I can't believe that this series hasn't been mentioned yet! Great light sci-fi reading, I enjoyed as a teen.
I also concur with the Alvin Maker series. I'll second Madeline L'Engle and Usrula K. LeGuin's fantasy books, too.
I read Douglas Adams as a young teen, and enjoyed them, though I missed out on half the content.;)
Seriously! I've helped set up two machines for these stupid things. The HARDEST part was updating the friggin OS! First upgrade Windows XP. THEN, you have to update Media Center to a new service pack. UGgghhh!
Hasn't anyone ever seen that purple demon... er dinosaur? It MUST have been genetically modified. IT's ALWAYS happy, and physically cannot stop smiling! EEEEEkkk!!!!
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I've touched up the Apache::CodeRed Apache Perl module if anyone is using it. I've included examples on which Locations to set the handler to to catch the new attack as well.
This is an unofficial patch. I've emailed the author this patch as well.
Patch from 1.07 to my 1.08: http://woodynet.siscom.net/CodeRed-1.07-1.08.pat ch
Full tarball of my 1.08
http://woodynet.siscom.net/Apache-CodeRed-1.08.t ar.gz
We can't ban EVERY site. Banning sites and servers is only a stop-gap measure until a firewall can be implemented. It's a horrible way to do it, but the only thing we can do to save our bandwidth _right now_. We currently sanction students when we notice disappropriate bandwidth udage; but when one student is taken off the network, two more replace him (or her, but I don't think we've revoked access for a female student yet... anyone wanna comment or theorize about this?;)
When the firewall goes up, I think napster and other services will be opened up again... just limited so that they don't take up the whole pipe.
Again, all statements are my own, and not necessarily those of the University of Dayton.
I was inferring that the abusers were in the number of approximately 20-40. These are the people who share their whole 10GB drive of files to the whole internet.
LAN games only last so long. AOL/ICQ transfers start and stop quickly. Yes, it uses bandwidth, but it is not SUSTAINED for HOURS like file sharing is. There is a major difference between normal use and abuse of the network. Our network can handle normal use. Yes we will get spikes that fill our 24Mbps, but traffic can still get in and out. When the usage is PEGGED at 24Mbps over 18 hours a day, THAT is excessive.
And like always, these are my own interpretations of the situation here, and NOT an official statement by the University of Dayton. I'm just a concerned employee, like you are a concerned student.:)
I work for the networking department at the University of Dayton. My statements are not meant to be construed as official in ANY way or form, but I thought it necessary to respond to this article anyway. That said....
As already stated and guessed, the University of Dayton has blocked a NUMBER of file-sharing services due to ABUSE by people sharing files indiscriminately. We have a partial T3 running at 24MBps... last year we had 15MBps. And we were maxed out the FIRST WEEK the students came back.
The strain on our T3 was so bad, people from off-campus trying to get to our official web server or to check e-mail couldn't. I am the *NIX admin here. When _I_ can't even get 0.5KByte/sec to try and download software to improve the network, it is extremely frustrating... and frustrating for the other 15,000 people here on campus who have a LEGITIMATE need for internet access.
I was just told that the reason all of napster was blocked was that the web server and the service log in server are one in the same. We only have a layer 3 router (i.e. normal router), and not a layer 4 firewall, so separating the services was out of the question. It was all or nothing. Sorry folks: triage.
The University of Dayton is in no way for censorship. This issue is only about bandwidth abuse. A 24Mbps pipe is NOT cheap. I'm sure that students don't want yet ANOTHER tuition hike just to pay for the 20-40 or so students who use about 90% of our bandwidth, robbing the other 15,000 people on campus (students, faculty AND staff) of their right to use the Internet.
If students would learn to be responsible about bandwidth usage, the University of Dayton wouldn't NEED to limit ANY web site or internet service.
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(Just my $0.03)
-Richard Balint
University of Dayton
Hardly... the Designer and Administrator client are CLOSELY tied to the main notes client. They ARE separate programs... but it seems to start them as separate threads off the main client.
The reason I say this is that, in the Administrator, when you register users, you CANNOT use the Designer or Notes client. The three are integrally linked, and if one is busy, they all are.
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Grrr.. Looks like my keyboard is missing an 'l' somewhere. ;)
I can't believe that this series hasn't been mentioned yet! Great light sci-fi reading, I enjoyed as a teen. I also concur with the Alvin Maker series. I'll second Madeline L'Engle and Usrula K. LeGuin's fantasy books, too. I read Douglas Adams as a young teen, and enjoyed them, though I missed out on half the content. ;)
Seriously! I've helped set up two machines for these stupid things. The HARDEST part was updating the friggin OS! First upgrade Windows XP. THEN, you have to update Media Center to a new service pack. UGgghhh!
Hasn't anyone ever seen that purple demon... er dinosaur? It MUST have been genetically modified. IT's ALWAYS happy, and physically cannot stop smiling! EEEEEkkk!!!!
It's already been done many times over.
The author's name is Piers Anthony.
I've touched up the Apache::CodeRed Apache Perl module if anyone is using it. I've included examples on which Locations to set the handler to to catch the new attack as well.
t ch
t ar .gz
This is an unofficial patch. I've emailed the author this patch as well.
Patch from 1.07 to my 1.08:
http://woodynet.siscom.net/CodeRed-1.07-1.08.pa
Full tarball of my 1.08
http://woodynet.siscom.net/Apache-CodeRed-1.08.
-Woodstock
Moderate this one up, please.
When the firewall goes up, I think napster and other services will be opened up again... just limited so that they don't take up the whole pipe.
Again, all statements are my own, and not necessarily those of the University of Dayton.
-Richard Balint
LAN games only last so long. AOL/ICQ transfers start and stop quickly. Yes, it uses bandwidth, but it is not SUSTAINED for HOURS like file sharing is. There is a major difference between normal use and abuse of the network. Our network can handle normal use. Yes we will get spikes that fill our 24Mbps, but traffic can still get in and out. When the usage is PEGGED at 24Mbps over 18 hours a day, THAT is excessive.
And like always, these are my own interpretations of the situation here, and NOT an official statement by the University of Dayton. I'm just a concerned employee, like you are a concerned student. :)
-Richard Balint
As already stated and guessed, the University of Dayton has blocked a NUMBER of file-sharing services due to ABUSE by people sharing files indiscriminately. We have a partial T3 running at 24MBps... last year we had 15MBps. And we were maxed out the FIRST WEEK the students came back.
The strain on our T3 was so bad, people from off-campus trying to get to our official web server or to check e-mail couldn't. I am the *NIX admin here. When _I_ can't even get 0.5KByte/sec to try and download software to improve the network, it is extremely frustrating... and frustrating for the other 15,000 people here on campus who have a LEGITIMATE need for internet access.
I was just told that the reason all of napster was blocked was that the web server and the service log in server are one in the same. We only have a layer 3 router (i.e. normal router), and not a layer 4 firewall, so separating the services was out of the question. It was all or nothing. Sorry folks: triage.
The University of Dayton is in no way for censorship. This issue is only about bandwidth abuse. A 24Mbps pipe is NOT cheap. I'm sure that students don't want yet ANOTHER tuition hike just to pay for the 20-40 or so students who use about 90% of our bandwidth, robbing the other 15,000 people on campus (students, faculty AND staff) of their right to use the Internet.
If students would learn to be responsible about bandwidth usage, the University of Dayton wouldn't NEED to limit ANY web site or internet service.
=plink=plink=plink=
(Just my $0.03)
-Richard Balint
University of Dayton
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Hardly... the Designer and Administrator client are CLOSELY tied to the main notes client. They ARE separate programs... but it seems to start them as separate threads off the main client.
The reason I say this is that, in the Administrator, when you register users, you CANNOT use the Designer or Notes client. The three are integrally linked, and if one is busy, they all are.