robbat2 | Recent Entries

Welcome to the most deceptive TechWeek ever.

Date	Time	Class	What?
14 March	10h00	ITEC417	Weekly assignment #3 deadline
15 March	14h30-17h20	INTD404	Project Presentation
17 March	23h59	ITEC423	Computer Simulation assignment #4 deadline
18 March	12h00	MTEC314	CRM paper deadline
1623 March	10h00-11h20	ITEC417	Sequential JPEG implementation project deadline and presentation
24 March	22h00	ITEC426	EJB project

It looks like a light load, but there is actually a LOT of work hidden in some of these items, as well as the ongoing INTD404 project, that I still need to get more development done on.

Additionally:
~~14 March, 19h00-23h30 - Marissa's birthday party~~
~~15 March, 20h00-23h00 - Opera (Cosí fan tutte)~~
I might only attend one part of Marissa's party, depends how I'm doing with Techweek.

This is not my final intinerary yet. I've got some flexibility still, the only requirement is that I need to be in Karlsruhe between 21^st June and 26^th June. Marissa

amethest won't be finding out the final details for the Birthright Isreal flights until the end of the month. However I will need to book my flight before then.

I'd like to thank everybody that has bought the phpMyAdmin book, and donated to our SourceForge project.
We are using the collected money to organize a team meeting (paying for airfares for team members), and promote phpMyAdmin at LinuxTag 2005.

Flight: Vancouver Airport TO Munich Airport
Dep. 18h05 18 June, Arr. 13h00 19 June
Cost: 398 EUR / $649 CAD
Code: DE-6071
///
Rail: Munich Airport TO Munich Hbf
departs every 20 minutes, duration = 45 minutes.
Cost: 10 EUR
///
Maybe stay a day in Munich to see Gentoo developers (does anybody have a spare bedroom or large couch?)
///
Rail: Munich Hbf TO Karlruhe Hbf
Dep. 16h43 19 June, Arr. 19h53 19 June
Cost: $100 CAD
Code: 60-EC
///
Sleep @ Hostel (http://www.jugendherberge.de/html/jugendherbergen/individual_jh.jsp?IDJH=13) or is there a Gentoo developer in the area?
///
Rail: Karlruhe Hbf TO Munich Hbf
Dep. 12h07 26 June, Arr. 15h16 26 June
Cost: $100 CAD
Code: 65-EC
///
Marissa flys in from Israel.
///
Rail: Munich Hbf TO Salzberg Hbf
Dep. 16h22 26 June, Arr. 18h02 26 June
Cost: $50 CAD
Code: 2299-IC
///
Stay with Marissa's relatives in Bad Richenhall.
///
Rail: Salzberg Hbf TO Munich Hbf
Dep. 07h18 05 July, Arr. 09h13 05 July
Cost: $50 CAD
Code: 31014-R
///
Marissa flys back to Israel. Perhaps stay a night or two in Munich. Marissa wants to see Dachau concentration camp, and this avoids needing the extremely early morning start in Salzburg.
///
Rail: Munich Hbf TO Munich Airport
Departs every 20 minutes, duration = 45 minutes.
Cost: 10 EUR
///
Flight: Munich Airport -> Vancouver Hbf
Dep. 12h00 05 July, Arr. 16h25 05 July
Cost: 358 EUR / $584 CAD
Code: DE-2070

Spammers are getting less and less original, I only check my Spam box once every few weeks on average, so there are some interesting patterns that emerge.
This is a set of marginal spam, sorted by the subject line. The spam rule for 'Pharm' triggered only on occurances that had that entire string. The others scored lower, and were only caught by the body.

Now look at how their obfusciation algorithm works.

   1046 N * Mar 11 Andrew Esparza  (  22) Internet P/harmacy
   1047 N * Mar 05 Young E. Hahn   (  22) Internet P\harmacy
   1048 N * Mar 02 Lisa Kirkpatric (  22) Internet Ph!armacy
   1049 N * Mar 03 Rodger Keller   (  22) Internet Ph%armacy
   1050 N * Mar 01 Jami Hatfield   (  22) Internet Ph@armacy
   1051 N * Mar 08 Cristina Eubank (  22) Internet Ph]armacy
   1052 N * Mar 10 Arnulfo Cruz    (  22) Internet Pha(rmacy
   1053 N * Mar 11 Lula R. Chang   (  22) Internet Pha*rmacy
   1054 N * Mar 09 Clark Swan      (  22) Internet Pha/rmacy
   1055 N * Mar 07 Glen Woodruff   (  22) Internet Pha\rmacy
   1056 N * Mar 02 Hillary Abraham (  22) Internet Phar/macy
   1057 N * Mar 05 Freddy K. Stubb (  22) Internet Phar\macy
   1058 N * Mar 02 Charley Meeks   (  22) Internet Pharm(acy
   1059 N * Mar 06 Annmarie Kruege (  22) Internet Pharm*acy
   1060 N * Mar 10 Hollis Brown    (  22) Internet Pharm^acy
   1061 N * Mar 02 Sandra Barnard  (  22) Internet Pharma!cy
   1062 N * Mar 07 Johnathan W. Ba (  22) Internet Pharma*cy
   1063 N * Feb 28 Fay Kay         (  22) Internet Pharma/cy
   1064 N * Mar 01 Beverley Gibbs  (  22) Internet Pharma/cy
   1065 N * Mar 05 Deandre Carson  (  22) Internet Pharma@cy
   1066 N * Mar 08 Dexter Tatum    (  22) Internet Pharma@cy
   1067 N * Mar 03 Georgette Suthe (  22) Internet Pharma]cy
   1068 N * Mar 04 Bertha Oneil    (  22) Internet Pharmac(y
   1069 N * Feb 28 Don Neely       (  22) Internet Pharmac*y
   1070 N * Mar 07 Art Sewell      (  22) Internet Pharmac/y
   1071 N * Mar 06 Brian Ellison   (  22) Internet Pharmac[y

I think if somebody could come up with an efficent algorithm to detect permutations of a string with N characters wrong, spam detection could improve a reasonable amount.

Hello and welcome to the real PlanetGentoo readers.

I've been crazily busy with schoolwork lately, as I've only 6 weeks left of my final semester of university.

A number of users have been bugging me to do various things for some packages (mysql-4.1*, openldap-2.2*, autofs-4*), but I'll state right now that I'm not going to be doing those on my own for the next six weeks.
I don't feel I can provide an acceptable level of support for major changes like that on my own, and still pass my courses. This does not apply to cases where the packages are supported by a reasonable size herd that can help with my temporary lack of time, or any case where I need a package update for my job.

Reading the new PlanetGentoo, I'd like to re-iterate what ferringb said about QA & the Therac-25 problem. A very good overview of this is presented in "The Science Of Debugging" (Telles, M.A. & Yuan, H. 2001), which also covers some other major incidents, and explores the reasons behind this. The only thing I don't agree with from the book is the title, as debugging has a lot more of a holistic need to it, and also requires some intuition (we have have the meta-gcc bug for all those hardware-caused failures).

On the PHP debate raging here in PlanetGentoo, I'm a strong supporter of what Stuart said. PHP is only a means to an end. If that end happens to be the average web development project, it's a very good means, as other most other tools are too complex, or not complex enough. I've been involved in some web development projects where a tool more suitable than PHP has need, and ended up using Apache Tomcat and Apache Axis together, without any troubles (other than a steeper learning curve). There is a vague possiblity I'm biased, as I'm an upstream developer with phpMyAdmin (current rank #8 on SourceForge).
I do agree that there is also some incredibly bad PHP out there. I've seen several servers (including one belonging to a Gentoo dev [who shall remain nameless here]) get hacked entirely through PHP. Only once was this via any published exploit (phpBB related), and the remainder of the occurances were spammers purposefully probing a PHP script, and then turning a box into a source of spam. The single most common problem is stupid code like include($var); where $var has not been checked in any way, and is untrusted user input - just pass it a URL of some PHP source, and watch the server run the code. This could be stopped to a limited degree if PHP got a proper taint mode (like perl), but I don't think it would really solve the source of the problem. (I know you can limit the sources of file loading, but several of my sites need to load external material, and it is quite possible to do so if designed and coded in a secure fashion.)

Seeing some developers with Amazon wishlist links, how many devs have actually got anything they wanted sent by some grateful user?

Marissa recieved these emails from her father, who claims they are not rants. What do you think?

[Poll #449340]

Email #1:
( Email #1 )

Email #2:
( Email #2 )

14232.03m! w00t!.
(and a maximum altitude of 259m...)

And with that note after doing my crazy load of assignments, I think it's time for bed.

Play it here.
Warning, this game is addictive.

Ok, so I haven't provided any update on my XXS1500 porting for a while.

Not working:
USB
PCMCIA

Working marginally:
Sound

Untested:
GPIO

Working:
Networking
Flash
(and everything else I think)

Latest patch

This is a post to test my RSS filtering.
So that PlanetGentoo readers only get my gentoo-related posts, and no other material.

Sometimes cheese wheel inside earns frequent flier miles, but alchemist from always bur cashier toward crank case! beyond diskette play pinochle with alchemist beyond chain saw, or behind recliner avoid contact with wedding dress behind. Unlike so many curses who have made their smelly cheese wheel to us. Where we can hardly mourn our blood clot.

More funny spam now.

#1:

Any CEO can make a truce with inside skyscraper, but it takes a real boy to inferiority complex over dissident. Unlike so many impresarios who have made their ghastly clock to us. If living with starlet steal pencils from tenor over cream puff, then bicep defined by panics. For example, spider living with insurance agent indicates that looking glass living with dust bunny approach reactor beyond grain of sand.

#2:

Most maestros believe that tabloid living with conquer related to photon. steam engine about takes a coffee break, but philosopher for bounce hydrogen atom over omphalos. A few curses, and ballerina over) to arrive at a state of cough syrup haunches remain blotched.

#3:

And confess the dark side of her fire hydrant. stalactite near scythe flies into a rage, and living with bride flies into a rage; however, wheelbarrow about ballerina boogie. Where we can secretly learn a hard lesson from our chess board.He called her Cary (or was it Cary?). dahlia behind pine cone prays, but curse related to wheelbarrow boogie maestro inside. When ribbon near hesitates, from blithe spirit ruminates.

Current Mood: cold

[Poll #437755] All comments are screened if you would prefer to answer privately.

( Meme - LJ Friends Collage )

Comments are screened. Leave a note telling me if you want to unscreen your comment.

1. Give me your number?
2. Have sex with me?
3. Let me kiss you?
4. Watch a movie with me...even a really sappy one?
5. Let me take you out to dinner?
6. Drive me somewhere/anywhere?
7. Take a shower with me?
8. Be my bf/gf?
9. Have a fling with me?
10. Listen to me if I called you crying even if you were out with all of your friends?
11. Buy me a drink if i didnt have money?
12. Take me home for the night?
13. Would you let me sleep in your bed?
14. Sing car karaoke w/ me?
15. Sit in the doctors office with me because I didn't want to go alone?
16. Re-post this for me to answer your questions?
17. Come pick me up at 3 am because my car ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere?
18. Do you think im pretty, beautiful, or hot?
19. Do you like my style?
20. Do you think im funny?
21. Do you care about me?
22. Would you cry if i died?
23. Would you stop me if i tried to commit suicide?
24. Would you dance with me?
25. Would you sing happy birthday to me?
26. Would you smack yourself with a frying pan just to make me smile?

http://kevan.org/proce55ing/zombies/

Yes, it's the next techweek schedule post...
This time interspersed with a rough plot of when I'm planning to work on specific items.

Sat 5 Feb - INTD404 - prepare testing plan
Sat 5 Feb - ITEC422 - complete Arena model and handoff to Thomas.
Sun 6 Feb afternoon - INTD404 - do user testing project component on unsuspecting users.
Sun 6 Feb - ITEC425 - Work on project.
Mon 7 Feb - ITEC425 - XML/Perl/XSLT Petshop project deadline
Tues 8 Feb - ITEC416 - do lossless JPEG encoding project & assignment #4.
Wed 9 Feb 10h00 - ITEC416 - Assignment #4 and project deadline.
Wed 9 Feb 10h00-11h30 - ITEC416 - project presentations.
Wed 9 Feb - MTEC313 - work on paper some.
Wed 9 Feb - ITEC422 - review assignment with Thomas.
Thu 10 Feb 15h30-18h20 - ITEC425 Exam.
Thu 10 Feb 23h59 - ITEC422 - Arena Simulation Assignment #4 deadline.
Fri 11 Feb 12h00 - MTEC313 - paper deadline.

Scan my interest list. List one that seems odd to you.

I'll explain it.

Then you post this in your journal so other people can ask you about your interests. Or else you don't.

(Thanks

porphyre)

Globe and Mail: 'Will the world ever learn?'

As that was taking place, 20 parliamentarians from right-wing and Communist parties in Russia were issuing a press release calling for "the prohibition in our country of all religious and ethnic Jewish organizations," on the grounds that Jews are unpatriotic and responsible for a number of social ills, including anti-Semitism

So the Jews are to blame for for anti-Jewish propoganda? Right...

The body of a spam:

cheese wheel near tape recorder, 
ocean defined by jersey cow, 
and bonbon from avocado pit 
are what made America great!

And know the dark side of her bubble.
Indeed, razor blade beyond give a pink slip to beyond carpet tack.

The first stanza is great, but the second is a little lacking.

You Are 40 Years Old

40 Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe.
13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.
20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.
30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more!
40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

Now I'm scared.

Current Music: Queen - The Platinum Collection\2-16 - The Show Must Go On

Move along, nothing to read

A dis-illusioned software engineer

TechWeek/Assignment Scheduling

Trip to LinuxTag 2005 in Germany - Tentative Itinarary (Gentoo/phpMyAdmin)

interesting spam behaviors

Gentoo: a general update

Is this a rant?

Quit while you are ahead!

(no subject)

Status of 2.6 patch for XXS1500 rev A hardware

Gentoo: Welcome to PlanetGentoo readers

Again with the crazy spam bodies.

more spam bodies

Valentine's Poll

(no subject)

(no subject)

Simulation of Zombie Infection

Techweek Schedule Post

Meme time

Jews to blame for anti-Semitism!

Spam Body

Act your age? Umm... No!

Profile

May 2017

Syndicate

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags