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	Phil's Blogservations Monday, January 26, 2004 Posted by philgomes 9:12 PM MyDoom Virus Attacks! MyDoom Virus Attacks! Yup... Some miscreant has decided to unleash yet another pathogen into our delicate digital ecosystem. My inbox(es) have been positively overrun today with the MyDoom virus. Apparently, this one is a mass mailer worm that will attempt to hit the controversial SCO Group with junk data on Feb. 1. VirusShield tells me there are no viruses here. It ain't me, folks! Now, I know that SCO is a pretty easy target these days, what with their anti-Linux sabre-rattling. But this stunt doesn't do anyone any favors. I really hope that no one in the open source community is behind this. As to open source... I had a GOOBiE a couple of weekends ago. ("GOOBiE" was a term some of us used with Hitachi Semiconductor. It meant "Good Out-Of-Box Experience.") Mandrake Linux 9.2 gave me a GOOBiE. I took an old workstation and turned it into a public access kiosk, such that visitors could always have a place to check email or surf the Web without needing to go into my laptop. Here's the kiosk: Altogether, very smooth installation. Found all of the hardware without any trouble. The machine is a 550MHz Pentium with 384MB of PC100 SDRAM. Pokey by today's standards, for sure, but it appears to run about as quickly as my WinXP laptop with 1.8GHz and 512MB of DDR SDRAM. I'm sure there will be more updates to follow. HOME | OBSESSIONS | FAQ | HEROES | CAREER | BLOG | CONTACT Note that the views expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect those of Phil's employer, its business partners, its clients, or anyone or anything that doesn't come from Phil.	ABOUT THIS BLOG This blog not only discusses PR and media matters, but Phil's everyday observations about a variety of topics. EMAIL phil[at] philgomes[[dot}]com SYNDICATE Feedburner ARCHIVE YAHOO! IM SKYPE WISH LIST PITCH POLICY MY PHOTOS www.flickr.com Photostream RSS Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz COMMENT AND TRACKBACK POLICY Comments and trackbacks are unmoderated, though I will delete the patently offensive ones. Any comments and trackbacks are the opinions of the individual writer of those comments and trackbacks, and not those of Phil Gomes, his employer, its clients, or its business partners. If you have a bone to pick, bug the people who wrote the comment or trackback.