[00:00] <jac76> That Wiki page more or less states that it was a failure of the IP stack, which it was, but it took MS failing to follow the rules on the size of "ping" packets to expose the stack coding error.  Until MS caused the "ping of death" everyone else had followed the rules.
[00:02] <Menzador> brb
[00:02] <jac76> In doing this, MS more or less started the "buffer overflow" hack that so many began to take advantage of.
[00:03] <daftykins> puzzling claim that MS ever manufactured a printer
[00:05] <jac76> no, not that MS made a printer, the MS oversized ping packet could crash any network attached printer from any manufacture.  I did it to printers made by DEC and HP at the time.
[00:05] <EriC^^> back in the day when mirc was popular there used to be "nukers" that could disconnect people and crash their pc
[00:06] <EriC^^> also typing "/con/con" in mirc used to make a BSOD
[00:07] <daftykins> and PMing Alice in Wonderland quotes caused world war 1
[00:07] <EriC^^> i wonder if those nukers were using oversized ping packets like you said
[00:07] <EriC^^> lol what? i'm serious
[00:07] <daftykins> it was any data that was larger than a dial-up modem buffer which caused them to mess up yeah :)
[00:07] <EriC^^> i'm talking in ~1999-2000
[00:08] <daftykins> that's where i heard the term 'ping of death' at the time
[00:10] <jac76> read the Wiki page, a "ping" is intended to be a 64? byte "runt" packet and no more.  MS, in their coding error, allowed the size of the packet to be defined via a 16-bit word rather than an 8-bit byte, which allowed for the 64k over size packet.
[00:10] <daftykins> i don't really have any interest in the past this evening
[00:13] <jac76> Well, just know that anytime you hear about a buffer overflow hack exploiting a weakness is some bit of software, remember that MS created the awareness that such a thing could be done when they accidentally created the "ping of death" in their first version of Windows NT.
[00:28] <daftykins> sounds like bs to me
[00:29] <jac76> it's a weird as only truth can be, you couldn't make this stuff up because nobody had even dreamed of it.  It took an accident to make it happen.
[00:31] <jac76> However, once the can of worms was open,... people had a field day with see what else they could effect in the same way.
[00:32] <jac76> unfortunately, it was quite a lot
[05:16] <lotuspsychje> good morning to all
[11:10] <BluesKaj> Hiyas all
[12:41] <EriC^^> hi BluesKaj how are you?
[12:42] <BluesKaj> Hey EriC^^ , just fine thanks , and you ?
[12:42] <EriC^^> BluesKaj: good thanks
[16:52] <pauljw> Hi everyone
[18:15] <Bashing-om> Location: Heber Springs, AR ~ Cond: 68°F (20°C), Overcast ~ Atmo: 94%, 3.0 mi (4.8 km), 29.97 in (1015 mb) ~ Wind: 0 mph (0 km/h), N, N/A°F (N/A°C) ~ Time: 13:15
[18:15] <Bashing-om> ^^ good day to irc :)
[18:31] <immu> Bashing-om, how do u do that
[18:32] <immu> Location : Dubai
[18:32] <immu> hmm
[18:33] <Bashing-om> immu: I run a kryten script for that one . Several ways within irssi to do such .
[18:34] <Bashing-om> immu: 'nother way:
[18:34] <Bashing-om> Weather:   Conditions 68 F (20 C) - Overcast Wind Calm
[18:34] <Bashing-om>            Time November 4, 1:34 PM CDT (America/Chicago)
[18:35] <Bashing-om> Weather:   Conditions 68 F (20 C) - Overcast Wind Calm Humidity 94%
[18:35] <Bashing-om>            Pressure 29.95 in (1014 mb) Time November 4, 1:34 PM CDT (America/Chicago)
[18:41] <TJ-> Bashing-om: OK, but now I want you to add radar imagary :D
[18:42] <Bashing-om> TJ-: Oh Mercy ! You ask a lot of my CLI // Now you are having me work overtime :P
[18:43] <TJ-> hehehe
[18:56] <immu> ok
[18:57] <oerheks> wttr.in/Dubai
[18:57] <immu> oerheks, eh?
[18:58] <oerheks> 30' C .. lets book a flight
[19:04] <immu> hahaha ;) its hot here