The "spam" term came from MUDs (and BBS I guess) because "spamming" a MUD is to fill the screen when you chat. Just like on IRC or other chat services.
"According to security experts, the incident probably was the result of multiple attacks, in which attackers concentrate the power of many computers against a single network to prevent it from operating. "
Security experts?
DDOSing 13 root servers all alone is possible? Aaaaw, I think I'm gonna start cracking.
A lot of Portuguese and Spanish people have their name like DaAnything but it's also really common to see Da Anything. You'll see as many people named DaSilva than Da Silva.
Anwyay, it doesn't mean anything since Theo is not Spanish nor Portuguese.
And while I'm here: Yay Theo! I don't care if it's him or not here, he made the good decision. I'll be glad to switch to a pure OBSD port of OpenSSL!
There are still hundreds of BBSes all around the world with thousands of users. I have my own BBS, Down The Rabbit Hole BBS (telnet://dtrh.cjb.net) and there are still many companies making door games.
We are not dead, we just moved to telnet. Unlike many websites, we don't need 30,000 users to live.
FIDO.NET, DOVE.NEt, HELL.NET, MICRO.NET, there are still many inter-bbs message networks out there. Chatting with hundreds of users all arounf the world, yeah baby! Sure, the 36,000 BBSes in the US, at his peak in the early 90s, are over, but we're NOT DEAD!
Well, I'm using Mandrake 8.0 on a PII300, 64 RAM. It's slow, slower than Windows 98 (dual boot) but else, I have no problems. I hope that when I'll upgrade to 128 or 256 RAM I'll not see the difference.
I've been using Mandrake 8 for almost 6 months now and I'm sure 8.1 will be great. You say Mandrake is for lazy users? Well I don't think any Linux distro is for lazy users, since those lazy people use Windows...
Who cares about which distro is the best one? Mandrake has a high share of the desktop market and I'm fine with that.
As Jon Katz wrote in an article titled "The rise and fall of the geek" in the Shift Magazine :
"if they knew their history as well as their code and their games, they'd know that technological upheavals never last for long."
I'm a geek and I'm studying in Humanities. I know my history, I have taken many Politics, Sociology and Economy courses and yes, I think I have a better understanding of the society than some 15-years old gamer who knows the complete history of the Diablo world but not of his own society.
Katz again: "Most people use the computer network for amusement, treating it much the same way they use TV." Most people rarely watch documentaries on TV. Children will never rule the world if they don't even want to learn about this world. They'll be stuck in the Net, ruling it (or fighting it) from their basement and they'll die like mundanes.
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The "spam" term came from MUDs (and BBS I guess) because "spamming" a MUD is to fill the screen when you chat. Just like on IRC or other chat services.
It's funny, there is a MUD client named Portal (http://gameaxle.com/)
Security experts?
DDOSing 13 root servers all alone is possible? Aaaaw, I think I'm gonna start cracking.
A lot of Portuguese and Spanish people have their name like DaAnything but it's also really common to see Da Anything. You'll see as many people named DaSilva than Da Silva.
Anwyay, it doesn't mean anything since Theo is not Spanish nor Portuguese.
And while I'm here: Yay Theo! I don't care if it's him or not here, he made the good decision. I'll be glad to switch to a pure OBSD port of OpenSSL!
There are still hundreds of BBSes all around the world with thousands of users. I have my own BBS, Down The Rabbit Hole BBS (telnet://dtrh.cjb.net) and there are still many companies making door games.
We are not dead, we just moved to telnet. Unlike many websites, we don't need 30,000 users to live.
FIDO.NET, DOVE.NEt, HELL.NET, MICRO.NET, there are still many inter-bbs message networks out there. Chatting with hundreds of users all arounf the world, yeah baby! Sure, the 36,000 BBSes in the US, at his peak in the early 90s, are over, but we're NOT DEAD!
Well, I'm using Mandrake 8.0 on a PII300, 64 RAM. It's slow, slower than Windows 98 (dual boot) but else, I have no problems. I hope that when I'll upgrade to 128 or 256 RAM I'll not see the difference.
I've been using Mandrake 8 for almost 6 months now and I'm sure 8.1 will be great. You say Mandrake is for lazy users? Well I don't think any Linux distro is for lazy users, since those lazy people use Windows...
Who cares about which distro is the best one? Mandrake has a high share of the desktop market and I'm fine with that.
Since everything is in text mode and interactive, it suits for non-violent games. And most of it, you would help the near-dead BBS scene!
I'm kinda joking, I know... But I still call local BBSes oftan.
I'm a geek and I'm studying in Humanities. I know my history, I have taken many Politics, Sociology and Economy courses and yes, I think I have a better understanding of the society than some 15-years old gamer who knows the complete history of the Diablo world but not of his own society.
Katz again: "Most people use the computer network for amusement, treating it much the same way they use TV." Most people rarely watch documentaries on TV. Children will never rule the world if they don't even want to learn about this world. They'll be stuck in the Net, ruling it (or fighting it) from their basement and they'll die like mundanes.