Oh believe me, I know how big these attacks can get;) My thought on this is that considering some of the attacks we've seen recently I don't know if getting a 1Gbps pipe would have helped Every DNS, as the attacker probably would have just saturated that link as well. (especially if it's the same collection of botnets that attacked other providers).
Attacks like this seem not to be targeted at taking the provider down forever technically, but making it so expensive for the provider to continue to operate that they have to shut down from an administrative standpoint.
Even after a properly mitigated attack is over, there are still often very very large bills to pay.
I have to stress that it is EveryDNS that is under attack, and not EasyDNS.com.
That being said this is not an uncommon issue these days at DNS providers across the 'net. Before anyone starts to kick and scream about how EveryDNS is handling things, remember that these attacks can get astoundingly vicious.
No amount of "clue" or mitigation or whatnot will help when the upstream service providers themselves are having trouble with the traffic load from a large-scale botnet attack.
Never accept stock options in the place of pay. Sometimes they work out, but they're also pretty cheap to hand out for the companies that do it.
Anyway stock options (on publicly traded companies) are cheap enough in almost all cases that you can fund them yourselves if you've got confidence in the company, right?
In fact anyone I've spoken to with a PS2 has brought up the backwards compatability thing. It was even one of my considerations when I got mine, and I didn't have any PS1 titles.. I just knew they'd be out there. Granted, since I bought it I've only taken in 3 or 4 PS1 titles, but I still consider it an advantage. When (I guess it's when now) I buy a PS3, backwards compatability with my PS2 games will be one of the selling points since I've invested $TooMuch on my game library.
If I had an XBox, I wouldn't want to have two devices milling about in my entertainment center, especially two devices the size of XBoxes. And then, on down the line, will Live be an Xbox2 only service? If so what happens to everyone who likes playing the original Halo online?
Funnily enough MS seems to think it can afford to do research that supports what it wants to believe is true. I guess technically they -can- afford to, but not if they want to make money on any future ventures. It's a company wide problem from what I can see that needs to be solved.
If I could, I'd get 2x 250GB HDDs in a RAID1 (promise controllers are good for this), and a third 250GB for a cold backup of all my data that syncs weekly.
Raid's great, but an rm -rf is still an rm -rf, thus the third drive:)
Well since I use my PDA as part of my brain (I have as much short term memory as a goldfish) I follow the technology a little. From what I see PDA technology is just sneaking into other devices, like phones as others have said. The straight Palm style PDA may be on it's way out, but that's evolution and it's probably for the best.
I know when I'm -looking- for a PDA these days, to catch my interest it at least has to have an mp3 player, maybe a camera and wireless, so that's already reaching outside of what you'd traditionally think of as a PDA.
Ideally, the perfect device for me would be an iPod running PalmOS (or an Apple stripped-down version of OSX!) that also acts as a phone with bluetooth headset... and a good solid home remote. Big storage, lots of communications features, and the size of a deck of cards.
My point was SCO was boosting. A lot of tech stocks, especially stocks for companies that are in the OS business took a hit. (You can add SUNW to that list). Take a look at the timing between when SCO started squaking about IP and stock price. Like a kid feeding on bad attention just to get any. Great for traders, bad for long term investors (like Grandma).
So they went on and on about violations of their IP, and the stock went higher and higher, not because they had any product. Here we are, now in June, still no product, and the stock price has been corrected.
And a minor note on scale and price when comparing these stocks (I'll shut up after this) SCOX has 14,415,000 shares outstanding, while LNUX has 61,076,000 outstanding at that price. I figure that's significant when looking at the price of both.
Now, stock is at $4 and from the looks of things could easily drop back down to $2.
Hype over. The put up or shut up phase where people assumed they had a case is over. They must have known there was a point where the stock price couldn't be inflated any more by innuendo and "maybe sorta" proof, so I'm wondering why they'd continue down this path?
It's got a lifespan, and I'm, um, "abusive"[1] to my portable technology. I'm probably going to keep it around for another year or so. Actually hell if I manage to kill this one I'd consider trying to pick up another used SJ-3X somewhere, they're great.
[1] I once had a cell phone that died because it was too weak to exist WITHIN an over-ripe pear. Who knew.
I've got an SJ-33, and I consider it one of the best peices of hardware I've ever had. It's great. Compliments the eMac perfectly. So I'm going to have to shop around for a new vendor now. The last time I looked at the Palms they were a bit fragile feeling..
I kinda saw this coming in the back of my mind though. Look at the last lineup, they've actually subtracted features (like the MP3 player) from the newer models that I consider to be in the same class as the SJ.
They've seemingly fixed that now with a good looking feature rich TJ37, but the 27's were sorta half-arsed.
And I knew something was terribly wrong with the whole line when I saw the UX50. That thing just defies everything about what makes PalmOS functional.
And it's not just dumb because they're making the price higher, but they're making the EASILY COPYABLE audio CD format competetive again!
I mean what the crap? On one hand they're trying to secure their intellectual property, and on the other they're deterring people from a format that secures their intellectual property with out-of-whack pricing?
Dumbasses! This is a strategic blunder, how do they not see it? In a weird turn of the tables, I'm mad about it because they're so obviously proliferating a problem they're trying to solve.
I should be happy, because it means the long life of easily "shareable" audio CDs, but somehow I'm not..
Ok, ammend. What DIGITAL media lasts longest? My first instinct is to say some type of tape, but tape drives seem to come in and go out of fashion fairly quickly. IDE drives might be another alternative...
So, for your money, what's the best media to store backups of your digital data? Anyone, anyone?
Oh we're definately talking history here, like RedHat 6.2. Minimal default services on is probably the best trend in operating system configuration, and leading the way on that are the open source OSes.
The problem, of course, is XP still installs with the gates wide open (no pun). I'm sincerely hoping that Longhorn will ship with fewer open and listening services!
And they laid out some bad trouble. Virus writers DO do this, even if the marketshare is small. Remember Ramen? And of cours there's the Lion worm, etc..
It doesn't take a lot of computers to cause trouble, and no platform is wormsafe. Windows is prolific, of course, which doesn't help, but it's also got so many ways in. That's the real catalyst.
Rule for ANY operating system; When the default install is weak, you'll see worms. The big catalyst for Ramen and Lion (I hate to say it) was in my observations default RedHat installs that had tonnes of services on by default.
Actually has anyone studied their design to figure out how they keep most of their hardware so quiet?
From my perspective that's part of what I paid for as an eMac owner. It's not 100% silent, but the noise it does make is more of a low hum and isn't disturbing in the least.
By contrast my self-built AMD sounds like a dragster. There are four fans in total, one on the power, one on the vid card, one big mutha Thermaltake on the CPU (which runs hotter than the sun if it was being microwaved by God) and another fan just to keep ambient heat down. Even then, the box is warm.
So does anyone have a detailed analisys of how Apple does it? The specs on both boxes are about the same, in fact the eMac has the monitor -built in- and it's still cooler and quieter.
I know where the stress comes from. Most people in this field want to do their best, and a lot of us are (or started out as) young kids, so we take things way too seriously.
So I ended up giving 110% to companies that didn't give it back and I found myself up at 3:00am on many nights, trying to save the dumbest crap on the Internet like I was trying to save the International Space Station or something. The dedicated server for Joe's Discount MP3 Warehouse would reboot, and there I'd be investigating like there was life at stake. It's pretty similar with coding, the people that give you the orders want it done -now- and with -no bugs-. Which, of course, is unrealistic.
It's an attitude that's not discouraged by management, a lot of times. Remember if they can "push you harder" they get better results. You get an ulcer.
So:
Don't take it so seriously.
Remember that you like other things outside of computers (right?)
Remember why you like doing this in the first place.
Slow down, give your masters a realistic timeline for things, and don't budge.
Allow yourself to make mistakes, you're not a computer yourself.
Allow others to make mistakes, hell, laugh at them.
I think the most important one is the first. Remember that life is not at stake (unless it is at stake, then panic).
Another question I'd have about it is those buttons in LPhoto. Call me a pessimist, but after using Linux (and various other *nixes) on the desktop for years, I have no confidence that the Print button is actually going to relay the selected photo to my printer in a way that it'll be a reasonable facsimile of what I see on the screen.
Y'know, if they had just taken the concept instead, and actually I think they're going in the right direction here, it would have gone over well with me (and I'm sure many others).
What I think they're trying to do here is copy what Apple is doing right down to the interface, but I mean why? Apple has identified some key apps that Joe Average wants to use, fair enough. Take that idea and run with it, but they should have completely diverged from Apple's own applications and come up with something new, or extend any of the pretty spiffy applications that already exists under X windows.
What works in Aqua doesn't work everywhere, and I think it's because of the widgets. That layout, given the toolset that most X Window system developers have, that layout just doesn't work.
I was expecting a straight copy, but, yeah, this looks an eyesore in that delicious way only replicas can. Already XMMS is several steps ahead, why not just extend the functionality of that instead of making Yet Another MP3 Player?
Want to win? Come up with something new or work from an already successful idea on your own platform. the iTunes interface is OK, and it works in the context of Aqua, but I'm sure, SURE there's a better way to do it.
It's much easier. You don't need to know where to get the application, you don't need to go download the DMG file. Everything done for you, just type "apt-get install mozilla" and wait. Local mirrors of everything for added speed.
I guess that's perception, of course. That's much easier for us(geeks). But a few problems come up.
If apt breaks (and it does on occasion) you're left with a mess to untangle.
If apt runs over your dependancies, see above.
If the deb is unavailable for some reason, which is rare, you're going to have to hunt down the software anyway.
If the deb is a version lower than you require, see above, or venture into moving to the unstable branch, which has a whole other host of complications associated with it.
Once you've installed the apt, there's the small matter of finding what you just installed. Easy in most cases, but this would be a big mystery to someone who wasn't invested enough in computing knowledge to hunt down.
So yeah, apt is wicked, but compared to opening a DMG file with two clicks, then moving the contents with one click and drag to the Applications folder, it's way too abstract for most people.
- It's actually a wicked awesome marketing channel. Why spam when you can simply feed ads to people with banners when they check their e-mail? Also with the content of their e-mail sent and recieved, you can target better. It's well worth more than half a mill for the number of eyes they'll have captive. Nothing really sinister about it, that's what you're paing for this "free" service.
- They probably won't actually ever need 1GB per e-mail address. The occasional power user and obsessive compulsive will probably get near to maxing out 1GB of mail. Even me, with my "must horde all e-mail I ever get forever", I only take up 504MB of space -before- all this crap is compressed.
- And another thing, I'm sure 1GB of e-mail compresses real nice.:)
- Oh, wait, one more! They may be able to propegate the required storage on systems they already have. This may be costing them nothing more than re-use of legacy hardware and storage.
I don't know if he saw that SCO would whore their name out like that. I think at the time he was concerned, probably got one of those "letters", inked the deal because it would be cheaper than a legal battle, and then got a public teabagging from SCO.
Basically SCO has humiliated one of it's new customers in public, which again is telling of the way they do business. And I'm sure that wasn't part of the bargain.
Don't pay, get sued. Pay and get pimped out as a public relations hooker for SCO's legitimacy campaign. Hmm, choices choices!
note: I've had dealings with EV1 through customers. They provide a pretty ok service for the cost I'd say. Just for reference.
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Oh believe me, I know how big these attacks can get ;) My thought on this is that considering some of the attacks we've seen recently I don't know if getting a 1Gbps pipe would have helped Every DNS, as the attacker probably would have just saturated that link as well. (especially if it's the same collection of botnets that attacked other providers).
Attacks like this seem not to be targeted at taking the provider down forever technically, but making it so expensive for the provider to continue to operate that they have to shut down from an administrative standpoint.
Even after a properly mitigated attack is over, there are still often very very large bills to pay.
I have to stress that it is EveryDNS that is under attack, and not EasyDNS.com.
That being said this is not an uncommon issue these days at DNS providers across the 'net. Before anyone starts to kick and scream about how EveryDNS is handling things, remember that these attacks can get astoundingly vicious.
No amount of "clue" or mitigation or whatnot will help when the upstream service providers themselves are having trouble with the traffic load from a large-scale botnet attack.
Never accept stock options in the place of pay. Sometimes they work out, but they're also pretty cheap to hand out for the companies that do it.
Anyway stock options (on publicly traded companies) are cheap enough in almost all cases that you can fund them yourselves if you've got confidence in the company, right?
In fact anyone I've spoken to with a PS2 has brought up the backwards compatability thing. It was even one of my considerations when I got mine, and I didn't have any PS1 titles.. I just knew they'd be out there. Granted, since I bought it I've only taken in 3 or 4 PS1 titles, but I still consider it an advantage. When (I guess it's when now) I buy a PS3, backwards compatability with my PS2 games will be one of the selling points since I've invested $TooMuch on my game library.
If I had an XBox, I wouldn't want to have two devices milling about in my entertainment center, especially two devices the size of XBoxes. And then, on down the line, will Live be an Xbox2 only service? If so what happens to everyone who likes playing the original Halo online?
Funnily enough MS seems to think it can afford to do research that supports what it wants to believe is true. I guess technically they -can- afford to, but not if they want to make money on any future ventures. It's a company wide problem from what I can see that needs to be solved.
And yeah the XBox default controllers are huge.
If I could, I'd get 2x 250GB HDDs in a RAID1 (promise controllers are good for this), and a third 250GB for a cold backup of all my data that syncs weekly.
:)
Raid's great, but an rm -rf is still an rm -rf, thus the third drive
Well since I use my PDA as part of my brain (I have as much short term memory as a goldfish) I follow the technology a little. From what I see PDA technology is just sneaking into other devices, like phones as others have said. The straight Palm style PDA may be on it's way out, but that's evolution and it's probably for the best.
I know when I'm -looking- for a PDA these days, to catch my interest it at least has to have an mp3 player, maybe a camera and wireless, so that's already reaching outside of what you'd traditionally think of as a PDA.
Ideally, the perfect device for me would be an iPod running PalmOS (or an Apple stripped-down version of OSX!) that also acts as a phone with bluetooth headset... and a good solid home remote. Big storage, lots of communications features, and the size of a deck of cards.
My point was SCO was boosting. A lot of tech stocks, especially stocks for companies that are in the OS business took a hit. (You can add SUNW to that list). Take a look at the timing between when SCO started squaking about IP and stock price. Like a kid feeding on bad attention just to get any. Great for traders, bad for long term investors (like Grandma).
So they went on and on about violations of their IP, and the stock went higher and higher, not because they had any product. Here we are, now in June, still no product, and the stock price has been corrected.
And a minor note on scale and price when comparing these stocks (I'll shut up after this) SCOX has 14,415,000 shares outstanding, while LNUX has 61,076,000 outstanding at that price. I figure that's significant when looking at the price of both.
October 2003, stock hovers at a high of $22.
Now, stock is at $4 and from the looks of things could easily drop back down to $2.
Hype over. The put up or shut up phase where people assumed they had a case is over. They must have known there was a point where the stock price couldn't be inflated any more by innuendo and "maybe sorta" proof, so I'm wondering why they'd continue down this path?
There's a Linux port I believe so you can run the game itself, check out the engine's site;
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk
"air is most popular substance to breathe". :)
That being said, PowerDNS is pretty awesome as a master, very nice for front end interface building.
It's got a lifespan, and I'm, um, "abusive"[1] to my portable technology. I'm probably going to keep it around for another year or so. Actually hell if I manage to kill this one I'd consider trying to pick up another used SJ-3X somewhere, they're great.
[1] I once had a cell phone that died because it was too weak to exist WITHIN an over-ripe pear. Who knew.
I've got an SJ-33, and I consider it one of the best peices of hardware I've ever had. It's great. Compliments the eMac perfectly. So I'm going to have to shop around for a new vendor now. The last time I looked at the Palms they were a bit fragile feeling..
I kinda saw this coming in the back of my mind though. Look at the last lineup, they've actually subtracted features (like the MP3 player) from the newer models that I consider to be in the same class as the SJ.
They've seemingly fixed that now with a good looking feature rich TJ37, but the 27's were sorta half-arsed.
And I knew something was terribly wrong with the whole line when I saw the UX50. That thing just defies everything about what makes PalmOS functional.
To pick up one of these babies... C'mon, it's like $400, I need to grab at any justification I can find!
I am the champion title holder there.
Yay.
The funny thing is I have no idea how I got there.
And it's not just dumb because they're making the price higher, but they're making the EASILY COPYABLE audio CD format competetive again!
I mean what the crap? On one hand they're trying to secure their intellectual property, and on the other they're deterring people from a format that secures their intellectual property with out-of-whack pricing?
Dumbasses! This is a strategic blunder, how do they not see it? In a weird turn of the tables, I'm mad about it because they're so obviously proliferating a problem they're trying to solve.
I should be happy, because it means the long life of easily "shareable" audio CDs, but somehow I'm not..
What media lasts LONGEST?
I mean, other than paper, or stone.
Ok, ammend. What DIGITAL media lasts longest? My first instinct is to say some type of tape, but tape drives seem to come in and go out of fashion fairly quickly. IDE drives might be another alternative...
So, for your money, what's the best media to store backups of your digital data? Anyone, anyone?
Oh we're definately talking history here, like RedHat 6.2. Minimal default services on is probably the best trend in operating system configuration, and leading the way on that are the open source OSes.
The problem, of course, is XP still installs with the gates wide open (no pun). I'm sincerely hoping that Longhorn will ship with fewer open and listening services!
And they laid out some bad trouble. Virus writers DO do this, even if the marketshare is small. Remember Ramen?
And of cours there's the Lion worm, etc..
It doesn't take a lot of computers to cause trouble, and no platform is wormsafe. Windows is prolific, of course, which doesn't help, but it's also got so many ways in. That's the real catalyst.
Rule for ANY operating system; When the default install is weak, you'll see worms. The big catalyst for Ramen and Lion (I hate to say it) was in my observations default RedHat installs that had tonnes of services on by default.
Actually has anyone studied their design to figure out how they keep most of their hardware so quiet?
From my perspective that's part of what I paid for as an eMac owner. It's not 100% silent, but the noise it does make is more of a low hum and isn't disturbing in the least.
By contrast my self-built AMD sounds like a dragster. There are four fans in total, one on the power, one on the vid card, one big mutha Thermaltake on the CPU (which runs hotter than the sun if it was being microwaved by God) and another fan just to keep ambient heat down. Even then, the box is warm.
So does anyone have a detailed analisys of how Apple does it? The specs on both boxes are about the same, in fact the eMac has the monitor -built in- and it's still cooler and quieter.
So I ended up giving 110% to companies that didn't give it back and I found myself up at 3:00am on many nights, trying to save the dumbest crap on the Internet like I was trying to save the International Space Station or something. The dedicated server for Joe's Discount MP3 Warehouse would reboot, and there I'd be investigating like there was life at stake. It's pretty similar with coding, the people that give you the orders want it done -now- and with -no bugs-. Which, of course, is unrealistic.
It's an attitude that's not discouraged by management, a lot of times. Remember if they can "push you harder" they get better results. You get an ulcer.
So:
I think the most important one is the first. Remember that life is not at stake (unless it is at stake, then panic).
Another question I'd have about it is those buttons in LPhoto. Call me a pessimist, but after using Linux (and various other *nixes) on the desktop for years, I have no confidence that the Print button is actually going to relay the selected photo to my printer in a way that it'll be a reasonable facsimile of what I see on the screen.
Y'know, if they had just taken the concept instead, and actually I think they're going in the right direction here, it would have gone over well with me (and I'm sure many others).
What I think they're trying to do here is copy what Apple is doing right down to the interface, but I mean why? Apple has identified some key apps that Joe Average wants to use, fair enough. Take that idea and run with it, but they should have completely diverged from Apple's own applications and come up with something new, or extend any of the pretty spiffy applications that already exists under X windows.
What works in Aqua doesn't work everywhere, and I think it's because of the widgets. That layout, given the toolset that most X Window system developers have, that layout just doesn't work.
I was expecting a straight copy, but, yeah, this looks an eyesore in that delicious way only replicas can. Already XMMS is several steps ahead, why not just extend the functionality of that instead of making Yet Another MP3 Player?
Want to win? Come up with something new or work from an already successful idea on your own platform. the iTunes interface is OK, and it works in the context of Aqua, but I'm sure, SURE there's a better way to do it.
I guess that's perception, of course. That's much easier for us(geeks). But a few problems come up.
So yeah, apt is wicked, but compared to opening a DMG file with two clicks, then moving the contents with one click and drag to the Applications folder, it's way too abstract for most people.
A couple of points;
:)
- It's actually a wicked awesome marketing channel. Why spam when you can simply feed ads to people with banners when they check their e-mail? Also with the content of their e-mail sent and recieved, you can target better. It's well worth more than half a mill for the number of eyes they'll have captive. Nothing really sinister about it, that's what you're paing for this "free" service.
- They probably won't actually ever need 1GB per e-mail address. The occasional power user and obsessive compulsive will probably get near to maxing out 1GB of mail. Even me, with my "must horde all e-mail I ever get forever", I only take up 504MB of space -before- all this crap is compressed.
- And another thing, I'm sure 1GB of e-mail compresses real nice.
- Oh, wait, one more! They may be able to propegate the required storage on systems they already have. This may be costing them nothing more than re-use of legacy hardware and storage.
I don't know if he saw that SCO would whore their name out like that. I think at the time he was concerned, probably got one of those "letters", inked the deal because it would be cheaper than a legal battle, and then got a public teabagging from SCO.
Basically SCO has humiliated one of it's new customers in public, which again is telling of the way they do business. And I'm sure that wasn't part of the bargain.
Don't pay, get sued. Pay and get pimped out as a public relations hooker for SCO's legitimacy campaign. Hmm, choices choices!
note: I've had dealings with EV1 through customers. They provide a pretty ok service for the cost I'd say. Just for reference.