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:: Monday, August 13, 2001 ::
Feeling too much pain.
I woke up with a stiff neck Saturday morning but thought nothing of it. It's something that doesn't happen often for me. Later in the day I held my niece for nearly an hour as I put her to sleep. Few things will aggravate a sore neck like a 30 lbs. dead weight. We played, I taught her to say "Ohayo" (good-morning in Japanese) and I enjoyed banana pancakes on Sunday morning. Happiness is banana pancakes.
Microsoft has agreed to allow Kodak and other digital camera and scanner manufacturers use their own proprietary drivers in Windows XP. Microsoft is attempting to standardize something called Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP). It's already been implemented for Windows ME (Fisher-Price) and was set to be the way still images are transferred off cameras. The term "protocol" leads me to believe that they wanted to implement this in an Internet fashion? Great. More open ports on your Net-enabled computer.
...and speaking of finding open ports on your computer - I got ICQ junk-mail pages from two people this weekend. I downloaded a pretty good port scanner and saw what damage I might be able to do.
One person was coming from a DSL connection (64.xx.xx.xx) and had no open ports - maybe because of the firewall in DSL gateways? The second was on cable (24.xx.xx.xx), so you know he's vulnerable. Did a port scan and found port 515 open - the Windows 2000 Internet print server. I wasn't quite bored enough to do anything with it, but it does pluck at the curiousity strings of the mischievous.
:: Stephen 11:08 AM [+] ::
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