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Friday, March 03 2006
Had an interesting conversation last night with work folks about the concept of using blogging in a corporate environment. Interesting conversation. It's kind of along the lines of the conversation this guy has with himself. Blogging in the corporate environment, and how that message can be used. But isn't that just selling out? Tuesday, February 28 2006 I have been working with the Philly Independent Media Center for a few months now, and we've been working like dogs (tonight especially) to roll it out. Check it out when you've got a second: http://www.phillyimc.org/ Oh, liberty never tasted so good. Thursday, February 23 2006 Just defended myself from a hack attack today. AWESOME. Are you ready for the play-by-play? Here we go: I noticed my CVS was sooooo slow. I kept getting some kind of error that wouldn't let me log in via ssh. 'Odd', I thought. Indeed. I finally got in on ssh, and saw 'top' was running perl and eating up all the processor. Also, netstat showed some irc connections. I don't have irc, so this was a problem. Whoah. [ around this time, I started getting sweaty palms and increased heartbeat ] I found some interesting scripts that were being run by perl and nobody in /tmp (bad news #1 -- anything can run out of /tmp). I looked at the processed, and perl is kind enough to show me the command line arguments that it was running with. All those hidden files in /tmp. Ohhhh...you bastards. I went into top, and started killing them mercilessly. They eventually died. Somehow, though, they managed to start the default installation of apache httpd. Whoops. What was that doing there? (bad news #2) I started searching on the files that I found in /tmp, and got to a link that said something about phpbb. Step #1, disable that motherfucker. So it's down. I look back through the apache logs, and see a bunch of gobbledigook in the forums. I took that out, converted the characters back to ascii so I could read them, and started seeing things like: system( chr(...),chr(...),chr(...)... ). That's just bad. I piped the chr() crap through php, and looky here! Presents! That's where all the files in /tmp came from! Sweet. I moved all of them away and saved them for later, and read through them. Nifty little tricks, ya bastards. And then, well, it was all over! I removed the default apache (wtf was it doing there) and fixed anything that I mentioned here (of course), and hooray! Back to bones. I have to admit, I'm no sysadmin, but you've got to be a lot meaner. (You know that's not a challenge, right? I gotta start my dayjob, so just relax all you hackettes). Saturday, January 07 2006If you couldn't tell, this post refers to the current site design. I didn't do it, and I like it. I hope you do, too. Friday, January 21 2005 Looking on the http://sf.indymedia.org/ site, looks like they're under attack by some malicious hackers. Someone's taken down Texas, Oklahoma, Vermont, and New Hampshire IMC's. And they are quite cocky about it. Way to go free speech. Gotta love this country, where anyone can be as much of an asshole as they want to be. Also, "Fascist Right Wing Hackers"? Damn, have they got a clothing line? Okay, I found one good use for a website today. I am trying to figure out why my service provider wants to charge me $45/mo for DSL service, when they offer it to new customers at $40/mo. And why I can't get service priced at a level similar to their competitor's, at $27/mo. So this is the transcript of my chat with the service representative:
Welcome to (DSL Provider) LiveChat. Your chat session will begin shortly.
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'Ron P.' says: Thank you for contacting (DSL Provider) LiveChat, how may I help you today? It doesn't seem to me that they are all that interested in keeping my business. Is that just me? Or do they think they can just suck me dry all the time, and I would like it? In addition, I like how this works out: since I refuse to get shit email from them like "try out new this," I then do NOT recieve the email offering me a lower price to my service. Jerks. Nice out for them, the bastards. UPDATE: The way I knew that (DSL Provider) was offering services a full year before hand was with web.archive.org. Very handy for looking into these types of things. Although it looks like it has stopped archiving as of mid-2004. Bummer. Thursday, November 18 2004
I am free from the shackles, my blogging friends. Straight from the celly. Monday, July 19 2004So I saw this documentary on Fox News over the weekend, and it's an enlightening view on the distortions and assertions made in the media. Not just Fox, but all corporate media. Also, a comment over the weekend that "TV news is shit, always has been." My idea is something of the nature of San Francisco Indymedia, but more local. Like news relevant to your neighborhood, or news relevant to your block. Things that matter, like city news, planning, events, etc. Sometimes the city is too big, honestly. The news that comes off of the large media outlets is obviously poor, and generally targeted. The news that comes off the indy news wire engages the activist in all of us, but it does not come off as local news. There are stories in both of these channels that are indeed local, or have impact in my life, but I was thinking it would be great to organize a grassroots news collective. That way, you have local news from all over the place. Hm... Tuesday, July 13 2004I'm thinking of redesigning. Anyone got ideas? I just found the 'Supernova' filter in Gimp. Cooool. |
