So there’s a film festival going on here that started on Friday night; it’s in its fourth year of existence. It’s fighting a reputation for being just a big posh gathering that focuses more on bumping elbows with celebrities and rich art-snobs than good film.
That being said, last night I went to see ¿ la folie… pas du tout (“He loves me, He loves me not”), and it was great. It’s an exploration of subjective storytelling. I’m not at all that good at summarizing plots — imdb is good for that sort of thing — but suffice it to say it was a fun movie and I enjoyed it a lot. Go see it if you get the chance!
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“…bore remarkable similarities to the “Code Red” virus…”
Notice anything strange on the interweb recently? Unable to reach one of your favorite sites? The Associated Press reports on an internet attack which began early this morning:The virus-like attack, which began about 12:30 a.m. EST, sought out vulnerable computers on the Internet to infect using a known flaw in popular database software from Microsoft Corp., called “SQL Server 2000.” But the attacking software was scanning for victim computers so randomly and so aggressively — sending out thousands of probes a second — that it saturated many Internet data pipelines.
Slashdot also has a more technical post about the worm:
Since about midnight EST almost every host on the internet has been receiving a 376 byte UDP payload on port ms-sql-m (1434) from a random infected server… …This is the cause of major connectivity problems being experienced worldwide.
You can also view graphs of the outage, updated on the hour.
Krishen’s Spin:
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Red Rain, Coming Down
My left eye is red after being that way for the past 36 hours! Hopefully this upcoming sleep will help.
