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ORBS, and its later reincarnation, ORBZ, also weren't exactly the nicest players on the field.

ORBZ.org and ORBS had nearly nothing to do with one another. When ORBS went away, an ISP Penguinhosting.net, which was completely unassociated with ORBS in every way, decided to sponsor a new RBL to protect its customers, ORBZ. The listing criteria was completely different; only functioning open relays and open proxies were listed, and it only ever listed individual IP addresses, never netblocks. ORBZ went away because people were upset by unprovoked system/network testing, not because it listed someone improperly.

This articleon the death of ORBZ has some more interesting points regarding the controversy surrounding these lists.

And it seems to have absolutely none of it's facts straight.

"Cummins started to refer to the new site as ORBZ." Paul Cummins never had anything to do with ORBZ, nor did Alan Brown.

" Laurie Akins, newly installed president of the non-profit anti-spam outfit SpamCon Foundation, said the code changes necessary to correct the bug was "trivial," but an error that Gulliver, for one reason or another, was unwilling to correct."

The bug wasn't Ian Gulliver's to correct; It was Lotus's, and they corrected and released a patch for it nearly a year before the incident happened.

Sorry, I just pulled that number out of my ass

Too bad the Prime Number Shitting Goatse.cx Man had to go 404 and kill my retort.

You probably kill clowns in your spare time too, don't you?

Yeah. What's your high score for Clown Killer?

Yosemite Darl is the meanest, toughest, rootin-est,tootin-est cowboy there ever was and you should be ashamed of yourself for rustlin' away his code, pardner. Why its getting so a man can't earn a dishonest livin no more.

Now let's all sing with Darl (while reading the SCO finances) ... "I can't get a long little dogey, I can't even get one that's small, I can't get a long little dogey, I can't get a dogey at all". (Profuse apologies to Yosemite Sam)

I have it mirrored here on a host with lots of bandwidth, go ahead, beat on it.

this video didn't already prove that Richter is an asshat, he goes and files this lameoid suit against Ironport?

Scotty, why don't you hang a target around your neck and start waving a sign that says, "Next CAN-SPAM lawsuit can be filed against me!"

Well, thanks for pointing out a niche definition of commodity. Let me point you to a niche definition of asshole.

You missed the parent's idea completely. Good job!

Now then, if we use a general English dictionary, the definition is a little more broad:
An article of trade or commerce, especially an agricultural or mining product that can be processed and resold.

Note that it said especially, not exclusively. Next?

Dude you've spent far too long in front of the prime-number shitting goatse.cx man!

Try here

Another link here

Here ya go.

I got this instead :S

But for those who choose to stray from their field of expertise, don't say I didn't warn you!

click

Really? Well, I trust you've seen the latest numbers.

Maybe someone should pay him a visit in person? :)

BTW, what alteratives to BIND exist for Linuxand *BSD? I actually don't know and would like to know.

There are now a number of alternative packages that may have advantages for many deployments. E.g.:

MaraDNS is a general-purpose, fast DNS server package (doing recursive, authoritative, and caching roles, plus fully supporting zone transfers):
http://www.maradns.org/

pdnsd is a small caching-only DNS server with a disk-based cache, suitable for small networks and workstations:
http://home.t-online.de/home/Moestl/

Dnsmasq is a small authoritative and caching DNS server for a group of NATted / IPmasqued machines (optionally pulling names from DHCP leases):
http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/

DNRD is a small caching-only DNS server for NAT / IPmasq networks:
http://dnrd.nevalabs.org/

MyDNS is a MySQL-based authoritative and caching server (no recursive service) suitable for very large sites. In such roles, it's faster and more responsive than BIND9, even though the latter uses a RAM-based cache:
http://mydns.bboy.net/

ldapdns implements the same idea, except out of an LDAP database. Again, much faster than BIND9:
http://nimh.org/code/ldapdns/

GnuDIP is an authoritative server for Dynamic DNS:
http://gnudip2.sourceforge.net/gnudip-www/

NSD is a high-performance authoritative-only daemon:
http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/nsd/

PowerDNS (open source as of 2002-11-25) is an authoritative-only daemon with a modular structure supporting various back-end information stores such as SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, IBM DB2, and others via ODBC), BIND zonefiles and other file formats, and LDAP directories. Supports AXFR zone transfers.
http://www.powerdns.com/products/powerdns/

CustomDNS is a authoritative-only daemon for both static addresses and its variant form of dynamic DNS:
http://customdns.sourceforge.net/

lbnamed is a similar authoritative-only daemon for static and dynamic information, with a load-balancing multi-machine architecture:
http://www.stanford.edu/~riepel/lbnamed/

Posadis is another fast authoritative-only daemon:
http://posadis.sourceforge.net/

dents is another general-purpose DNS server, but is perenially unfinished, and is probably dead, at this point:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dents/

Pliant DNS Server is another general-purpose DNS server, although it may not support zone transfers:
http://pliant.cx/pliant/protocol/dns/

Yaku-NS is another small, fast general-purpose DNS server:
http://www.kyuzz.org/antirez/ens.html

Twisted Names is an authoritative and caching DNS server, written in Python:
http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/howto/names

Oak DNS Server is an authoritative and caching DNS server, supporting dynamic DNS updates and AAAA records. It's written in Python, and doesn't need to run privileged:
http://www.digitallumber.com/oak

dnsjava is a minimal, authoritative-only server, a resolver library, and a set of DNS utilities, all written in Java:
http://www.xbill.org/dnsjava/

Related:

FireDNS is a client library for DNS requests, with emphasis on speed and asynchronous processing. Written in C, and has low-timeout blocking functions. Can be used to relace standard libc resolver library functions like getbyhostname with much faster equivalent code:
http://ares.penguinhosting.net/~ian/

GNU adns is a resolver library for C (and C++) programs, and a collection of useful DNS resolver utilities:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/

Proprietary packages include:

UltraDNS (UltraDNS Corporation)
djbdns/tinydns
ATLAS (Verisign)
BINDPlus (Information Network Eng. Group, Inc.)
Global Name Service (Nominum, Inc.)
NeDNS (Neteka, Inc.)

I maintain this list at http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/dns-servers

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com

I was referring to the "by adding value, you take away value" line in the writeup, and apologize for not making this clear. I certainly didn't mean to make digs at either the writeup or the site, I was just making a witty observation without the wit.

HTH, and have a nice day.

I still figure bandwidth is the big killer. I mean you can only stuff watermelons through a garden hose so fast.

As someone who's had a few sites get "slashdotted" this is exactly the problem. one of our servers in particular has been slashdotted more often then others (we even had a site mentioned on howard stern once, which puts slashdot to shame) and has always taken the hits in stride. Not because it's some huge bohemith of a machine (twin athlon 1.1 Ghz's, 2 GB of RAM) but because it's got two t3's stuck on the back of it.

Developer Articles are a great way to burn Karma! I lost 35 points in two days!

I guess I'll name it the DevO Diet!
Heres a link! DevO details!

The trick is to post anything not cynical.
Slashdot seems to just mod ANYTHING in ANYWAY!

Ps, IN SOVIET RUSSIA 3.Profit pours hot grits on

Your Rights Online Articles are a great way to burn Karma! I lost 35 points in two days!

I guess I'll name it the YuRO Diet!
Heres a link! YuRO details!

The trick is to post anything not cynical.
Slashdot seems to just mod ANYTHING in ANYWAY!

Ps, IN SOVIET RUSSIA 3.Profit pours hot grits on all your base! Natalie Portman!

Hopefully, the person discovering this has gotten the image to some people with serious expertise in image enhancement, forensic or intelligence in the hopes of getting the Jaguar's license number.

is this guy.

A mirror of this article is posted here, should load quite a bit faster. An interesting read, seems like the government is getting the royal screwjob on this one. I wonder what the RIAA will have to say about this...

Luckily, I got to this draft before all the other slashdotters. :) If you can't get to the original site, try this one.

A mirror is available here. I knew this would happen.

This is pretty open, and artistic.

Here!

light speed in various materials.
here.

You know light speed varies depending on materials and wavelength, and it's possible for a particle to exceed LOCAL light speed. This gives off Cerenkov radiation, like nuclear reactors in water, the particles that hit the water exceed local c, and give off a blue glow.

Here's another article that offers a dissenting viewpoint, favoring the element 118 camp. Interesting, you might want to give it a read if you're into this stuff.

By using numbers generated here, you can calculate energy yield of various fuel cells.

There's a simple app that can help you figure out G forces. It's here.

An intresting use of calulating prime numbers! Its a good tutorial

this is a little perl script i found a while ago that spiders the for-pay search engines (the ones that charge advertisers per click-through) for "bulk mail" and simulates clicking on all of 'em.
i have 6 or 7 machines doing this once an hour, which costs the advertiser about $500 a day. :-)