Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 20:16:47 05/11/00
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On May 11, 2000 at 22:52:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 11, 2000 at 22:31:20, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>On May 11, 2000 at 22:01:05, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On May 11, 2000 at 18:16:52, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >>> >>>>Some time ago we had a discussion about possibility of Unix warms. Here is the >>>>interesting web site describing such a beast -- actually, even more dangerous >>>>one, as it's portable: http://lcamtuf.na.export.pl/worm.txt >>>> >>>>Eugene >>> >>> >>>Lot of hokum. I'll be happy to give them an IP address and let 'em try to >>>infect my linux box. >>> >>>Their hacks assume they have already broken into a system. that is _not_ >>>a given, when security is enforced (MD5 passwords, etc.)... >> >>I believe they will not infect *your* system (none of my 5 Windows machines was >>infected, too). But such program would infect *a lot* of Unix/Linux boxes. And >>as such boxes become more and more popular among non-technical people situation >>would worsen. >> >>Eugene > > >While you are here... the new ftp machine is now up. I am going to make a >directory only you / I can read in the TB directory: "upload". Put new >files there, then 'mv' them to six. We had a few glitches in the past >where someone was downloading what you were uploading, and they got corrupted >files. I had the same problem backing them up. I will not touch any files in >the upload directory unless you would prefer I mv 'em to 'six'. > >we have 120 gigs. > >have mercy... > >:) Ok, I believe I have 2 files ready to upload; tomorrow will try. Will also check -- can I again gain the access to the large Alphas? Actually, main thing to do is to modify the generator to: (1) Handle general pawnless kxykuv, not only the kxykzz. Here 32 bits are not enough, so I'll have to produce those on 64 bit systems (Alphas or Itaniums), otherwise generator would die trying to perform 64-bit arithmetics on x86. (2) Handle TBs that are "sliced" into chunks -- even compressed pawnless kxykuv will be larger than 2Gb. Compression routines cannot handle such files, as well as some free operating systems :-). (3) Handle 6-man TBs with pawns. I have code donated by Peter Karrer, and with his code generator would produce 48 smaller files instead of large one - i.e. kqpa2kqp, kqpb2kqp, ..., kqph7kqp. I have to merge that code into current version of the generator, but after that TBs with pawns can be produced on a 128Mb machine with 512Mb of free disk space. Good job for your Xeons. Main problem is lack of time -- we are very busy now, as Itanium release is approaching... Eugene
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