| Wednesday, September
10, 2003
 A
new Warning!
Subject: Microsoft RPC vuln patch didn't fix all methods - new patch
supersedes, re-patch all systems pronto
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url
=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-039.asp
Roland
Dobbins
HEAR AND BELIEVE
I have sent a warning to subscribers. Several have been
returned to me with "assumed to be spam" headers, and no
indication of who it was sent to. I have no way of dealing with that. The
message says that it's futile to reply to it, and things won't be
processed. That's fine, I suppose, and a good way to
treat spammers, but there's clearly something wrong with software that
rejects all security warnings. Here was the message:
*** ATTENTION *** Your message did not
reach the recipient.
Your message was assumed to be junk
email, rejected due to pattern match with:
Subject: [spam score 2/10 -pobox] A Chaos
Manor Security Warning List 2
If this was not unsolicited email, try
resending, including the code '773' in the Subject: heading. This might
let you get through. If you tried the code and still did not get through,
it means the recipient has decided to block your domain or email address.
Try sending from a different email address or email service.
Continuing problems? Contact your own
site administrator or Internet Service Provider for assistance.
Of course this makes the assumption that the sender is
desperate to be heard. If you want the Chaos Manor security
warnings and you subscribe I suggest you find a way to tell your spam
software that I am not sending spam. Fletcher
Jernigan your mail is being returned. I will put up
addresses of mail returned at badmail,
updating as needed. If you are at tampa bay, you ain't
never gonna get no mail from me nowhow apparently. Ah well.
 Incidentally,
I have this from a subscriber: BTW: I
thought my consultants here were safe behind our firewall. Then last week,
someone let a customer connect their notebook on our network for a demo.
Then we found out who hadn't been updating their boxes.
Indeed. Relying on firewalls and routers is unwise. In my
case I have direct control over what gets attached to my network, and that
plus the routers gives me a little time for installation of the patches
and fixes.
I put this up last night, but I have moved it in respect
to Dr. Teller. Life goes on.
 Thanks
to Kim Smith...
Aging Doesn't Diminish Cognitive Differences http://www.betterhumans.com/News/
news.aspx?articleID=2003-09-08-3 Dwayne Hunter Betterhumans
Staff
Monday, September 08, 2003, 3:57:30 PM CT
Contrary to a popular theory, a large study has found that even the
very old retain their distinctive patterns of cognitive strengths and
weaknesses.
The study disproves the theory of dedifferentiation, which suggests
that aging is associated with a merging of [49]cognitive skill levels.
Leni Riefenstahl, Controversial Filmmaker, Dies at 101
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Obit-Riefenstahl.html
from a September 10 NYTimes article
And as the demands grow for both active-duty
and reserve troops, Pentagon officials are nervously watching the
long-term effects on recruiting and retention for both.
So far, however, the Army numbers are
holding. Through the end of August, the Army had recruited 67,354 new
soldiers, exceeding its year-to-date goal by 307, according to the Army
Recruiting Command. In the same period, the Army Reserve had signed up
25,212 people, surpassing its goal for that period by 1,257.
Which allays one of my concerns, anyway.
Kellog All-bran in The Profit wrote "Even the
best of friends cannot attend each others funerals."
The New York Times obituary of Edward Teller was
written by Walter Sullivan who died in 1996. What a pity the Times didn't
ask Teller to write the obituary of Walter Sullivan.
From another discussion.
Examples of typical NASA competence. You may be
sure no one of importance will be fired. An accident investigation team
will hire consultants, and people will be paid. Why not?
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=10299
And a commentary:
This raises a few questions: 1) Why can't LocMart
(or whomever) AFFORD THE 24 EXTRA BOLTS so that BOTH carts are supplied
with required hardware? What, bolts too expensive these days? Has no one
there ever heard of McMaster-Carr or MSC or Enco? 2) Why did _NO ONE_ look
to see if the thing was bolted down? Are aerospace jobs that
compartmentalized these days that no one is in charge of checking basic
hardware on a system? 3) Why does an Accident Review Team need to be
created for someone forgetting to put in bolts? Don't these people have
enough to do?
But alas all these questions are rhetorical.
Aleta
The accident review board is needed because the purpose of these
organizations is to hire and pay people.
"We need some bolts. Let's take them out of this cart, it's not
being used. "
And see mail, here and here.
Music, Music, Music
The last time I did any serious commuting was in 1969 when I was still
a professor at Pepperdine, in the old campus in Inner City Los Angeles.
Pepperdine was put there by the Founder because at the time it was a
middle class neighborhood near light industry where students could work
their way through college, and was an integrated neighborhood. Mr.
Pepperdine felt strongly about racial integration.
Anyway I used to commute there from Buena Park in Orange County; we
lived there because my last job in aerospace was at North American Downey,
and we had a house in Los Coyotes Hills.
In those days there weren't talk radio stations. The all news stations
got dull. I listened to popular music in those days. It was pleasant
enough. I would have said not particularly memorable except that I do
remember some of it. Today's popular music -- now that's really not
memorable. I don't think I can name a single song. But that may say more
about me than the music.
Anyway, I thought about this the other day, and recalled some of the
music of the late 60's. "Hey there, Georgy girl",
"Hey there, you with the stars in your eyes," even Sonny and
Cher "The Beat goes on" and if I think about it I can probably
remember others. "My beautiful balloon".
And of course there were songs from the 40's and 50's I remember.
Anyway, I remembered "Hey There, Georgy Girl" although not who
sang it or anything, and I thought, if I could find a copy on the net, I'd
buy it.
I haven't found a copy. It's probably out there and I simply can't find
it. I did find the words, but not an mp3 for sale or not.
So, I thought, since it isn't for sale, I suppose it's available out
there through Kazaa or one of those things. Only I have not the faintest
idea how one goes about signing up for such, or even if, given that I have
a router and a firewall, it's possible to sign up for it; nor do I really
want to. I certainly don't want to experiment. I do a lot of silly things
so you don't have to, but this isn't one I like.
I don't even know how those things work. How can a part of your
computer be available to everyone out there, and the rest of your network
be fenced off? I'd imagine that if people have access to part of your hard
drive it can't be that hard to get at the other parts.
But I don't know, and I invite comments from those who DO KNOW. Please
don't send me speculations; I can speculate. I just have no experience
with this and I'd think many of you do. Enlightenment, please.
And if you know where I can find a copy of Georgy Girl that
would be nice. My interest isn't quite to the level of going to a record
store where I probably wouldn't find it anyway. But I don't mind paying,
if anyone with the right to sell it is selling...
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Thanks to all those who have sent me an mp3 of the song Georgy Girl as
done by a largely male chorus group called the Seekers. It is alas not what I remembered from
the radio, which was a singe female voice.
I do thank all those who took the trouble to send it. I am sure that
this was the original, and that The Seekers were a great group, but what I
remembered was something else entirely, or perhaps my memory is completely
at fault. It's hardly a momentous problem.
And The Seekers rendition is very nice.
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