by ezs | Jul 6, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
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I found an interesting article via Digg about twenty years of computer viruses.
Touch wood I’ve been virus free for a dozen years. Good practice and a well honed sense of paranoia I guess.
My ‘virus claim to fame’ was being one of the first people to find ‘SMEG.Pathogen‘ in the wild – this was in the summer of 1994. I found it on a hard drive from a customers laptop.
It infected a lot of my floppy disks and my main PC. I vividly remember thinking that ’something was wrong’ with my system – and I took an example of an infected executable to the Dr Solomon’s labs in Aylesbury on a day off. I remember meeting Graham Clulely and getting some raw code to at least detect and quarantine this first polymorphic virus.
I had to give a few statements to the police – including a ‘financial impact statement’ describing how much the outbreak had personally cost me and my company.
The virus author – Chris Pile – was famously sentenced to 18 months.
I’d love to hear your stories of close encounters with viruses and malware. Feel free to comment – anonymously if needed.
Written at: Draper, UT
by ezs | Jul 6, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Technology, Uncategorized
I found an interesting article via Digg about twenty years of computer viruses.
Touch wood I’ve been virus free for over a dozen years. Good practice and a well honed sense of paranoia I guess.
My ‘virus claim to fame’ was being one of the first people to find ‘SMEG.Pathogen‘ in the wild – this was in the summer of 1994. I found it on a hard drive from a customers laptop.
It infected a lot of my floppy disks and my main PC. I vividly remember thinking that ‘something was wrong’ with my system – and I took an example of an infected executable to the Dr Solomons labs in Aylesbury on a day off. I remember meeting Graham Clulely and getting some raw code to at least detect and quarantine this first polymorphic virus.
I had to give a few statements to the police – including a ‘financial impact statement’ describing how much the outbreak had personally cost me and my company.
The virus author – Chris Pile – was famously sentenced to 18 months.
by ezs | Jul 3, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized, wordpress
I’m struggling with some defects in WordPress 2.0.3 – specifically around the widget configurations.
I’ll dig into the code later – but for now I’m stuck with some half working widgets. Oh well.
by ezs | Jul 3, 2006 | Uncategorized, ZENworks
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Novell have talked about ZENworks futures at every BrainShare and customer event for as long as I remember. During 1999 and 2000 I remember being the Product Manager for ZENworks and talking about the up-coming ZENworks for Desktops 3 release – and how that would run on NT 4 server!
The next generation of ZENworks – you may have heard this by it’s internal development name of Brimstone – is much more than an incremental update.
This next release of our Configuration Management product is designed to deliver several key promises:
- unify and integrate the product components and architectures
- provide a single management console which is web based
- unify all backend services to use a single, database repository with a published schema.
- utilise a single pluggable agent on the managed client device
- allow seamless, yet powerful integration with corporate identity directories – Novell eDirectory and Microsoft Active Directory
- allow rapid deployment and installation across your enterprise
My next series of posts will drill down into this next generation of ZENworks – and will include screen shots and other information from the latest engineering milestones.
For the record – Novell does not pre-announce shipping dates for products. We are looking to release this product “during 2007″ – BrainShare 2007 will have a lot of information on this major innovation.
Written at: Tel Aviv, Israel
[Edit: Reposted with updates. Original post 28 June 2006]
by ezs | Jul 2, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Gonetoutah, Technology, Uncategorized, Utah
So finally we got to see "An Inconvenient Truth" - and it was stunning. A really well produced - but not slick and markety - and thought provoking film.
Al Gore did a great job of presenting the arguments - and did so in a very humbling, personal way.
A "must see" for everyone. Actually - I'll make that stronger - if you live in the developed world - and especially within the US - you must see this movie. Go with an open mind.
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