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VIRUS HAMMERING PART 2

Appears the worm attack I talked about before (now called either Novarg or MyDoom) has as its ultimate target SCO, the company whose lawsuit against IBM threatens to cripple the Linux world, with infected computers to be used for a Feb. 1 DoS attack against the company.

Can't trust those penguins, it seems...

LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW... NOT

Worst snowfall I've seen in five years here in Toronto going on today. I can remember it's five years exactly, because in 1999 I worked a 72 hour straight shift as an army public affairs officer here in Toronto the last time this happened. By the end (imagine an Apu-like accent) I thought I was a hummingbird of some kind...

CANADIANS IN AFGHAN TAKE FIRST CONFIRMED HOSTILE FATALITY

The Canadian forces in Afghanistan lost a man today, the first to die in a confirmed attack on our units (the mine explosion that killed two Canadian soldiers earlier near Kabul was never conclusively confirmed to have been an intentional act, as opposed to a booby trap left over from another war).

The real problem around Kabul now isn't Taliban or Al Qaeda, which are quiescent, but the Hekmatyarites, led by the certifiably mad Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. We've talked about Hekmatyar, and a certain Canadian journalist's fondness for him, before.

The Star notes Canadian soldiers are not happy about the way things are going at the moment.

UPDATE: I don't know why reporters (for both papers linked above, as well as the National Post) insist on calling the Iltis jeep "lightly armoured." It's not armoured at all. The family Nissan has more "armour." To any soldier, "light armour" means an APC. To reporters, apparently, it means anything more than a kleenex.

Also, I may be wrong about Hekmatyar, although it's hardly certain, yet. A self-proclaimed Taliban spokesperson has since claimed responsibility.