new (to me) Audi

[Marc Swanson]

> > Well, I picked up my new car today.. a 1988 Audi (what else
> would I get?)
> > 90q.  The car has some issues.. such as a leaking fuel line and a rotten
> > exhaust but the price was certainly right.  I picked up the car
> for a mere
> > $350.  I'm sure I'll have loads of questions once I dive into
> getting this
> > thing on the road but for now I just thought I'd relate my excitement!
> > And AAA only took 3 hours to get there and tried to charge me
> for the tow.
> > I quick conversation with the "supervisor" sorted things out...
>
> Can't wait to hear what you're going to do to *this* car! :)

One mega modified tq is enough for me for now :-)
For starters I'm gonna bring it up to inspectable state and then start
fixing the "little" things like interior lights and stuff like that.  Then
maybe I'll start thinking about performance mods :-)


> > On a less than cool note my server has been hacked into three
> times in the
> > past 2 weeks, so sysadmins out there beware.. aparently there are some
> > seriously bored college students on vacation.....
>
> Ya. Couple of weeks ago my wife's webserver got hacked. They deleted some
> stuff and sent the admin (me) an email letting me know.

Probably just so they could feel superior and gloat.  Goddamn terrorists.


> They also loaded a
> couple hundred megabytes of warez onto the server. Coulda been avoided, we
> had a sys account with little protection available for the taking. Oops.


On my system it was a wu-ftp exploit (even after I applied the security
"patches") that was ripped open.  I have now disabled anonymous FTP..


> And by the way, my home gateway has seen a *lot* of traffic. BlackIce has
> done a pretty good job keeping everybody out. If you're on a highspeed
> connection, either DSL or cable, you ought to get a copy of BlackIce
> installed. You'd be surprised at how often your system gets probed for
> holes.


If it's winware in won't do me any good.  I run a strictly linux based shop
(run on cable).  I just moved to Mandrake 7.2 and I'm so far pretty
impressed.  The logging is pretty good.. the problem is when someone breaks
in and wipes out the logs...


Later


-Marc-

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>
> Lee
> '99 Range Rover 4.0 SE
> '96 Audi A6 quattro avant
>