Hotmail

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Mar 142009
 

Hotmail started to support free POP3, where is Yahoo now?

Could be fast, I believe, since all mail accounts I have (you know, A LOT), are all supporting POP3 and even IMAP except Yahoo. It’s a pity to see we are behind others again.

Actually I would like to see Yahoo supports IMAP, just as lots of engineers mentioned, it will be a great feature especially for those who need to access same mail account from multiple places, and I’m pretty sure this kind of users are heavy and loyal users that we have to focus on.

 Posted by at 20:39

Honeypot

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Mar 142009
 

I was trying to re-install my ubuntu box as it has some wrong items in gnome menu due to previous language setting, but before I do that I came up with a crazy idea of making it a honeypot, and see how fast it can be hacked.

So I changed the password of root to 12345 and hooked it with internet, I mean, externally accessible. I did it in the morning before I went to office, and by the time I got home in the evening, you know it started running something funny already (pscan2). Seems it was a pretty standard to make a zombie (I believe in China it is called “catching chicken”), and once it become a zombie, it started scanning other machines on the internet.

They are using Yahoo’s Geocities to store their program, glad to see Yahoo is helping people in any mean …

Anyway, get to re-install the machine again, have to be a fresh image as I have no idea of what they have done else. Oh yea, I have to move the machine back as I need wired internet connection and keyboard and monitor.

 Posted by at 12:39

Weather in south bay

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Mar 142009
 

Now almost everytime I drove to office, I can see fog/smoke in south bay area, it got me feel like the old days I drove to office in Beijing.

I think pollution caused by population is the main reason, plus south bay is a classic valley, thus pollution cannot be blew away.

Anyway it seems less beneficial of living here if weather is getting worse, now I’m feeling lucky that we chose Pleasanton which is still have perfect air condition, though somebody mentioned it is too hot in summer and too cold in winter.

 Posted by at 10:40