The Museum of Broken Packets
Now this is a museum for the true networking geek! The The Museum of Broken Packets is an online exhibit of malformed and otherwise odd packets captured in the wild by enthusiasts of such things. For example:
This is pretty funny. Due to a hardware failure, this packet was, erm, shifted (some data appended at the beginning of ethernet frame). Hardware addresses are not extactly correct, and IP header is prefixed with four bytes (f1 00 08 00). It was reported to happen for broadcasts only (!) and was fixed by replacing one cable.
Via Weblog Wannabe.
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Just in time for Thanksgiving
This site is a compendium of "fungal diseases that must be overcome to have a traditional Thanksgiving dinner:"
The following list of fungi affecting certain crops highlights some contributions of mycologists and plant pathologists: None of these crops could be grown profitably and be easily available for consumers for their Thanksgiving dinners without these scientists' studies of the fungi and the crop plants. Some of these fungi cause post-harvest diseases, and some infect the crops directly. Most of these diseases are not a huge problem any more under prevailing conditions, mostly due to studies of fungal life cycles and pathogenic properties by mycologists and plant pathologists--- but there are always other diseases waiting to take their place!
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Via MetaFilter.
11/20/01
Tourist Guy found
You saw the photo - the guy standing on top of one of the World Trade Center towers a second before the plane hit. And if you had a lick of sense, you realized it was all a hoax.
Like All Your Base before it, Tourist Guy quickly became an Internet phenomenon, with hundreds of people dropping everything to digitally put him in photos with everything from the Hindenburg to Lee Harvey Oswald. But always, the question remained: Who was this guy, really?
A Brazillian businessman claimed he was Tourist Guy. But a Hungarian Web site has ripped the covers off his flimsy story, revealing that Tourist Guy is really a Hungarian named Peter, As recounted, in English, by Wired News, Peter had the original picture taken during a trip to New York to visit relatives a while back.
Why virtual offices suck
It's bitter-coffee week here at Compendium Central as we keep running across items that involved that dreaded "S" word.
Today's entry comes from the O'Reilly Network, where Bruce Epstein holds forth on the perils of working from home:
The real drawbacks are the lack of football pools and the isolation inherent in working alone. In a physical office, there is the opportunity for non-business banter, a chance to share a game of hearts over lunch, or the possibility of finding a tennis partner. Working in a virtual office is like having a foster child in Senegal. An occasional airmail letter isn't the same thing as a nightly bath and bedtime hug. Hell, even mail order brides get delivered eventually.
11/19/01
A domain ruling that sucks
Because not everybody speaks English, the World Intellectual Property Organization has just taken one giant bite out of the right to free speach.
WIPO, which arbitrates domain-name disputes, last week ruled that domain names ending in "suck" must be handed over to the companies or agencies that somebody thinks suck enough to warrant a protest site.
The specific case involved Vivendi Universal, the one time water distributor turned music giant, that was offended by vivendiuniversalsucks.com (not hyperlinked since it's not live).
The panel gave two main justifications for its ruling. One is that "sucks" is not always a perjorative and that some people might therefore be duped into thinking a "sucks" site really belongs to the company:
The second reason: English-speaking Web users just have to get over their smugness and realize not everybody speaks English and that non-Anglos won't know what "sucks" means (which begs the question of why they'd be going to a site with a name like that to begin with). It cited an earlier ruling:(1) the use of the words "sucks" purely descriptively, as in the advertising slogan "Nothing sucks like Electrolux" (If there were a website at
, it would be unlikely to be taken as unaffiliated with the company Electrolux); and (2) the website of the band Primus, <primussucks.com>, so named after the album Suck on This (1990). (The website of the band's lead singer, Les Claypool, at <lesclaypool.com>, has a link to the <primussucks.com> website).
«…la Commission estime que dans le cas d’un public non anglophone, voire anglophone, mais peu habitué aux expressions familières ou argotiques, bref, d’un public ignorant la signification du mot "sucks" en soi ou pour désigner des sites de "cyberprotestation", la formule "accorsucks" ne signifie rien de plus que l’adjonction à la marque connue "accor" d’un suffixe dénué de sens particulier et, donc est inapte à constituer un "tout indivisible" modifiant globalement la perception de la marque "accor" constituant les deux premières syllabes de la séquence "accorsucks".
Via Politech.
Hacking the iPod
Well, now that didn't take very long. iPod Hacks is a site dedicated to getting under the covers of the new Apple MP3 player/portable hard drive gizmo.
Via MrBarrett.
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Tracking down a stolen Mac; Dead C Scrolls; Googlewhacking; How bad is it in the Valley?; Storage lessons from the Wayback Machine; The pub-seeking handheld; Internet gang wars; Outlook XP breaks MIME.
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Dot-com to bare all; iMac Dance; Wendy's remembers Dave; Search engine bites the dust; Wendy's Web site ignores Dave's death; Geek comic strip; Youngest security expert ever; Spam poetry; Confessions of a hacker; Breathless Apple; Dave Barry does Windows XP.
Dropping everything to vote; The best Apple rumors, ever; Guess Steve Case isn't getting into Harvard; Make your own O'Reilly cover; Boosting your wireless juice; Telnet lives!
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The most useless software ever; Is Microsoft getting ready to squash PC vendors?; Excite@Home: The Watergate of the New Economy?; No more 3Com Park. Is CMGI Field next?; Are you an e-bore?; This site'll have you coming and going; Entertainment Weekly's loss of innocence; Ensign Crusher as Entertainer of the Year; Oh, for the old days.
The Museum of Broken Packets; Just in time for Thanksgiving; Tourist Guy found; Why virtual offices suck; A domain ruling that sucks; Hacking the iPod.
Why you shouldn't ship computers via UPS; When .Net requires Java; High-tech grafitti artists; Spam from beyond the grave; New group tries to oversee the whole Internet; Paging Dick Tracy; Students use PDAs to cheat; Windaz for Aussies, Newfies; Another alternative to Passport; A virtual honeynet
Bill Gates: Father of open source; Verizon exec: Monopoly is good; Weird molecule names; E-mail: too much of a good thing?; A cluster of one; More woes for dot-bombers; Spam as weapon in the war on crime; Just when you think the Web can't get any better; Just when you think the Web can't get any worse; More proof I shouldn't be a wiseass; Using your Web logs to ID hacker attacks; Help save the FAQs; Who do you trust, baby?; Powerpuff Girls powerless against virus; Big IP pipe between US, Europe.
The profit of turning thugs into programmers; Work Name Generator; A programmer's lament; The world's best ATM; Are anti-spammers killing people?; Web services and storage; Get your Aerons here; Perl for the XXI-imum century; Microsoft's blocking of non-IE browsers.
Government info taken off the Web since 9/11; Beware hackers who talk too much; A contest you can enter sitting down; Now don't try this in the office; Bob Patterson must die; Finally, a useful 404 page; Tech calls from hell; Teletubbies XP; More XP fun; Anthrax and e-mail; Larry's ID card; World's longest gum-wrapper chain.
Let's drop PDAs on Afghanistan; Voice control? Try grunt control; Spam gets back to business; A content-management portal; Share your system tray with the world; Would you let the recording industry onto your network?; Al Queda's low-tech high tech; 9/11 archive; Shoe company gets open source after all; Pod people, coming soon to a cube near you.
Larry and Scott's dueling ID cards; Cringely: Broadband is dead; The dangers of Photoshop; The dangers of copy protection; Microsoft mining whois for telephone solicitations?; How to REALLY throw a LAN party; Good fences don't make good 'Net neighbors; How Google adapted to 9/11 news; Web services as over-hyped hooey; Why shoe guys shouldn't do open source; Online air hockey.
AT&T waives 9/11 wireless charges for some; Shifting gears; Craig Burton on the Novell/Microsoft suit; In search of the post-PC interface; Vibrating PDAs and wearable phones; Gary Condit's Web site; No, that isn't a real photo of a WTC tourist; How to throw a LAN party; How sucky is your intranet?
For grizzled 'Net veterans; UK ISP forced to pull deceptive ads; Pretty Good encryption controversy; Are you as smart as Miss America?; Really securing your computer; Still lots of insecure IIS servers; Kids, don't try this at home; Anthrax Kills; Larry's national database; Nimda hysteria?
Attack and post-attack items.
999,999,999 bottles of beer on the wall; Finally, a wind-up cell phone; Enough with the ringing!; The VoIP calculator; 802.11b insecurity; Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf explains IOS DHCP; Is ENUM the mark of the devil?; AOL gives user permanent demerit; The Ballmer music video; Cleveland news flash: Y2K was last year.
Re-routing around censorship; Us vs. them in scripting; The boss button; Fighting off the hackers for fun; Peer computing as a weapon of war; Unix poetry; The Windows Fatal Exception Decoder; New Fusion widget: Getting rid of spyware; The sound of 200 cell phones going off at once; Taleban Web site hacked; Hey, sysadmin, remember Sircam?
On the importance of flame wars; Bill Gates sees dead people?; A markup language for grunts and groans; Is Microsoft leaking those Ballmer dance videos?; Good Samaritan not so good?; Steve Ballmer works up a sweat; Open-source wireless cracking; When technology goes too far; Another dumb computer arrest?; Is Cisco Communist?
Moron marketers threaten 'Net users; Finding free wireless access; Complete wastes of time; OS holy war flares in North Carolina; Are programmers weird?; Somebody actually buys an X10 camera; We're number, uh, two!; Those after-hours computer discussions; An entire city running on Linux; Distributed spam fighter under development; Could a Warhol virus infect the entire 'Net in 15 minutes?; Tell AOL what to do with its CDs.
Fusion shatters a myth; Bridging .Net and Java?; AT&T Broadband cuts off non-IIS servers to fight Code Red; Bluetoothless; Tennessee town bites into Apple; And you thought TI-99/4A fans were over the edge; Biometrics coming to your local supermarket; Steve Ballmer a-hootin' and a-hollerin'; Speaking of Web images; Just how far PC prices have fallen; Does Starbucks' CEO get his own wireless strategy?
Crackers getting more sophisticated; Sex and Microsoft Office; The wonders of science, part MXXII; Finally, a useful virus; A shocking game controller; Big Ball of Mud school of programming; Two vitally important new resources; Adobe: Ooops; Eudora Welty, dead at 92; Centralizing Unix administration in Perl; Spellchecking the entire Web.
Worm turns on Microsoft Web servers; The day the ISP died; Cell-phone users have no shame; Even Internet consultants can screw up the 'Net; Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers; The ultimate cup of coffee; The solar-powered ISP; Everhost; Internet VCer: Oops; The Lego Palm and the pink fuzzy laptop; The Microsoft-English dictionary; Putting a loved one in the home.
Saving those all important VoIP calls; This site is a bright idea; Could wireless end messy divorces?; How much will that software really cost you?; Ghosts of failed dot-coms; The spy's guide to securing your Cisco routers; Oprah for Internet czarina?; What's Microsoft doing at an open-source conference?; Like a big pizza pi; Cyber-bullies; Better check your phone bill; Have some birthday pi.
How HP wastes energy to save energy; New toy for the bored and lonely; Weird programming languages; When sponsors are speakers; The case of the disturbing backwards monitor; Congress to ICANN: Drop dead; Yet another video game made into a movie; Smile, you're on Candid (Police) Camera; High-speed hotels; Network Solutions blocking name transfers?
One of the fathers of Usenet dead at 45; Are you ready for insta-spam?; Diary of a site collapse; Skirting the issue; Assimiliating the Web; Trolling for help; Software wars; Rating the rater; True tales from the help desk; How about spam embedded in your mail?
Unix diapers; A beautiful waste of time; A P2P taxonomy; This page is too stupid; Homeless dot-commer bogus?; Whee, Linux is fun!; Blue Screens everywhere; Forget viruses: This fungus eats CDs; Microsoft revises Smart Tags a bit; Homeless dot-commers.
Slashdot crashes the NSA; They may be Smart Tags, but they're not Original Tags; What open source and California wines have in common; Jakob Nielsen no tyro; How to make Windows 2000 really, really secure; Where the Internet begins; A useful computer bug; The clothes make the geek; The end of the Internet; Why PDF bites; Novel use of a wireless phone; Hidden info; When Web sites tell too much.
DSL modems are so '90s; Bye-bye Netscape; Get ready to upgrade those mail servers; The anti-.Net; The real reason to buy a Palm; Anatomy of a DDoS attack; Pain is good.
