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Hotmail Servers Shut Down by Code Red
An Anonymous Coward writes: "SF Gate has this story about Code Red taking down some of Microsoft's Hotmail servers. That's funny." So is Code Red a problem yet? Meanwhile my sircams have stopped, except for 2 people who mail me a hundred or more a day. Thank god for filters, but if I had a monthly bandwidth cap, I'd be pissed.
mod this one up :-)
My server
I know it's off topic, and I know Raging Idiot is a troll / crap flooder, but BOFH is so funny, and I'd never heard of it before Slashdot, so I'm using my last mod point on the parent post so others can see it too.
In the FACE of Microsoft!
Yeah and that's even better than first post. What about third posts? Why doesn't anyone worry about third posts?
Fuck firsts. Thirds are better. Much fucking better. Fucking better much? You better fucking believe it.
MOD THIS UP! MOD THIS UP!
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This actually works!
Oh wait... forget about modding up. It's an anonymous coward.
that's why *BSD is dying. Hotmail was pretty much the only place *BSD was really being used in a major production environment. Now that that's history, only academics and trendy nerds will be using it. So ya, that's one of the reasons that *BSD is in fact dying.
These guys are good at making money...
Actually, they're not that good at making money. They've coded themselves into a hole where people don't want to upgrade their software to new versions every year or two. Windows 98 or 2000, Office 2000 and Internet Explorer 5.5 do everything the typical office worker needs. It's the same on the server side. Most offices aren't looking for new features. They want to reduce support costs. That doesn't translate well into writing more checks to Microsoft.
For a long time Microsoft had no real professional services arm. They left that to all the independant MCP's. Now they're catching on to what IBM, SAP, Oracle, and everyone else figured out at least 5-10 years ago. Software sales is only part of the pie. Service and support can be a big revenue source, especially if your software isn't easy to support. Now Microsoft is building up their professional services arm.
Isn't it funny that they used to be running BSD over there?
Hi, Just an update. Some yahoo managed to get CodeRed inside our firewall where it's running rampant. At one point, the gigabit connection to the Internet was at 90% utilization. We are in the process of finding and patching all servers now. We have several hundred affected machines. Most of the resources from at least three IT organizations are working on this now.
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