Day: September 19, 2005

  • Hacking Humour

    It was amusing enough when I saw that someone tried to log onto this webserver as a user named “fluffy.” Imagine the laugh I got out of seeing one industrious little hacker try the following names (among a few hundred others) to get onto Washuu, however:

    darkman (man, just don’t watch the sequel. what a stinker.)
    romeo (tragic shakespearean characters are gother than thou.)
    quake (with fear?)
    ping (naughty, naughty PS2 accessory!)
    pong (yes, go ahead and hack into my uber-l33t networked table-tennis game.)
    taz (taking time out from trying to eat bugs bunny, apparently.)
    kimi (that’s a very pretty name.)
    reebok (running shoes…)
    nike (…are sensible…)
    adidas (…username selections? in what alternate universe?)
    die (another day.)
    jem (do kimber and stormer know what you’re really doing on the internet?)
    jaime (the co-worker I’d least suspect.)
    callhome (why? did I leave the oven on again?)
    notorious (underrated duran duran album, can’t find it anywhere, dammit.)
    toto (never liked that “africa” song very much, but the “dune” soundtrack is pretty cool.)
    alexandru (my daughter will find this amusing. or disturbing. something like that.)
    banana (come mr. hackerman, hack on my banana…)
    bootcamp (yeah, that’s where you camp the boot sector and frag the operating system as it loads.)
    coupon (a word I now cannot help but pronounce as “koo-pun.” damn you, comedy central.)
    phoebe (the sitcom character I’d least suspect.)
    dummy (no comment.)
    stud (again.)
    hacker (finally, truth in advertising.)
    sexy (something that the person trying to hack my servers most assuredly is not.)

    Okay, that’s about enough of that. I think I’ve fixed Washuu’s “swatch” setup so from now on I won’t get a massive list of illegal usernames on Monday morning…

  • I’m allowed, right?

    Okay, so I blew off writing again yesterday. It’s not like anything happened that I didn’t predict in Saturday’s posting. I did, in fact, work on the Universe Changed project. (I have a good “master disc” for the first two episodes, and I have up to the 5th episode’s raw capture file on the hard drive.) I didn’t reinstall Linux on the server, but then again I did get the printer to work. (The traditional thinking in Linux-land is that you don’t need a reboot to make things work. Sometimes, however, the traditional thinking is worth just about as much as the paper it’s written on.) I vegged out quite a bit, catching five episodes of Noir and finishing up the night with a good round of Empire Earth during which The Roomie, The Ratboy and I stomped all kinds of over our computerized opponents.

    Ah, mayhem. It does a psyche good.