Category: entertainment

Vuln in ClamAV

I should do some more reading on this, but I am amused by the US Cert comment at the end

ClamAV PE Scanning Vulnerability
added April 14, 2008 at 09:21 am

US-CERT is aware of a report of a buffer overflow vulnerability affecting ClamAV. This heap-based buffer overflow vulnerablity may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system.

US-CERT recommends that users do not scan PE files from untrusted sources.

Isn’t the hole point of running an av product to test for viruses in untrusted files?

Funny line from Family guy

Completely inappropriate Family guy. 2×05: LOVE THY TROPHY, AIR DATE: 3/14/2000

Peter: Oh, hey, kids. I’m Santa Claus. Just practicing for Christmas.
Indian baby: But you’re white. Jack and Sarah told me Santa is Indian.
African baby: Don’t be stupid! Santa is black!
Indian baby: Santa can’t be black. We do not fear him.
Chinese baby: Cram it, Gandhi! Santa is Asian.
Hispanic baby: How can he be Asian? Santa doesn’t drive his sled 20 miles under the speed limit with his blinker on! Go back to your rice paddy, Mulan!

I need to see this is on youtube somewhere

Mentos and Diet Coke

We are watching the simpsons from last week, which was surprisingly good. They made a reference to Diet Coke and Mentos and HY didn’t know what it was all about. So just in case you didn’t see this last year when it first came out

Very interesting read about PBS and HD

I added an amplifier to my house antenna, which means I now get all the Baltimore digital channels, but one of the things that has been frustrating me is why I don’t get the same programs on the WETA-HD as I do on on WETA’s analogue channel. I now have a better idea after reading this article. Which explain that the master PBS feed has a lot to do with it. Personally I would love it if WETA would flip there HD main channel or even a sub channel to match their analogue, that way I don’t have to suffer a crappy analogue channel. One of the reasons I put in the amplifier was to get MPT which matches its analogue channel to its HD channel by upscaling the signal to HD. Oh well, even if it is not HD the quality of upscaled is better than analogue so it is the lesser of the evils.

The weekends fun packed events

Left work a little early to go up to a house concert at Wendy and Sukumars in Baltimore. They were at a Four Shillings Short concert a couple months back and asked if they ever do house concerts and they said yes. So 4 Shillings Short put on a private concert for them and 50 of their closest friends. Then Saturday I dropped HY at the airport and joined the Society for Preservation of Beer from Wood (SPBW) for a trip round the Fredrick Wild Goose Flying Dog Brewing Company in Fredrick then on to Brewers Alley for more beer and excellent Macaroni and Cheese. Sunday was spent redoing the insulation in the basement. I knew the basement was cold I didn’t realize that there was a hollowing gale blowing throw the gaps between the cinder blocks at the top of the foundations. I also managed to drop a staple gun on my foot, my wife’s response was maybe we should get you steel capped shoes, my response, maybe I should be wearing shoes. I don’t think I have broken anything but I have a lovely bruise on two of my toes, which make a matching set with the bruise under the nail of my big toe from stubbing it a month back on the stairs. So very productive weekend