Slashback: Exactitude, Fortitude, Picnic 149
You mean we have to reprint all the invitations? Reader Ian Cowley wrote with a slight correction about the end of an era:
"Your article on slashdot.org about the billionth second of the epoch is sort of (but not entirely) flawed.Yes, UNIX systems will report 1000000000 seconds at 01:46:40 on 9th September. Which of course means the 1 billionth number will be 01:46:39.
But, these systems do not account for leap seconds. According to TAI (international atomic time), the 1 billionth second since the beginning of January 1st 1970 will occur at 01:46:17 on 9th September 2001, as 22 leap seconds have been inserted since 1970 (the first was 1972, the last 1999).
So celebrations of the 1000000000th second should be at 01:46:17, whilst 01:46:40 can be reserved for celebrating 1000000000 displayed on UNIX system clocks."
Errr ... thanks. We'll just have to start at "Unix Day, Observed."
What price the capture and humiliation of virus spreaders? JayHerrick writes: "We have posted a small bit of JSP that reports the number of times our server has been queried for a 'default.ida' page. It's stylish, it's cool, and it'll probably get Pepsi all mad at us because we ripped the Code Red logo off one of the bottles." Equally stylish, despite the name, is a small tool named codeRedNeck, described by reader mindriot thus: "As CodeRed probes port 80 of a machine, CodeRedNeck first answers on that port and then goes silent, thus forcing the worm to wait until the connection times out." He advises: "Read the original idea by Tom Liston. Heise also has more on this."
Even More Auspicious dates. No matter which date you choose to mark it, Linus' little kernel-that-could is about to mark its tenth birthday. ikluft writes:
Reader big_drew adds: "The event is free (food, softdrinks, cds -- sorry, no free beer, but byo is ok)" and says "If you can't make it out to CA, you can still get the t-shirt (profits will be used to fund the picnic).""The "Linux10" Linux 10th anniversary picnic and BBQ will be held on Saturday, August 25 from 11AM to 6PM at Sunnyvale Baylands Park in Sunnyvale, California. Details and directions can be found at Linux10.org. If you can attend, please use the RSVP form so the organizers know how much food and soft drinks to provide (only provided if you RSVP.)Linux10 is being organized as a family event -- bring the kids. In support of that goal, it is also a no-media event. Linux and Open Source enthusiasts who work for the media may attend and participate while off-duty.
Linux10 will gladly link to other Linux 10th anniversary events. Let us know the URLs for those events."
Anyone want to organize a picnic in the vicinity of Knoxville, TN? :) I can bring some pasta salad and watermelon.
Ten candles all around here, too. Simon Spero writes: "As noted in http://www.w3.org/History.html, today, August 6th, is the 10th anniversary of the first public release of the CERN Web Software."
Re:How Code Red uses sockets... (Score:1, Funny)
I knew we should've listened to Steve Gibson on the dangers of non-blocking sockets!
Anonymous cowards couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.
Party! (Score:1, Funny)
Free as in speech, not beer (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Party! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:JSP Garbage (Score:4, Funny)
I'd second that -- I've now had almost 14000 attacks on my server in the last 7 days. Apart from blowing out all the logs, it has cost me about $40 in bandwidth as well. Where can I send the bill?
Send Bill Gates to that place...
Exactitude, Fortitude, Picnic... (Score:4, Funny)
Or am I on drugs?
Re:Visualizing a billion units of time... (Score:4, Funny)
Another bash ? (Score:2, Funny)
I send you this bill... (Score:2, Funny)
I send you this bill in order to have your advice.
See you later. Thanks.
Re:Visualizing a billion units of time... (Score:4, Funny)
And about billion clock cycles ago, I was typing the word "typing."