How the UDP attack worked « Christian Gamers Alliance Site and Forums Status
This is the status page for a community who’s server I manage. This attack took out entire isp’s and another client of mine was also affected by this. Take a read for a look at how this DDOS(Distributed Denial of Service) attack worked.
How to (almost) beat a patent troll | Fonality
The problem is Fonality didn’t win..they settled therefore rewarding this troll. They mitigated hte damage to themselves which is laudable but they most assuredly did not win.
Town struggles after immigration raid - Life- msnbc.com
The town decided to hitch it’s future to illegal immigrants. Unfortunately now that’s come back to bite them. As usual they are blaming the feds for simply enforcing immigration laws instead of taking responsibility for their own illegal actions.
Unfortunately it’s time for me to part ways with Astaro Security Linux once again. Back in the version 4 days things were running great and then version 5 came out. it was an unmitigated disaster. I quit using Astaro for a while until version 7 came out. I have run v7 up to 7.2x. I have suddenly had issues with vpn’s not passing through, high amounts of resource usage, and annoying bug and coding quality lapses. Their memory configuration tuning is far form optimal(that’s because they have to try to shoehorn this into 256 megs of ram for their exceedingly weak asg 2xx series). Add to that they have replaced the anti-spam engines and http proxy caching engines with proprietary ones and it is starting to look like a trend is forming. The final straw was a recent anti-spam update starting hanging and crashing Astaro firewalls everywhere. The fix it to either reboot your machine and hope it gets the new fixed update or log in as root and restart the proprietary daemon that is responsible for the issues. I tend to find weird bugs. Astaro’s attitude has relaly changed. Back in the v4 days when i would find a weird one they would acknowledge it, fix it, and move on. Now the policy is to deny it exists, blame the bug tester, and sweep it under the rug. With them now taking more and more of it proprietary plus their commercial success I think they feel they don’t have to listen to folks who find the strange bugs but only the showstoppers and minor ones most folks will notice. After this i figured it’s time to depart once again watch from afar and see if v8 is going to be better or continue the trend towards mistuned kernel settings, bloaty and buggy proprietary software, and slow performance. I hope not as Astaro has some awesome potential and for home use you can’t beat the price..free. However untangle and ipcop are the same price..free.
Pelosi, Pickens plan to pick your pocket
I’ve had relatives sending me invites to the site but I looked at it with a large dose of suspicion. As it turns out my suspicions are very well founded.
Microsoft extends support life of XP
This is no news. The 2014 expiration has been part of the plan for a long time. Look at the updated on page…2005. unless the author has updated information this is nothing new.
I also have a huge issue with Leo Laporte and the Twit’s this week. About 32 minutes in Leo and the others say the Vista has a perception problem. It’s not a perception problem. Granted many of the folks who are trashing Vista are simply regurtitating what others say. I can tell you right now that Vista is a pig. I have said it before elsewhere here. I have tried it on several so far..some old..some a couple years old and a couple brand new and Vista is a pig no matter what. The Twit’s say it’s normal for the next generation to require more resources…true..but more than double? Maybe for MIcrosoft. That’s insane. I can install the current versions of Linux, put them on a 5 year old mahcine with less than half the resources, imitate the desktop aero effects AND EXCEED THEM plus run multimedia, office programs and various ofther programs AND STILL outrun xp and make Vista look like the slug it is. Keep in mind Apple with OSX has been doing the same vista aero effects 5 years earlier than vista WITH INTEGRATED GRAPHICS OF THE TIME. Hey Wil Vista does suck AND it is a car wreck. I’m still hitting network performance problems with Vista that SP1 suppposedly fixed. On a GIGABIT network i can’t get 100 megabits..that’s not even 10% performance. There are some things positive and Leo points them out, the better search, UAC while irritating does work. If you don’t have to buy vista don’t as windows is moving Windows 7(Vista 2.0) up to 2010.
I have a new client that’s a result of a referral who has a 5 year old dell machine that took a power hit and toasted the hard drive. After replacing the hard drive it turns out their xp cd is also bad. After talking with the owners it turns out literally all they do is online banking, mail through yahoo and others online companies, and web surfing. So instead of them having to pay me 4 hours for a windows reload they pay me 1 hour for a kubuntu install. The machine goes back tomorrow and that old celey 1.1 ghz machine gets a new lease on life and they save nearly $125 in consultation fees. Why would I do this? Customer service.