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I was attacked by Spam from Outer Space
by Tracy R Reed
So yesterday at around 3:30pm I got a strange email from LOLLERSKATES (system logfile analysis software which I wrote to warn of unusual activity). It said that Yahoo was blocking a whole ton of email from my server. Why would my server suddenly be sending thousands of emails to Yahoo? So I looked into it and the system was processing a massive amount of email. I instantly knew that my computer was being used to send spam.
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RedHat Security
by Tracy R Reed
RedHat has just released “Risk report: Four years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4” http://magazine.redhat.com/2009/03/10/risk-report-four-years-of-red-hat-enterprise-linux-4/#id1550537
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Assaulted for promoting freedom
by Tracy R Reed
More and more this is what freedom is about in the modern age…
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We are paying for Microsoft’s jelly doughnut.
by Tracy R Reed
I am putting together a theatrical version of Stanley Kubrick’s classic war film “Full Metal Jacket”. Starring: Microsoft as the fatbody Private Pyle. Russian crackers as Sargeant Hartman rummaging through the footlocker. Your social security number as the jelly doughnut. Windows as the unlocked footlocker. You and I as the rest of the platoon.
Read More857 hours, 1136 takeoffs and landings
by Tracy R Reed
o/~ Come fly with me, lets fly lets fly away. If you can use, some exotic booze, There’s a bar in far bombay. Come fly with me, well fly we’ll fly away. o/~
Read MoreAnyone need a computer job?
by Tracy R Reed
The meaning of the word has changed a bit since then…
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