Try "invent" or "inventory", will show your list of stuff yer holding.
no, you cant "look" or "examine" your inventory, tho I suppose I could make it spew out the same info as the inventory list does, but that seems a tad redundant to me;)
the much more fun will be porting the game. the file access and such, and the encryption scheme used (ahahaha - inside joke), use some system calls. ick. yeah some of its badly coded, so sue me (lol).
well obviously no one plays new games any more, try this one - http://nexus.vrx.net/mp3/castle.zip
its a pc (dos/windows) text adventure. yes yes I do want to port it to linux, but the code is soooo freaking messy (turbo pascal v7 - dos) with custom calls it might be fun trying.
and then there's trek7 over at sourceforge, check that out. oh god, please help. hehehe
and does anyone remember Beaurocracy ? I think this was douglas adams game for Infocom. I love this game!
"I'm sorry, but there's a radio connected to my brain". Now how many people remember the response to that query?!
I still love these kinds of games, which is why I spend endless years trying to port them to this day...
here's a snippit, I doubt anyone can place this piece... heh... title: "On the daft" 'Hardy', says Jip Bottomless, 'Have you sworn to the daft?'
'Of course moose', saible Hippy Shambles 'eye boat the kindness of dislodging the lives and diapers of follow hungells!'
'Follow hungells! They bar exemptifies. They bar Confusilistic Picks!', yellops Jip Bottomless, 'I thunk the arly defisition we Ameranians shook may obble one. Obble Abbly, Naibly, Air Faible, or Maible.'
'Wax the diversifixion between Ameranians & Raxations? Deer all hungells! Nobble bumby should have two sworn to the daft. Nobble bumby should hax in dislodging the lives and diapers of follow hungells!!'
'Well we have to seed the armble vase glowing, because they harble more nookly-hobble-boobs then we. Besides they slopped dapped our arlycopter from the spies, so we have to venge of gettance!' exlamps Jip Bottomless.
'Venging gettance won't proud anyhomble' says Hippy Shambles, 'and remuddle what Ghumby says, 'an eyesore for an eyesore mabbles the hip hungell vase blind.'
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yep... perhaps completely off-topic, but I invented a new technology, which is "5 years off", however, I actually have code, I have a beta, I have simulators, and it's actually been shown.
so what does it take to get something like this off the ground? Seems like the only way sometimes is lots of media/marketing hype to get a bunch of cash so you can actually do the work.
I have all this stuff redy to show (have shown several times), and I'm still broke and unemployed. Give me one good reason I shouldn't be hyping the heck out of it just so I can put food on the table? Or tell me what I'm supposed to do with this stuff...
first a correction. the numbering scheme, what people here have said is a bit off.
from SunOS 4, it went to 5, 6, 7, 8 and finally 9, but these are not actually v8, v9, etc as such. You see, v8 is actually 2.8, and v9 is actually 2.9 so the old question still begs, will it be 2.10 or will it be 3 ? inquiring minds want to know. (just a bit of fun here really).
and on other news, the stuff that Sun isn't saying (at least, not publically), and this is just somewhat rumor based on what I know from the inside...
Supposedly Solaris10 will be using a totally new kernel, which will be (as far as I've been told by very high ups at Sun) something of a mish-mash of Linux kernel, BSD, and Solaris.
Sun thinks it can finally "level" the playing field, and make "Unix" a standard, one flavor. All for one and Sun for all! (heh)
Many admins I've talked to say this is a great idea. Finally one standardized "flavor" of Unix, one set that consolidates everything. It could work, but is Sun the one to pull it off, and is the timing right?
We all know Sparc is dead, Sun said so themselves. So, now that they are going AMD, their direct "competitor" (I don't like using that word, because it's really not true) is Linux (and BSD of course). And we all have been hearing that BSD is dead. From a CLI point of view Solaris most resembles BSD, but from an actual operations point of view, kernel, threading, etc Solaris most resemebles Linux, after all, it already uses Linux's threading model (and much, much more!).
Word on the street from inside Sun VPs is that Solaris 10 will have (primarily) the Linux kernel. This could be amusing. I sure hope it works out, I actually like Solaris as an OS an aweful lot, it doesn't have the zealot, uptight, holier-than-thou BSD attitude... which is a good thing...
well, not meant as a flame or whatever, but really.. the govt controls every single "public service" in the country. yes theres degrulation, and some major corporatiosn run certain things, depending on what country you are in, but really.
is not the internet a public service like any other? like radio, tv, newspaper, etc etc ?
radio is free for me to listen to, multiple stations, channels, etc. but it is regulated. like everything else.
illegal acts should not be tolerated in any sense of the words.Its not tolerated in any other public service, so why this one? Yes, ok the adage of "if you don't like it, change the channel", but that doesn't apply to the extremes. like beastiality, and child porn, etc etc. those should never be allowed in any context. regardless.
and there are certain other things that fall into the same categories...
As a society in whatever country, we need to have a certain amount of mimimum standards adhered to.
Why are they using an obsolete OS version? Why not at least install Solaris 9? ver 9 has been out long enough!
this just doesn't make sense. as for performance, I have an ultra-10 here with 128mb of ram, 300mhz cpu, with aurora linux 1.0 and it out-performs a p4/1.6ghz system (for compiling software)...
you are so full of crap it's funny. by the way IDC is owned by MS, how's that imdependent? trusted name. bahahahahahaha your post should have been marked "funny" not insightful!
there are many ways to do this now, cheaply and easily too.
hook up headphones and a mic to your pc and use any one of the free service websites, I don't want to name them, as I dont wish to seem like promoting them, and I'm sure you can find them on your own.
Also, where I live at least, there is a USB Phone you can buy for about $40, it's basically just a standard phone that plugs into your USB port, and you can call ANYONE in the world who has a USB phone, even another brand name.
And the software is freely bundled with it, requires no special ISP services, your call goes out as data, and the ISP doesn't even know about it.
So there you go, the beginning of the end for telco's is here, their days are numbered, not that anyone is crying...
Heck, I think even radio shack offers a phone like this now, in US and Canada.
I've always liked Mandrake better than any, well, since Slackware went to v7. up to v4 slackware was best, after that... ugh.
Mandrake has ALWAYS had the best hardware detection, especially for notebooks! my god it's easy to setup, and use too! and ALL the tools are there!
what the hell is yer problem?!? It's got apt-get too yknow! and rpm! and mandrake package management... and everything.
sheesh.
BTW KDE kicks Gnome's ass all over the place. the new one, KDE v3.2, omg it's hot!
so stop spouting BS about Mandrake, it's the only stable, well-supported, fully open-source distro left. RedCrap is gone (always has been CRAP!) and SUSE is now going to be gone (thanks Novell). What else? Slackware which isn't so great any more?
Or debian? bah! debian sucks rocks, always has. The old Slackware could kick its butt into next week!
There's a Mandrake LIVE (boot from CD) version too out now, I think it's called Mandrake-Move. It's very cool!
So get off yer holier than thou bullshit. and btw - BSD Sucks! nice stable platform, LOUSY hardware support, write me when it gets out of the freaking darkages! Sun 2.4 left that kind of disk partition management in the dust eons ago!
it's (almost) 2004 people, this aint the freaking 70s!
And BTW I still prefer VMS (command-line!) v5.2 all the way baby, no gui's for me. and please! no bullshit about NT being VMS, it ain't, so kiss my ass..;)
Linus Torvalds again today repeated a comment he had made to the press previously, in which he says, again:
Linus Torvlands: "SCO is on crack..."
The media didn't seem at all surprised by this comment, and were actually in complete agreement with Linus' assessment of SCOs mental state.
In other news, another media group announced their comments, again repeating yet another previous statement by saying that "SCO has been sniffing paint thinner..."
If you want to know what the real values are, this article and the one on cnet is wrong in so many ways... ugh, but here are the real ones that will really affect people:
FreeBSD 2.2.7 will start having this clock problem on January 18th, 2038 at 20:14 (8:14PM) EST when the unix clock on FreeBSD will read: 2147483640, 20:15 (8:15PM) EST will cause FreeBSDs clock timer to claim an invalid date... joy !
That's not 2^30 folks, that's 2^31 (2147483648) or about 8 seconds after the time I quoted above.
I know because we still have one box running 2.2.7 here (and what a fun box it is too!) can't handle more than 128megs of ram. What is this - the dark ages? that was rhetorical...:)
Ah come on, jeez people, you fall for crap hook line and sinker. You guys are so gullible its funny (if it weren't so sad)...
One individual source claiming something like this, does not make it true. That's besides the fact if you even scratch at the facts (don't even need to dig really), you'll see some contradictions.
Not only contradictions in the time of the so-called attack, but what was supposedly being attacked at the time.
If you look at CADIA or CAIDA or whatever they are, their claims, you'll see they talk about the sco ftp server being hit, but the ftp server WASN'T hit during this time period. The FTP server experienced no increase in average latency, I know, I tested it.
Ok, so one big hole in their theory. Want to try for two? no problem...
The logs are inconclusive. If you handed that over to any decent ISP and claimed it was proof of being attacked, they'd laugh at you.
There's simply NOT enough shown there to be evidence of an attack, or proof of anything. In fact, the data is so SPARSE (light, and weak), the data provided looks more like normal network traffic than anything else.
I've seen customers call up ISPs saying "Hey! Your DNS server is attacking me!", uh, no, mr. pinhead, it's not, it's just that every time you type in a url in your browser, dns has to resolve it, thereby doing lookups, what you're seeing mr. stupid customer is the dns resolver responses.
sometimes clients even claim to want to sue the ISP because the ISPs mail server is attacking them! Which we usually tell the customer "ok, sure, call your lawyer, and uh, when hell freezes over, I'm sure you'll let us know, thank you, bye now (click)"
the data the CADIA (CAIDA?) place provided is almost identical to the logs provided by these customers. It shows an equal amount of "evidence" (cough).
Are there sniffer traces (data captures) of raw packets during this time period? Nooo.... Just these stupid log files that mean NOTHING!
come on people, one source with such pathetic information, and not only is Slashdot and Groklaw ready to be convinced, so is the press and the stockmarket.
Now we'll have SCO posting MORE press bullshit (FUD) saying "see, we told you so!". get over it!
This proves *NOTHING* !
caveat1: could SCO have been attacked? Oh yes. caveat2: am I saying they were NOT hit at all? NO!
If they were hit, it certainly wasn't as reported, and it certainly wasn't with as much severity as claimed, and it certainly wasn't for as long as claimed, etc etc etc...
I would be inclined to believe some "script kiddies" took advantage of the situation, but nothing extreme.
I am more inclined to believe that SCO manufactured this themselves. Would they LIE about contacting the secret service? Oh hell yes, they lied about contacting the FBI last time. Come on now... sheesh
This is a common misconception. it depends what is being attacked, and how.
A SYN flood attack *CAN* indeed "clog" the bandwidth. It's been done. Been there, seen it, move on... a flood like any other flood can "clog" bandwidth, people don't typically attack this way any more though, because the resources at the attackers side have to exceed the targets side.
There are actually attack tools (albeit old ones) that do this, they are now obsolete, actually public at ths point (well, as public as such things get), about as public as winnuke code at this point...
So saying a SYN flood wouldn't do this is just flat-out wrong. Because it can, and it has, and it probably will again.
Cisco routers are actually highly susceptible to this kind of thing as well, so in another sort of SYN attack, it's possible to send very little traffic while causing ALL connections from the router to be unreachable, effectively shutting down ALL bandwidth (without actually "flooding" it). Which would appear to be a flood attack, but not be.
So in either of the above cases, all the servers on the lan (same switch, etc) would be unreachable, that being in a true attack. But this wasn't the case.
I notice their mail server (which the also seem to have claimed) isn't on the same subnet.
Anyone who thinks SCO is being honest about anything with such statements is simply insane.
I like how you misrepresent things and immediately are "prepared to accept that SCO is telling the truth". This sort of thing has to stop. They lied last time, the network admins at their upstreams seem to have claimed nothing was wrong this time either.
Who are you going to believe? the evidence doesn't even suggest there was a real attack. Their ISP admins seem to be saying there was no attack. People looking at this, monitoring it see no evidence of any sort of attack.
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Hey dude (YankeeInExile) I cant seem to send you a message, mayhaps you could email me...
ps - you also get a prize for guessing correctly (lol)
actually more like 6 years ago!
a completely fault-tolerant, disruption proof, delay proof networking communications protocol.
its done. its been sitting on my desk for years, collecting dust. Its been done so much, evolutionary improvements to steps beyond are already done.
no one cares. no one wants it. even for free, even as OSS... oh well...
ps its called "L2R"... just a hint...
Try "invent" or "inventory", will show your list of stuff yer holding.
;)
no, you cant "look" or "examine" your inventory, tho I suppose I could make it spew out the same info as the inventory list does, but that seems a tad redundant to me
the much more fun will be porting the game. the file access and such, and the encryption scheme used (ahahaha - inside joke), use some system calls. ick.
yeah some of its badly coded, so sue me (lol).
well obviously no one plays new games any more, try this one - http://nexus.vrx.net/mp3/castle.zip
its a pc (dos/windows) text adventure. yes yes I do want to port it to linux, but the code is soooo freaking messy (turbo pascal v7 - dos) with custom calls it might be fun trying.
and then there's trek7 over at sourceforge, check that out. oh god, please help. hehehe
and does anyone remember Beaurocracy ? I think this was douglas adams game for Infocom. I love this game!
"I'm sorry, but there's a radio connected to my brain". Now how many people remember the response to that query?!
I still love these kinds of games, which is why I spend endless years trying to port them to this day...
here's a snippit, I doubt anyone can place this piece... heh...
title: "On the daft"
'Hardy', says Jip Bottomless, 'Have you sworn to the daft?'
'Of course moose', saible Hippy Shambles 'eye boat the kindness of dislodging the lives and diapers of follow hungells!'
'Follow hungells! They bar exemptifies. They bar Confusilistic Picks!', yellops Jip Bottomless, 'I thunk the arly defisition we Ameranians shook may obble one. Obble Abbly, Naibly, Air Faible, or Maible.'
'Wax the diversifixion between Ameranians & Raxations? Deer all hungells! Nobble bumby should have two sworn to the daft. Nobble bumby should hax in dislodging the lives and diapers of follow hungells!!'
'Well we have to seed the armble vase glowing, because they harble more nookly-hobble-boobs then we. Besides they slopped dapped our arlycopter from the spies, so we have to venge of gettance!' exlamps Jip Bottomless.
'Venging gettance won't proud anyhomble' says Hippy Shambles, 'and remuddle what Ghumby says, 'an eyesore for an eyesore mabbles the hip hungell vase blind.'
yep... perhaps completely off-topic, but I invented a new technology, which is "5 years off", however, I actually have code, I have a beta, I have simulators, and it's actually been shown.
so what does it take to get something like this off the ground? Seems like the only way sometimes is lots of media/marketing hype to get a bunch of cash so you can actually do the work.
I have all this stuff redy to show (have shown several times), and I'm still broke and unemployed. Give me one good reason I shouldn't be hyping the heck out of it just so I can put food on the table? Or tell me what I'm supposed to do with this stuff...
first time I read the title I thought it said "FBI Anti-PRIVACY seal".
:)
pretty much the same thing, no?
first a correction.
the numbering scheme, what people here have said is a bit off.
from SunOS 4, it went to 5, 6, 7, 8 and finally 9, but these are not actually v8, v9, etc as such. You see, v8 is actually 2.8, and v9 is actually 2.9
so the old question still begs, will it be 2.10 or will it be 3 ? inquiring minds want to know. (just a bit of fun here really).
and on other news, the stuff that Sun isn't saying (at least, not publically), and this is just somewhat rumor based on what I know from the inside...
Supposedly Solaris10 will be using a totally new kernel, which will be (as far as I've been told by very high ups at Sun) something of a mish-mash of Linux kernel, BSD, and Solaris.
Sun thinks it can finally "level" the playing field, and make "Unix" a standard, one flavor. All for one and Sun for all! (heh)
Many admins I've talked to say this is a great idea. Finally one standardized "flavor" of Unix, one set that consolidates everything. It could work, but is Sun the one to pull it off, and is the timing right?
We all know Sparc is dead, Sun said so themselves. So, now that they are going AMD, their direct "competitor" (I don't like using that word, because it's really not true) is Linux (and BSD of course). And we all have been hearing that BSD is dead. From a CLI point of view Solaris most resembles BSD, but from an actual operations point of view, kernel, threading, etc Solaris most resemebles Linux, after all, it already uses Linux's threading model (and much, much more!).
Word on the street from inside Sun VPs is that Solaris 10 will have (primarily) the Linux kernel. This could be amusing. I sure hope it works out, I actually like Solaris as an OS an aweful lot, it doesn't have the zealot, uptight, holier-than-thou BSD attitude... which is a good thing...
well, not meant as a flame or whatever, but really..
the govt controls every single "public service" in the country. yes theres degrulation, and some major corporatiosn run certain things, depending on what country you are in, but really.
is not the internet a public service like any other? like radio, tv, newspaper, etc etc ?
radio is free for me to listen to, multiple stations, channels, etc. but it is regulated. like everything else.
illegal acts should not be tolerated in any sense of the words.Its not tolerated in any other public service, so why this one? Yes, ok the adage of "if you don't like it, change the channel", but that doesn't apply to the extremes. like beastiality, and child porn, etc etc. those should never be allowed in any context. regardless.
and there are certain other things that fall into the same categories...
As a society in whatever country, we need to have a certain amount of mimimum standards adhered to.
Way back in '99 when wi-fi was just coming out (barely), I setup a 19.2 mile shot and got 11 mbps out of it, with only 11ms ping time.
this isn't news... and it's not even useful...
btw that wi-fi setup I did is still running today!
and didn't we see some recent stories on slashdot of wi-fi setups running more than 30 miles with decent through-put ?
Why are they using an obsolete OS version?
Why not at least install Solaris 9?
ver 9 has been out long enough!
this just doesn't make sense.
as for performance, I have an ultra-10 here with 128mb of ram, 300mhz cpu, with aurora linux 1.0 and it out-performs a p4/1.6ghz system (for compiling software)...
just weird...
you are so full of crap it's funny.
by the way IDC is owned by MS, how's that imdependent?
trusted name. bahahahahahaha
your post should have been marked "funny" not insightful!
sheesh... come on people.
options:
1) EGRESS filters! hello!
if all the big ISPs did this, spam would probably disappear, but they are too busy getting PAID to carry spam!
2) black, white, and unblocked lists on a global scale
thats all for now.
there are many ways to do this now, cheaply and easily too.
hook up headphones and a mic to your pc and use any one of the free service websites, I don't want to name them, as I dont wish to seem like promoting them, and I'm sure you can find them on your own.
Also, where I live at least, there is a USB Phone you can buy for about $40, it's basically just a standard phone that plugs into your USB port, and you can call ANYONE in the world who has a USB phone, even another brand name.
And the software is freely bundled with it, requires no special ISP services, your call goes out as data, and the ISP doesn't even know about it.
So there you go, the beginning of the end for telco's is here, their days are numbered, not that anyone is crying...
Heck, I think even radio shack offers a phone like this now, in US and Canada.
I've always liked Mandrake better than any, well, since Slackware went to v7. up to v4 slackware was best, after that... ugh.
;)
Mandrake has ALWAYS had the best hardware detection, especially for notebooks! my god it's easy to setup, and use too! and ALL the tools are there!
what the hell is yer problem?!?
It's got apt-get too yknow! and rpm! and mandrake package management... and everything.
sheesh.
BTW KDE kicks Gnome's ass all over the place. the new one, KDE v3.2, omg it's hot!
so stop spouting BS about Mandrake, it's the only stable, well-supported, fully open-source distro left. RedCrap is gone (always has been CRAP!) and SUSE is now going to be gone (thanks Novell). What else? Slackware which isn't so great any more?
Or debian? bah! debian sucks rocks, always has. The old Slackware could kick its butt into next week!
There's a Mandrake LIVE (boot from CD) version too out now, I think it's called Mandrake-Move. It's very cool!
So get off yer holier than thou bullshit. and btw - BSD Sucks! nice stable platform, LOUSY hardware support, write me when it gets out of the freaking darkages! Sun 2.4 left that kind of disk partition management in the dust eons ago!
it's (almost) 2004 people, this aint the freaking 70s!
And BTW I still prefer VMS (command-line!) v5.2 all the way baby, no gui's for me. and please! no bullshit about NT being VMS, it ain't, so kiss my ass..
Linus Torvalds again today repeated a comment he had made to the press previously, in which he says, again:
Linus Torvlands: "SCO is on crack..."
The media didn't seem at all surprised by this comment, and were actually in complete agreement with Linus' assessment of SCOs mental state.
In other news, another media group announced their comments, again repeating yet another previous statement by saying that "SCO has been sniffing paint thinner..."
If you want to know what the real values are, this article and the one on cnet is wrong in so many ways... ugh, but here are the real ones that will really affect people:
:)
FreeBSD 2.2.7 will start having this clock problem on January 18th, 2038 at 20:14 (8:14PM) EST when the unix clock on FreeBSD will read: 2147483640,
20:15 (8:15PM) EST will cause FreeBSDs clock timer to claim an invalid date... joy !
That's not 2^30 folks, that's 2^31 (2147483648) or about 8 seconds after the time I quoted above.
I know because we still have one box running 2.2.7 here (and what a fun box it is too!) can't handle more than 128megs of ram. What is this - the dark ages? that was rhetorical...
You mean Microsoft hasn't figured out the reason Linux works so well is because of the whole Open Source Concept?
Study it all you want Microscum, but remember, if you use any GPL software, you have to release the source. bahahahahahahahahaha...
They'll never get a clue at this rete...
Ah come on, jeez people, you fall for crap hook line and sinker. You guys are so gullible its funny (if it weren't so sad)...
One individual source claiming something like this, does not make it true. That's besides the fact if you even scratch at the facts (don't even need to dig really), you'll see some contradictions.
Not only contradictions in the time of the so-called attack, but what was supposedly being attacked at the time.
If you look at CADIA or CAIDA or whatever they are, their claims, you'll see they talk about the sco ftp server being hit, but the ftp server WASN'T hit during this time period. The FTP server experienced no increase in average latency, I know, I tested it.
Ok, so one big hole in their theory. Want to try for two? no problem...
The logs are inconclusive. If you handed that over to any decent ISP and claimed it was proof of being attacked, they'd laugh at you.
There's simply NOT enough shown there to be evidence of an attack, or proof of anything. In fact, the data is so SPARSE (light, and weak), the data provided looks more like normal network traffic than anything else.
I've seen customers call up ISPs saying "Hey! Your DNS server is attacking me!", uh, no, mr. pinhead, it's not, it's just that every time you type in a url in your browser, dns has to resolve it, thereby doing lookups, what you're seeing mr. stupid customer is the dns resolver responses.
sometimes clients even claim to want to sue the ISP because the ISPs mail server is attacking them! Which we usually tell the customer "ok, sure, call your lawyer, and uh, when hell freezes over, I'm sure you'll let us know, thank you, bye now (click)"
the data the CADIA (CAIDA?) place provided is almost identical to the logs provided by these customers. It shows an equal amount of "evidence" (cough).
Are there sniffer traces (data captures) of raw packets during this time period? Nooo.... Just these stupid log files that mean NOTHING!
come on people, one source with such pathetic information, and not only is Slashdot and Groklaw ready to be convinced, so is the press and the stockmarket.
Now we'll have SCO posting MORE press bullshit (FUD) saying "see, we told you so!". get over it!
This proves *NOTHING* !
caveat1: could SCO have been attacked? Oh yes.
caveat2: am I saying they were NOT hit at all? NO!
If they were hit, it certainly wasn't as reported, and it certainly wasn't with as much severity as claimed, and it certainly wasn't for as long as claimed, etc etc etc...
I would be inclined to believe some "script kiddies" took advantage of the situation, but nothing extreme.
I am more inclined to believe that SCO manufactured this themselves. Would they LIE about contacting the secret service? Oh hell yes, they lied about contacting the FBI last time. Come on now... sheesh
You people give SCO far too much credit.
that's the whole point.
:)
Convert it to something useful, get it running in a decent language.
Oh, I'm sorry, I guess sometimes I expect too much from coders, I guess it's too much of a challenge
heh
No one has yet contributed to trek7 on sourceforge, its been there for months.
So yes, the myth is true, just making something open source does NOT mean people will flock to it, no matter how good an idea or concept it might be.
I'm still waiting...
Are you forgetting something? --
SCO: "Uh, firewall? What's a firewall? oh, you mean that stuff we use to pump the stock? Huh??"
They mention "customer support systems" were also affected, wouldn't that include FTP ?
And, if you check netcraft, what the heck is up with the traffic SPIKE just before midnight ?
something smells, and it's name is SCO...
uh, you forgot the obvious answer: BOTH!
;)
there was no attack, this we know (I'll be you money!) *AND* their network is run by doofuses...
sometimes you CAN have your cake, and eat it too!
This is a common misconception.
it depends what is being attacked, and how.
A SYN flood attack *CAN* indeed "clog" the bandwidth. It's been done. Been there, seen it, move on... a flood like any other flood can "clog" bandwidth, people don't typically attack this way any more though, because the resources at the attackers side have to exceed the targets side.
There are actually attack tools (albeit old ones) that do this, they are now obsolete, actually public at ths point (well, as public as such things get), about as public as winnuke code at this point...
So saying a SYN flood wouldn't do this is just flat-out wrong. Because it can, and it has, and it probably will again.
Cisco routers are actually highly susceptible to this kind of thing as well, so in another sort of SYN attack, it's possible to send very little traffic while causing ALL connections from the router to be unreachable, effectively shutting down ALL bandwidth (without actually "flooding" it). Which would appear to be a flood attack, but not be.
So in either of the above cases, all the servers on the lan (same switch, etc) would be unreachable, that being in a true attack. But this wasn't the case.
I notice their mail server (which the also seem to have claimed) isn't on the same subnet.
Anyone who thinks SCO is being honest about anything with such statements is simply insane.
I like how you misrepresent things and immediately are "prepared to accept that SCO is telling the truth". This sort of thing has to stop. They lied last time, the network admins at their upstreams seem to have claimed nothing was wrong this time either.
Who are you going to believe? the evidence doesn't even suggest there was a real attack. Their ISP admins seem to be saying there was no attack. People looking at this, monitoring it see no evidence of any sort of attack.
Nope, sorry, not buying SCOs BS today...
SPEWS is fugly. damn that's fugly. IMHO only of course. no proper access list or firewall rules.
no domain lists for postfix.
but it's a start.
their site is very hard to navigate and use, or to find things directly.
ugh...