I really dig the Azureus BitTorrent client. It’s an awesome little Java application that’s got a ton of great features - including plugins. Now I haven’t played around with too many of the plugins, but the Swing Web Interface (aka WebUI) has to be about the greatest!

With this plugin I’m able to upload .torrent files to my Azureus client at home from anywhere - well, anywhere with Internet access that is. If I’m at the office and something happens to catch my eye, I can quickly start downloading from my client at home! (Don’t want to use up the office bandwidth now, do I?) Or just post a URL to a torrent and off you go! Oh yeah, it supports SSL and basic authentication for security and UPnP for port forwarding if your router supports it - I just have port forwards configured on the router. Also you can run at as a stand alone app too! Sweet!

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Forget mp3 streams that take up 128kbps of your bandwidth! aacPlus is here! I don’t know how all this works, but it sounds great to me!

I first heard of aacPlus on woxy.com while checking out their streams. I quickly downloaded the latest winamp to get aacPlus support and was really impressed when I connected! Very nice quality even at 24kbps! And great at 48kbps!

So download winamp (Windows) and check out the streams! Also, VLC (Win/Mac/Linux) works great too - and plays just about anything, audio or video.

My favorite aacPlus stations:

- woxy.com (The Best Ever!)
- woxy.com vintage (Oldies but goodies)
- soma fm (Groove Salad and Secret Agent are sweet!)
- wksu (classical, npr - WKSU 3, The Classical Channel is great!)

Wanna stream aacPlus yourself, I guess you need this.

(side note: Google Video’s player plugin is based on VLC.)

UPDATE: A few more aacPlus links…

tuner2 - aacPlus stream directory
kplu - Jazz
stream guys - Wanna stream?

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Looks like MyDoom is on the rise again! This time it’s the “M” variant - and packs a backdoor with it - Backdoor.Zincite.A. It’s currently a “Category 4″ over at SARC. Update your virus definitions now!

I ran freshclam (we use clamav on our servers) this morning manually even though the cron job runs daily and 5 more virus defs were added.

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I meant to post this a while ago, but kept forgetting… for those of you who are or were in Cincinnati or Oxford, 97X is going “internet only”. It will be a bit of a bummer when travelling north and not being able to listen, but I “tune in” mostly on the ‘net anyway cuz I can’t get decent reception here. They’ve posted more details on the whys and whats. Maybe they’ll go to XM or Sirius - then I’ll spring for satelite radio for sure!

For those who don’t know, 97X (aka WOXY) is and has been the best radio station ever since 1983. I think I started listening on occasion back in ‘85 when I became a fan of Depeche Mode and they also used to have Doctor Demento on Sunday nights back then.

And yes, it is the station Dustin Hoffman quotes in the movie “Rainman”.

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Well, MyDoom (aka Novarg) is suppose to be the fastest spreading virus yet, but I haven’t received any of these emails. I guess my friends, family, coworkers and mailing list readers are loosing their click happiness of attachments.

I’m still being harassed by the “MS Security Update” virus that I posted about. It’s probably the W32.Swen.A@mm virus, since this looks like the same stuff I’m getting. But W32.Gibe@mm sounds possible too. And I’ve gotten alerts about W32.Mimail.A@mm when scanning suspicious emails. I wish people would clean up their machines!

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Just wanted post one from the road! Our hotel in Solon - near Chagrin Falls, near Cleveland - is sweet! High speed internet access in all rooms! Not to mention speading Christmas with Jen and her family has been great!

Anyway, Merry Christmas from the road!

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Ok, obviously I’m kidding! But I guess that’s what the virus creators expect, and by the volume of spams with the virus in them, I guess people are clicking the attachment!

I’ve be getting a ton of the following emails to one of my accounts recently - originally I got it a few times back at the beginning of November. Pretty tricky actually, but would MS really email out patches? First give away - the first letter of the email body is not capitalized!

This time around I’m not just getting these emails, but also “returned” emails with the virus in them. I’ve also seen some ISP strip out the virus from the emails - that’s interesting.

Like MS would really do this… (I know what some of you are thinking!)

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ok, we all know spammers suck. they are evil people. but they are also tricky, smart people… i haven’t put a real spam filter in place yet, but i’ve been using poptray to poll and preview my email on a few accounts. it’s a nifty little freeware program that allows me to delete spams before outlook gets them. i came across an interesting email yesterday - no real text content, just base64 encoding. i thought, virus. but today i pulled up the message in outlook express, and the spam magically appeared! so any program filtering based on text content would pass the message along. interesting tactic, i thought. i’m not up on the latest spam filters, so maybe they take this into accoung, but those spammers are tricky!

yes, i realize i shouldn’t use outlook (or outlook express) anyway, but it’s nice for some things… and i haven’t gone 100% linux on the desktop yet…

oh ok, squirrel mail shows the message as well… maybe it’s a common method for email…

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