San Jose has a lot of neat, IMO, neon signs. This is one of them on San Carlos Ave.
Archive for May, 2006
Now that’s a neon sign!
Saturday, May 27th, 2006Zero day exploits
Saturday, May 27th, 2006Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. — Blanche DuBois, A Streetcar Named Desire
As far as I can see there is no solution to the zero day exploit problem. Someone can always see what software you are running and wait until the moment a vulnerability is discovered and immediately attack you before you can patch. It is true however that most people will not be targeted in this way since there are many more benevolent people than malicious people (see above quote). In general websites are not targeted until vulnerable sites can be found with a web search engine, making it easy for a few people to find a large number of vulnerable sites.
Don’t know where I’m going with this post. Just that we are doomed to not be able to instantly patch.
Under Construction
Friday, May 26th, 2006You know those stupid animated GIFs of some stick figure digging. Well we have new sites in the works, and I want to get the links out there so the search engines pick them up.
Toonet is a simple set of utilities for stuff I sometimes want to run off a remote computer. Now it is really easy. With toonet you can port scan, do DNS lookups, ping, and more in the future.
This site will contain useful information about Linux. Compatible laptop hardware, etc. This info will also be submitted to http://linux-laptop.net/ and http://tuxmobil.org/
This site will replace toometa.com. Its exact final point is still unknown and undisclosed.
This site is the one I’m least serious about this far, but I thought it was a good domain name for yet another open source software news site.