OK, We need to mount a rescue effort to save this machine. Surely some CounterStrike players could come up with a plan to rescue this machine before it is sentenced to death. Surely there is some decency left here on Slashdot. SAVE THE BOX!!!
Some advice though, ROT13 isn't strong encryption:P It would suck to lose your invention because of a lack of knowledge of strong encryption after making the greatest discovery of your life. Just some advice:P
Yeah, it was probably the guy with the exploit that updated the webpage:P
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ooh, gotta reformat this thing now!
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Ack, where can I buy Windows XP???? I need to get this carcass of an OS off my system as soon as possible. I thank MSNBC for informing me about this. Otherwise I would have continued to use this dead OS.
Actually, they may want to repackage it one day and sell it as classic games. By making the old games accessible on the new systems, this might scratch there plans a bit.
It would be funny if customers wondered why it was finally shutdown only to find that it was the Slashdot effect that took down the network. We can only wait and see...
The Matrix trailer for Reloaded and Revolutions will be seen tonight on Entertainment Tonight. Check your local listings for it. Here is a link with more details about the May 15 ET trailer and about it being attached to another movie coming out this week.
So people will pay $20/month (or whatever it'll be) to work in a virtual McDonalds serving orc burgers, shoveling dragon dung at the Everquest zoo, or picking up half eaten turkey legs off the streets near the fountain.
Just look at all the Anonymous Cowards who spend there time posting "First Posts", trolling slashdot, etc... and you think they won't find someone to do all of those things? Just posting it to Slashdot has already picked them up several new subscribers:P
This reminds me a lot of the hype that struck around the time of the Michelangelo virus in March of 1992. Virus experts were throwing out statements about a computer appocalypse that was going to wipe out the computers of millions of computer users. By going on television and being quoted in newspaper articles, companies like McAfee and Symantec basically created an industry for themselves by using fear to sell there product. Michelangelo went off with a whimper in the end, but the antivirus industry has been going strong ever since.
The router flows for some of the routers on Internet2 still show a lot of file sharing apps even on Internet2. Heres a break down for the LOSA router (I believe that's Los Angeles).
I think Sun Microsystems had a pretty good idea in writing a Sun Blueprint that basically takes a look at how to do a task under Windows NT and then shows the corresponding task under Solaris. It is published by Sun and is called "Solaris Guide for Windows NT Administrators". You can find further information on it at the Sun Blueprints Publications website:
Yep, why else do we collect Karma unless we're going to burn it sometimes. I once posted a comment in the middle of a KDE/Gnome/RMS thread. It spent all day getting ping-ponged back and forth between Funny, Insightful, and Troll depending on the allegiance or sense of humor of the moderators. It ended at +5 Funny, but was definitely worth a karma point or two to watch em' beat on the post all day.
On April Fool's Day, I might have modded this up as one of the purest forms of troll bait I have seen. The only way you might have made this statement better is if you had added a reference to Python somewhere in there.
Well, the leader of the group will do it, then the rest of his party will laugh and split up the loot on his corpse. Sometimes it sucks to take the lead!
According to the article though, it would take 8 of the root servers being knocked out to cause this to happen. Those servers are spread throughout the world. One is in Japan, one at UMD, one by ISC, one was at NASA, etc..
Here is the current list:
formerly NS.INTERNIC.NET - A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
formerly NS1.ISI.EDU - B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
formerly C.PSI.NET - C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
formerly TERP.UMD.EDU - D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
formerly NS.NASA.GOV - E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
formerly NS.ISC.ORG - F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
formerly NS.NIC.DDN.MIL - G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
formerly AOS.ARL.ARMY.MIL - H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
formerly NIC.NORDU.NET - I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
temporarily housed at NSI (InterNIC) - J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
housed in LINX, operated by RIPE NCC - K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
temporarily housed at ISI (IANA) - L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
housed in Japan, operated by WIDE - M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
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Actually it was the use of pico that I found most appalling...
Doesn't mum know vi?
bbh
OK, We need to mount a rescue effort to save this machine. Surely some CounterStrike players could come up with a plan to rescue this machine before it is sentenced to death. Surely there is some decency left here on Slashdot. SAVE THE BOX!!!
Or don't, I don't really give a shit.
bbh
It's probably like David Hasselhoff, only popular somewhere like in Germany or something like that...
bbh
Some advice though, ROT13 isn't strong encryption :P It would suck to lose your invention because of a lack of knowledge of strong encryption after making the greatest discovery of your life. Just some advice :P
bbh
"they are very supportive, and want to be in a position of actually being able to issue me a launch license"
:P
No, this behavior doesn't sound like any DMV I've ever been in.
bbh
Yeah, it was probably the guy with the exploit that updated the webpage :P
bbh
Ack, where can I buy Windows XP???? I need to get this carcass of an OS off my system as soon as possible. I thank MSNBC for informing me about this. Otherwise I would have continued to use this dead OS.
bbh
Actually, they may want to repackage it one day and sell it as classic games. By making the old games accessible on the new systems, this might scratch there plans a bit.
bbh
It would be funny if customers wondered why it was finally shutdown only to find that it was the Slashdot effect that took down the network. We can only wait and see...
bbh
The Matrix trailer for Reloaded and Revolutions will be seen tonight on Entertainment Tonight. Check your local listings for it. Here is a link with more details about the May 15 ET trailer and about it being attached to another movie coming out this week.
Matrix Breaking News link
bbh
So people will pay $20/month (or whatever it'll be) to work in a virtual McDonalds serving orc burgers, shoveling dragon dung at the Everquest zoo, or picking up half eaten turkey legs off the streets near the fountain.
:P
Just look at all the Anonymous Cowards who spend there time posting "First Posts", trolling slashdot, etc... and you think they won't find someone to do all of those things? Just posting it to Slashdot has already picked them up several new subscribers
bbh
This reminds me a lot of the hype that struck around the time of the Michelangelo virus in March of 1992. Virus experts were throwing out statements about a computer appocalypse that was going to wipe out the computers of millions of computer users. By going on television and being quoted in newspaper articles, companies like McAfee and Symantec basically created an industry for themselves by using fear to sell there product. Michelangelo went off with a whimper in the end, but the antivirus industry has been going strong ever since.
bbh
The router flows for some of the routers on Internet2 still show a lot of file sharing apps even on Internet2. Heres a break down for the LOSA router (I believe that's Los Angeles).
port flows octets packets duration
FastTrack 22.010 26.377 17.495 19.339
Gnutella 8.358 5.069 7.138 11.082
http 4.201 4.566 2.565 1.151
ftp-data 0.738 3.284 1.866 0.915
eDonkey-2000 0.896 1.132 0.769 1.111
ssh 0.428 1.063 0.753 0.337
Neomodus-Direct 0.591 0.706 0.823 1.057
51872 0.017 0.513 0.302 0.086
ftp 0.636 0.444 0.337 0.296
aol 0.139 0.428 0.302 0.291
bbh
I think Sun Microsystems had a pretty good idea in writing a Sun Blueprint that basically takes a look at how to do a task under Windows NT and then shows the corresponding task under Solaris. It is published by Sun and is called "Solaris Guide for Windows NT Administrators". You can find further information on it at the Sun Blueprints Publications website:
http://www.sun.com/solutions/blueprints/pubs.html
bbh
And he clearly didn't post the pictures of the first 5 times he probably tried it and sprung a leak :P
bbh
Yep, why else do we collect Karma unless we're going to burn it sometimes. I once posted a comment in the middle of a KDE/Gnome/RMS thread. It spent all day getting ping-ponged back and forth between Funny, Insightful, and Troll depending on the allegiance or sense of humor of the moderators. It ended at +5 Funny, but was definitely worth a karma point or two to watch em' beat on the post all day.
bbh
It sorta sounded like a reference to "The Omen" to me.
bbh
On April Fool's Day, I might have modded this up as one of the purest forms of troll bait I have seen. The only way you might have made this statement better is if you had added a reference to Python somewhere in there.
bbh
And when we reach 3.14... does that mean we have come full circle?
bbh
Well, the leader of the group will do it, then the rest of his party will laugh and split up the loot on his corpse. Sometimes it sucks to take the lead!
bbh
The saddest fact about that picture is that is Linus Torvalds on the first day of his new job....
:(
Oh, how the mighty have fallen
bbh
Ack, he actually died about 7 years ago!
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http://www.cnn.com/US/Newsbriefs/9509/9-20/am/ind
What is more sad is that I felt the need to post this information.
bbh
Ok, this first post modded to 5 is the funniest thing I've seen this April Fools Day. I truly laughed my ass off when I saw that.
bbh
According to the article though, it would take 8 of the root servers being knocked out to cause this to happen. Those servers are spread throughout the world. One is in Japan, one at UMD, one by ISC, one was at NASA, etc..
Here is the current list:
formerly NS.INTERNIC.NET - A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
formerly NS1.ISI.EDU - B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
formerly C.PSI.NET - C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
formerly TERP.UMD.EDU - D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
formerly NS.NASA.GOV - E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
formerly NS.ISC.ORG - F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
formerly NS.NIC.DDN.MIL - G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
formerly AOS.ARL.ARMY.MIL - H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
formerly NIC.NORDU.NET - I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
temporarily housed at NSI (InterNIC) - J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
housed in LINX, operated by RIPE NCC - K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
temporarily housed at ISI (IANA) - L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
housed in Japan, operated by WIDE - M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
bbh
Ok, I'll just tell the boss we have to shutdown the webserver every day before we go home! What a great ecommerce solution :P
bbh