Well kids, this is my journal, so there. I’ve got stuff to write about. If you don’t want to hear about it… don’t read ahead…
Archive for April, 2002
Been attending the 3 days of the writing of the “Book of the Law” it’s been a trip. The L.A. group is awesome and I’m really looking forward to tonights closing ritual.
So, I went to log onto AIM today from the office. My client logged on and promtly logged off.
This time I know what it is. And i can’t believe I did it twice.
My network at home is flakey. So, I set up my AIM client at home to auto log in if it gets dropped. unfortunately, this has an undesirable side effect. When I log in at the office, it logs out my connection elsewhere.
The client at home thinks, “Hey! I’ve been dropped, I should log right back in again.” It does and knocks me at the office off.
Yes, it’s net tennis. I knock it off, it knocks me off.
Okay…Hmmn, I’m smarter than this.
The last time I tried this I figured (WARNING TECHIE STUFF COMING)
I’ll secure shell (telnet) to my box at home. Kill the AIM process entirely and log in…
Unfortunately, at the time, the computer at home was my laptop. The laptop that I’d used not two days earlier to demonstrate our software at work. For those that don’t know…. I’m a developer on Norton Utilities for the Macintosh. One of the other products we develop is Norton Personal Firewall.
So, I showed off NPF at a meeting 2 days earlier. And left it on the computer. I’ve now complained to the co-worker in the ext office over from mine. If any of you were curious. No, there is no backdoor to Norton Personal Firewall. I repeat, I am a Norton Software Engineer; there is no way to defeat the security of tis package.
*keep thinking* So the last time I tried this…I turned to my contact. The product manager of AIM for Mac at AOL:
(Name Changed)
(11:31:06)fraalandru:Is there a way to change your AIM password without logging on with the client?
(11:31:43)AOLPGM:I can’t answer password questions without knowing who you are exactly
(11:33:41)fraalandru:I’m embarassed to admit. i’m usually on as LordAndrei. I left my client on at home with auto relog in enabled. I was testing our company’s firewall. When I try logging in here, I bounce the client at home which logs on and bounces me here. The firewall doesn’t permit me to ssh into the machine to kill the client. My only guess is to change the password so it can’t log in again.
(11:34:26)AOLPGM:there is a forgot my password url
(11:34:30)AOLPGM:that you can go to
(11:34:52)AOLPGM:and it will send your password to the email address you have registered with AIM
(11:35:16)fraalandru:That just remailed my password to me. I know my password. I want to prevent the client at home from successfully logging in.
(11:35:28)fraalandru:I have the feeling I have no choice but to wait it out until I get home.
(11:35:40)AOLPGM:ah …. I see what you are saying
(11:36:06)AOLPGM:no there isn’t a way to change your password unless you are logged into the client
(11:36:42)fraalandru:Well, the good news is, the software works as billed 😉
(11:36:48)AOLPGM:lol
But today I realize…My laptop is in the shop. It’s my tower that’s to blame today. But, waitaminute….I don’t have Personal Firewall on that system…Oh, I don’t have SSH enabled on that system….Maybe FTP..no. Apple File Shaing!! Aha… I’m in.
Now in real time.
I feel like I’m Matthew Brodrick in WarGames looking for his grades.
Log into the file server. Delete the App.
“Can’t delete. file is open”
Didn’t think that would work…
Port scan to see where I can get in:
427, // Apple File share identification
548, // AFP over TCP
1033 // AIM incoming messages.
*sigh*
Well, folks. If you want to IM me today…Im to FraAlandru as for the moment, LordAndrei is locked up on a Mac running OSX.
Now, this isn’t an invitation for the net to try to hack into my machine, but if anyone has any ideas…they are warmly welcomed.
I’m just going to start typing and see where it gets me. This was a really strange and weird weekend that I’m still feeling the effects from.
Into the weekend:
Last week I was on a roller coaster of emotions. I’m beginning to think that I may be mildly bi-polar. (And from somewhere I sense a chorus of friends singing out, “Finally!”) This is probably chemical. I have been riding a roller coaster of ups and downs throughout the week. And they’ve been getting more and more intense.
Thursday: (Always start the weekend on a Thursday)
Hockey night at lapig93‘s place. I enjoy a sport when I have a team to root for. I sort of got into the Penguins in the (waay) early 90’s when an ex-fiancee introduced me to the game. It helped that it was during the time that Mario led the team to back-to-back Stanley Cups. Personally, I’m more of a football fan. But in L.A. you make due. I watched the Kings take on (and beat) the Wings. This was cool.
There was beer, and chips, and Krispy Kreme donuts. Also there was nitemarehipigrlwho I introduced herself to me for the 4th time. (I am just that memorable) and Fr. “Sighris” Who’s always great to see. Unfortunately, he’s going back on Wanderlust in about a month so we won’t see him again for a while (grump grump grump). lapig93 and I set up nitemarehipigrl with LJ, so yet another addict. Also met a really interesting astrologer named Savannah (SP?) We chatted about everything under the sun. lapig93 and I commented that we need to plot the conversation topics to see what we’d get. Some topics: Hockey, thelema, Pornos, Automatic sniper rifles, glochs (sp?), astrology, silly girl laughs, redoing my hair style, clubbing, etc…. We decided we were all going to hit a club called “The Dungeon” on Sunday night. Bailed at about 2am…
Friday:
Work was uneventful. I was tired. tired for me, I’m discovering is bad. I get home and I get punchy. Talked to Ari on the phone. Couldn’t sleep. Got punchier. Wanted to go out to an industrial club or someplace equally dark. Had a conversation with an old friend. Was in an angry, bitter mood about clubbing.
More on Friday and the rest of the week forthcoming….