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If you are having trouble connecting through the router, try using PASSIVE connections. Your FTP client should have an option for that (PASV). Edit: By the way, as a rule of thumb, FTP is very insecure. I would suggest using SFTP with 1&1 that runs over SSH.

Azat, you just made my day. ROFLMAO!!!!

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I just get this shock that shoots through my entire body when I read something that doesn't syntactically or semantically fit into the frameworks I am used to. If I had to use the proper word, I guess I just like to get "technical" about things ... it's in my blood.

Ok I understand the lovely dovey poetic sentimentality about the use of the word "returning" but it's a bit much don't you think? I would have used the word "visiting" as you can't return to somewhere you have never been before Have a great trip.

Yah ... the best antivirus.

Of course a lot of other viruses rely on stupid users to get in (as in opening unsafe attachments). Those are TRIVIAL to write ... as in it will take a couple of minutes . But those won't spead as much or as fast and are relatively easier to protect against than these nasty ones like Sasser that just spread like crazy. The good thing about sasser is that it didn't do much damage other than just slowing things down by trying to spread really fast. But you can imagine a very malicious virus writer could do all sorts of evil things once in your PC ... delete your files, corrupt things, use your PC to attack critical government or finanical systems, or just silently send info about you back to the author.

Well .. depends on the virus. The vulnerability that sasser is using to get into a system was discovered several weeks ago. A patch was made available. I even posted a warning here I think telling people to make sure to keep up with win update. Then I think it took about 15 days until sasser showed up so there was plenty of time to protect against it. In terms of how easy it is to write it's really not that complicated but it's not something your average PC user/programmer would be able to figure out. To be honest, I don't know how long it would take me to do it as I have never had any desire to do such a dumb ass thing! The problem is that this vulnerability information is sometimes widely available on the web kinda like those "how to make a bomb in your garage" recepies So any girlfriendless punk with tons of time on his hands and some brains can sit there and really learn how to do it. Basically what Sasser does (there are variations of it) is it uses this particularly nasty win XP security hole to get in that allows it to get shell access on the remote system (i.e. start to run different programs). That is probably the hardest part to figure out how to do. Once it's got shell access, it copies itself and sets up an FTP server on the computer and resets it. Once reset, it scans random IP addresses of other computers connected and tries to infect them. Again, once in, it connects back to the computer it connected from and copies itself to the new infected PC using the FTP server mentioned above ... and thus it spreads like crazy ... now you got 2 computers looking to infect and soon 4 and soon 8 ... and millions in not too long. Pretty much all that stuff above is really easy to do for anyone that knows some network programming so the problem basically becomes finding this hole to get into a system. That either takes some serious brains, inside info (e.g. source code), or a lot of dedication and free time to brute force it (as in systematically try a lot of things in the hopes of finding a hole).

Source on yahoo news Good riddence! I hope they throw the book at this bastard as I have been getting about 10 or more Netsky attachments a day for the past few weeks from some infected computer in the LA area.

I use a non stick pan and just throw the veggies on there with no oil or water or anything. They cook in a few minutes usually ... a lid helps and I shake the pan every 30 seconds or so. After a while, the water comes out of the veggies

By the way, Nairi, just wanted to thank you for bringing that matsun makaron thinkg up as it had been a looooooooong time since I had even thought about it. I got this nostalgic feeling reading it but yummmmmm the memory of the taste rushed right back from the old days in Tehran!

One of the beauties of being a single grad student as it doesn't matter! It's the ultimate in freedom of choice ... especially when it comes to dietary choices.

I did the exact same caculation yesterday when I read this but didn't post it.

Doesn't sound like it's dead ... according to http://www.webdav.org the IETF just published an updated version of the spec as an RFC so it's still alive. The FAQ on that site is also pretty informative.

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Vava jan, this is the first I hear of it but here's a quote from the intro section of the current WebDAV spec (the parts I've highlighted should be 200 words or less ): The full text to the current spec is here. So to answer your question, it seems to be an extention to the HTTP 1.1 protocol spec to fascilitate "distributed authoring".

The point is if I am speaking for myself only, then how does one explain the 300 junk emails a day I get for manhood enlargement potions, creames, pills, chants, and prayers? I certainly don't order any so who does and why is there such a HUGE market for it?

Come on Vigil ... the guy has a 9" ... http://www.mercurypress.com/gallery/CH03002.jpg Wang ... put that down. Wow that's a giant that ... http://espn-i.starwave.com/media/mlb/2001/1028/photo/a_randyj_vt.jpg Johnson ... what a pitcher this Randy is ... You sound like those students that start to cry about how meaningless GPA (Grade point average) is and how SAT scores are culturally biased and da da da da daaaaaa ... where interestingly enough, most often, it's the kid with the 2.0 GPA and the 600 total SAT score that's trying to make the case of how unimportant or irrelevant these metrics are. And as far as my "inadquecies" ... again you are making some assumptions about me without really knowing what you are talking about.

Anytime Azatik ... here's a Volvo made of lego for you to think about! I hear chicks dig it.

What difference? What difference? If a person of Armenian decent can have a 9" endowment, I think that makes a HUGE difference in the world. I think it would pretty much solve all problems that we have as a nation.

Hours of non-stop fun!.

Religion is the tool of the devil.

Edward this story sounds very fishy to me ... what's the source? do you trust it? Last I know there is this Gaobot worm that's spreading fast but it's not that bad ... and a couple of other ones that poppoed up today according to the Mcafee site but nothing too bad. So at this point, I'll say that's most likely a hoax so just delete the email

$900??? That's 130 buffets for me

As nairi said, watch out for Caffein intake ... you won't believe how much caffein there is in sodas ... like mountain dew