A network administrator of dubious intelligence left my co-worker this voice mail today, accusing him of sending pornographic or viral attachments to an unnamed firm in Washington D.C. Apparently, this network administrator lives under a rock, and isn't aware of the Klez worm which randomly selects the address it's going to pretend it came from, choosing from the archived files on the infected PC. So, if your e-mail address is on the web, or on anyone's computer, it can appear to come from you.

Yes folks, these are the people who are protecting your networks. Be afraid, be very afraid.
- posted by Seth @ 2:53 PM    

 
Sum of All Fears
I saw the Sum of All Fears last night. It was pretty good, an entertaining spy-thriller that I only had a few gripes about. I have to agree with Roger Ebert's review where he complains that at the end of the movie the hero and his girlfriend are eating lunch on the grass by the White House, forgetting the major disaster that happens in the movie took place only 40 miles away, leaving tens of thousands of people dead.

But, boy, did the disaster catch me off-guard. I about fell out of my chair, because while I knew it was coming, I didn't think it was going to happen right then.

My other gripe is that the Russians hit a U.S. Aircraft Carrier like shooting fish in a barrel. Here in the real world, aircraft carriers travel in "Carrier Groups" and at Defcon 2 they'd have had an entire wing of fighters in the air above the carrier, and there wouldn't be a ship or plane going unnoticed in a 1,000 mile radius around the carrier. But, I'll overlook that, because it was still a good movie. :)
- posted by Seth @ 1:33 PM    

 
Mozilla 1.0 has finally been released! I've been using Netscape 7 PR1 (based on Mozilla RC1) as my primary web browser for the last week or so, and I like it. Mozilla/Netscape 7 actually supports Cascading Style Sheets, so that these pages are readable, and it's available for nearly every platform you could want it on.

The IMAP implementation still seems buggy to me, and it tends to hang/crash a lot for me, so for reading my e-mail, I'm still going to stick to Outlook on Windows, Entourage on Mac OS X, and Evolution when I'm using Linux.
- posted by Seth @ 12:33 PM    

 
Well, the time has come for a new weblog. My old one, hosted over at http://techsupport.editthispage.com/ has served me well, but UserLand's servers have become too slow. I guess you get what you pay for! I thought about hosting this site with a commercial weblog service, but decided instead to host it on my own domain. I'm already paying for this web hosting service, so why get another?

It's called Seth-Tech for the moment, but that's subject to change. It was the best I came up with in the 30 seconds I devoted to thinking of something. My site has never, and will never be all about technical stuff, as I include a lot of personal stuff as well. I think I include enough technical stuff to bore my friends, and enough personal stuff to bore complete strangers, but yet people keep reading...

This is definitely a much quicker system to use than the Userland one, hopefully that'll encourage me to post more often. There's nothing more frustrating than getting a post all finished up, only to have it vanish into the ether, never to return. I paid the $35 to upgrade to the Blogger Pro system, so that I've finally got a fast server to use.

- posted by Seth @ 8:23 AM