Are these the same people that leave their cars unlocked with the keys in the ignition?
A real idiot would leave the car locked witht the keys in the ignition...
I guess they learn something at MSCE courses;-)
That router must be fairly undersized... No point in having a router that can't sustain max-traffic on the network it's put on...
What if your campus get slashdotted ? Kinda boring if the router shutsdown because of legit traffic;-)
My guess is that some MSCP caught panic when he saw the load on the mssql-server and pulled the plug...
It's happened to me... (and he wasn't even MSCP just vanilla dumb...)
On the other hand his/hers American / Canadian / European / Australian / Japanese (any lifestyle more or less) requires several microchips to function...
Perhaps that explains why British Nuclear Fuels Ltd lost contracts to operate several sites?
(Err... I guess those were nuclear-plants-sites not websites...)
AOL always screws up webpage statistics (which I guess can be a good thing as the only dufuzes that really really care about statistics are marketers?)...
I can't count the number of times I've seen a massive spike in number of "unique visitors" just to look at the hosts and find *.proxy.aol.com filling the whole thing....
Typical sign of a disfunctional family...
However this guy seems to want to do something about it, wonder in which family-member he's going to stuff the POST-card...
Giving 4 digits as your areacode pinpoints your location in london more exactly than the 020 covers more or less most of London (everything inside the M25 ?)...
A wimbledon-based pensioner seeing an 0207 number would immediatly recognise it as a "not-local" number... whilst giving a 020 number would confuse them...
However most of them still refer to ph# as areacode stripped of the first digit... leaving you to guess which area they're referring to;-)
You don't have to use 11-digit dialling in London do you? If you're in the same areacode (like 0 208 for SW++) you can get around by dialling the last 6 digits ?
Most other areas only use 6 digit-dialling as the regions are big enough to contain a small city (most of cambrigdesh. is 1223 for example)...
Macs are still the way to go when looking for av-setups...
And when he bores of MacOSX or the maturity of a/v-software for linux improves; slap Linux PPC on the mac and hes good to go!
(Disclaimer: This comment was posted from a OSX/PPC)
Can't wait 'till we can run Darwin/OS X apps on other platforms... there's still some nifty tidbits that remain MacOS only... Give me Final Cut Pro any day!
a) In Europe you'll get "digital" at 900 and 1800. However US/Canada (japan?) uses 800 and 1900MHz... Your statement about Verizon is spot on... ~85% (IIRC) of Verizons CDMA network is on 800MHz...
c) Well directly or indirectly it doesn't matter, the fact is that nobody knows the longterm effects of expositure to cellphones... But it's certainly becomming an issue in Europe where we've had a higher percentage of the population going wireless than in the states...
Why replace an existing feature (though this requires dhcp, which I'm not sure mdns does)... dynamicdns-updates is supported by most dhcp-clients today...
Not too mention that samba due to it's light-weight both client and server provides a good alternative to nfs in unstable environments...
A dead nfs-server can almost kill it's clients, especially under linux... While the whimsy nature of smb has made most OSes (apart from windows) pretty ignorant to how it behaves, happy when it's working and ignorant the rest of the time...
Well... saudi-arabia thought this was scary and banned the Nokia 7650 outright so men wouldn't go around snapping pictures of women they had no business lookin' at in the first place.. (ie. not their wives). I suppose they could take it a step further and mail that picture to all their friends before any law-officer could stop them too;-)...
nope it's not impossible... Remember the Nokia bug where a specially-crafted SMS could shutdown a Nokia phone and render the phone dead (ie. the user couldn't switch it back on w/o the phone being serviced first).
Most phones today (esp. MMS/EMS capable phones) do some interpretation of the content and trigs on special char-sequences and stuff...
So it's possible todo all kinds of mayhem if you know the phonenumber and phone-model...
Last time I tried the War NFSDaemon it barfed at random intervals leaving the clients in a state of well-fscked... It also mangled the files/dirs it was supposed to share (from the clients-pov, not physically)..
In the case of serious spamhouses (if they can be called 'serious') there isn't much one can do...
If linespeed/cpu-load is such a problem that you need to block it on a higher level than application, go for packetfiltering (which you've done). I'd guess the next step would be blocking them at router-level, preferably on the other side of that 384k line... probably impossible as I guess it's an xDSL line from somebody who doesn't provide that kind of service?
You could try hitting their ISPs abuse@, but it usually turns up blank or 'we already know and don't care' reply...
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But I bet they've got a biting remark prepared for monday morning!
Are these the same people that leave their cars unlocked with the keys in the ignition? ;-)
A real idiot would leave the car locked witht the keys in the ignition...
I guess they learn something at MSCE courses
No point in having a router that can't sustain max-traffic on the network it's put on...
What if your campus get slashdotted ? Kinda boring if the router shutsdown because of legit traffic
My guess is that some MSCP caught panic when he saw the load on the mssql-server and pulled the plug...
It's happened to me... (and he wasn't even MSCP just vanilla dumb...)
Then your firewall isn't "open"... ;-)
(however UDP is fairly easy to spoof
On the other hand his/hers American / Canadian / European / Australian / Japanese (any lifestyle more or less) requires several microchips to function...
(Err... I guess those were nuclear-plants-sites not websites...)
We'll if it'd been your last sentence would've prolly looked like "Oh come on everything AOL does is Very good and smells of roses!"
Global super-corporations scare me....
I can't count the number of times I've seen a massive spike in number of "unique visitors" just to look at the hosts and find *.proxy.aol.com filling the whole thing....
i guess slashdot accounts for 2% of the queries ;-)
However this guy seems to want to do something about it, wonder in which family-member he's going to stuff the POST-card...
A wimbledon-based pensioner seeing an 0207 number would immediatly recognise it as a "not-local" number... whilst giving a 020 number would confuse them...
However most of them still refer to ph# as areacode stripped of the first digit... leaving you to guess which area they're referring to
Most other areas only use 6 digit-dialling as the regions are big enough to contain a small city (most of cambrigdesh. is 1223 for example)...
Macs are still the way to go when looking for av-setups...
And when he bores of MacOSX or the maturity of a/v-software for linux improves; slap Linux PPC on the mac and hes good to go!
(Disclaimer: This comment was posted from a OSX/PPC)
Can't wait 'till we can run Darwin/OS X apps on other platforms...
there's still some nifty tidbits that remain MacOS only...
Give me Final Cut Pro any day!
Your statement about Verizon is spot on... ~85% (IIRC) of Verizons CDMA network is on 800MHz...
c) Well directly or indirectly it doesn't matter, the fact is that nobody knows the longterm effects of expositure to cellphones...
But it's certainly becomming an issue in Europe where we've had a higher percentage of the population going wireless than in the states...
And thats a really good thing as analog signals take up way too much airspace compared to digital ones...
On the whole Linux hasn't got anything that other Open Source OSes haven't got...
Apart from a highly visible front figure...
dynamicdns-updates is supported by most dhcp-clients today...
Give me a ddns-setup every day ;-)!
A dead nfs-server can almost kill it's clients, especially under linux... While the whimsy nature of smb has made most OSes (apart from windows) pretty ignorant to how it behaves, happy when it's working and ignorant the rest of the time...
Ignorance is bliss!
Remind me to stay of EFNet tonight....
Well... saudi-arabia thought this was scary and banned the Nokia 7650 outright so men wouldn't go around snapping pictures of women they had no business lookin' at in the first place.. (ie. not their wives). ;-)...
I suppose they could take it a step further and mail that picture to all their friends before any law-officer could stop them too
aah the power of technology! =)
nope it's not impossible...
Remember the Nokia bug where a specially-crafted SMS could shutdown a Nokia phone and render the phone dead (ie. the user couldn't switch it back on w/o the phone being serviced first).
Most phones today (esp. MMS/EMS capable phones) do some interpretation of the content and trigs on special char-sequences and stuff...
So it's possible todo all kinds of mayhem if you know the phonenumber and phone-model...
Last time I tried the War NFSDaemon it barfed at random intervals leaving the clients in a state of well-fscked...
It also mangled the files/dirs it was supposed to share (from the clients-pov, not physically)..
disclaimer: but this was way back
In the case of serious spamhouses (if they can be called 'serious') there isn't much one can do...
If linespeed/cpu-load is such a problem that you need to block it on a higher level than application, go for packetfiltering (which you've done). I'd guess the next step would be blocking them at router-level, preferably on the other side of that 384k line... probably impossible as I guess it's an xDSL line from somebody who doesn't provide that kind of service?
You could try hitting their ISPs abuse@, but it usually turns up blank or 'we already know and don't care' reply...