Even if they had 24 hours, I doubt rackspace could have done the data recovery, err, data copy in the first place.
A find and grep could have found every single instance of a log file even if they changed names of files.
As to why rackspace couldn't do a simple 'cp *' for me in the first place instead of making me wait 6 hours to do it myself may have something to do with why they gave hard drives to the FBI.
I doubt that anyone at rackspace had the authority to approve a free service use.
When I was down for over 5 hours, they made me copy their drive back to a new one after it failed.
They made -NO- attempt to do it for me, and this was after 320 days of uptime on that bsd box.
I went down, they waited for 5 hours to get a new box with another hard drive, and make me copy it over, errors and all.
They obviously didn't have the ability to do in my case, or just didn't.
I'll ask again, why does FBI get fanatical support, I get fanatical billing, and indymedia get fanatical judgement calls?
Amen, I haven't found any life over there yet, and after this fiasco giving me airtime to say I had a similar problem, I'll say too:
You must be FBI to get fanatical support from rackspace, otherwise you are a $250 a month check that they really, really want.
Is Indymedia even still hosted at rackspace?
Why would they throw away a bigger customer but pull me behind the bus when I quit?
Not enough people are posting and thinking about their problems with rackspace currently. This is part of a bigger problem inside of rackspace.
When I saw this story, I sucked it in, and saw right away:
I MUST have my account manager switched over to indymedia's manager.
I was unable to even get simple concessions after 2 years of being a customer. The FBI gets whatever they want, right away, and then 100% more than what they asked.
I don't have offices in every state, I don't have hundreds of thousands of agents who can swarm their building.
Why should a business have to be the FBI to get fanatical support?
You have to find the one responsible over there, which I doubt anyone but the FBI could find out about.
Call them up and have them make a change to your billing, you'll find that a lot of rackspace employees are unable to do so.
If you have a failure, they'll tell you it's fanatical support, but something else is more important atm.
I doubt we'll ever know who gave the server removal the green light, it wasn't account managers.
I too had thought it was government, which doesn't surprise me now.
I can tell you it wasn't an account manager who made that call, or the tech, they are powerless.
(I was told this by my account rep who said many things are out of the managers hand as they have no power)
You can be a customer of Rackspace for 2 years, miss the cancel deadline by less than 24 hours and they will tell you it's impossible to stop a credit card card charge 8 days later.
This is a funny twist, when I had a hard drive fail over there about 8 months ago, it took over 6 hours to get a new one swapped in.
They do give fanatical support to police though, and fanatical billing to customers.
Yes, it's a paradox, one that will probably play out once blue sec's real plan is laid out.
I'm just waiting for one thing alone:
A spammer to break into their botnet and turn it around on them.
That's the danger in this app.
Our forefathers gathered in large crowds to prove a point and break chains. Had it not been for a small 'crowd', the boston tea party wouldn't have occurred.
Thank god for their crazy thinking, I don't remember at what point the mob turned on the tea, but thankfully they did.
I've seen video and pictures of the 'mobs' of 'lunatics' of fellow citizens who get pellets, or beaten in Miami for protesting, so no thanks to theories that we are a crazy race after all.
Some may use this as a pound of proof, but it's typically not the entire crowd that causes problems.
Our freedom was never attached with the saying:
Gather with peace in mind, but if one of you gets out of line, you all get gassed.
I just asked if all I have to do is to spam them..
Makes sense, if I hit them with a little made up spam, maybe they'll hit me back..
If they do, I'm gonna love it for sure.
a. Horribly, or should loose it. Darwin does apply in biz.
b. Never, I've been told how much, 10 million a day is nowhere near. (Not even a 1/16)
c. Yahoo would block you within 15 minutes of bounces. Return address attacks still have a defense.
d. Like I said before, Python, Perl, PHP and Packet Filters, not one, but many technologies, each having their own strength. I've already said, give me 10 million incoming emails and I'll parse through all of them with just two 2.0ghz single proc machines.
e. I'd hope so, every single admin has to deal with it and we never get a dime, or even attempt to.
f. Not the case at all, I blame spammers too. But as an admin who does control email systems, I've had to apply reason and common sense to many affiliates in my past 10 years.
One of those being that the admin who gets behind a lawyer should be spotted a mile away. So many non factual statements come out of a pair like that, so that most if not all of the 'facts' in the lawsuit that pertain to crushes of email i've seen thrown out by a judge that other members of a 500 pound gorilla's legal team brought up.
It's never easy to run head first at a train that has already left the station. But in the case of Robert Kramer, I will and no doubt continue to.
Now where is that google account so I can sell some anti-spam services to anyone in Clinton, Iowa, I think they need it.
Amen, a billion dollars to cis does nothing, just like if Hotmail got a billion. They'd spend it on a new headquarters for Microsoft.
If the judge was smart, the customers get the money, and Kramer doesn't get a dime.
Who suffered? Not Kramer, he still checked his email no doubt.
If forging is going on, spoofing, you are better off to let the FCC sort them out.
There is HUNDREDS of cases ready to roll out.
Stop the spam, use real tools to stop the flow, winning a lawsuit does nothing. It teaches no company anything that has enough money to startup again in another state, or country.
Even worse, CIS was obviously a take on Compuserve.
Maybe the real CIS will stand up and take the 1 billion that -they- deserve for fighting spam. They no doubt spent more money on their machines and network than the cis.net did, which was to roll over and sue instead of doing what every other ISP and major email provider is forced to do:
Take real steps, not a paper fight.
Geez, we all have servers that are open to any amount of slamming at any time.
10 million emails per day clogging up your email servers? That's even more crazy than saying 1 billion dollars will solve the problem.
I can accept 3 million emails per day on a modest PC, and by accept I mean full SBL, even on the bounces coming in. If I filter out the bounces, include them on the stats, I could do it easily with just 2 servers.
Now, who will he sue to get money to buy some books that have simple ideas to alleviate some serious bottleneck that his techs introduced.
Show me a postfix that can't take that abuse, and I'll show you mine that can.
Law is law, we are supposed to abide by it, but maybe it's out of bounds here, but the clinton ISP must be IDIOTS.
Give the spamming companies 1 billion dollars, but any company who would possibly give the admin from the clinton ISP a job should be out of their mind.
1. Open source eradicates spam.
2. SBL
3. Packet Filters
5,000 customers and he can't get email servers up? Four companies spamming him and he can't block it?
Someone doesn't know Perl, Python, PHP, C, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux or even something tiny like spam scores, or even Inetd to block repeated connections.
The saddest part here?
Run a shoddy show in clinton and reap the benefits.
Spam my servers in florida and you'll find yourself smack up against:
block from spammer to any
Funny how he couldn't eh?
Maybe a python script, perl, or anything that monitors your maillog files, then autoblocks.....
Nah... let's just sue, stick my head up my ass and let myself look like an idiot to 100 million people, now that's the way to do it!
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Even if they had 24 hours, I doubt rackspace could have done the data recovery, err, data copy in the first place. A find and grep could have found every single instance of a log file even if they changed names of files. As to why rackspace couldn't do a simple 'cp *' for me in the first place instead of making me wait 6 hours to do it myself may have something to do with why they gave hard drives to the FBI.
I doubt that anyone at rackspace had the authority to approve a free service use. When I was down for over 5 hours, they made me copy their drive back to a new one after it failed. They made -NO- attempt to do it for me, and this was after 320 days of uptime on that bsd box. I went down, they waited for 5 hours to get a new box with another hard drive, and make me copy it over, errors and all. They obviously didn't have the ability to do in my case, or just didn't. I'll ask again, why does FBI get fanatical support, I get fanatical billing, and indymedia get fanatical judgement calls?
Amen, I haven't found any life over there yet, and after this fiasco giving me airtime to say I had a similar problem, I'll say too: You must be FBI to get fanatical support from rackspace, otherwise you are a $250 a month check that they really, really want. Is Indymedia even still hosted at rackspace? Why would they throw away a bigger customer but pull me behind the bus when I quit?
Not enough people are posting and thinking about their problems with rackspace currently. This is part of a bigger problem inside of rackspace. When I saw this story, I sucked it in, and saw right away: I MUST have my account manager switched over to indymedia's manager. I was unable to even get simple concessions after 2 years of being a customer. The FBI gets whatever they want, right away, and then 100% more than what they asked. I don't have offices in every state, I don't have hundreds of thousands of agents who can swarm their building. Why should a business have to be the FBI to get fanatical support?
You have to find the one responsible over there, which I doubt anyone but the FBI could find out about. Call them up and have them make a change to your billing, you'll find that a lot of rackspace employees are unable to do so. If you have a failure, they'll tell you it's fanatical support, but something else is more important atm. I doubt we'll ever know who gave the server removal the green light, it wasn't account managers.
I too had thought it was government, which doesn't surprise me now. I can tell you it wasn't an account manager who made that call, or the tech, they are powerless. (I was told this by my account rep who said many things are out of the managers hand as they have no power)
Rackspace does not care about customers, period. Ask any of their account managers what power they have and they'll tell you -none-.
You can be a customer of Rackspace for 2 years, miss the cancel deadline by less than 24 hours and they will tell you it's impossible to stop a credit card card charge 8 days later.
This is a funny twist, when I had a hard drive fail over there about 8 months ago, it took over 6 hours to get a new one swapped in.
They do give fanatical support to police though, and fanatical billing to customers.
Yes, it's a paradox, one that will probably play out once blue sec's real plan is laid out. I'm just waiting for one thing alone: A spammer to break into their botnet and turn it around on them. That's the danger in this app.
Our forefathers gathered in large crowds to prove a point and break chains. Had it not been for a small 'crowd', the boston tea party wouldn't have occurred. Thank god for their crazy thinking, I don't remember at what point the mob turned on the tea, but thankfully they did. I've seen video and pictures of the 'mobs' of 'lunatics' of fellow citizens who get pellets, or beaten in Miami for protesting, so no thanks to theories that we are a crazy race after all. Some may use this as a pound of proof, but it's typically not the entire crowd that causes problems. Our freedom was never attached with the saying: Gather with peace in mind, but if one of you gets out of line, you all get gassed.
Shotguns are not invisible, cannot be fired 24/7 and kill.
Well regarded post.
>Add to that, the bickering between corporations as each one strives to get their standards accepted and licensed?
I think it's easily happening now, it's almost a nightmare to implement all different methods of SPF or likewise other idea.
I just asked if all I have to do is to spam them.. Makes sense, if I hit them with a little made up spam, maybe they'll hit me back.. If they do, I'm gonna love it for sure.
a. Horribly, or should loose it. Darwin does apply in biz. b. Never, I've been told how much, 10 million a day is nowhere near. (Not even a 1/16) c. Yahoo would block you within 15 minutes of bounces. Return address attacks still have a defense. d. Like I said before, Python, Perl, PHP and Packet Filters, not one, but many technologies, each having their own strength. I've already said, give me 10 million incoming emails and I'll parse through all of them with just two 2.0ghz single proc machines. e. I'd hope so, every single admin has to deal with it and we never get a dime, or even attempt to. f. Not the case at all, I blame spammers too. But as an admin who does control email systems, I've had to apply reason and common sense to many affiliates in my past 10 years. One of those being that the admin who gets behind a lawyer should be spotted a mile away. So many non factual statements come out of a pair like that, so that most if not all of the 'facts' in the lawsuit that pertain to crushes of email i've seen thrown out by a judge that other members of a 500 pound gorilla's legal team brought up. It's never easy to run head first at a train that has already left the station. But in the case of Robert Kramer, I will and no doubt continue to. Now where is that google account so I can sell some anti-spam services to anyone in Clinton, Iowa, I think they need it.
Amen, a billion dollars to cis does nothing, just like if Hotmail got a billion. They'd spend it on a new headquarters for Microsoft. If the judge was smart, the customers get the money, and Kramer doesn't get a dime. Who suffered? Not Kramer, he still checked his email no doubt.
If forging is going on, spoofing, you are better off to let the FCC sort them out. There is HUNDREDS of cases ready to roll out. Stop the spam, use real tools to stop the flow, winning a lawsuit does nothing. It teaches no company anything that has enough money to startup again in another state, or country.
Even worse, CIS was obviously a take on Compuserve. Maybe the real CIS will stand up and take the 1 billion that -they- deserve for fighting spam. They no doubt spent more money on their machines and network than the cis.net did, which was to roll over and sue instead of doing what every other ISP and major email provider is forced to do: Take real steps, not a paper fight.
Geez, we all have servers that are open to any amount of slamming at any time. 10 million emails per day clogging up your email servers? That's even more crazy than saying 1 billion dollars will solve the problem. I can accept 3 million emails per day on a modest PC, and by accept I mean full SBL, even on the bounces coming in. If I filter out the bounces, include them on the stats, I could do it easily with just 2 servers. Now, who will he sue to get money to buy some books that have simple ideas to alleviate some serious bottleneck that his techs introduced. Show me a postfix that can't take that abuse, and I'll show you mine that can.
Law is law, we are supposed to abide by it, but maybe it's out of bounds here, but the clinton ISP must be IDIOTS. Give the spamming companies 1 billion dollars, but any company who would possibly give the admin from the clinton ISP a job should be out of their mind. 1. Open source eradicates spam. 2. SBL 3. Packet Filters 5,000 customers and he can't get email servers up? Four companies spamming him and he can't block it? Someone doesn't know Perl, Python, PHP, C, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux or even something tiny like spam scores, or even Inetd to block repeated connections. The saddest part here? Run a shoddy show in clinton and reap the benefits. Spam my servers in florida and you'll find yourself smack up against: block from spammer to any Funny how he couldn't eh? Maybe a python script, perl, or anything that monitors your maillog files, then autoblocks..... Nah... let's just sue, stick my head up my ass and let myself look like an idiot to 100 million people, now that's the way to do it!