Sometimes, it's all just asdfghjkl

[chickwriter]

On behalf of bheerfan and myself, and the people that worked overnight on Friday (bheerfan) and part of the weekend, which included getting up before dawn on Saturday, (me, M & R, T and bheerfan) to rebuild a server and test after it was rebuiilt, my icon is to the aslfkjlkajflkajdf script kiddies who think rootkits are amusing.

That said, I spent most of Sunday vegging, and damn it all, buying the season pass of Friday Night Lights from iTunes and watching several episodes. OMG, I caved. I caved massively. I am weak. And for those of you who've never lived in Texas and experienced the religion that is Friday Night High School Football: it's ALL true. All of it. In fact, so very true that there were parts of the pilot that eerily resembled a horror movie as I cringed with the memories. (I was never a fan, nor am I a football fan now, but the creators of this show have captured the people so very well).

OMFG, It's Monday. Today I have all-day client meeting. This week I have a couple of projects due and TGIF and all that: I'm taking Friday off, my team has Monday off and I'm taking a 4-day weekend. I'm praying the weather doesn't go all snow/ice b/c I plan to go out of town with a couple of fellow authors/fangrrls for a writing and fannish weekend. AND NOT BE AT WORK.

Woefully behind on everything, but indeed skimming LJ.

Oh, and get this. My newly minted librarian sister, who got her dream job recently has been invited to librarian day at RWA. She's going to the con, but I'm not. Go figure.

GIP: new icon by apple_pi as part of 14valentines.

Comments

[vamysteryfan.livejournal.com]

what's a rootkit?

[chickwriter.livejournal.com]

A rootkit is basically software that conceals things from the operating system - by things, I mean processes, running programs, etc. They started off as relatively harmless tools, used by software manufacturers but have recently been exploited by hacker kiddies to run malware.

They are generally a pain in the ass, b/c since you can't see what's running, you pretty much have to kill the server; rebuild the computer and erase the hard drive. Sucks for us that have to deal with this.

[vamysteryfan.livejournal.com]

Many thanks for the explanation. I can see why they are of teh suck