rejected. Why? Because it’s no longer relevant. Thanks, guys. So here it is. Secret Pen Pal I’ve got an exciting new computer virus. It’s the …
Code Red.
ool-18bf4a76.dyn.optonline.net – – [01/Aug/2001:12:01:01 -0400] “GET /default.ida?NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0” 400 332 It begins again.
Secret space bacteria.
It was announced on Monday that bacteria has been discovered floating in from space. Lots of it — on the order of 1/3 of a ton every day. This is incredible news. World-changing, life-altering, wonderfully-exciting news. And yet I have seen no evidence of this anywhere in the press. Slashdot, Kuro5hin, Salon…none of my usual …
23 and so tired of life.
Twenty three and so tired of life Such a shame to throw it all away DMB, “Dancing Nancies” It’s my birthday. I’m 23. I’m not tired of life, but I am the age from a lyric that I sang in high school, a lyric that made sense because it was so impossibly old — of …
Virus voyeur.
This new virus is fun. SirCam (I don’t know who came up with the name) is yet another Windows virus that sends out e-mail. This one is a little different, though, than Love Bug and the like. This gets e-mail address from the web browser’s cache, and sends out random files from the user’s My …
Trouble times a comin’.
This is some whacked shit right here. An impressive website, but….dang. Maybe I’m not open-minded, but I’m not terribly concerned with the prospect of a 12th planet (no word on what happened to 10 and 11) shifting the polls by 90° and eventually wiping out man. Oh, all of this in 2003. I just don’t …
Kittenless.
The kitten didn’t make it. Poor little guy. He lived to be three days old. Last night, he was playful, lively and loud, exercising his lungs and doing quite well. Today, his little stomach swelled and he faded away before Amber could get off the phone with the vet. We’ll bury him, and, over him, …
Cat, in miniature.
Amber and I been caring for a cat for the past 20 hours. This cat weighs, I kid you not, just over 3 ounces. That’s slightly more than a ripened Roma tomato. He was born on Friday, abandoned by his mother, and Amber’s mother brought him here from Staunton. He was found lying in a …