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our sun

An Amazing Fact: The sun is a fantastically hot cosmic-radiation powerhouse, with a surface temperature of about 11,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Its interior temperature is estimated as high as 18 million degrees Fahrenheit. The pressure at the center of the sun is about 700 million tons per square inch. That's enough to smash atoms, expose the inner nuclei, and allow them to smash into each other, interact, and produce the nuclear fusion that gives us our light and heat. In fact, the material at the core of the sun is so intensely hot that if you could capture just enough to cover a pinhead, it would radiate sufficient heat to kill a man one mile away!

Elysium Dance Theatre

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wow its been awhile

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so its been almost 3 months since my last post on here. i really should close this blog down and start fresh but since i already have a blog started and some occasional readers i will just go ahead and keep this one. :smile: a lot of things have been happening over here at my home port from which i type and post onto the cyberweb. ummm...ok. Mainly, well lets talk games i've been playing, one in particular is dun dun duuunnnnn... mafia wars! LOL yes i know! Facebook has this app. which over 11 million ppl have added and its just so addicting! also another newly discovered game from Popcap is Plants vs. Zombies, i dont know why i downloaded the demo but now i have the whole thing and its quite pleasing to play over..and over...and over again. xD so then now that games are out of the way lets get to the other goodies i've discovered (or that friends on myspace have waved in front of my face for the past 8 months) how could i have been so blind? Steampunk!!! OMG this is got to be the greatest style ever! You have to acquire a taste for the good olde days before you can begin to like it but i was hooked from the beginning. Plus i have the koolest myspacers to thank too, such as the lovely Sgt. Kato so dreamy :love: *ahem* anyway so yea i've been attentively studying this amazingness and found some awesome neo victorian musicians to boot. Like Emilie Autumn, Amon Tobin, Dr. Steel, Yann Tiersen (not really neo victorian but great none the less) Jon Hopkins and a few others who's beautiful tones and pant flapping bass lines appeal to ones senses :D One last note, i have been actively cycling a ton lately, and i mean a ton!!! try 90+ miles in a single morning! yea i may be insane but theres something about those trails that strech across miles of country, wind through villages and marshes and ultimatly end far away from the hustle and bustle of the city. ok so i'm not a photographerbut these are some of the trails ive done, and random other pics.

Conficker worm *tick tock*

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OK i was sent an email recently from the FBI since i subbed to that newletter they send every now and then. Tomorrow the worm supposedly attivates and nobody really knows what will happen to the 12million or so pc's that have been infected world wide. link 1 Planet earth is under attack :alien:

installing windows 98 and revolutions pack 7 in virtual pc

I made this quick video showing how easy it is to install windows 98 and apply pack 7. Now this is good for a few reasons one being that to play dos classics windows 98 is a choice OS for such a task. Number two it is virtual machine and you can browse online without any risk to your host operating system. (sorry about the poor quality)

conficker worm update

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I hope your not using windows. this is why you should consider linux. actually windows server has a flaw which allows the worm to spread like crazy across the web. there's always linux! or solaris...or fedora. ok ok so no reason to panic now that the number of infected pc's jumped from 3 million to over 9 million. this is getting out of hand! so what exactly is the conficker worm? well good question! all i know is worms aren't good if you get one in your system!

“We think this is a wide-scale distraction to hide data breaches,” said Ryan Sherstobitoff, chief corporate evangelist for Panda Security. “It does not appear in the variants of Conficker that they are building a botnet, but that wouldn’t surprise us, either. This is an attack we have not seen in some time and is certainly a warning sign for something more to come.”

Worms like Conficker not only ricochet around the Internet at lightning speed, they harness infected computers into unified systems called botnets, which can then accept programming instructions from their clandestine masters. “If you’re looking for a digital Pearl Harbor, we now have the Japanese ships steaming toward us on the horizon,” said Rick Wesson, chief executive of Support Intelligence, a computer security consulting firm based in San Francisco.


According to Microsoft, the worm works by searching for a Windows executable file called "services.exe" and then becomes part of that code.

It then copies itself into the Windows system folder as a random file of a type known as a "dll". It gives itself a 5-8 character name, such as piftoc.dll, and then modifies the Registry, which lists key Windows settings, to run the infected dll file as a service.

if the internet still exists a week or two from now i'll be sure to update anyone who reads my lame blog posts. *uggh* i need to get a life :smile:

more sites to look at:

bbc world news

new york times

slashdot

Conficker Worm

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first off i want to point out that this is the very first blog post for the year 2009! that's right, 2009!!! so as many of you may know there is a vicious worm virus spreading across networks and computers world wide. it's called the conficker worm *google it* I would advise if you have another OS say linux or Mac OS to use that. I have been avoiding xp for awhile and booting mainly into Ubuntu or w2k (which seems to be unaffected at the moment) The worm targets the system and from what i have heard actually integrates itself into the OS registry somehow. It creates a 5-7digit .dll file and executes itself as a system task! NO! also it clears all system restore points! The numbers of ppl affected according to BBC are around 3 million! On top of all that the darn worm has a digital spread spectrum type of thing going on, meaning that it cycles through hundreds of IP a day making nearly impossible to track. This is not new actually reports started coming in and hinting on this worm back in October, the patch microsoft has out might fix this vulerability but it still remains a threat. millions of people just minding there own bussiness and.. WHAM! ^worm^ WTF?