Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Recently, this blog has been giving me a lot of shit. First, it refuses to load at times. I finally solved that, thanks to a little teeny weeny help from Pingpong. Though tweaking with bandwidth and dreamweaver was probably the real reason it worked. Then, I recently encountered a problem with my pictures. No matter how much space I put in between the pictures and the words, it always appears cramped up when I publish it. RAH! Finally, the epitome of PAIN IN THE ASS...last night I didn't feel sleepy at 4am because I took a long nap after dinner. So I decided to blog for a while before I slept. Then, blogspot started to "chut" pattern. First, it was the cramped pictures problem. Then the worst was when I tried to edit the post, the font suddenly all became SUPER SMALL even though it showed the font was normal size. RAHHH! I tweaked it all the way till 540am and still couldn't get it to work the way I wanted it to. Couldn't get it to the usual font I use, but settled for the default font because everytime I clicked on the text, the font would automatically change.
Anyway, today in 304 (audit) class, we were on the topic of IT security. Just as I had enough of IT for the night, I was back on the topic. Due to a lack of sleep, my mind was tired and dreamy. My mind wandered off to Down Under. Was thinking of the people going to Sydney and visiting Bondi beach. Wish I could be there with them too. Bondi beach is a really beautiful and picturesque beach, especially in the summer. Went there almost a couple of years back.
The water is awfully cold even in the summer. Its practically ice water. And I was amazed how the Aussies could be frolicking in the water so happily. I cringed the moment my feet touched the water and it took me a long time to finally sink my whole body in. But it was nice. Not to mention the boobies displayed on the beach. Haha.
Anyway, I was jolted out of my daze by my tutor, who happens to be one of the most hilarious tutors I've had, Mr Tan Seet Koh, nominee for teacher of the year. He was talking about Internet security and stuff, then he mentioned PING. Immediately, I thought of the only PING I know. But what he was referring to in IT terminology, was to PING a computer to see if its responding. He then said this is could be an IT risk to a company also, because IT attackers could use this as a denial-of-service attack by PINGing the server till its overloaded. He called this "PING TO DEATH".
Tutor: The attacker will PING, then the other comp will reply "PONG, I'm alive". Then the attacker will PING again, then the other comp will "PONG, I'm alive". Then the attacker will PING and PING until no more reply because of overload. So this is called PING TO DEATH.
Derek O. happened to sit beside me today (1st lesson he attended for the sem) and he turned to me and I turned to him and said, "I'm thinking of the same Ping too".
Well, for as long as I live, I will always Pingpong's wonderful friend and she will always be the butt of my jokes. Sorry Pingpong, no matter how hard I try, I find myself writing a lot about you. (Trini is most relieved by this fact. But she probably has mini, ryan and you to worry about now.) So, unfortunately for you, seems like this might carry on forever. PING TO DEATH.
