Although I wouldn't put this in the same category as government network hacking, I've had similar problems. I run a message board that focuses on military matters with a bias towards the US side of things. As the popularity has grown, so have the hacking attempts. Luckily they've all been unsuccessful because I'm on top of software updates, but the amount of times that I've had to block these idiots where they try to download my entire site with leech clients, flood the forum search engine with countless requests per second, initiate thousands of connections to the web server but timeout causing the number of apache processes to skyrocket, and do other things to try and bring it down is getting too many to count. The one thing that unites all of this? 98% of these shenanigans are coming from Chinese subnets. Only a few have been from elsewhere, namely France and Germany. What's crazy about it, is that the ip's that they're using from China are all over the continent. We're talking well over 100 subnets. Late last year I finally started blocking all of the Chinese subnets and voila! All problems with the site have gone away. It's rather unfortunate as I had a lot of Chinese visitors that I had to shut out.
But then I saw that Apple updated everything but the graphics chip. The Radeon 9200 isn't capable of doing the core graphics that requires a GPU and they left it in there. The mini is the only machine in their whole line (that I can see) that's incapable of doing core graphics. So sad because that was my tipping point for getting one.
Jump ahead five years, Microsoft is taken to court for yet another anti-trust hearing, where the EU is trying to stop Microsoft from shipping its own adware with Longhorn, thereby stamping out competition from other adware/spyware companies.
The ideology of "don't do online what you wouldn't do in the real world" is one that I subscribe to. The **AA is trying this approach now and although I'm usually not on their side, I agree with this point. If you're so embarassed about something, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
Every few weeks news, another modified version of BitTorrent comes along which promises better search or less tracking. From the standpoint of a person operating a legal BitTorrent site, all of the things that these guys are stating as a feature, I would definitely not want. I most certainly want to track my users, run up statistics and use all of that to better inform my users of how well certain files are doing. I know many are just interested in making new anonymous p2p apps for warez, but their unending focus on it can't be helping the stigma against such p2p apps. Many will say "but! but! the opressed political activist in China! what about him?!" yeah.. I'm sure the teenage mp3 sharer really cares about that guy with his new anonymous p2p warez sucker.
Not sure what the point of posting an article like this is, when it's nothing BUT spoilers.. it's 2-3 line sentences of each episode saying exactly what happens in each episode.. if you read any of it at all it's all spoiled. Why is this beneficial to anyone?
I agree about not hearing the same top 10 over and over, but the top 40 is a good thing in my mind. The problem is that they don't even play the Led Zeppelin or the Skynrd. I keep flipping through the stations every morning on my way to work, trying to find anything even remotely good and it's 16 channels of crap as far as I'm concerned. I've been listening to music of all sorts for 20+ years and I'm not picky, but XM feels like they're only playing what's currently in the bargain bin all the time with one or two good ones to keep you from canceling.
I'm glad any kind of negativity is now branded "troll". Go ahead, pay the 12 bucks a month and the hundred or 2 on an XM satellite radio. Report back here with your findings if you think I'm so far off the mark.
I recently bought a new car that was equipped with XM radio and a free 3 month trial. After 1 month in, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to sign up. It's like they didn't get the RIAA contract that the regular stations have. Their general selection of rock and hard rock stations is atrocious. It's all music from artists I've never heard of, and Dokken and Ratt's best hits, although I was unaware they had any. You're really lucky if you manage to catch a top 40 song (in the hard rock genre) on any of their stations; and if it is one, it's just the same track they repeat of that artist every 24 or 48 hours. I'd take the single hard rock station in my area (KROCK 92.3 FM NYC) over all of XM's channels any day of the week. Bring on the alternatives!
Although I love the idea, particularly the part about pay videos if you want, the manual verifying of video uploads by some Google lackey isn't seriously cumbersome. I submitted a video yesterday (late afternoon) and it's still not verified 12 hours later. Unless this drastically changes, I can't see this being used to quickly put up new content for your site or anything where time sensitive material is a factor.
Another great and free project is Media Portal. Fully skinable, all the features of Media Center Edition, and has plugin support: http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net/
I'd host it on Filerush like the last one, but you should have seen the DMCA warning they hit me with because it got mentioned on aintitcool... they forced me to take it down even though 30 other sites were unaffected and left theirs up.
For what it's worth, I've been using The Planet based hosting for a good while now with many servers there. Every aspect of their service and support is the most top of notches, and I truly don't believe they'd take such action lightly.
Not to toot my own horn (ok maybe just a little) but I've been doing this with my File Rush project for well over a year now. We've got a good number of high bandwidth seeds, have worked the kinks out of keeping a stable site and tracker going, and just by looking at our user submitted section, one can see that many people have taken advantage of the free seeding and tracking of their torrents.
http://www.filerush.com
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Although I wouldn't put this in the same category as government network hacking, I've had similar problems. I run a message board that focuses on military matters with a bias towards the US side of things. As the popularity has grown, so have the hacking attempts. Luckily they've all been unsuccessful because I'm on top of software updates, but the amount of times that I've had to block these idiots where they try to download my entire site with leech clients, flood the forum search engine with countless requests per second, initiate thousands of connections to the web server but timeout causing the number of apache processes to skyrocket, and do other things to try and bring it down is getting too many to count. The one thing that unites all of this? 98% of these shenanigans are coming from Chinese subnets. Only a few have been from elsewhere, namely France and Germany. What's crazy about it, is that the ip's that they're using from China are all over the continent. We're talking well over 100 subnets. Late last year I finally started blocking all of the Chinese subnets and voila! All problems with the site have gone away. It's rather unfortunate as I had a lot of Chinese visitors that I had to shut out.
But then I saw that Apple updated everything but the graphics chip. The Radeon 9200 isn't capable of doing the core graphics that requires a GPU and they left it in there. The mini is the only machine in their whole line (that I can see) that's incapable of doing core graphics. So sad because that was my tipping point for getting one.
Jump ahead five years, Microsoft is taken to court for yet another anti-trust hearing, where the EU is trying to stop Microsoft from shipping its own adware with Longhorn, thereby stamping out competition from other adware/spyware companies.
The ideology of "don't do online what you wouldn't do in the real world" is one that I subscribe to. The **AA is trying this approach now and although I'm usually not on their side, I agree with this point. If you're so embarassed about something, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
Every few weeks news, another modified version of BitTorrent comes along which promises better search or less tracking. From the standpoint of a person operating a legal BitTorrent site, all of the things that these guys are stating as a feature, I would definitely not want. I most certainly want to track my users, run up statistics and use all of that to better inform my users of how well certain files are doing. I know many are just interested in making new anonymous p2p apps for warez, but their unending focus on it can't be helping the stigma against such p2p apps. Many will say "but! but! the opressed political activist in China! what about him?!" yeah.. I'm sure the teenage mp3 sharer really cares about that guy with his new anonymous p2p warez sucker.
Not sure what the point of posting an article like this is, when it's nothing BUT spoilers.. it's 2-3 line sentences of each episode saying exactly what happens in each episode.. if you read any of it at all it's all spoiled. Why is this beneficial to anyone?
Not fake, from Sony's press site directly.
Full set of PS3 Pics: Playstation 3 Pics
I agree about not hearing the same top 10 over and over, but the top 40 is a good thing in my mind. The problem is that they don't even play the Led Zeppelin or the Skynrd. I keep flipping through the stations every morning on my way to work, trying to find anything even remotely good and it's 16 channels of crap as far as I'm concerned. I've been listening to music of all sorts for 20+ years and I'm not picky, but XM feels like they're only playing what's currently in the bargain bin all the time with one or two good ones to keep you from canceling.
I'm glad any kind of negativity is now branded "troll". Go ahead, pay the 12 bucks a month and the hundred or 2 on an XM satellite radio. Report back here with your findings if you think I'm so far off the mark.
I recently bought a new car that was equipped with XM radio and a free 3 month trial. After 1 month in, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to sign up. It's like they didn't get the RIAA contract that the regular stations have. Their general selection of rock and hard rock stations is atrocious. It's all music from artists I've never heard of, and Dokken and Ratt's best hits, although I was unaware they had any. You're really lucky if you manage to catch a top 40 song (in the hard rock genre) on any of their stations; and if it is one, it's just the same track they repeat of that artist every 24 or 48 hours. I'd take the single hard rock station in my area (KROCK 92.3 FM NYC) over all of XM's channels any day of the week. Bring on the alternatives!
Here's a torrent link for the OurColony video: XBOX360Vid.wmv.torrent
Good stuff, thanks.
Well I mentioned it as I'm not able to pull up their page at all, let alone their video files.
Mentioning "video" without the subsequent "torrent link" is asking for trouble.
This just in, instances of cancer in the Darthmouth area have been mysteriously rising over the last few years. Authorities are baffled!
Although I love the idea, particularly the part about pay videos if you want, the manual verifying of video uploads by some Google lackey isn't seriously cumbersome. I submitted a video yesterday (late afternoon) and it's still not verified 12 hours later. Unless this drastically changes, I can't see this being used to quickly put up new content for your site or anything where time sensitive material is a factor.
Another great and free project is Media Portal. Fully skinable, all the features of Media Center Edition, and has plugin support: http://mediaportal.sourceforge.net/
58% of users tossed their cookies last year? Eww...
The torrent: heres the video
I'd host it on Filerush like the last one, but you should have seen the DMCA warning they hit me with because it got mentioned on aintitcool... they forced me to take it down even though 30 other sites were unaffected and left theirs up.
For what it's worth, I've been using The Planet based hosting for a good while now with many servers there. Every aspect of their service and support is the most top of notches, and I truly don't believe they'd take such action lightly.
Not to toot my own horn (ok maybe just a little) but I've been doing this with my File Rush project for well over a year now. We've got a good number of high bandwidth seeds, have worked the kinks out of keeping a stable site and tracker going, and just by looking at our user submitted section, one can see that many people have taken advantage of the free seeding and tracking of their torrents. http://www.filerush.com
You sure about the cms.com? Visiting the site, doesn't show anything ad or spyware related.
Yes, and er.. yes. :)