I took a Qantas flight yesterday and can confirm they are not allowing Dell computers to be used on their planes. They didn't actually ask people indidivually if they had a Dell, but part of the pre-takeoff announcement was "Dell laptop computers must not be used at any time on this aircraft".
They're probably (correctly) assuming that you'll be running an assload of other software while listening to some tunes:)
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I often browse the httpd access logs for sites I run, and regularly notice spidering behavior from hosts with a Mozilla user-agent string.
These hosts generally don't read robots.txt, instead they start at www.yourdomain.com and follow all the links from there. Some of them are even stupid enough ti visit the same page multiple times if that page is reference from multiple pages on your site.
Probably the worst thing about these rogue web robots is that there is no way to identify and block them without having a daemon monitor the access logs in real time looking for this activity and adding the appropriate Deny rule to the config once a host is identified.
Southern Cross is up, and working, but doesn't have many active customers on it yet. Customer connections were only lit up last week, and now should be in their testing phase.
One interesting point is that the problems caused by the cut cable were nothing compared to the problems Telstra had on the night due to other factors. As this outage notice states, they had routing loops form within their network when the cable went down.
Also, an electricity substation supplying power to the main Telstra internet POP in Sydney exploded around the same time, cutting power to all of their routers. Power wasn't restored until the following morning.
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I took a Qantas flight yesterday and can confirm they are not allowing Dell computers to be used on their planes. They didn't actually ask people indidivually if they had a Dell, but part of the pre-takeoff announcement was "Dell laptop computers must not be used at any time on this aircraft".
"but as soon as they start using their gmail account system like a Microsoft Passport system for all their apps, I'll be outta there."
They're already doing that - see Google Accounts.
Not really surprising. Yahoo are long time supporters and users of FreeBSD so it would have been relatively easy to get their code to run on OSX.
They're probably (correctly) assuming that you'll be running an assload of other software while listening to some tunes :)
These hosts generally don't read robots.txt, instead they start at www.yourdomain.com and follow all the links from there. Some of them are even stupid enough ti visit the same page multiple times if that page is reference from multiple pages on your site.
Probably the worst thing about these rogue web robots is that there is no way to identify and block them without having a daemon monitor the access logs in real time looking for this activity and adding the appropriate Deny rule to the config once a host is identified.
One interesting point is that the problems caused by the cut cable were nothing compared to the problems Telstra had on the night due to other factors. As this outage notice states, they had routing loops form within their network when the cable went down.
Also, an electricity substation supplying power to the main Telstra internet POP in Sydney exploded around the same time, cutting power to all of their routers. Power wasn't restored until the following morning.
More here, here and here (check the graphs).