Telstra took days to understand BigPond virus
Grok Headline matches for Telstra took days to understand BigPond virus
Telstra delays BigPond billing kickoff
Telstra delays BigPond billing kickoff
01/03/2005 09:45 PMZDNet Australia Jan 4 2005 1:40AM GMT
Telstra blames upgrade for BigPond
problems
Telstra blames upgrade for BigPond
problems
05/31/2004 08:22 AMZDNet Australia May 31 2004 12:29PM GMT
Telstra to launch 'mini-help-desk' tool
for BigPond
Telstra to launch 'mini-help-desk' tool
for BigPond
07/19/2004 11:21 PMZDNet Australia Jul 20 2004 3:34AM GMT
Virus writer steals £70,000 in three
days
Virus writer steals £70,000 in three
days
04/14/2005 02:08 AMVenezuela-based computer virus writer
stole US$132,000 in three days
Venezuela-based computer virus writer
stole US$132,000 in three days
04/13/2005 01:43 AMVHeadline Apr 13 2005 5:46AM GMT
First documented cell phone virus //no
code or 0-days// just info
First documented cell phone virus //no
code or 0-days// just info
06/16/2004 06:16 PMSystem Administrator (Jun 16 2004)
Goodbye bigpond-customers
Goodbye bigpond-customers
10/29/2003 01:15 AMEffective immediately, customers of the Australian ISP Bigpond are
denied access to this site. The reason is simple: Some stupid...
BigPond tunes into indie music
BigPond tunes into indie music
08/05/2004 09:23 PMZDNet Australia Aug 6 2004 2:02AM GMT
How Dotster cost me days and days of
downtime: stay away from this registrar
How Dotster cost me days and days of
downtime: stay away from this registrar
08/12/2004 07:36 AMA year ago, the DNS for craphound.com disappeared. Which was weird,
because I was paying for DNS with Dotster, my registrar.
I called them up and spoke to their tech support people. "Oh yeah,"
they said, "your paid service ended a month ago but our billing system
was broken so we didn't send out a notice. So we terminated you for
nonpayment. But dude, you're lucky! We gave you a free month's DNS!"
Lucky lucky me. I got a free month's DNS and to pay for it, I was
bouncing mail all over the Internet and my Website wasn't resolving.
Bastards. I bought two years' worth of DNS and vowed that when the
domain came up for renewal, I'd switch away from Dotster. I sent them
an email telling them as much and got an email back apologizing and
saying that they would certainly never terminate my DNS wihtout notice
again (you see where this is going, I trust)
Craphound.com is up for renewal at the end of August. Not wanting to
leave things to the last minute, I changed over early this month,
switching registrars to Domain
Direct, who are now the registrar for all of my domains, and
boingboing.net besides.
I didn't move over the DNS -- I figured I'd paid Dotster for another
year's service, I might as well get it. Instead, I left myself a
reminder in my iCal for next July to set up DNS at DomainDirect a
month ahead of the service running out on Dotster.
This morning, Dotster terminated my DNS. Without warning. And when I
called, they told me there was nothing they could do about it. Even
though there's nothing in my DNS contract that says that DNS is
provided to domains registered with Dotster and no others, that is,
apparently, their policy. And they can't make exceptions. Not even for
48h while I effect a graceful change to DomainDirect (who have been
fantastic throughout and now have 100 percent of my domain
registration and DNS business).
Bastards.
I wish I didn't understand
I wish I didn't understand
04/09/2004 04:09 PMJust a quick note to my few friends in Spain... I had my first chance
to visit your beautiful country...
Something you would need a TV to
understand
Something you would need a TV to
understand
05/04/2004 02:27 AM
If you get all your news from watching
Weekend Update or
The Daily Show, you might find
FootnoteTV helpful.
The site comments and expounds on the newsworthy topics that often
crop up in television shows. The parent site,
newsaic, has subsites that examine
comics and
popular culture, among
other things, as well.
What Happens When You Don't Understand
The Problem
What Happens When You Don't Understand
The Problem
12/16/2003 06:28 PMThe real source of the vulnerability is not Apple's code, or really
even their implementation. But the DHCP standard itself. (John C.
Welch via MyAppleMenu)
Why I'd like to understand bl0gging
Why I'd like to understand bl0gging
09/18/2004 05:35 AMPeople ask me often what is a "blog". It annoys me to no
end that I cannot give a simple answer, because it tells me how little
I understand of the phenomenon.
A big discussion point in Finland at the moment is that
"blogs" have been translated as "internet
diaries". There is an danger of confusion here: If I tell you
that I play go, and that it is an "old chinese boardgame",
you will immediately understand its nature. But if I say that "I
blog, and it's like writing a diary on the web", your next
question will be "do you really write about your sex life in
public?" And that is because the word "diary" has a
private connotation. Reading someone else's diary is peeping
and wrong. Reading things that someone else published in the hopes
that someone would read them and give feedback, is not. Diary =
private, blog = public.
Most of the significant weblogs in the world are not diaries. But
that's another subject for a later day.
Perhaps I am an elitist, purist and academic. But I would still
really, really like to be explain to my grandmother what it is that I
care so much about.
Read this and understand the P2P wars
Read this and understand the P2P wars
05/15/2004 05:48 AMTimothy Wu is a law prof at the University of Virginia, and a very
clever copyright reformer to boot. When Timothy and I last met, he was
called Timmy, and we were both students at ALP, the hippie alternative
school in Toronto that we both attended until grade eight. One of the
weirdest coincidences in my life to date is that
two alumni
of a tiny school in Toronto would both end up moving to the US to
pursue something as obscure as copyright reform.
Back to Tim(my)! His latest paper, "Copyright's Communications
Policy," has me absolutely floored. Tim traces the history of
copyright law, the way that we've spent a century undergoing a
once-a-decade copyfight, in which representatives of inventors faced
down representatives of artists and duked it out in the courts and
Congress.
The parallels to today's fights are downright spooky. For example, the
first music pirates (the recording industry, who ripped off sheet
music) got this proper dressing-down from John Phillip Sousa,
who told Congress:
These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of
music in this country. When I was a boy...in front of every house in
the summer evenings, you would find young people together singing the
songs of the day or old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines
going night and day. We will not have a vocal chord left. The vocal
chord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of
man when he came from the ape.
I mean, I though Jack Valenti's
Boston Strangler
testimony was over the top, but clearly, Jack took his cues from Sousa
et al.
Thirty-odd years later, the another group of pirates -- radio
broadcasters, who refused to pay royalties for the music they
file-shared over the airwaves -- violated Godwin's Law decades
before it was formulated, comparing the entrenched rights
societies that served the recording industry (the pirates of their
boyhoods) to Adolph Hitler.
Tim runs down the history of cable versus broadcasters, and other
copyfights down through the ages. He does so clearly and engagingly,
in ways that non-lawyers and non-historians can readily grasp. And
when it's done, the most amazing thing is the certainty that
copryight-disrupting technologies every bit as wooly as file-sharing
have been invented over and over again, and that the P2P fight is not
a new one -- that piracy is the norm, not the exception.
If you want to understand the P2P fight, read this -- it is the most
concise, thorough and engaging text on the subject to date.
560k PDF Link
2 More Small Caps You Can Understand
2 More Small Caps You Can Understand
07/14/2004 11:27 AMHere are two companies with clear business models, market-beating
growth prospects, and moderate risk.
Who says Americans don't understand
Irony?
Who says Americans don't understand
Irony?
03/13/2003 10:14 AMThough maybe one of his speechwriters is British. Last week, Bush made
a speech chiding the world community for not...
MegaTokyo - relax, we understand j00
MegaTokyo - relax, we understand j00
01/11/2004 09:25 PMhttp://www.megatokyo.com/
Wow, I just wasted 3 hours on one site.... Just kept reading... The
blog is below the Comic, but the Comic is friggin funny.... Well
worth the 3 hours...
2 Small Caps You Can Understand
2 Small Caps You Can Understand
07/07/2004 11:33 AMA look at two small caps with clear business models, market-beating
growth prospects, and moderate risk.
I really don't understand how the iTunes
store...
I really don't understand how the iTunes
store...
12/02/2003 01:06 AM
I really don't understand how the iTunes store has sold so much music. Every single time I've tried
to use it in the past few weeks, I've gotten this. (I wondered if this
was just happening via Windows, but I just tried it on my Mac and got
the same thing.)
What part of "Baroque" didn't you
understand?
What part of "Baroque" didn't you
understand?
10/29/2003 12:12 AM I got a copy of Quicksilver while we were in London. I had to snag it
off the stocking...
State Politicians Don't Understand P2P
Either
State Politicians Don't Understand P2P
Either
08/05/2004 03:50 AMWhat is it with the difficulty politicians seem to have understanding
what a P2P file sharing network is, and why none of the networks have
control over the content being shared? The latest is that a group of
40 states have teamed up to
write a threatening
letter to file sharing companies accusing them of all sorts of bad
things. In whose name are they doing this? Even though the courts
have recognized file sharing networks for what they are, it appears
that the state attorneys general seem to believe that they can ignore
what the law says when the entertainment industry starts telling them
how evil file sharing networks are.
Update: Ernest Miller asks,
"why
shouldn't the state attorneys general condemn email and FTP as
well? An awful lot of child porn is shared via email. Shouldn't
email providers be doing more to stop it?"
When Even Mathematicians Don't
Understand the Math
When Even Mathematicians Don't
Understand the Math
05/24/2004 08:17 PMWhat does it mean when mainstream explanations of our physical reality
are based on stuff that even scientists cannot comprehend?
What the media don't understand about
bl0gging
What the media don't understand about
bl0gging
07/24/2004 11:27 AMI want to try to answer better a question I got asked by Larry Magid
who's putting together a 30 second piece for CBS Radio: What don't the
media understand about blogging? To the print and broadcast media,
bloggers usually look like little, vanity-press versions of the mass
media. That's because the media focus on the A-List. After all, the
A-Listers are the ones who have succeeded in the mass media's terms...
...continued at Boston.com...
Just How Much Do The Music Labels Not
Understand?
Just How Much Do The Music Labels Not
Understand?
05/04/2004 02:29 AMLast month we wrote about how the music industry was, inexplicably,
looking to (a) raise prices on digital downloads and (b) force people
to
buy a
bad song to get a good song. They clearly have no clue that
they're basically killing the one, very minor, success they've had in
the world of digital downloads. Now, even folks in mainstream
magazines like Newsweek are
screaming about how the labels
just don't get it. Steven Levy takes a look at a number of
downloadable albums that cost
more than their CDs, while giving
the user less (one of the CDs comes with a DVD as well). He also
can't believe that the industry hasn't pushed to make downloadable
songs play on a variety of devices, as that would
encourage
more people to buy. However, the folks who run the labels
don't get it. They only look at digital downloads and see
piracy. They are blind to the idea that it might be an opportunity,
and thus they have no real reason to come up with reasons to encourage
it. Of course, all this really does is push end-users to seek less
than legal alternatives.
Companies Understand Themselves By
Powerpoint
Companies Understand Themselves By
Powerpoint
04/09/2004 05:29 PMWhile there are some who still believe
Powerpo
int is evil, it's become a standard necessity in every day
business life. In fact, David Weinberger suggests that
Powerpoint is how companies understand themselves.
It's replaced the company story and has become "the company myth," so
that employees themselves can understand the organization they belong
to. Even in creating a sales pitch, companies focus on creating the
Powerpoint slides - mostly because it reinforces their own
understanding of the company they work for. While there are both good
and bad results that come out of this, I think it's also a statement
on corporate culture. Who gets to write the official version? While
you can make changes on your own, you tend to leave the corporate
story alone. While I'm not sure it's for everyone, I'd think that
more "bottom up" style corporations would be better off using
something like a wiki to define the corporate story. If you're
building a story around the corporate culture, shouldn't those
participating be a part of writing the story as well?
Microsoft Creates Anti-Virus Bounty To
Help Track Down Virus Writers
Microsoft Creates Anti-Virus Bounty To
Help Track Down Virus Writers
11/05/2003 10:59 AMWhat do you if you're in an unchartered area with no reasonable law
enforcement, and criminals are running rampant? You convince everyone
to become the "enforcement" arm and find someone rich enough to pay
them to help fight crime. Microsoft can't be bothered to fix a few of
the holes in their programs that make it incredibly easy to pass on
viruses, so instead, they're
setting aside $5 million for anti-virus bounty hunters who can
track down anyone responsible for worms, trojan horses or viruses.
The rewards will be given out in $250,000
wads of cash from
Bill Gates wallet increments. So, now, who's going to round
up an anti-virus posse?
Dogs Understand Human Language
Dogs Understand Human Language
06/10/2004 02:50 PMWired News Jun 10 2004 7:22PM GMT
NBOR: The Coolest Thing I Can't
Understand
NBOR: The Coolest Thing I Can't
Understand
01/09/2004 09:58 PMNew 'NBOR' Software to Debut Next Month: This
looks interesting, but I got confused halfway through. This guy has
spent 15 years of his life building it. Here's to hoping it works out
for him.
The software, called "No Boundaries Or Rules," or NBOR,
includes an intuitive user interface for writing, drawing, compiling
multimedia presentations and other PC tasks. It allows real-time
collaboration and sends large files over the Internet at lightning
speed.
The cornerstone of NBOR is "Blackspace," software for word
processing, desktop publishing, slideshow presentation, graphics,
drawing, animations, audio, photo cropping, instant messaging and
real-time conferencing.
This knocks Britney Spears off her perch, making her the second
coolest thing I don't understand.
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Computers learn to understand Sefrican
Computers learn to understand Sefrican
04/10/2004 09:41 PMSunday Times South Africa Apr 11 2004 0:17AM GMT
Stuff That I Don't Really Understand But
Sounds Cool Anyway
Stuff That I Don't Really Understand But
Sounds Cool Anyway
04/18/2005 02:02 AMRAC on Mac: In the
64-bit technology space, no company can match the Apple OS X / Darwin
technology and price.
BLACKFIVE: Media Still Doesn't
Understand the Military
BLACKFIVE: Media Still Doesn't
Understand the Military
07/01/2004 05:38 AMjournalists are making fools of themselves via their ignorance of
things military: .. this Blackfive article ..
Blackfive
blackfive.net/main/2004/06/media_still_doe.html
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Building Robots to Understand Brains
Building Robots to Understand Brains
03/22/2005 04:20 PMAn article
in The Online Engineer describes the work of Tony Prescott
and other researchers at the Sheffield University Department of
Psychology.
In an attempt to better understand vertebrate brains, they are
designing
and building control systems for multitasking robots. The work
involves
computational modellers, neuroscientists, and neurobiologists in the
Department's Adaptive Behaviour
Research Group. Their initial goal is to build
robots based on reverse-engineered rat brains. They hope that an
understanding of rat brains will eventually lead to an understanding
of
the human brain.
EU Commissioner says we need to better
understand benefits of e-Government
EU Commissioner says we need to better
understand benefits of e-Government
06/22/2004 02:46 AMPublicTechnology.net Jun 22 2004 7:04AM GMT
Americans do understand irony
(part 2)
Americans do understand irony
(part 2)
03/19/2003 10:24 PMThe US, as part of our "blow the heck out of Iraq" policy, is pumping
billions of dollars into the...
Help business drivers understand the
reports that they will need
Help business drivers understand the
reports that they will need
01/11/2003 02:05 AMCNET Jan 11 2003 1:27AM ET
Online Marketers Try To Understand Women
Online Marketers Try To Understand Women
05/05/2004 12:04 AMAmazing. Last week we joked about Yahoo
realizi
ng that women use the internet too, and now Salon has an article
on the same conference looking at
exactly how to market to women online. In both cases
the conference comes off as this sort of stunning world where it turns
out to be a surprise that women actually use the internet. Why is
this so shocking? Even more to the point, why is it so surprising
that you can't classify all women into a single group? Did marketers
really assume that all women only went online to research cleaning
products? It's pretty sad that a conference was needed to explain all
this, and it will be even sadder watching these same marketers try to
take these "lessons" and turn them into new advertisements for women.
At the end of the Salon article there's quite a telling quote. A
young woman is asked: "How do you feel about Yahoo trying to get into
your life?" She responds: "They pay you enough, and you don't care."
Welcome to the internet. Advertising isn't about intrusiveness and
annoying people, it's about giving people something of value - whether
monetarily or otherwise.
Oracle Tip: Understand the difference
between IN and EXISTS in subqueries
Oracle Tip: Understand the difference
between IN and EXISTS in subqueries
08/23/2004 02:48 AMCNET Aug 23 2004 7:15AM GMT
Research shows dogs understand language
Research shows dogs understand language
06/10/2004 09:37 AMWireless Broadband Companies Need To
Understand The Competition
Wireless Broadband Companies Need To
Understand The Competition
04/15/2004 02:23 PMWhen you hear something like this, it seems quite obvious - but many
wireless broadband players still haven't quite figured it out. When
offering wireless broadband services, they are
competing against wired broadband services in the minds of
customers. Too many wireless broadband providers only seem to focus
on the other wireless players - and therefore price things too high
for service levels that don't match wired broadband at all. This was
exactly the problem that Metricom ran into years ago with their
Ricochet service - and which many wireless broadband players are now
repeating. The article points out that hopefully this is changing
with
Nextel'
s wireless broadband announcement yesterday as they seem to be
moving as quickly as possible towards true DSL/cable broadband speeds
at prices not that far off from their wired competitors.
Grok Description matches for Telstra took days to understand BigPond virus
GrokA matches for Telstra took days to understand BigPond virus
Telstra took days to understand BigPond virus
