All quiet on the LAN front
Posted on November 20, 2006
Filed Under All, Technology, My Brain |
Sitting here tonight, mindlessly noodling with our internal private network, I note how quiet things are. This is hardly like the time bonez, the hacker slithered into my Linux box (formerly the LAN firewall) resulting, a few weeks later, in a call from the FBI. And that wasn’t the only hack.
There was also the time the slapper worm crawled onto the LAN (and every Linux box at my ISP) resulting in total chaos eventually resulting in the ISP blocking port 80. Big fun.
We have now completed phase 1 of converting the G4 mini into a file, print and intranet server. The Mini is sporting 500 GB of new storage in a matching (sometimes noisy) LA Cie drive, and we’re starting to use the La Cie’s expanded hub to hook in some older drives that mostly backed up our laptops. A lot more data is starting to be in easy reach on the LAN, a good thing.
The noodling is good: it’s a few blessed moments not thinking about brain tumors et al. It’s up there with re-reading the Sprawl Trilogy. Adrian Midgley left a note expressing surprise I’d never read it: in point of fact, this isn’t my first re-reading… I’ve even read Neuromancer as a Voyager Hypercard stack on a Mac Duo laptop..
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I missed that. Charlie Stross’ books seem worth a look at by anyone who enjoys the Sprawl. Glasshouse for isntance. Ken Macleod’s “Learning the World” strikes me as a cheering up sort of SF.
Although you are likely to have read both, I suspect.
Nope, news to me, Adrian. Headed for Amazon to look ‘em up and order…
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