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Well, looks like I actually got back to this news page. Not bad. You
know, at some point, I might start putting some interactive stuff on
this site to showcase some fun things that you can do in CGI, etc.
But for right now, this is good enough.<p>
Heck, it's finals week. Craziness. I'm still chugging through the
second of two music problem sets due Friday (in 4 days), haven't
touched material for my Thursday exam, and have to think up an
essay also due Friday. Eep. I'm an excellent procrastinator. =)<p>
I put up a new version of ftpcheck rewritten from scratch in C for
some blazing network performance. Next version will use threading
and will pool together "host groups" perhaps. I might think of some
cute algorithm. But it's not bad right now: I scanned Stanford's
entire class B network (over 65 thousand hosts) in less than twenty
minutes. I'm sure I could do better, but that'll have to wait for
another day, especially considering I'll have to do a little dancing
with locks on the output to make sure things don't get garbled...<p>
Talked to <a href="http://www.cobaltmicro.com/" target="links">Cobalt Networks</a>
today about bundling <a href="http://www.silverdew.com/" target="links">our</a>
<a href="http://start2.stanford.edu/" target="links">Start<sup>2</sup></a> Perl
software with their servers. Hopefully that will go well, as I
haven't made a penny on it yet. Not to say I'm profit-driven, but,
well, I'm running awfully low on money and earning less than
minimum wage...<p>
Looks like this summer I may be working for my friend
<a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~nathans/" target="links">Nathan</a> at his fresh
new startup, <a href="http://www.scoutnet.com/">ScoutNet</a>.
Can't say what it's about, but let's just say that the industry is
heading the right direction for this thing.<p>
I'll hopefully get some more writeups for
<a href="http://www.audioexplosion.com/" target="links">Audio Explosion</a> done
soon, just as soon as I can grab a sec to bang some stuff out. Seems
like the days of late have just been flying by. I'm going to do a
writeup of a yet-to-be-released Japanese device to play back audio.
Very cool, very smooth. More details to follow, probably on my
<a href="../writings/">writings</a> page.<p>
I like working hard, hitting the books. It's quite rewarding, and
I feel that I haven't hit them like this in quite a while -- it
shows. My brain is in slow-motion. I can barely go for an hour
without getting sucked back into the computer to check news at
<a href="http://www.slashdot.org/" target="links">slashdot</a> or
<a href="http://www.freshmeat.net/" target="links">freshmeat</a> or check my email.<p>
I fished up a crazy little program called
"<a href="http://www.cri.cz/kra/" target="links">hunt</a>" written by a Czechloslovakian
known as kra. It can snoop in on people's telnet connections, hijack
them, search for keywords, cut people off, etc. Evil! Cute program,
but I really can't see its good uses. Maybe I'm just shortsighted.
So I went around my dorm telling people to use our campus's security
software (called Mac-Leland and PC-Leland) so they would not be
susceptible to attacks using programs like hunt.
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