YTSEJAM digest 5800

From: ytsejam@torchsong.com
Date: Fri Mar 23 2001 - 17:51:59 EST

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                                YTSEJAM Digest 5800

    Today's Topics:

      1) too late...damage done...
     by Joshua Rasiel <megafunk@optonline.net>
      2) dvd
     by Joshua Rasiel <megafunk@optonline.net>
      3) TEOF
     by Paul Ninnis <PaulN@TimeAndPeople.com.au>
      4) Aussie CD Shop
     by Paul Ninnis <PaulN@TimeAndPeople.com.au>
      5) Re: Response to Fluttering
     by "Dark Majesty" <shadow_majesty@hotmail.com>
      6) Original Ytsejam T-Shirts
     by Tom Tubbiola <ttubbiola@earthlink.net>
      7) Re: TEOF
     by =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mauricio_Mart=EDnez?= <al769526@mail.mty.itesm.mx>
      8) Re: Aussie CD Shop
     by "Paul Tadday" <dreamryche@bigpond.com>
      9) The Tea Party DVD
     by Michael Kizer <mike@ivorygate.com>
     10) Metalfests - Graham's Giglist
     by "charles.farrell@mail.tesco.net" <charles.farrell@mail.tesco.net>
     11) RE: Colored e-mail
     by Steve <steve@wolvie.co.uk>
     12) Re: Metalfests - Graham's Giglist
     by Graham Borland <graham@picsel.com>
     13) Re: Original Ytsejam T-Shirts
     by "Kez" <kez@stickdog.com>
     14) Re: Original Ytsejam T-Shirts
     by "Kez" <kez@stickdog.com>
     15) RE: YTSEJAM digest 5799
     by "Ashley Wong (ETL)" <ashley.wong@etl.ericsson.se>
     16) BlackJack Anyone???
     by dfsgwert@mail2.brownwhitegreen.com
     17) OFF-TOPIC: Warning to Linux users
     by "Souter, Jan-Michael" <JSouter@healthaxis.com>

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    Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:31:30 -0500
    From: Joshua Rasiel <megafunk@optonline.net>
    To: ytsejam@torchsong.com
    Subject: too late...damage done...
    Message-ID: <3ABA8B52.F4915836@optonline.com>

    > I ordered a yellow ytseshirt, so shut yo' trap!

    You've sent me into a spiral of despair and twinkies. Don't back out
    now!

    -josh

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    Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:33:36 -0500
    From: Joshua Rasiel <megafunk@optonline.net>
    To: ytsejam@torchsong.com
    Subject: dvd
    Message-ID: <3ABA8BD0.8D44C455@optonline.com>

    >Once you have a DVD player, you'll never go back to VHS. The leap in
    >sound and picture quality, and convenience, is phenomenal.

    yeah, yeah, yeah...just give me the extra tracks and commentaries! That
    alone is better than all that picture quality stuff. It's almost the
    norm now.

    josh

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    Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:40:19 +1030
    From: Paul Ninnis <PaulN@TimeAndPeople.com.au>
    To: ytsejam@torchsong.com
    Subject: TEOF
    Message-ID: <61BA286C6C56D11187B50000E83A13CB2954BD@EDDIE>

    Joined the Symphony X mailing list couple of days back,
    received about 2 messages in about 3 hours, then logging
    on the next morning with well over 100. Unfortunately
    most had nothing to do with music, so ended up unsubscribing.
    This digest form is so much more convenient.

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    Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:43:31 +1030
    From: Paul Ninnis <PaulN@TimeAndPeople.com.au>
    To: ytsejam@torchsong.com
    Subject: Aussie CD Shop
    Message-ID: <61BA286C6C56D11187B50000E83A13CB2954BE@EDDIE>

    For any other Australian's, I found a cool online CD store,
    that doesn't charge the earth, and certainly saves you a lot
    of money buying from the US and suffering for the conversion
    rate and shipping costs... it's www.metalmayhem.com.au based
    in Melbourne.

    Bought a few CDs and got them the next day, including a couple of
    newies...

    Savatage - Poets and Madmen, absolutely sensational, even includes a
    bonus
    Mpeg of Handful of Rain.
    Ice Age - Liberation, which isn't bad, but a bit too similar
    to The Great Divide... it seems pretty much to be The Great Divide II.
    Still very good though.

    Anyone got other comments on these discs?

    They have a very extensive range... pretty much all of
    Symphony X, Stratovarius, Royal Hunt, Fates Warning, Pain Of Salvation,
    Vanishing Point, Vanden Plas... you name it.

    Oh yea, they said they'll be getting the DT DVD in too, so it may be
    cheaper through them than buying from OSt too.

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    Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:34:12 -0600
    From: "Dark Majesty" <shadow_majesty@hotmail.com>
    To: ytsejam@torchsong.com
    Subject: Re: Response to Fluttering
    Message-ID: <F237xDbH8J0sca0Zkfz000081aa@hotmail.com>

    Thanks a lot, man! I'm not too familiar with the Floyd Rose system, and any
    help is definitely appreciated.

    Now playing: Dream Theater - "Lifting Shadows Off A Dream"

    Thanks again,

    --96

    >>In response to "Dark Majesty's" question about the floyd rose trem:
    The instruction manual tells you that the arm should be parallel to the body
    as a refrence to how much tension you need on your springs vs your strings.
    if your arm is up too high, you need to tighten your strings and loosen your
    springs in the back of the guitar. that will stabalize the arm and put the
    bridge in playing position. having your bridge alligned incorrectly can
    lower the life on your strings and also make the guitar suck to play. I work
    at Guitar Center in Baltimore and I take in used Ibanez and Jackson guitars
    all the time with poorly treated trem systems. It is a shame to see. Visit
    jemsite.com and look at their suggestions for how to get your floyd rose in
    perfect shape. if you get your trem set up right, you'll be able to flutter
    much better.
    Chris<<

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    Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:38:09 -0800
    From: Tom Tubbiola <ttubbiola@earthlink.net>
    To: <ytsejam@torchsong.com>
    Subject: Original Ytsejam T-Shirts
    Message-ID: <B6DFDAF1.EA0%ttubbiola@earthlink.net>

    Hi, I haven't posted here for a couple of years but have been lurking
    occasionally. I was doing some spring cleaning and I just found two of the
    original black Ytsejam T-Shirts (one XXL and one XXXL). I don't remember how
    much they originally were but I never wore them.

    They are black with a small ytsejam logo and the words "Ytsejam, the
    internet mailing list" on the front at pocket level and a large DREAM
    THEATER logo and the phrase "Let the light surround you" on the back. If I
    remember correctly, some of the ink is glow in the dark.

    If anybody is interested in buying either one or both please drop me an
    email at ttubbiola@earthlink.net

    Thanks,
    Tom Tubbiola

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    Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 21:56:05 -0600
    From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mauricio_Mart=EDnez?= <al769526@mail.mty.itesm.mx>
    To: <ytsejam@torchsong.com>
    Subject: Re: TEOF
    Message-ID: <026301c0b34d$31d3ed40$d4aaf094@compaq.net.mx>

    dude, you just missed out on a huge DT vs SX thread! it was fun!

    Mauricio
    ----- Original Message -----
    ]From: "Paul Ninnis" <PaulN@TimeAndPeople.com.au>
    To: "Multiple recipients of list" <ytsejam@torchsong.com>
    Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 6:22 PM
    Subject: TEOF

    >
    > Joined the Symphony X mailing list couple of days back,
    > received about 2 messages in about 3 hours, then logging
    > on the next morning with well over 100. Unfortunately
    > most had nothing to do with music, so ended up unsubscribing.
    > This digest form is so much more convenient.

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    Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:06:22 +1100
    From: "Paul Tadday" <dreamryche@bigpond.com>
    To: <ytsejam@torchsong.com>
    Subject: Re: Aussie CD Shop
    Message-ID: <007d01c0b35f$6364f680$643636cb@PaulTadday>

    Metal Mayhem also has a shop in the city of Melbourne just near Flinders St
    Station (Chris from Vanishing Point works there!), they've been around for
    quite some time.
    They do import a great range of cd's and vids bit they've always been a bit
    on the pricey side.
    I ususally prefer to order through JB HiFi here in Melbourne, they're
    usually cheaper.

    ----- Original Message -----
    ]From: Paul Ninnis <PaulN@TimeAndPeople.com.au>
    To: Multiple recipients of list <ytsejam@torchsong.com>
    Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 11:22 AM
    Subject: Aussie CD Shop

    >
    > For any other Australian's, I found a cool online CD store,
    > that doesn't charge the earth, and certainly saves you a lot
    > of money buying from the US and suffering for the conversion
    > rate and shipping costs... it's www.metalmayhem.com.au based
    > in Melbourne.

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    Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 22:25:49 -0800
    From: Michael Kizer <mike@ivorygate.com>
    To: ytsejam@torchsong.com, fateswarning@egroups.com
    Subject: The Tea Party DVD
    Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20010322222035.0287c0e0@pop3.norton.antivirus>

    While we are waiting for the Dream Theater DVD, here is an awesome DVD to
    check out, The Tea Party's "Illuminations". It contains all of their videos
    with four different audio tracks for each one (Stereo 2.0, Dolby Digital
    5.1, DTS (oh yeah), and Audio Commentary by the band). Besides all of this
    there are a few behind the scenes clips hidden throughout the disc. Plus, I
    think I got it for around $16 (US) from www.hmv.com

    I definitely recommend this DVD (and the band) highly...

    ~Michael Kizer < mike@ivorygate.com > < ICQ # 2070538 >
    "Enter ivory gates through midnight skies..." ~ http://www.ivorygate.com
    >>> Fates Warning ~ Island In The Stream <<<
    >>> Dream Theater and Kevin Moore "Unofficial" Song Books <<<
    >>> Underground Internet Radio at: http://www.ytseradio.com <<<

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    Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 03:20:05 -0500
    From: "charles.farrell@mail.tesco.net" <charles.farrell@mail.tesco.net>
    To: "ytsejam@torchsong.com" <ytsejam@torchsong.com>
    Subject: Metalfests - Graham's Giglist
    Message-ID: <200103230320191.SM04672@m2w024>

    Brian,

    thanks for those links to those 2 US festivals - I'm trying hard to keep my list of Metal festivals uptodate at

    http://www.powerplaymagazine.co.uk/bands/festivals/metalfest.htm

    I've got 2 lined up for the next week:

    Lost Horizon (no buzz about these boys yet???), Dyslesai, Mob Rules, Silent Farce ( :-)) ), Shaman (whoah! Andre Matos re=
    turns!) + Rhapsody in Paris on 31st March then I race back to London to catch the

    Dimmu Borgir (no thanks), In Flames, Suspiria, Nevermore (yeah!) and Lacuna Coil(drool) show at the Astoria (NB Graham - =
    its moved from the smaller Mean Fiddler (was LAII) to the Astoria proper (cap 3000) due to demand).

    Guess we'll catch up there Graham.

    oh yeah and during the week I'm gonna see Doro play in a London pub!

    I've got tickets for the Ozrics too, Priest (with Savatage as support!!!!!) and Porcupine Tree (+the marvellous Anathema =
    as support). Its turning out to be a great metal year so far.

    Charlie
    Powerplay Magazine
    http://www.powerplaymagazine.co.uk/

    Go on Graham, subscribe - you need this mag, honest :-))))

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    Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:25:22 +0000
    From: Steve <steve@wolvie.co.uk>
    To: ytsejam@torchsong.com
    Subject: RE: Colored e-mail
    Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010323101750.01c55240@pop3.btconnect.com>

    > >
    > > God that last jam was hard to read. Did anyone else in digest mode get
    it
    > >
    > > with a black background? I was so frustrated until I realized that by
    > > hitting "respond" to it, all of a sudden I had white background and
    could
    > > read everything. :) Heh. Been that kind of a day.
    > >
    > >
    >
    >That could be because of the spam, since sometimes it sets diferent colors
    >or fonts.....
    >but since you where the only one, maybe not.

    Just throwing my 2 cents in.. I get multicolored digests nearly every
    time.. in fact 5799 was a nice pastel blue background.. 5798 was green.
    The black one a few digests ago if left long enough DID come up with just
    the spam web page for UsaBizlinks and no ytse stuff.. this was fixed by
    forwarding the message to myself.. the digest came back with a normal
    white background and no spam page visible (except as html text somewhere in
    the digest).
      

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    Date: 23 Mar 2001 12:17:10 +0000
    From: Graham Borland <graham@picsel.com>
    To: ytsejam@torchsong.com
    Subject: Re: Metalfests - Graham's Giglist
    Message-ID: <861yrovfw9.fsf@picsel.com>

    "charles.farrell@mail.tesco.net" <charles.farrell@mail.tesco.net> writes:

    > Dimmu Borgir (no thanks), In Flames, Suspiria, Nevermore (yeah!) and
    > Lacuna Coil(drool) show at the Astoria (NB Graham - = its moved from
    > the smaller Mean Fiddler (was LAII) to the Astoria proper (cap 3000)
    > due to demand).

    Oh cool. Thanks for telling me!

    > Priest (with Savatage as support!!!!!)

    Things just get better and better - I'm considering seeing Priest and
    Savatage in London as well as Glasgow, since that's the day before the
    Spock's Beard show.

    You WILL be at the Beard show this time, Charlie! You have no choice
    in the matter!

    > Its turning out to be a great metal year so far.

    Yep. I didn't think I'd manage to beat last year's record of 14 gigs,
    but I think I might just manage this year!

    > Powerplay Magazine http://www.powerplaymagazine.co.uk/
    >
    > Go on Graham, subscribe - you need this mag, honest :-))))

    Oh, all right. :-)

    -- 
    Graham Borland                                   Picsel Technologies Ltd
    graham@picsel.com                                      Glasgow, Scotland
    

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    Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 07:27:59 -0500 From: "Kez" <kez@stickdog.com> To: <ytsejam@torchsong.com> Subject: Re: Original Ytsejam T-Shirts Message-ID: <002e01c0b394$b305b000$0300005a@kezp3800>

    I'd like the XXL please. Get back to me.

    Bryan Keyser aka Kez

    ----- Original Message ----- ]From: "Tom Tubbiola" <ttubbiola@earthlink.net> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <ytsejam@torchsong.com> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 7:47 PM Subject: Original Ytsejam T-Shirts

    > > Hi, I haven't posted here for a couple of years but have been lurking > occasionally. I was doing some spring cleaning and I just found two of the > original black Ytsejam T-Shirts (one XXL and one XXXL). I don't remember how > much they originally were but I never wore them. > > They are black with a small ytsejam logo and the words "Ytsejam, the > internet mailing list" on the front at pocket level and a large DREAM > THEATER logo and the phrase "Let the light surround you" on the back. If I > remember correctly, some of the ink is glow in the dark. > > If anybody is interested in buying either one or both please drop me an > email at ttubbiola@earthlink.net > > Thanks, > Tom Tubbiola >

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    Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 07:30:14 -0500 From: "Kez" <kez@stickdog.com> To: <ytsejam@torchsong.com> Subject: Re: Original Ytsejam T-Shirts Message-ID: <003f01c0b395$036dcb40$0300005a@kezp3800>

    oops. You think I would have learned by now.

    Please ignore the last message, unless you're Tom.

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    Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:20:19 +0100 From: "Ashley Wong (ETL)" <ashley.wong@etl.ericsson.se> To: "'ytsejam@torchsong.com '" <ytsejam@torchsong.com> Subject: RE: YTSEJAM digest 5799 Message-ID: <0BE3EAFA8B11D3118DFC0008C75D24BE0389E13F@euktcnt011.ericsson.se>

    Hello All,

    Hey Graham, Charlie et al, I dunno if you know about this one at the = Shepards Bush Empire.=20

    Porcupine Tree at Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK

    May 11th 2001 - Shepherds Bush Empire, London, UK Special guests will be Anathema and Rothko. Tickets =A312 advance (subject to booking fee) / =A314 on the door =20 With Anathema there I'll be sure to be wearing an an extra = miserable-Goth face. Anyway, I'm off to see PT and Opeth tonight in = B=F6ras!

    Ash.

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    Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:38:02 -0600 From: "Souter, Jan-Michael" <JSouter@healthaxis.com> To: "'ytsejam@torchsong.com'" <ytsejam@torchsong.com> Subject: OFF-TOPIC: Warning to Linux users Message-ID: <74ACE5A6CB89D3119E6F00609720274A04B33535@ISDCRE00>

    Forwarded over from the Symphony X mailing list --

    Hey X'rz, I know we have a few Linux heads here, so I figured I'd forward this. I have confirmed the validity of this warning at several different respected virus sites, so it's not a hoax. http://www.sans.org/y2k/lion.htm

    Additionally, there are links to CERT and a few others further down the page. ~NEVER blindly accept these warnings; follow the links and verify them before you send them on~ -------------------------- A DANGEROUS NEW WORM IS SPREADING ON THE INTERNET March 23, 2001 7:00 AM

    Late last night, the SANS Institute (through its Global Incident Analysis Center) uncovered a dangerous new worm that appears to be spreading rapidly across the Internet. It scans the Internet looking for Linux computers with a known vulnerability. It infects the vulnerable machines, steals the password file (sending it to a China.com site), installs other hacking tools, and forces the newly infected machine to begin scanning the Internet looking for other victims. Several experts from the security community worked through the night to decompose the worm's code and engineer a utility to help you discover if the Lion worm has affected your organization. Updates to this announcement will be posted at the SANS web site, http://www.sans.org

    DESCRIPTION The Lion worm is similar to the Ramen worm. However, this worm is significantly more dangerous and should be taken very seriously. It infects Linux machines running the BIND DNS server. It is known to infect bind version(s) 8.2, 8.2-P1, 8.2.1, 8.2.2-Px, and all 8.2.3-betas. The specific vulnerability used by the worm to exploit machines is the TSIG vulnerability that was reported on January 29, 2001. The Lion worm spreads via an application called "randb". Randb scans random class B networks probing TCP port 53. Once it hits a system, it checks to see if it is vulnerable. If so, Lion exploits the system using an exploit called "name". It then installs the t0rn rootkit. Once Lion has compromised a system, it: Sends the contents of /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, as well as some network settings to an address in the china.com domain. Deletes /etc/hosts.deny, eliminating the host-based perimeter protection afforded by tcp wrappers. Installs backdoor root shells on ports 60008/tcp and 33567/tcp (via inetd, see /etc/inetd.conf) Installs a trojaned version of ssh that listens on 33568/tcp Kills Syslogd , so the logging on the system can't be trusted Installs a trojaned version of login Looks for a hashed password in /etc/ttyhash - /usr/sbin/nscd (the optional Name Service Caching daemon) is overwritten with a trojaned version of ssh. The t0rn rootkit replaces several binaries on the system in order to stealth itself. Here are the binaries that it replaces: du, find, ifconfig, in.telnetd, in.fingerd, login, ls, mjy, netstat, ps, pstree, top "Mjy" is a utility for cleaning out log entries, and is placed in /bin and /usr/man/man1/man1/lib/.lib/. in.telnetd is also placed in these directories; its use is not known at this time. A setuid shell is placed in /usr/man/man1/man1/lib/.lib/.x

    DETECTION AND REMOVAL We have developed a utility called Lionfind that will detect the Lion files on an infected system. Simply download it, uncompress it, and run lionfind. This utility will list which of the suspect files is on the system. At this time, Lionfind is not able to remove the virus from the system. If and when an updated version becomes available (and we expect to provide one), an announcement will be made at this site. Download Lionfind at http://www.sans.org/y2k/lionfind-0.1.tar.gz

    REFERENCES Further information can be found at: http://www.sans.org/current.htm http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-02.html, CERT Advisory CA-2001-02, Multiple Vulnerabilities in BIND http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/196945 ISC BIND 8 contains buffer overflow in transaction signature (TSIG) handling code http://www.sans.org/y2k/t0rn.htm Information about the t0rn rootkit. The following vendor update pages may help you in fixing the original BIND vulnerability: Redhat Linux RHSA-2001:007-03 - Bind remote exploit http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-007.html Debian GNU/Linux DSA-026-1 BIND http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-026 SuSE Linux SuSE-SA:2001:03 - Bind 8 remote root compromise. http://www.suse.com/de/support/security/2001_003_bind8_ txt.txt Caldera Linux CSSA-2001-008.0 Bind buffer overflow http://www.caldera.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2001-008.0.txt http://www.caldera.com/support/security/advisories/CSSA-2001-008.1.txt

    This security advisory was prepared by Matt Fearnow of the SANS Institute and William Stearns of the Dartmouth Institute for Security Technology Studies. The Lionfind utility was written by William Stearns. William is an Open-Source developer, enthusiast, and advocate from Vermont, USA. His day job at the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College pays him to work on network security and Linux projects. Also contributing efforts go to Dave Dittrich from the University of Washington, and Greg Shipley of Neohapsis Matt Fearnow SANS GIAC Incident Handler

    If you have additional data on this worm or a critical quetsion please email lionworm@sans.org

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