More from Roblimo over at NewsForge
Sunday June 24, @07:30PM
- by Robin "Roblimo" Miller -
On Saturday, June 23, the primary controller in the router that controls access to all OSDN servers hosted at the Exodus facility in Waltham, MA, suffered a catastrophic failure. The sites affected were Slashdot, freshmeat, NewsForge, and Mediabuilder, among others.
The secondary controller did not automatically take over as it shoud have. It did not work when activated manually, either. The first Cisco support people contacted professed to be "amazed" at the situation, saying it was the first time they had seen a failure of this kind.
OSDN and Cisco people, working through Saturday night, were unable to cure the problem. Sunday afternoon, OSDN employee Kurt Gray and Cisco rep Scott, working by telephone, were stepping through the router's configuration and, says Kurt, as they worked to undo other changes that had been made, "on one reset everything came back."
OSDN network operations were already in the process of rebuilding the company's network to eliminate the router as a potential single point of failure.
As of 7 p.m. US EDT most of the sites were available at least part of the time, but full service was not yet restored. There may still be slowdowns or intermttent failures until a permanent fix is made.
We'll have a more complete story within a few days. Right now, OSDN network operations staff members are too busy working to talk.
Try gnutella (The Phantom Edit or TPE). I tried a google search and kept coming back with very nothing about it. I couldn't even find the denial on Kevin Smith's web site that he was the 'editor'. I'd certainly like to see it. There was a news blurb on Plastic.com and my submission to/. about it got rejected;-). You can try The Phantom Edit Fan Site.
The Phantom Menace DVD set will include audio commentary by Lucas, an hour-long documentary on the making of the film, and featurettes about the plot, design, costumes, visual effects and fight scenes. The DVD extra will be seven deleted scenes, amounting to about 20 minutes of previously unseen footage. Since they were cut from the film, the scenes had never been completed. For the DVD, Lucasfilm and Industrial Light and Magic, Lucas' special effects operation, went back and finished them with full visual effects. Reuters
It would be helpful for commonly used web-based e-mails to support PGP as well. If Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL had support, it would spread faster. But it leaves open the connection from the PC to the server (unless SSL or java is used), as well as the possibility that its unencrypted on their system. That brings us back to having to encrypt locally. But there are so many e-mail applications, and ease-of-use becomes an issue.
Did you even read the article? It has to do with systemic problems in the testing system. More and more tests are being asked for, with each being more and more comprehensive and tailored to the state's own criteria. This has nothing to do with what kind of software they are running. It has to do with them following their own procedures for quality assurance. It has to do with under-trained people not adhering to standards of grading. It has to do with schools placing the importance of those tests far higher than they should be, in life-altering decisions. What does that have to do with what kind of software they use?
Security Focus carries an article about Max Butler, who did the same thing, back in May 1998.
In May, 1998, the Internet was reeling from a devastating vulnerability discovered in a ubiquitous piece of software called the BIND "named" domain server. Formally known as the "iquery BIND Buffer Overflow vulnerability" the hole had been publicly announced by Carnegie Mellon's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) a month earlier, and a software patch to fix it was available for download. But according to an FBI affidavit, the hole was still in place on Air Force systems, nuclear laboratories, the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Transportation and the Interior, as well as the National Institute of Health.
Near the end of May, the hacker group ADM raised the stakes by publishing a computer program capable of spreading through vulnerable systems automatically. It was concern over the damage the worm could wreak on an unprepared Internet that spurred Butler to his fateful course. "Mr. Butler modified the worm program to download and install the official software patch that repaired the BIND/named vulnerability from the software vendors' web site," Granick's motion reads. "Mr. Butler used his modified worm to automatically get root access on machines through the named vulnerability and fix the named hole."
It could have been an unsullied act of mass guerilla patching -- a relatively harmless hack that would have left the Internet a little more secure, while dappling only a few spots of gray on Butler's white hat.
But Butler's worm also installed back doors on every system it patched, and reported their location back to Butler, giving him a way into the machines even as he locked out other hackers. That feature simultaneously made the crime harder to defend, and easier to solve.
I agree, its good that they don't grab an answer and pretend its their own, nor do they spiel PR. But why don't they go grab that CEO, that Engineer, and have then give an answer and then say:
I'll let the CEO handle this one:
yadda yadda yadda
BookPCs have a small form factor and everything is onboard. Most of them support Intel 300-800MHz Socket 370 CPUs, Using the integrated Intel 810 chipset with 3D AGP VGA embedded. Two SDRAM DIMM slots, but no expansion slots. Built in modem, LAN, joystick, and sound. Depending on which you get, you can grab one for less than $300.
Damn media. Ok, I read the article. All it really shows me is that AOL users are easily duped. Other than being yet another example of how easily script kiddies can work, was there anything informative about that article? I think not.
But you forgot about the state quarters. 5 new quarters are released every year, in the order that states became states. It started in 1999. Look around the US Mint site for pictures of the one's already released. (ok, so this isn't really on topic, but hey).
Now for the on-topic... A new format is great, except for a few pitfalls: What about all the computers that have CD-ROMS and DVD drives? And cars with CD players? Perhaps if this came out several years ago it would have a chance. But now, with hard drives getting smaller and smaller with larger capacities, as well as solid-state memory, the portable device market won't pick them up, either, especially if people have to pay for music they already own.
Ok, so I could rename all my mp3s so that other people can download them, all 2000 of them. But why would I want to? If I sort things alphabetically, uckF ouY won't be with the F's now will it? Unless of course someone re-writes the cataloging code (ie a Slashdotter) so that it uploads your directory as hashed. Then if someone runs a search for the hashed name, it would work. What about everyone using different naming schemes, from pig-latin to just being encoded by some web translator? If we're not all on the same page, its like we're all speaking different languages.
Trying to run Linux in a VM is taxing on a system. Dual-booting isn't always an option (like in the middle of a big download). Now when my friend tells me to try out a linux program I don't have to do either of them.
I think this is a Good Thing (TM)! It will give Linux applications more exposure. As people try all these new programs, they will beging to say "hey, with all this great stuff, I might as well completely switch to Linux!" Ok, maybe not.
It sounds like you've been reading After Y2K. We're not reinventing the wheel here. The concepts will be the same and we're got an awful lot on paper. This isn't an absolute loss of all knowledge, just a medium on which it is stored.
This sounds exactly how Scour worked. In order to prevent your pc being spidered, you had to have a robots.txt file. Just because its shared doesn't mean its legal in the first place.
Mod this up to a 5 already cause its the first thing that came to my mind as soon as I saw the headline. Whats new about it? Oh, wait, someone else decided to write an article about the same subject just because of Napster's impending doom.
The Press Release seems to concentrate more on the acquisition of the Usenet archives rather than the whole portal bit. Perhaps they are restoring Deja to Dejanews, the part that actually attracted visitors.
When will libraries start lending e-Books? With all the content protection, they'd probably have to lend you a reader as well. And you have to bring it back to the library to have them wipe its memory or they have to charge you late fees.
Most doctors are way too busy to have time for instant messaging. Same thing for video conferencing. It would be nice to be able to set up a new appointment online instead of sitting on hold on the phone for 30 minutes. Also, you'll need to have preparations for when your systems go down.
Even if its mandatory, it doesn't mean spammers will use it. Just look at the current rules about privacy and sharing data with 3rd parties. I have email accounts I never use, but they still get flooded with spam. I set the filter on one account to trash absolutely everything. Spammers go for the quick and easy and don't give a damn about you or I. They're willing to send out unsolicted bulk email, after all. And thats assuming their web site stays up more than a few days. Of course there are plenty of countries that will allow spam out, as well.
I know I saw it in one of the articles, but I'll be damned if I can find that link again. It said that they would be running the two in parrallel, with the subscription one being guaranteed links, with high quality music. If thats true, then great. But it will be up to the consumers to prove they're willing to pay for what they want.
Of course there's the problem with the OpenNap servers.
When the law was written, it was intended to keep people from exploiting minors to make the pictures. It was not meant to keep people from what they "might" do after seeing the pictures.
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More from Roblimo over at NewsForge Sunday June 24, @07:30PM
- by Robin "Roblimo" Miller - On Saturday, June 23, the primary controller in the router that controls access to all OSDN servers hosted at the Exodus facility in Waltham, MA, suffered a catastrophic failure. The sites affected were Slashdot, freshmeat, NewsForge, and Mediabuilder, among others. The secondary controller did not automatically take over as it shoud have. It did not work when activated manually, either. The first Cisco support people contacted professed to be "amazed" at the situation, saying it was the first time they had seen a failure of this kind. OSDN and Cisco people, working through Saturday night, were unable to cure the problem. Sunday afternoon, OSDN employee Kurt Gray and Cisco rep Scott, working by telephone, were stepping through the router's configuration and, says Kurt, as they worked to undo other changes that had been made, "on one reset everything came back." OSDN network operations were already in the process of rebuilding the company's network to eliminate the router as a potential single point of failure. As of 7 p.m. US EDT most of the sites were available at least part of the time, but full service was not yet restored. There may still be slowdowns or intermttent failures until a permanent fix is made. We'll have a more complete story within a few days. Right now, OSDN network operations staff members are too busy working to talk.
How is this different than any of the other sites out there, like FuckedCompany.com?
Try gnutella (The Phantom Edit or TPE). I tried a google search and kept coming back with very nothing about it. I couldn't even find the denial on Kevin Smith's web site that he was the 'editor'. I'd certainly like to see it. There was a news blurb on Plastic.com and my submission to /. about it got rejected ;-). You can try The Phantom Edit Fan Site.
The Phantom Menace DVD set will include audio commentary by Lucas, an hour-long documentary on the making of the film, and featurettes about the plot, design, costumes, visual effects and fight scenes. The DVD extra will be seven deleted scenes, amounting to about 20 minutes of previously unseen footage. Since they were cut from the film, the scenes had never been completed. For the DVD, Lucasfilm and Industrial Light and Magic, Lucas' special effects operation, went back and finished them with full visual effects.
Reuters
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AP
Verizon PR
It would be helpful for commonly used web-based e-mails to support PGP as well. If Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL had support, it would spread faster. But it leaves open the connection from the PC to the server (unless SSL or java is used), as well as the possibility that its unencrypted on their system. That brings us back to having to encrypt locally. But there are so many e-mail applications, and ease-of-use becomes an issue.
Did you even read the article? It has to do with systemic problems in the testing system. More and more tests are being asked for, with each being more and more comprehensive and tailored to the state's own criteria. This has nothing to do with what kind of software they are running. It has to do with them following their own procedures for quality assurance. It has to do with under-trained people not adhering to standards of grading. It has to do with schools placing the importance of those tests far higher than they should be, in life-altering decisions. What does that have to do with what kind of software they use?
I agree, its good that they don't grab an answer and pretend its their own, nor do they spiel PR. But why don't they go grab that CEO, that Engineer, and have then give an answer and then say: I'll let the CEO handle this one:
yadda yadda yadda
BookPCs have a small form factor and everything is onboard. Most of them support Intel 300-800MHz Socket 370 CPUs, Using the integrated Intel 810 chipset with 3D AGP VGA embedded. Two SDRAM DIMM slots, but no expansion slots. Built in modem, LAN, joystick, and sound. Depending on which you get, you can grab one for less than $300.
Damn media. Ok, I read the article. All it really shows me is that AOL users are easily duped. Other than being yet another example of how easily script kiddies can work, was there anything informative about that article? I think not.
Now for the on-topic... A new format is great, except for a few pitfalls: What about all the computers that have CD-ROMS and DVD drives? And cars with CD players? Perhaps if this came out several years ago it would have a chance. But now, with hard drives getting smaller and smaller with larger capacities, as well as solid-state memory, the portable device market won't pick them up, either, especially if people have to pay for music they already own.
Ok, so I could rename all my mp3s so that other people can download them, all 2000 of them. But why would I want to? If I sort things alphabetically, uckF ouY won't be with the F's now will it? Unless of course someone re-writes the cataloging code (ie a Slashdotter) so that it uploads your directory as hashed. Then if someone runs a search for the hashed name, it would work. What about everyone using different naming schemes, from pig-latin to just being encoded by some web translator? If we're not all on the same page, its like we're all speaking different languages.
I think this is a Good Thing (TM)! It will give Linux applications more exposure. As people try all these new programs, they will beging to say "hey, with all this great stuff, I might as well completely switch to Linux!" Ok, maybe not.
It sounds like you've been reading After Y2K. We're not reinventing the wheel here. The concepts will be the same and we're got an awful lot on paper. This isn't an absolute loss of all knowledge, just a medium on which it is stored.
This sounds exactly how Scour worked. In order to prevent your pc being spidered, you had to have a robots.txt file. Just because its shared doesn't mean its legal in the first place.
Mod this up to a 5 already cause its the first thing that came to my mind as soon as I saw the headline. Whats new about it? Oh, wait, someone else decided to write an article about the same subject just because of Napster's impending doom.
The feeling that you've done this search before.
The Press Release seems to concentrate more on the acquisition of the Usenet archives rather than the whole portal bit. Perhaps they are restoring Deja to Dejanews, the part that actually attracted visitors.
When will libraries start lending e-Books? With all the content protection, they'd probably have to lend you a reader as well. And you have to bring it back to the library to have them wipe its memory or they have to charge you late fees.
Most doctors are way too busy to have time for instant messaging. Same thing for video conferencing. It would be nice to be able to set up a new appointment online instead of sitting on hold on the phone for 30 minutes. Also, you'll need to have preparations for when your systems go down.
Even if its mandatory, it doesn't mean spammers will use it. Just look at the current rules about privacy and sharing data with 3rd parties. I have email accounts I never use, but they still get flooded with spam. I set the filter on one account to trash absolutely everything. Spammers go for the quick and easy and don't give a damn about you or I. They're willing to send out unsolicted bulk email, after all. And thats assuming their web site stays up more than a few days. Of course there are plenty of countries that will allow spam out, as well.
Of course there's the problem with the OpenNap servers.
When the law was written, it was intended to keep people from exploiting minors to make the pictures. It was not meant to keep people from what they "might" do after seeing the pictures.
We should show this to Micro$quish as how things are supposed to be. If you release something with a bug or inferior, you get in trouble.