100,000 Downloads of X11 For Mac
Who would have imagined that the official X11 release from Apple would have scored 100,000 downloads in less than two weeks? Even though it’s a beta? I wouldn’t have, but I’m not going to question Ken Bereskin on it. Just goes to show that there are a whole lotta Unix weenies out there using Mac OS X. Even more impressive when you consider that most of the Unix weenies I know don’t run X apps. Posted: 2003/01/31 00:32 (The James Duncan Davidson Weblog)
EL SEGUNDO, CA. - The Los Angeles Kings have placed goaltender Felix Potvin on the injured reserve list with a right knee sprain and have recalled goaltender Cristobal Huet from the Manchester Monarchs of the American Hockey League…. More…
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Potvin joins centers Eric Belanger and Brad Chartrand, left wings Ken Belanger and Kip Brennan, right wing Adam Deadmarsh and defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky on the team’s injured reserve list. In addition, center Jason Allison has missed two straight games because of a strained hip flexor, and defenseman Mathieu Schneider didn’t play at San Jose after being hit with a shot in the foot a night earlier in a 3-0 loss to the Sharks at Staples Center. The Kings have lost 15 of their last 19 games to fall into last place in the Pacific Division.
Must…resist…urge…to…curse…hockey…gods…
It is easy to see why America as a concept would have fascinated Kafka, who never traveled the Atlantic, though many of his relatives had made the journey and entered family lore. Some of what he knew about the New World appears to have come from the pens of Charles Dickens (whose family melodramas he grotesquely parodied) and the fantasist Karl May, whose invented stories of frontier life thrilled a couple of generations of German-reading children. In Kafka’s America, for instance, San Francisco is in the East and a bridge links New York to Boston….
MS SQL Server Worm Wreaking Havoc
defile writes "Since about midnight EST almost every host on the internet has been receiving a 376 byte UDP payload on port ms-sql-m (1434) from a random infected server. Reports of some hosts receiving 10 per minute or more. internetpulse.net is reporting UUNet and Internap are being hit very hard. This is the cause of major connectivity problems being experienced worldwide. It is believed this worm leverages a vulnerability published in June 2002. Several core routers have taken to blocking port 1434 outright. If you run Microsoft SQL Server, make sure the public internet can’t access it. If you manage a gateway, consider dropping UDP packets sent to port 1434." bani adds "This has effectively disabled 5 of the 13 root nameservers." (Slashdot)
Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 2
In Part 1, Chris Stone focused on rescheduling default system cron jobs by modifying the system crontab file. Here in Part 2, he shows you how to configure cron to email a report to you each time it runs one of these jobs. (MacDevCenter)
