September 10, 2003 – 22:11
I’ve now finaly got back to my main desktop so I can check my email since I’m incapable to do so from the road using my iBook. I was greeted by 500 messages, half of wich I estimate is copies of the Sobi.F worm sent as bounced Mail Delivery notices after someone spoofing my email adress.
I will now closely monitor every incoming email message and send a cease and desist letter to everyone that use Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express if they do not switch mailer and/or OS. Yes, the bogieman is coming after you! Whohahaha!
I have recieved a “Mail Delivery System” error message from a email message I didn’t send. Apparently someone tried to send a message containing the Sobig.F virus in an attachment using my email address in the from line. I’m investigating the abuse since that practice violates both US Federal law as well as European and Swedish law.
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I’m sick and tired of people emailing around MS Word documents. When are they gona learn? Either send it as plaintext (when it’s short and you don’t need formatting) or send it as a PDF file. All operating systems I use (KDE/GNU/Linux and MacOS X) can print documents to a PDF-file from the printing dialog. So why can’t they? I’m thinking about pen down a guide to common sense for regular computer users, those who used to be known as lusers in the MIT ITS era.
I might have sounded harsh in the last post. But between last weeks power outage and virus infections I found that if we could convert moronity into electricity we would have an eternal energy source.
Out of curiosity I searched for and article on XP — or eXtreme Programming in Wikipedia. And got a pretty suprising search result where Adolf Hitler top the “Article text matches”. Hmm, and Wikipedia is supposed to be NPOV…
If you search the term Camp Slaughter at Google you will get a hit for the directory category House of Representatives > Members… Kinda scary. Try it.
I have recovered a complete snapshot of the IndiPage site from early 1998 found in a zip file. Because the Wayback Machine at Internet Archive didn’t crawl the domain until 2000 there has not been any public copy preserved. I have emailed the archived and asked if I can submit my snapshot, it even have file timestamps preserved, to be included.
The invoice from Network Solutions tell me that I registered the domainname indipage.com in November 1996 and that it expired in November 1999. But I still belive the site went down in the spring of 1998 when I lost the webhosting.
There is a petition collecting signatures over at PetitionOnline. If you just like me hate paying Microsoft tax (paying for a unwanted preinstalled OS on the hardware) when purchasing a computer, in this case Toshiba Laptops, this is the right time to put your name on something.
Honor the Windows Refund Clause Petition - Toshiba