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Guess That Movie: XVII: Event Horizon

January 28, 2003

[Guess That Movie 17] Congratulations new player KHD for recognising the previous image was Robin William’s “What Dreams May Come” . Hello, welcome and well done 🙂

The image was taken from around the 44th minute of the movie and just shows Dr. Chris Nielson (Robin Williams) and Leona (Rosalind Chao) in a boat together in heaven. It’s one of those films which you’ll either really like or just don’t “get”. I fall in to the latter category – I did try watching it but it just didn’t hold me interest for long enough.

Anyway, on to the new image which marks round 17 of Guess That Movie!. It’s blue and, marking a change from the previous two images, it shows a bloke on his own. But who? And more important in which film? The last one was from a “dream” but this one appears to be more from a nightmare!

Go on have a guess, that’s points to be grabbed and prizes to be won, it’s a real crazy game where anything goes.. Funhouse, it’s a ….. Sorry – just drifted off into early 1990’s UK children’s television gameshows there…(and, no, that wasn’t a clue).

A: Event Horizon . Correctly guessed by Dr. G

Guess That Movie: XVI: What Dreams May Come

January 27, 2003

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[Round Sixteen of Guess That Movie] Well, Ph33r_m3 managed to do it again and picked up another 100 points for quickly identifying that the previous Guess That Movie image was, in fact, Halle Berry‘s right breast (ok, the image was rotated) in her orange bikini at the start of James Bond: Die Another Day .

That puts Ph33r_m3 at the top of the leader board with 430 points so far (although LD is close behind with 380 points). It’s going to be close – Ph33r_m3 just needs an extra 70 points to be able to claim the first ever Guess That Movie prize – but all it’ll take is 6 incorrect guesses by other people and he won’t be able to win enough points this round (hint hint 😉 ). Of course, it’ll only take one correct guess from someone else and this round’s points will go to them. And yep, this is my pathetic attempt at trying to fix the scores and start up a little more competition!

Come on people guess that movie before Ph33r_m3!

A: What Dreams May Come. Correctly guessed by KHD

Techy: MS-SQL Slammer

January 27, 2003

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As you may have already heard, over the weekend the Internet was hit by one of the fastest spreading worms since the original Morris worm. The name of this nasty piece of code? “MS-SQL Slammer”- so called because it uses a 6-month old exploit in unpatched Microsoft SQL servers as its method of spreading- but spreads so quickly that it caused major problems across the ‘net.

Actually, to call it a nasty piece of work is doing a disservice to the author (who is, at this moment of time, still unknown). It’s a lovely piece of optimised assembly code which does “it’s job” in just 376 bytes in length (to put that in perspective – that is exactly the length, in letters, spaces and punctuation, of the first paragraph of this entry).

When the code infects an unpatched Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or Microsoft Desktop Engine (MSDE – which is included in Visual Studio.net, Asp.net Web Matrix Tool, Office XP Developer Edition, MSDN Universal and Enterprise, Microsoft Access and Microsoft Applicaiton 2000), it first loads the “modules” Kernel32.dll and WS2_32.dll. It then calls the routine “GetTickCount” to generate random IP (internet protocol) address which it then targets for propagation and exploitation over the UDP (User Datagram Protocol) protocol port 1434. It repeats the exploit code (using a method called a stack buffer overflow) until either the SQL server is shut down or the machine is rebooted.

Joke: Nott Shott?

January 27, 2003

Guess That Movie: XV: Die Another Day

January 27, 2003

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[Guess That Movie Round 15] I don’t know how the h-ll Ph33r_m3 managed to recognise the previous image that was taken from Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb , but he did. The image showed the late Peter Sellers on the left playing President Merkin Muffley (he also played Captain Lionel Mandrake and Dr. Strangelove) – I’m still not sure who the person on the right was though. Oh well. Yes, the movie was originally in black and white (I added the color/colour by hand) and one of clues I gave out was referring to Dr.Strangelove suffering from “alien hand syndrome” (which is an affliction that can be caused by a stroke or other brain injury) – it’s been nicknamed “Dr.Strangelove syndrome”.

That strange win (I actually specifically picked that picture to try and reduce the chance of Ph33r_m3 guessing the movie – but I still failed) moved Ph33r_m3 into second place in the charts with 330 points – LD is still in the lead with 380. But it could all change with this new image. Once again, since people are extremely close to the magical “prize claiming” 500 point mark – I’ve slightly altered it. Nothing too drastic (as that wouldn’t be allowed under the rule’s I’ve devised for myself) but hopefully the small change should just throw some people off the scent (or maybe not – I can still recognise it, but then again I already know which movie it is!).

Go on punk – make my day!

A: James Bond: Die Another Day . Correctly guessed by Ph33r_m3