May 2006


ONOES! OMG!
ONOES ZOMG!

Today I had taco’s for lunch, and it reminded me of this great South Park song…

[Jennifer Lopez (aka Eric Cartman’s left hand)]
Baby, let’s make a run for the border,
I’ve got a hunger only tacos can stop.
I know exactly what I’ll order
three tacos, two tostadas, and a soda pop.

[Music industry dude]
Gentlemen, we have ourselves a hit.

[Jennifer Lopez (aka Eric Cartman’s left hand)]
I need to make a run for the border.
If you pay, I’ll take off my top.
Do you remember what I want to order?
Three tacos, two tostadas, and a soda pop.

Yea-ah, and don’t forget the hot sauce, chulo.

I’m still looking for the sound file, but if anybody finds it, please post it in the comments.

I installed Larry’s Gmail indexer today. It recommended that I reset the pop settings on gmail so it would be able to index all of my mail. What I didn’t realize was that it would do so in a way that google considers abusive… Here are the logs from Larry’s indexer:

[04:52:40 PM] Larry’s Gmail Indexer 1.00 by Larry Gadea
[04:52:41 PM] ‘benstraw@gmail.com’ is the active account.
[04:55:26 PM] Successfully received 455 new message(s).
[04:57:11 PM] Successfully received 448 new message(s).
[05:00:30 PM] Successfully received 399 new message(s).
[05:02:13 PM] Failed to add email to GDS (Subject: ‘April Email Blast’)
[05:02:13 PM] Failed to download new Gmail messages: ”
[05:08:51 PM] Successfully received 365 new message(s).
[05:09:48 PM] Successfully received 258 new message(s).
[05:12:14 PM] Successfully received 521 new message(s).
[05:14:42 PM] Successfully received 470 new message(s).
[05:17:59 PM] Successfully received 418 new message(s).
[05:20:07 PM] Successfully received 450 new message(s).
[05:22:54 PM] Successfully received 410 new message(s).
[05:24:30 PM] Successfully received 387 new message(s).
[05:29:41 PM] Successfully received 425 new message(s).
[05:31:26 PM] Successfully received 349 new message(s).
[05:33:03 PM] Successfully received 302 new message(s).
[05:35:01 PM] Successfully received 299 new message(s).
[05:37:57 PM] Successfully received 342 new message(s).
[05:39:45 PM] Successfully received 309 new message(s).
[05:44:58 PM] Successfully received 394 new message(s).
[05:47:28 PM] Successfully received 374 new message(s).
[05:49:47 PM] Successfully received 411 new message(s).
[05:51:19 PM] Successfully received 273 new message(s).
[05:52:42 PM] Successfully received 303 new message(s).
[05:54:32 PM] Successfully received 332 new message(s).
[05:55:59 PM] Successfully received 345 new message(s).
[05:59:43 PM] Successfully received 320 new message(s).
[06:01:21 PM] Successfully received 386 new message(s).
[06:03:12 PM] Successfully received 336 new message(s).
[06:05:59 PM] Successfully received 326 new message(s).
[06:08:32 PM] Successfully received 327 new message(s).
[06:10:41 PM] Successfully received 337 new message(s).
[06:12:13 PM] Failed to download new Gmail messages: ‘No data was received.’
[06:17:13 PM] Failed to download new Gmail messages: ‘Invalid username or password.’

Every 2 - 3 minutes it was grabbing 300 messages! I don’t delete from gmail, so I have thousands of messages in my inbox (not sure if this thing is indexing spam too, in which case there are 10’s of thousands of messages…)

So I got the infimous “Lockdown in Sector 4″ Gmail screen *(see below) which states that my access has been disabled for “Up to 24 hours…” we’ll see how long that is.

Good thing G-Mail is my primary email client… good thing it’s Friday afternoon!


Lockdown in Sector 4

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QDN: The dishonor of Blue Security

Information about the so-called denial of service attack on Six Apart web properties.