Over at Security Focus there’s an InFocus article titled “Detecting Rootkits And Kernel-level Compromises In Linux” that I thought was an interesting read.
These things have gotten really sophisticated.
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I’ve managed to figure out what my dial-up problem was. I should have guessed this earlier but I’d forgotten about some changes I made to my local phone plan which seemed to have done away with the ‘disable call-wasting’ feature or changed what you have to dial first to disable it. After taking that out of my modem dialing string, everything was just honky dory.
So I’m back online at home now and will stop silently bad mouthing Earthlink support off-line for my own stupidity.
Where oh where has my dial-up gone?
Ok, so for the past two days my Earthlink dial-up has been giving me nothing but busy signals. Checking the Network status page hasn’t yielded any information in my area (maybe I’m the only one here using Earthlink dial-up?) and the first response from support just told me to try the three numbers I’ve already been trying. Gee, thanks.
No net access from home, so I have to get my fix at work. But I haven’t been at my desk much lately, so there’s not much of that either. Hopefully there will be some resolution by tonight or the weekend.
Computing with Lego
This is pretty cool. Logic gates built with Lego. Who knew Legos could be so versatile. With a few of these, I imagine it should be possible to build a simple Lego calculator.
How geeky cool would that be? 🙂
Found on Slashdot.
NIST Time services
All you ever wanted to know about NIST time services
Link from Nicholas