That, my friends, is the sound of a server being well and truly arse raped
Subscription's nice but it looks like the server's about to be brutally annihilated (I got the first three eps). I do NOT want to be on the recieving end of these guys' bandwidth bill...
...has always been a favourite of mine. I mean, the series has gone through 12 iterations now and it's still going strong; maybe not the most cutting-edge graphics, but the attention to storyline and soundtrack has certainly made it very popular (Square games seem to have by far the most fanfics written for them, if that's any metric of the storyline).
On an unrelated note... AAARGH!! MY EYES!! MY FRIGGIN EYES!!!!!! (if you can't tell I'm really not a fan of this colour scheme)
Record companies should start flooding the Internet with bogus MP3 files that look like songs, but that explode on contact inside the hard drives of Internet thieves. Anyone who illegally downloads an MP3 file via KaZaA or any of the myriad peer-to-peer (i.e. thief-to-thief) services would at best get a corrupted file, and at worst a ruined hard drive.
The companies should band together and enlist a dark force of special-ops hackers to make this happen. Once Net users discover that all they're downloading is a World Wide Web of pain, only the most determined and technologically savvy of them will continue to steal music.
Explode on contact? Hey great, while we're at it why don't we get those 1337o hackers make loads of nasty pixies flood out of the downloader's coffee cup holder... er I mean CD ROM drive (you know, that nasty thing used for ripping CD's)
So this is the sort of utter crap that Slashdot is linking to these days? Word to the editors: This is still in Mysterious Future, I'd recommend you dump it posthaste;) (Yes I'm a subscription whore. $5 or so is fair game for an extended post history. Morbid curiosity)
Yes it would be pretty irresponsible because a few cretins like your good self would seriously tarnish everyone else's image, and the 'bad guys' would harp on this like crazy and completely wreck our case.
Remember those so-called French "anti-war" protestors who violated a British war cemetery in the north of France? That caused an outrage and certainly didn't help the anti-war effort any. If we allow hooligans to be our ambassadors for every cause we might happen to support then everyone's in deep shit. Unfortunately this turns out to be the case more often than not because those few that yell loudest are always those that get noticed above everyone else.
Do something that would seem calm, composed and constructive. Don't do something childish that just makes you feel good. Perhaps Ralsky deserved what he got but I certainly think the attack set a disturbing precedent and those slashbots who thought they were oh so bloody clever to do it in the first place might soon get hit with a tsunami-sized repercussion wave from their actions.
Now the guy hosting this MPEG get to be fucked up the ass for a second time this month;) I'm sure his bandwidth bill this month will be... interesting (in the chinese sense of the word)
I have a conspiracy theory that all these dupes are really a plot by the slashdot editors to batter into submission the sites of people they don't like. Hey, why bother amassing a botnet when you've got a "legitimate" one already;)
Yep, Python can do whatever you want......as long as doesn't need more than one CPU. I don't see a re-entrant Python being released before the heat death of the universe, so despite its dumb quirks, I'll be sticking with Perl (mod_perl still kicks the shat out of mod_python)
It is. I've got a dedicated server, in the contract it says that I'm expected to take responsibility for ensuring reasonable security measures.
Unfortunately the techs there also told me that if I get DDoS'ed they'll immediately kick me off the network. Sad that the internet's come to this but I can't say I don't sympathise with them.
Are there any decent introductions to BGP and how it operates at the Core? routing only becomes really important with big-ass networks and this is pretty much the one thing you can't easily throw together and muck around with in your bedroom (that and for whatever reason everyone seems to use Cisco routers which you can't exactly download off apt-get). Net effect is I know a fair bit about systems administration on the single machine to local area network level, but really have no experience about how these things work on a large scale, or much of a clue about how routing works (NAT gateways don't count). And I suspect I'm not the only one either.
Long story short are there any good resources around for elucidating this field somewhat?
There are a lot of stupid people in this world. You only need about 50 to respond to a mailing to break even, and many spammers have mailings lists of millions.
I don't think that's the issue here though. I'm increasingly beginning to think that spammers are just big time trolls. There's loads of people on the internet, yet there's only 200 major spammers. That's not a lot of people. We all know ads are incredibly annoying, and we all know to what lengths these people go to to evade spam filters. Honestly I think these few people just get their jollies by knowing they pissed off a million people today.
GPL defines the source code as "the preferred form for making modifications to the work". So unless their engineers are way way way way better at doing hex arithmetic and mental cryptography than most of us are, yes the GPL does have a provision against it.
Feeling of power basically. They want to be "ph33r3d" and to run DalNET (or whatever else) into the ground would make them the most powerful people on DalNET because they have power over everyone else and the network is completely at their mercy.
That this is just an inherent problem in the internet's sociology and architecture isn't really a term in the equation but there you go.
There's good trolls and there's bad trolls. As a slashdot reader I find some funny. As a messageboard administrator, I hope they make an example out of this guy, would save me a shitload of hassle. One troll I've dealt with repeatedly posted personal attacks against various members of several forums I admin at, did everything he could to piss off as many people as possible (it's a site about a game series so basically he posted spoilers absolutely everywhere), then after being banned registered a slew of accounts and flooded the general discussion forum with crap. Having cleared that up and banned the source IPs he then used about fifty different open proxies to slip around -- got to the point where I just customized the forums to send me a message over Jabber every time someone registered and let me watch their first steps then decide whether or not it's a troll; I'm sure I roasted more than one account as a false positive. That's not counting the personal attacks on me and my AIM getting flooded with crap, as well as impersonations of me and various others on AIM and IRC or whatever; social-engineered an admin password off another site I go to this way and then deleted the entire database.
I dunno what's worse; the trolls or the fact that there's an ever growing number of people at the site who find him hilarious and egg him on. Though they're a minority, most people quite publicly think he's a twat. He's stopped attacking forums but continues to infest IRC.
To cut a long story short then, there are some sad, sad individuals like this, and someone or other always has to deal with them. The more people like this get publicly and painfully burned, the better. It's all fun and games until you really make it your mission to just piss everyone off.
Because Microsoft does not like the fact that you have the very option of running Linux. Microsoft does not like the fact that Linux is legal. Microsoft doesn't like the fact that there are servers in the world that run anything other than Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server Edition.
If you are satisfied with Linux having its market and Microsoft Windows having its market, that is all well and good. Unfortunately Microsoft Corporation does not share your sense of altruism. They have attempted to make Linux unuseable via the use of Palladium and they have attempted to make any practical use of Linux potentially illegal with the SSSCA and to an increasing extent via the DMCA, and continue to lobby towards such measures. The policy of Microsoft Corporation is "It's you or us, this town isn't big enough for the two of us", same as with every other platform they've destroyed in the past. Sorry but I don't find the prospect of running Microsoft Windows XP on my system particularly appealing (not that I particularly want Microsoft to be destroyed either. I just want to be in a position where they know not to trample on other people's business).
War on Terror? right. You're absolutely bang on: if someone has an axe to grind, all they need is for some guys in suits to forcefully drag me out of my place of work, or to accuse me of dealing in drugs, or child porn. That's it. What recourse have I against it? I live in the UK but even here that's not so far fetched.
Slashdot Mirror
Saved by the Torrents.
*is a good little netizen and gets it off BitTorrent instead*
That, my friends, is the sound of a server being well and truly arse raped
Subscription's nice but it looks like the server's about to be brutally annihilated (I got the first three eps). I do NOT want to be on the recieving end of these guys' bandwidth bill...
n/t too
...has always been a favourite of mine. I mean, the series has gone through 12 iterations now and it's still going strong; maybe not the most cutting-edge graphics, but the attention to storyline and soundtrack has certainly made it very popular (Square games seem to have by far the most fanfics written for them, if that's any metric of the storyline).
On an unrelated note... AAARGH!! MY EYES!! MY FRIGGIN EYES!!!!!! (if you can't tell I'm really not a fan of this colour scheme)
Yes let's all be script kiddies about it.
I call ops on the IRC co-ordination channel. Someone get a warez bot set up here too dammit!
PHP4 doesn't really work
And a lack of Apache::Request makes mod_perl2 pretty much useless.
Nuff said.
Not quite. I caught the tail end of this period. (hey I don't refresh the front page every minute like some people. It was in MF at the time)
Record companies should start flooding the Internet with bogus MP3 files that look like songs, but that explode on contact inside the hard drives of Internet thieves. Anyone who illegally downloads an MP3 file via KaZaA or any of the myriad peer-to-peer (i.e. thief-to-thief) services would at best get a corrupted file, and at worst a ruined hard drive.
The companies should band together and enlist a dark force of special-ops hackers to make this happen. Once Net users discover that all they're downloading is a World Wide Web of pain, only the most determined and technologically savvy of them will continue to steal music.
Explode on contact? Hey great, while we're at it why don't we get those 1337o hackers make loads of nasty pixies flood out of the downloader's coffee cup holder... er I mean CD ROM drive (you know, that nasty thing used for ripping CD's)
So this is the sort of utter crap that Slashdot is linking to these days? Word to the editors: This is still in Mysterious Future, I'd recommend you dump it posthaste ;) (Yes I'm a subscription whore. $5 or so is fair game for an extended post history. Morbid curiosity)
Yes it would be pretty irresponsible because a few cretins like your good self would seriously tarnish everyone else's image, and the 'bad guys' would harp on this like crazy and completely wreck our case.
Remember those so-called French "anti-war" protestors who violated a British war cemetery in the north of France? That caused an outrage and certainly didn't help the anti-war effort any. If we allow hooligans to be our ambassadors for every cause we might happen to support then everyone's in deep shit. Unfortunately this turns out to be the case more often than not because those few that yell loudest are always those that get noticed above everyone else.
Do something that would seem calm, composed and constructive. Don't do something childish that just makes you feel good. Perhaps Ralsky deserved what he got but I certainly think the attack set a disturbing precedent and those slashbots who thought they were oh so bloody clever to do it in the first place might soon get hit with a tsunami-sized repercussion wave from their actions.
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but then again, there's better stuff to use a bogroll printer for. DMCA toilet paper anyone? ;) Seriously, I'd buy that.
Don't worry too much though, it's been going to hell for the past 3000 years.
Now the guy hosting this MPEG get to be fucked up the ass for a second time this month ;) I'm sure his bandwidth bill this month will be ... interesting (in the chinese sense of the word)
;)
I have a conspiracy theory that all these dupes are really a plot by the slashdot editors to batter into submission the sites of people they don't like. Hey, why bother amassing a botnet when you've got a "legitimate" one already
Yep, Python can do whatever you want... ...as long as doesn't need more than one CPU. I don't see a re-entrant Python being released before the heat death of the universe, so despite its dumb quirks, I'll be sticking with Perl (mod_perl still kicks the shat out of mod_python)
But then it doesn't use O'Reilly's brainfucked CSS so it's actually useable under Konqueror. So, I dunno, I'm thankful at least.
I can see this guy getting a 120Gb bandwidth bill for today.
It is. I've got a dedicated server, in the contract it says that I'm expected to take responsibility for ensuring reasonable security measures.
Unfortunately the techs there also told me that if I get DDoS'ed they'll immediately kick me off the network. Sad that the internet's come to this but I can't say I don't sympathise with them.
Are there any decent introductions to BGP and how it operates at the Core? routing only becomes really important with big-ass networks and this is pretty much the one thing you can't easily throw together and muck around with in your bedroom (that and for whatever reason everyone seems to use Cisco routers which you can't exactly download off apt-get). Net effect is I know a fair bit about systems administration on the single machine to local area network level, but really have no experience about how these things work on a large scale, or much of a clue about how routing works (NAT gateways don't count). And I suspect I'm not the only one either.
Long story short are there any good resources around for elucidating this field somewhat?
There are a lot of stupid people in this world. You only need about 50 to respond to a mailing to break even, and many spammers have mailings lists of millions.
I don't think that's the issue here though. I'm increasingly beginning to think that spammers are just big time trolls. There's loads of people on the internet, yet there's only 200 major spammers. That's not a lot of people. We all know ads are incredibly annoying, and we all know to what lengths these people go to to evade spam filters. Honestly I think these few people just get their jollies by knowing they pissed off a million people today.
GPL defines the source code as "the preferred form for making modifications to the work". So unless their engineers are way way way way better at doing hex arithmetic and mental cryptography than most of us are, yes the GPL does have a provision against it.
Feeling of power basically. They want to be "ph33r3d" and to run DalNET (or whatever else) into the ground would make them the most powerful people on DalNET because they have power over everyone else and the network is completely at their mercy.
That this is just an inherent problem in the internet's sociology and architecture isn't really a term in the equation but there you go.
There's good trolls and there's bad trolls. As a slashdot reader I find some funny. As a messageboard administrator, I hope they make an example out of this guy, would save me a shitload of hassle. One troll I've dealt with repeatedly posted personal attacks against various members of several forums I admin at, did everything he could to piss off as many people as possible (it's a site about a game series so basically he posted spoilers absolutely everywhere), then after being banned registered a slew of accounts and flooded the general discussion forum with crap. Having cleared that up and banned the source IPs he then used about fifty different open proxies to slip around -- got to the point where I just customized the forums to send me a message over Jabber every time someone registered and let me watch their first steps then decide whether or not it's a troll; I'm sure I roasted more than one account as a false positive. That's not counting the personal attacks on me and my AIM getting flooded with crap, as well as impersonations of me and various others on AIM and IRC or whatever; social-engineered an admin password off another site I go to this way and then deleted the entire database.
I dunno what's worse; the trolls or the fact that there's an ever growing number of people at the site who find him hilarious and egg him on. Though they're a minority, most people quite publicly think he's a twat. He's stopped attacking forums but continues to infest IRC.
To cut a long story short then, there are some sad, sad individuals like this, and someone or other always has to deal with them. The more people like this get publicly and painfully burned, the better. It's all fun and games until you really make it your mission to just piss everyone off.
Though not too much. I've been looking for some alternatives to an iPod for a while now..
Because Microsoft does not like the fact that you have the very option of running Linux. Microsoft does not like the fact that Linux is legal. Microsoft doesn't like the fact that there are servers in the world that run anything other than Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server Edition.
If you are satisfied with Linux having its market and Microsoft Windows having its market, that is all well and good. Unfortunately Microsoft Corporation does not share your sense of altruism. They have attempted to make Linux unuseable via the use of Palladium and they have attempted to make any practical use of Linux potentially illegal with the SSSCA and to an increasing extent via the DMCA, and continue to lobby towards such measures. The policy of Microsoft Corporation is "It's you or us, this town isn't big enough for the two of us", same as with every other platform they've destroyed in the past. Sorry but I don't find the prospect of running Microsoft Windows XP on my system particularly appealing (not that I particularly want Microsoft to be destroyed either. I just want to be in a position where they know not to trample on other people's business).
Anyone have any experience with APC?
War on Terror? right. You're absolutely bang on: if someone has an axe to grind, all they need is for some guys in suits to forcefully drag me out of my place of work, or to accuse me of dealing in drugs, or child porn. That's it. What recourse have I against it? I live in the UK but even here that's not so far fetched.