Blog 2/14
It’s Valentines Day and I get to open a card Pattie sent with me and the meaningful message makes me miss her. As I’m getting into bed I decide to make an expensive call on the cell phone since I know its morning in California and she’s about to leave for work. She’s surprised and we have a wonderful short exchange. Ahhh!
Our Internet Café provides internet and phone service to 100+ NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) that are registered with the UN. They can walk into our tent and use one of our four notebook computers or bring their own and plug it in or use our wireless link. We require that their computers be free of viruses and spyware. We also provide internet access for OCHA (Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Aid). Users of our Internet Café are having some trouble sending and receiving email and the internet access seems slow. We check our switches and see that a lot of activity is coming from the OCHA office connection.
We play detective and trace wires back to an OCHA computer that is constantly bombarding our satellite connection with lots of traffic. More investigation reveals a nasty worm/virus disguising itself as Yahoo messenger that can’t be removed with anti-virus tools. I resort to “hacking” the computer and finally kill it. Not only does her computer run faster but our whole network is now operating at full speed.
Later we detect another rogue notebook and discover it loaded with over 800 spyware and viruses programs clogging his system. We refuse the poor guy access to our network until we finish cleaning his system.
In the morning our driver and car didn’t show up and so Phil and I had to takes rides on a back of a motorcycle to get to “work”. Everyday we carry 4 notebook computers, 2 VoIP phones and our own personal notebooks to the “tent of meeting”. Balancing on the back of a motorcycle and carrying all this was a little tricky as we weaved through the traffic. (I hope Pattie doesn’t read this.)
Then, on the way home we take a becak. :)
It’s Valentines Day and I get to open a card Pattie sent with me and the meaningful message makes me miss her. As I’m getting into bed I decide to make an expensive call on the cell phone since I know its morning in California and she’s about to leave for work. She’s surprised and we have a wonderful short exchange. Ahhh!
Our Internet Café provides internet and phone service to 100+ NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) that are registered with the UN. They can walk into our tent and use one of our four notebook computers or bring their own and plug it in or use our wireless link. We require that their computers be free of viruses and spyware. We also provide internet access for OCHA (Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Aid). Users of our Internet Café are having some trouble sending and receiving email and the internet access seems slow. We check our switches and see that a lot of activity is coming from the OCHA office connection.
We play detective and trace wires back to an OCHA computer that is constantly bombarding our satellite connection with lots of traffic. More investigation reveals a nasty worm/virus disguising itself as Yahoo messenger that can’t be removed with anti-virus tools. I resort to “hacking” the computer and finally kill it. Not only does her computer run faster but our whole network is now operating at full speed.
Later we detect another rogue notebook and discover it loaded with over 800 spyware and viruses programs clogging his system. We refuse the poor guy access to our network until we finish cleaning his system.
In the morning our driver and car didn’t show up and so Phil and I had to takes rides on a back of a motorcycle to get to “work”. Everyday we carry 4 notebook computers, 2 VoIP phones and our own personal notebooks to the “tent of meeting”. Balancing on the back of a motorcycle and carrying all this was a little tricky as we weaved through the traffic. (I hope Pattie doesn’t read this.)
Then, on the way home we take a becak. :)
posted by Dave Ketcham at 3:06 AM
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