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Forgot to say, very cool after work party on Thursday at Son Cubano. I wanted to make sure I made it, that's why I flew back from Cinci Thu afternoon, jumped in a cab and rushed to work, I didn't want to blow it off.

We get so busy day to day that people don't interact or even know each other within the same company. That's why we brought the Special Events and DI groups together, so people could mingle and meet. We did it at Son Cubano on 14th Street, right around the corner from work. It's a Cuba/Latin American place with live salsa music. We had an open bar, so after a few drinks, the conversation flew very freely

Renee from the Cinci office was in town visiting our NY offices, so she was at the party as well. We got something to eat afterwards. I think everybody had a ton of fun. Pretty much everybody made it, which was nice, Chris, Karrie, Heather, etc.

Jordi's second daughter was born this week, on Wed morning, congrats!

Everything went great, very smooth. They named her Laia. He hasn't been able to send me the pics just yet - he sent an email Thu but had forgotten the camera at the hospital.

Instead, he sent a few pics of Jana, his first-born. She and Biel - the son another one of best my friends from childhood, Toni Serena - play together at the zoo:

And for the random geeky comment of the day:

Windows XP SP2 introduced a few new twists to TCP/IP in order to babysit users and "reduce the threat" of worms spreading fast without control. In one such attempt, the developers limited the number of possible TCP connection attempts per second to 10 (from unlimited in SP1). This argumentative feature affects server and P2P programs that need to open many outbound connections at the same time.

The "forward-thinking" of Microsoft developers here is that you can only infect 10 new systems per second via TCP/IP. Mmmh... If you also consider that each of those infected computers will infect 10 others at the same rate:

second 1: 1+10 computers
second 2: 10+10*10 computers (110 new ones)
second 3: 10+100*10 computers ( 1110 new ones)
second 4: 10+1000*10 computers (11110 new ones)
...
all the way to 10*60 + 10^60 computers in a single minute (that's a number with 60 digits, or it would far exceed Earth's population).

So, we've established this is not going to stop a worm spreading. At best it's going to delay it a few seconds, limit possible network congestion a bit, and limit the use of your PC to 10 connection attempts per second in the process. This is all fine, but still, users should have the option to easily disable or change the setting. Although the setting was registry editable in XP SP1, it is now only possible to edit it by changing it directly in the system file tcpip.sys. To make matters worse, that file is in use, so you also need to be in Safe mode in order to edit it.

Either that, or use a tool like this:

http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads

Got a message from my parents, they are at the beach this weekend, cool. It's Labor Day in Spain, and they have Monday off. Must be nice

Here's a pic my mom sent of her in a new jacket at home, and also a pic of my sister-in-law's birthday a couple of weeks back. Nice cake