schrödinger's dog

hacked

Our website was hacked last week by a Turkish hacker who replaced the main index.html page with his own. Other than that he didn't do much damage. It looks like I had left bunch of my directories with 777 permissions (this is a Linux server that I rent space on) which means anyone with access to the server can overwrite my files. It looks like this is due to uploading directories from a Windoze machine. In the future, I'm sure I will be more careful about this. It doesn't explain, however, how he got access to the server. Also, I got lucky in that I had just backed up the entire site after doing some major renovation on it.

Jim on 11.27.04 @ 04:29 PM ET [link]

Incredible

We saw the Pixar movie "The Incredibles" over the weekend. Go see it.

By the way, in the end credits for the movie I noticed a special "hair and fabric" production unit. I have to admit that the hair really did look good. And I'm not someone who normally notices hair.
Jim on 11.09.04 @ 10:04 PM ET [link]

Firefox 1.0 released

The Firefox 1.0 browser has finally been officially released. I've been using the "pre-release" version for quite a while now and I highly recommended. Toss out that Internet Explorer! And while you're at it, Firefox has a cousin called Thunderbird that's a mighty fine email client.

The Firefox servers are so busy with downloads that I haven't been able to connect yet to even get the 1.0 release. Hopefully it'll quiet down in a few days.
Jim on 11.09.04 @ 10:00 PM ET [link]

New uni

I've graduated from my junky 12-year-old 20-inch unicycle to a much more robust 24-inch model called the Nimbus II. At first I was worried that my neighbors might think me a bit strange seeing me riding around the neighborhood on one wheel. But now, I know there is no doubt in their minds.

(I keep thinking that I'm almost of the age when I should be having a mid-life crisis and buying a Porsche instead of something with 75% fewer wheels).
Jim on 11.03.04 @ 08:22 PM ET [link]