02.02.2004
Motivation Lacking
Monday afternoon and I just can’t be buggered. It was a busy week last week and I kept meaning to post but kept getting distracted. End result - nothing but workage all week….
However, it was productive, I managed to get the various vbscripts (virus definition checking, software installed, hotfixes etc) behaving very nicely and kicked out some nice html output. Almost time to try and test it on someone else to see what else breaks I think.
My other half is away at the moment which means much computer time and nothing much else (aside from when I remember to eat and sleep). Still, she gets back on Thursday which is good thing (and then our new kitchen goes in on Friday - which means bye, bye uptimes). Oh well.
It turns out that Mydoom.A/Sco.A (whatever you want to call it) appears to be the working of Russians and, imho, the whole DDOS thing is just a diversion. What media outlet is talking about the remote control backdoor, the keylogger, the smtp engine? None - they are all concentraing on the whole SCO is going down because of nasty Linux hackers crap. I loved the Netcraft document on things SCO could do (what they couldn’t do, of course, is to use Akamai because Akamai uses Linux - unlike Microsoft who do just that). So after a while, SCO is down because….they took out the www cname. Funny really. Groklaw continues to amaze with the depth of coverage of this whole thing - the article on ABI’s is essential reading for anymore even remotely interested in the whole saga (which should be anyone reading this).
Picked up some new computer parts yesterday - amazing how cheap hard drives are these days (AU$145 for a Seagate 120gig and $260 for a Maxtor 60gig 2.5 laptop drive). So, once all these upgrades and swapping are finished, for the first time I’ll be spinning over half a terabyte (578gig to be precise). Life is good 
I see John from monkeyc has moved house - with no cable and maybe no ADSL, life will be hard. And yes, John, Dodo ain’t bad at all for dialup.
A wonderful page on how to move data between machines (ie “ghosting”) by using dd and netcat - a very neat trick (he says watching it running in the background). I’ve never really used dd before and this is proving an eye opener.
Now, time to go and hunt down a nice glass of wine which I learn how to train bogofilter on spam.