Ramblings & ephemera
From Chapter 2: Botnets Overview of Craig A. Schiller’s Botnets: The Killer Web App (Syngress: 2007):
Default UserIDs Tried by RBot
Here is a list of default userids that RBot uses.
Administrator
Administrador
Administrateur
administrat
[...]
Posted on November 22nd, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Larry Page’s “How to Motivate Your Staff” (Business 2.0: December 2003: 90):
We wrote a program that asks every engineer what they did every week. It sends them e-mail on Monday, and concatenates the e-mails together in a document that everyone can read. And it then sends that out to everyone and shames those who [...]
Posted on April 20th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Ask Yahoo (5 March 2007):
There are only so many ways to construct a story.
Writers who believe there’s only one plot argue all stories “stem from conflict.” True enough, but we’re more inclined to back the theory you mention about seven plot lines.
According to the Internet Public Library, they are:
1. [wo]man vs. [...]
Posted on July 26th, 2007 by Scott Granneman
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From Christian Seifert’s “Analyzing malicious SSH login attempts” (SecurityFocus: 11 September 2006):
First, we analyzed the login names that were used on the login attempts. During the sample period, there were 2741 unique account names ranging from common first names, system account names, and common accounts to short alphabetical strings captured by the system logger. Of [...]
Posted on November 5th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Paul Graham’s “Undergraduation” (March 2005):
The social sciences are also fairly bogus, because they’re so much influenced by intellectual fashions. If a physicist met a colleague from 100 years ago, he could teach him some new things; if a psychologist met a colleague from 100 years ago, they’d just get into an ideological argument. Yes, [...]
Posted on July 13th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Central Missouri State University’s “Joseph Fouche“:
Fouché established an organization of policing and intelligence gathering that was decades ahead of its time. Napoleon, frequently on military campaigns, depended on Fouché’s information to maintain control over France and his military effectiveness. Six days a week, every week, Fouché sent secret reports to Napoleon. The information represented [...]
Posted on July 5th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From “Good Architecture“:
This has a similarity to the ISO 9126 definition of software quality:
Portability
Efficiency
Reliability
Functionality
Usability
Maintainability
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Posted on June 11th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From W3C’s “Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One“:
XML defines textual data formats that are naturally suited to describing data objects which are hierarchical and processed in a chosen sequence. It is widely, but not universally, applicable for data formats; an audio or video format, for example, is unlikely to be well suited to [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Tom Van Vleck:
In “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins,” Borges describes “a certain Chinese Encyclopedia,” the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, in which it is written that animals are divided into:
1. those that belong to the Emperor,
2. embalmed ones,
3. those that are trained,
4. suckling pigs,
5. mermaids,
6. fabulous ones,
7. stray dogs,
8. those included in the [...]
Posted on November 27th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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I wish Mother Nature would decide if she wants to snow or rain or what.
Added a product to their wishlist:
Good God a'mighty but that big man positively.WAILS on the geetar!
The amazingly loud & good Tony Campanella is just starting. This guy rocked the house last year.
On my way with Robin to the annual Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute show at the Pageant. $15 for a kickass 3 hour + show. Awesomeness!