mikas blog

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 […]

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 8-) – 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6864

# ps 1>/dev/null # uname -srv Linux 2.4.25-grsec #1 Sam Apr 24 11:49:51 CEST 2004 # It’s running… I’m just thinking of a (smart and hidden) lart for the guys who pulled the power plug… Any ideas?

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=245718 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=245849

No, that’s not funny: # ps 1>/dev/null {ide_get_best_pio_mode} {GPLONLY_ide_get_best_pio_mode} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.4.22-ow1 does not match kernel data. # hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.23 seconds =556.52 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.78 seconds = 35.96 MB/sec # And it’s a productive machine running with RAID. No option for […]

No – it’s not really a rant. I just installed Opera 7.50 B1 on my laptop. The DNS-confirmation and the close-transfer-window have been fixed in the Preview-4-version. Due to the changelog Opera now supports ‘Auto-detection of RSS file (link rel=”alternate”) displayed in navigation bar’. Ok, so I added such a header to my webpage. What […]

Remember my rant about the mailinglist of securityfocus? More than 80 mails in my spam_securityfocus-folder ;-( I unsubscribed multiple times but still receive newsletters – grml. So I tried to unsubscribe via webpage for another time. Have a look: An unsubscribe request has been sent for «censored»michael-prokop.at to the following mailing lists: sf-news ms-secnews linux-secnews […]

Maybe my KMail-rant was a little bit polemic (hey – it costs time! 8-)) [I’ll have a look at the source], but what really sucks is Outlook. Am I telling news? :o) At work we still have two persons using Outlook. One at it’s own risk and the other one because importing in thunderbird didn’t […]