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Haircut reset
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Grandfather died :-(
Two weeks ago, on January 1, my grandfather, Grigoriy Rafailovich Asnin died. I didn't post anything about that then, but I now I just want to say that he was a good person, and I am grateful for everything he did for me when I was a kid.
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XEmacs deuglification
While XEmacs is a great text editorM-M-developmentM-interactive environment, it has one problem -- its default configuration looks ridiculously ugly:
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Birthday
Yesterday was my birthday -- I am 37 now.
Since I was born in the morning, and it was in Gomel, Belarus, it means that in Unix time my birth date is somewhere around -3600000. That is, three million six hundred thousand seconds before 1960's ended.
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vincent.jb.org incident -- explanation for non-sysadmins
Last two entries were about the vincent.jb.org incident, and I guess, many people who had seen them, found most of the text to be unreadable technobabble. Since at this point the immediate problems are solved -- vincent.jb.org is up, and scammers lost their email addresses -- it makes sense to explain, what the hell happened, and why.
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My god, it's full of perl scripts! (updated 08/16)
Since two addresses in the vincent.jb.org incident were from Yahoo Mail, I have reported them to abuse@yahoo.com.
So far, it looks like I am talking to some piece of software, specifically designed to keep email away from people who are supposed to respond to it. Or at least this is how it's used by hard-working Yahoo admins:
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Intrusion recovery aka vincent.jb.org pwn3d (finished, was started on 08/07)
On August 4 I have got a call from j_b -- he had remotely rebooted vincent.jb.org box, and sshd failed to start. The box runs Debian Sarge, and is located at my lab, connected to my network to use my otherwise underutilized bandwidth, so I was the only person who could look at the console and restart sshd. The fact that sshd failed to start was not by ( Read more... ) -
Look ma, no Qwest line!
Today my home phone number switched from Qwest to Voicepulse Connect VoIP service (one that supports IAX2). Right after it happened I have received a phone call with no caller ID from someone asking for "owner of this phone number" and claiming that he is "from Total Call International, your long distance provider". My response obviously was "No, ( Read more... )
