and again i say that most people can do that but choose not to. why would they manipulate the O.S. if it is already the way they like it.

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Jon`C:Irony is spelling 'quality' poorly.
Spork:Well I think 'Irony is spelling grammar poorly'
Snail racing: (500 posts per line)--@%

I'm sorry that we don't carry Penguin Pride cards in our wallets.

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Baby Mama's Drama

Okay, let me spell it out for you.

Being computer literate means you know the basics of computers, and can diagnose/fix most problems. Not all, because admittedly, some of them can't be fixed, but most. You, obviously, don't know this or you wouldn't be posting the utter gibberish you are. Neither do a lot of people, mainly because they see the computer as a tool and they don't want to learn the tool past its needed use. Which is fine, that's their prerogative.

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I find your little bits of linux code pretty funny, GBK. I really liked that russian roulette one

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"Dalton, that pie just moved of it's own accord."

"You must be mistaken, Tess. A pie can't move."

Infinate loop, baby! Oh yeah, lets crash the internet!

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Do you have stairs in your house?

ok, so if microsoft does not get any of these hack attaempts sent to your site... then whats with the title? "Giving Microsoft a taste of their own garbage..." doesnt make sense if you are redirecting the hackers to the MS website. thats just dumb, and i think thats 90% of why everyone thought that you were sending worms/viruses sent to you to MS.

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There are two asses in Massassi... and I'm one of them.
The Matrix Unplugged|My Portfolio|My Levels

Yeah, Cazor, it may not have been the best of titles, in retrospect...

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Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
:wq

Why don't you try and have a little sense of humour for once?

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When guitars are outlawed, only outlaws will have guitars.

[This message has been edited by MaD CoW (edited July 06, 2004).]

Well, he had to have SOMETHING to do after he gave up on the whole female companionship thing.

Stay tuned for his new levels, "Ode to My Hatred for Microsoft" "Ode to My Hatred for Microsoft 2" and "I wish I could turn my hatred for microsoft into a person and then have sex with it."

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Dark, Darker, Darko

RIP Madaventor: God bless you.

I hate that people take my hatred for Microsoft as my hatred for Bill Gates. I don't hate the guy. In fact he's quite a good guy, single largest donator to charity in the nation. But his company is pure evil.

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Don't confuse evil with bureaucracy. Oh, wait...never mind.

Also, GBK, even though this thread is a joke, you do have an unnerving preoccupation of hating anything related to Microsoft. Obsessing over anything is never good.

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Kieran: The reason I put a link to it is because she is in underwear and I know the admins are touchy on that.
Yecti: Jaiph will touch himself for hours if he so much as smells a woman's underwear

[This message has been edited by Kieran Horn (edited July 06, 2004).]

... I'm... I'm almost speechless. How could you possibly miss such an obvious joke? And this isn't the first time either. You miss them pretty frequently. Do you have some kind of mental problem? If you do, then it's completely understandable, but if you don't... I mean, geez.

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Because you're as bored as I am
"This world is made of love and peace!"
"Let's live today, let's live tomorrow, and let's live the day after that, even if it means living in eternal pain."
- Vash the Stampede

Yea Brian for promoting GBK's Microsoft hating lol!

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You have to look at the big picture. We (as a country) spend more tax money dealing with MS blunders than we do on the software itself. And guess who MS's largest customer is? You guessed it, the government! - Brian
My Personal Site | Remnant Temple Part A | A work in progress

I'd like to say that the code is really useful. I run an Apache server and I get bombarded with

81.101.23.3 - - [07/Jul/2004:10:33:53 +0100] "GET /default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%u9090%u6858
%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c
3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0 078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 404 292

and also

64.71.165.195 - - [06/Jul/2004:19:58:27 +0100] "CONNECT 216.179.62.106:6667 HTTP/1.0" 200 6463

and also

165.139.173.129 - - [04/Jul/2004:00:24:51 +0100] "POST /cgi-bin/cgiemail/forms/contact.txt HTTP/1.0" 404 315
209.2.108.2 - - [04/Jul/2004:00:25:01 +0100] "POST /cgi-bin/formmail.pl HTTP/1.0" 404 300
207.30.146.237 - - [04/Jul/2004:00:25:05 +0100] "POST /cgi-bin/contact.cgi HTTP/1.0" 404 300
194.212.229.228 - - [04/Jul/2004:00:25:06 +0100] "POST /cgi-bin/formmail.cgi HTTP/1.0" 404 301
66.31.45.238 - - [04/Jul/2004:00:25:16 +0100] "POST /mail.cgi HTTP/1.1" 404 289


(I don't have Formmail.pl or formmmail.cgi or contact.cgi or anything)

Yes, I changed 'microsoft' to a non-existant IP, but that's beside the point. I'll be most thankful if that code helps.

[This message has been edited by Mort-Hog (edited July 07, 2004).]

It wouldn't hurt Mirosoft anyway. www.microsoft.com resolves to Linux servers, so they wouldn't be running IIS, vulnerable or otherwise.

I can't remember the name of the company that runs them off the top of my head, but they server several large companies, including Sony and Intel (I think). They were in the news recently because they had an outage which caused all those big name sites to be unavailable for a couple of hours.

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[1337 FRNDS_Pommy | 3.14 of 14 | » And-GTx2]
Half-Life 2 Central - your definitive source for everything HL2!

Yay teh Pommster comes in and gives everyone what they deserve. ...Oh wait, I'm one of them.

Actually, Giraffe, thats jus the load balancing system...Microsoft.com really does run on IIS, so its just as vulnerable as any other IIS website.

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Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
:wq

I didn't have a problem with the thread because it's clearly not illegal. It's perfectly legal to forward any traffic from one site to another site, people do it all the time. Hell, that's how search engines work. Whether it's ethical is another story, but you can probably count on one hand the requests for those types of files to GBKs server, so there's no way it's going to have any affect on MS whatsoever. Oops, M$.

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EvilMagic.net: Brian's Web Log

And honestly, you can bet MS has routers that block (read: drops) these types of requests automatically, so it probably doesn't even get to Redmond.

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EvilMagic.net: Brian's Web Log

Actually, every day a dozen stupid script kiddies hit my Apace server with IIS hacks. Its kinda pathetic, really.

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Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
:wq

well, if they work the way windows does, then I bet quite a few attacks get through to redmond.
Anything made by Microsoft has more holes than a screen door.



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The University of North Carolina has finally found a network server that, although missing for four years, hasn't missed a packet in all that time. Try as they might, university administrators couldn't find the server. Working with Novell Inc., IT workers tracked it down by meticulously following cable until they literally ran into a wall. The server had been mistakenly sealed behind drywall by maintenance workers.

Probably why microsoft doesn't make routers

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EvilMagic.net: Brian's Web Log

Dont give them any ideas.

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Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
:wq

some jokes I dont get because I do not live in america which means that all jokes based around things arriving on american tv are meaningless to me. other times, I get the joke after I make the post and I am unable to delete it because there are some people that ***** about being able to delete their own posts.

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Those silly bullets have minds of their own!
Jon`C:Irony is spelling 'quality' poorly.
Spork:Well I think 'Irony is spelling grammar poorly'
Snail racing: (500 posts per line)--@%

It was fairly obvious that was a joke...

What's with your spelling anyway? I thought you were 17 or thereabouts?