mikas blog

As you maybe know since today the “Linuxwochen Wien” are running. Tomorrow [thursday] I’ll drive to vienna early in the morning. I’ll stay in vienna till sonday so don’t expect daily blogging

Again a quite “funny spammer” who trapped into spamcatcher (check out the spelling error “whilte addtess list”):

From: Ranjith Eyacheruvatt <ranjithepost @yahoo.co.in>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 08:12:45 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Spamcatcher-Blacklist
To: spamcatcher-24.05.2004-08.52.11-61.11.41.110@michael-prokop.at
Message-ID: <20040524071245.73763.qmail@web8303.mail.in.yahoo.com>

Hello,
Sub:Antispam Software
We are US based company and searching for a leading and better anti-spam software to suggest for our clients(2000 more).
I visit your your website [...]

Some Notes on the “Who wrote Linux” Kerfuffle by Andy Tanenbaum and a followup.

Due to I don’t like the program overview on the official WLT04-website I created my own one.
What I would like to see is an at.linux-meeting at WLT04. Even if it’s “just unofficial”. Interested?

As you should know Symantec has a really good reputation – the following mail made my day:

From: support@symantec.com
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:33:00 +0200
Subject: Re: Virus Sample
To: faqbot@michael-prokop.at

The sample file you sent contains a new virus version of mydoom.j.
Please clean your system with the attached signature.

Sincerly,
Robert Ferrew
(Yes, I do know the current mailvirus-crap [...]

In the next few weeks I’ll have to check old hardware at work and I assume there will be about 2-3 computers available for experiments 8-). Currently I’m running a QNX-box for fun, now I have to choose which operating system/distribution should get a chance for running on one of the new^Wold boxes. FreeBSD? NetBSD? [...]

Yesterday I went to Kunsthaus Graz and got my shirt. A shirt by Sven Guckes he put up on one of the server-racks – have a look at the GLT04-Pics, especially this one – see the yellow shirt? Yes, now that’s my one
And because I’m against software patents I reactivated my petition-webpage and [...]

Currently I’m trying to check out vservers at linux.

[mika@tweety(500): ~]% uname -a
Linux tweety 2.6.6-vs1.9.0 #1 Wed May 12 00:00:04 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
[mika@tweety(501): ~]%
I’m reading the following guide: Virtual private servers and security contexts – thanks for the pointer – Michael Gebetsroither.
Anyone here also using vservers? If so: any other ressources I should know of? [...]

http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i11_weber.html (pointer by Sigi Herzog on luga-ML)

I bought a Samsung ML-1510 Laserjet for 157 Euros a few days ago. Installing it via CUPS was no problem but I had problems with the margins. Changing the options in the ppd-file did the job:

$ grep ‘ImageableArea A4′ /usr/share/cups/model/samsung.ppd
*ImageableArea A4/A4: “14 20 581 822″
$
Yeah, absolutely great – now printing is fun

First day of GLT04 was nice. Interesting talks, no serious incidents and social event at Brot&Spiele was fun. Pictures are online. Now I am going to sleep due to I have a workshop together with Sven Guckes early in the morning – at 10:00

From: Garry Mahoney <vmtnw@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 01:33:55 -0200
Subject: Vim this size gets anyone
To: vim[at]michael-prokop.at
Message-Id: <jwkgfovivofnufxstxgpkctmt@hotmail.com>
X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=17.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_99,CLICK_BELOW_CAPS,[...]

Yes! I am one of the 5 students at TU Graz who can take part in IPICS04 – Intensive Program on Information and Communication Security: Secure Embedded Systems – in July 2004. Absolutely great!

No – it’s not a rant cause it’s quite funny 8-). Today an icq-spammer named ‘Andrea’ with UIN 234701251 wrote me. Have a look to the log:

02.05 03:11 Hi, what You do?
02.05 03:11 * Authorization request : Empty authorization request message
02.05 03:11 * Authorization request : Empty authorization request message
02.05 03:11 Has found you in [...]