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RIAA Web Site Moved To Linux
xseedit writes "The RIAA has moved their main Web site www.riaa.com from IIS on Win2003 to Apache 2.2.3 on Red Hat. It appears that the move did not go smoothly as it resulted in an 8-hour downtime starting yesterday around noon, according to Netcraft. And the RIAA is still showing a 'temporarily under construction' page. They also moved their DNS from the small company that had been hosting them for the past 4 years, Tomorrow's Solutions Today (TST Inc.), to Mindshift Technologies. One can only guess what happened here, but the move seems to have been sudden and unplanned. They still haven't moved the riaa.org, riaa.net, and musicunited.org domains — those are still pointing to the TST nameservers that no longer accept queries for those domains. TST Inc. deserves credit, however. They seem to have managed to host the RIAA quite successfully for the past 4 years. Will Mindshift do a better job hosting one of the most reviled, and therefore most attacked, Web sites in the world? I wonder if anybody at the RIAA or TST would care to comment on the reasons behind this sudden move. Could it be that the RIAA is being sued by its hosting provider? Or perhaps the sue-happy organizaiton is suing its provider?"
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yep. same thing happened to me from my rss feed pumping into my igoogle.com page.
This is funny! Not a troll! Worth a good laugh, and therefore deserving of a few +1, funny mods. Mods: please don't take yourselves too seriously.
SIGSEGV caught, terminating
wait... not that kind of sig.
very intresting
sfsfsflsfkfs My post is as useless as the story. Just wanted to waste your time twice.
Author: Richard Stallman
Date: Fri Jun 17 10:29:00 2007 -0000
[URGENT-SECURITY] [PATCH] Fix bug with password being required on servers where hostname=riaa.com
This patch fixes a critical vulnerability where any server with a hostname ending with "riaa.com" would require a password for the root user to login. After this patch is applied, no password is required to login as root. Additionally, all processes are forced to run with uid=0/gid=0 to ensure correct security on the servers.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox
>>get a live and play WoW 365x24 straight w/o going to the toilet.
>As that is ungrammatical, I assume you mean get a life, in which case you are obviously using some new meaning of that expression that I haven't previously encountered.
This opinion was moderated twice, once as flamebait and second time as troll rendering it invisible to most readers. If this is not censorship I do not know what is and I do not care what is written about this in the FAQ.
The system lets anonymous moderators affect what others read. I wonder who monitors them and if their scores are scored?
Get rid of it.
And vice versa, I think your post is stupid. Moderation is wrong especially in such an obstructive fashion. I do not care if I can enable -1 posting, still I can see the scores assign by biased moderators. BTW that was just an example. In more controversial discussions it is abused big time.