Donny Mack

Just Got the T-Mobile Sidekick and Looking for Others to Play

I just got the new t-mobile sidekick and love it. One of the bad things though is the messaging program on it is AOL and I'm looking for people to add to my buddy list. Any of you out there use it? or does anyone know how to install a MSN messaging application. I know they have it for palm.

I basically got the sidekick for the data transfer features, it's far better than my I330 from Sprint. Not to mention there's actually a USB port on it :-)

So hit me with your AOL :-)

Sidekick #: 9174597371 (no phone service hooked up so don't call)
t-mobile username: donnymack@tmail.com - but I also get my dnj mail too!
AOL: donnymacks

Post Your Junkie / Junk Mail List Here

I wanted to start somewhere to post email junk mail lists. So I started a new Forum Group “Forums That Never Will Be On Forums Home Page”

I've posted over a thousand junk email addresses I've received. Please help contribute. let's see if we can reach OLK 2K3 Max Junk Mail File size.

Also, this is the only place you can find this link so only forward on to people you trust. I guess on the flip side, if a spammer get this list they'd be spamming themselves :-)

Junk Mail Lists

Since installing OLK 2K3 I've been religiously addign emails to my junk mail list and I currently have over 3K of them and I'd like a place to post them and to let people add to them so I can grow mine. I'm to the point that I only get about 4-5 new junk mails (unfiltered) in my inbox every day, but I'd like to eliminate it completely (without using one of those third-party forwarders)

Anyone know of anywhere, or do you think we should start one here? I can start a forum for it if we want it?

Let me know! I'll probably start one anyway, but it would be nice to know if anyone else would use it also first.

Fix for Virus: W32.Blaster.Worm

Fix: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html

When W32.Blaster.Worm is executed, it does the following:

1. Creates a Mutex named "BILLY." If the mutex exists, the worm will exit.
   
   
2. Adds the value:
   
   "windows auto update"="msblast.exe"
   
   to the registry key:
   
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
   
   so that the worm runs when you start Windows.
   
   
3. Calculates a random IP address, A.B.C.0, where A, B, and C are random values between 0 and 255.
   
   NOTE: 40% of the time, if C > 20, a random value less than 20 will be subtracted from C.
   
   
4. Once the IP address is calculated, the worm will attempt to find and exploit a computer on the local subnet, based on A.B.C.0. The worm will then count up from 0, attempting to find and exploit other computers, based on the new IP.
   
   
5. Sends data on TCP port 135 that may exploit the DCOM RPC vulnerability.
   
   NOTES:
   • This means the local subnet will become saturated with port 135 requests.
   • Due to the random nature of how the worm constructs the exploit data, this may cause computers to crash if it sends incorrect data.
   • While W32.Blaster.Worm cannot spread to Windows NT or Windows 2003 Server, unpatched computers running these operating systems may crash as the result of attempts by the worm to exploit them. However, if the worm is manually placed and executed on a computer that is running these operating systems, it can run and spread.
     
     
6. Creates a hidden Cmd.exe remote shell that will listen on TCP port 4444, allowing an attacker to issue remote commands on the infected system.
   
   
7. Listens on UDP port 69. When the worm receives a request from a computer it was able to connect to using the DCOM RPC exploit, it will send that computer Msblast.exe and tell it to execute the worm.
   
   
8. If the current month is after August, or if the current date is after the 15th, the worm will perform a DoS on Windows Update. The worm will activate the DoS attack on the 16th of this month, and continue until the end of the year.
   

The worm contains the following text, which is never displayed:

I just want to say LOVE YOU SAN!!
billy gates why do you make this possible ? Stop making money and fix your software!!

New Blogger: Paul

Paul http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/plaudeman/ 

Just set him up!

Web Server Market Share and HTTP Compression

Tim Huckaby

InstantDoc #39729

July 29, 2003

In January, I wrote about an interesting Port80 Software survey that concluded that IIS is the dominant Web server platform for Fortune 1000 companies' public Web sites. Port80 conducted another survey this month and again concluded that IIS dominates the Fortune 1000 market. The new survey's results indicate that IIS has 53.7 percent of the market share. The next closest competitors are Netscape and Apache Web servers, with 18.6 percent and 16 percent of the market, respectively. Netscape continues to decline as a Web server choice for Fortune 1000 companies, losing 2.4 percent in the July survey. The survey data also indicates a general shift from Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 running on Windows NT 4.0 systems to Internet Information Services 5.0 (5.0) running on Windows 2000. IIS 6.0 running on Windows Server 2003 appears on the survey, but only at 0.5 percent. I'll be interested to see how the IIS 6.0 number jumps when Port80 conducts its next survey.

Another result to note is the Other category, which consists of IBM, Lotus, unknown, and other Web servers and which jumped significantly to 11.7 percent. I'm guessing that the "other" option in the Other category comprises variants of Linux-based Web servers. You can check out the most recent survey results at http://www.port80software.com/surveys/top1000webservers .

Port80 also recently completed a survey about HTTP compression, an underused technology for accelerating Web sites and Web-based applications. When IIS receives a request, HTTP compression checks to determine whether the browser is compression-enabled. IIS then checks the filename extension to determine whether the requested file is static or contains dynamic content. If the file contains static content, IIS checks to determine whether the file was previously requested and has been stored in a compressed format in the temporary compression directory. If not, IIS sends the uncompressed file to the browser, compresses the file, then adds the compressed copy to the temporary compression directory. If the file was previously requested and is already stored in a compressed format, IIS sends the compressed file to the browser. In some cases, HTTP compression technologies can make Web applications and sites run dramatically faster, reducing bandwidth costs. To learn more about HTTP compression and how to enable it i

n IIS, click the following URL: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/standard/qos_utilbandwdth.asp?frame=true .

Very few of the Fortune 1000 companies--only 2.9 percent--realize HTTP compression benefits. Port80 speculates that the Fortune 1000 could save more than 25 percent in bandwidth costs (millions of dollars annually) and more than 30 million bytes of data on their home pages alone by using HTTP compression. As you might expect, Internet-savvy companies such as Google, Amazon, and Yahoo! use HTTP compression.

IIS 6.0 has HTTP compression built in, which contributes to its fantastic performance. Chris Page, chief technical information officer (CTIO) for Web-hosting provider MaximumASP, understands the importance of HTTP compression technology. He said, "Prior to upgrading to Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0 as our hosting platform, MaximumASP closely evaluated several third-party HTTP compression technologies and found that HTTP compression actually improves the performance of the IIS Web server while significantly reducing the bandwidth required to deliver content. At that time, we chose to wait until we moved to IIS 6.0 to start utilizing HTTP compression, which has excellent HTTP compression built in, but there's no question in our minds that any Web server not running IIS 6.0 will benefit from employing third-party HTTP compression tools."

A list of the top 10 companies that would benefit the most and least from HTTP compression among the Fortune 1000 is available on the Port80 Web site, and I bet that some of the companies on the list will surprise you ( http://www.port80software.com/surveys/top1000compression/toptencompression ). If you want to see the individual statistics for each company on the survey or test your own site's HTTP compression, visit the following URL: http://www.port80software.com/surveys/top1000compression .

Off to Seattle...

Well, I'm heading back to my home state in a couple hours Seattle, Washington. Currently residing in Manhattan, it's always an adventure heading back to Seattle - Did I say adventure?

I'm going back for a couple reasons. The first, my little sister just graduated high-school and is heading off to college so she needs a laptop and printer and I, being a loving brother, said I would get it for her.

Second, business meetings galoure: We're meeting with Matt from SQL Server to do some more planning on SqlJunkies, Shawn who were working with on another project, and some component venders.

Should be good!!!

I wish I had more time to discuss some of the latest news, maybe someone knows who is blogging about one:

1.) Microsoft vs. Europe Battle
2.) Unix vs. Linux Battle
3.) Linix XP (the Linux XP Clone)

If you know of anyone let me know.

New Article on Transforming XML to RSS By Jeff Julian

Introduction:

This site has tons of great content that changes very frequently. Many developers want to read these articles as soon as they come out, because they enjoy the content and the authors as well. Currently, the only way of knowing when an article is released, you must use your browser to surf to the site or the web services to manipulate the response in your own way. This may be fine for many of you, but there is another solution. Many users of this site have been introduced to the world of weblogs and many have downloaded and found their favorite aggregator for RSS and other syndication formats. MSDN has realized their readers are in the same situation and have introduced several different RSS feeds for their users to aggregate to for the most up-to-date information about their site. With these feeds gaining popularity, I decided to write this article as a solution to adding your own RSS feed with the XML you may already have on your site. This example will use the current web service  

http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/Tutorial/ShowContent.aspx?cg=5B95C756-BF7D-42F9-82E5-D58F8D94F756&forumid=4774

We had Quite a Few Job Posting Today on DotNetJunkies

What are Peoples Perceptions of Wiki Sites and Wiki Engines?

I got an email today from a friend on the SQL Server team @ MS asking if I've ever thought of starting a Wiki on DotNetJunkies or SqlJunkies or a new technology Wiki site. I'm like, “What in the Hell is a Wiki”, so he sent me some links:

http://www.officezealot.com/wiki/ow.asp?Office2003Wiki
http://openwiki.com/
http://www.arkane.demon.co.uk/WikiNet/
http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines

So I started investigating and the concept is facinating and new. I just wanted to know if anyone has been using one regularly, though of using one, or knows about them enough to tell me more?

I think it's a great idea and I think we may have to start a Wiki also :-)

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We all must respect the wiki, the wiki is all knowing

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Not Usually into Ascii Art, but These are Exceptional Ascii Movies

CodeJunkies Code Refresh

Just updated the code for any of your who are gracefully helping me out with testing of CodeJunkies.NET ( code repository)

http://64.85.9.66/

I updated a lot of usability features

I also, enabled public and private code library submissions. So now, you can hide your code from eveyone except yourself.

There are some other behind the scenes performance and security features I've also added.

Next build in 1 to 2 days.

Please keep the feedback coming!!

Thanks Again

IIS 6.0 HTTP Compression | Not So Easy

Ok, I spoke to soon. I technically haven't enabled HTTP Compression yet with IIS 6.0. I received an email from Scott with the following link: http://dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com/archives/003475.shtml 

Bookmark :-)

I'll be implementing this weekend sometime, in the middle of the night, with a big Cigar and a bottle (or 6) of wine

DotNetJunkies Web Log Update: Administrative Functionality Restored

Hey all,

Well, I didn't totally test the new build of the blogs before uploading them. It seems that a lot of the administrative functionality wasn't functional :-), well this was my fault! We were using an HTTP Compression module that was tweaking out when ever a Server.Transfer and Response.End is used, which they are in the dashboard. I have disabled the compression module and all is up and going now!

Not to worry though, I've enabled IIS 6.0 compression so hopefully that won't cause any dramatic effects.

Has anyone used IIS 6.0 HTTP Compression yet? Is there anything special I have to do besides what I do in IIS????

Thanks