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  1. Electoral-vote webhosted in Upstate New York by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Votemaster Is...Andrew Tanenbaum

    Electoral-vote is hosted on these guys, who are a small ISP in upstate New York; I previously worked for them.

    Andrew Tanenbaum was, at the time I was working there, one of our most problematic customers -- his site kept getting DoSed. Hostrocket has an OC3 and a DS3, but the attackers were able to throw enough traffic to keep it down until our providers could block the traffic before it reached our network.

    I did a combo of network admin and support, and spoke with Mr. Tanenbaum a few times. I didn't realize who it was until the second or third time. Apparently my geek-fu was not active the first time :)

    Andy is a nice guy, and we tried really hard to keep his site up -- we were certainly making good money off him! He was very specific in his technical requests (FTP should work so, why do I time out after X minutes, etc), and unfourtunately our support wasn't very good, so we could not solve all his problems.

    Hostrocket currently runs RedHat 6 - 9, and was being phased out in favor of Whitebox at the time I was last employed there. I never asked Andy what he thought about us using Linux, but I was tempted :)

  2. Xbox peripherals already work on PCs by RzUpAnmsCwrds · · Score: 5, Informative · on Xbox 2Peripherals to Work on PCs

    With the proper drivers and a little rewiring, you can already use XBox controllers on your PC. They are standard USB, so all you need to do is change the connector.

  3. You bastards! i did this a week ago! by eekygeeky · · Score: 1 · on Putting Google to the Test

    i published the The Google Report a week ago, and their crapola storygets on /.? i even had my girlfriend submit the link...

    seriously, my report is much better than theirs.

    carl

  4. Re:Alternate headline: by Eshock · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Announces XNA Game Development Platform

    Who needs an official HID when you have this?

  5. Oh Comeon... by Tellalian · · Score: 1 · on Could Google Be SCO's Next Big Target?

    And to all you conspiracy theorists, I'll just say that everyone knows there's absolutely no link between SCO and Microsoft.

  6. Re:Who wouldn't? by berzerke · · Score: 1 · on Build Your Own Database-Driven Website

    ... Could you please give some examples of hosting companies that charge $1/gig or less?...



    Sure, hostrocket . Their basic plan includes 20 gigs for $10/month (and right now they are running a special of 37 gigs for $10/month). They include php and 10 mysql db's (plus perl, ssh access [although it is not enabled by default], real unlimited pop3 email, and several other goodies at no additional cost.



    I've been with them about a year now and have 2 other clients with them. Service is good. The only problem some of my clients have had is with AOL. AOL's new spam blocker seems to randomly block messages sent through hostrocket's servers. Sometimes the email gets through, sometimes it doesn't. However, this problem is not unique to hostrocket from what I know about AOL. BTW, AOL is doing the blocking, not hostrocket.