Most people think I’m joking when I say my school has absolutely pathetic bandwidth. Yes, that’s the result of the best of several speed tests. You don’t get much more sorry than that. And sadly, it gets much worse around finals week as everyone goes online at the same time.
Well, we all know trans-atlantic data isn’t exactly secure. But now we know the USS Jimmy Carter can be used to intercept data along those under water cables. The new submarine can provide another gated level of security for the intelligence community.
Why they didn’t name it the USS Richard Nixon? I’m not really sure. Sure would be more appropriate. Not to mention a ship being named after a Democrat with Republicans controlling all branches of government, is slightly unusual.
According to Slashdot, a new variant of the Sanity worm is out, except this one patches to prevent it. Even good hacking isn’t a good thing. It’s still illegal and shouldn’t be done.
But government agencies should really start looking into such a thing. It’s obviously possible. There’s enough exploits in most software that a similar task could be accomplished. US-CERT among others should be researching the possibility of such tactics. A well designed worm can actually counter the effects of a very harmful one.
Even firemen have learned that fire is not only their enemy, but their friend. Fire is often used to put out fires… when strategically placed they can be a very effective tool against forest fires.
I’ve been silent because I have no network access on campus yet. For some reason my dorm, and the one across the hall aren’t hooked up to the switch in the basement. Hopefully that will be resolved quickly, but I’m not holding my breath. I’ve been told 5-10 business days. Meaning it could be until 9/15. Home on weekends as usual, so I’m plugged in now.
So pardon the weekday silence. I’m practically non-existent until I get a connection.
Doesn’t this creep you out? Akamai, an extremely robust network, designed for those who need intensive server-side power, taken out by a bot network.
14,000 servers in 1,100 networks in 65+ countries.
Just makes you wonder how vulnerable the internet really is. Yea, it’s a web, and not based on a central hub. But it obviously still has problems.
On another note, what a wonderful NOCC.
I’ve had this bug a few times, and I can’t figure it out, so I ask if anyone else has had this.
Occasionally, when browsing, it suddenly acts as if there is no network. No response when connecting to a server. To my surprise, closing Mozilla, and reopening it fixes it. Has anyone seen such an issue with the nighties lately? This has been happening to me for a few days, and I would like to get a bug on this if at all possible. I’m going to turn on some logging and try to get this figured out, but any info from others who may have experienced this would be greatly appreciated.
This server has been occasionally getting slow. Perhaps networking, perhaps load. If anyone finds it to be fast or slow, leave a comment. If it’s slow, a traceroute would be nice.
My FM114P Router seems to have fallen to a case of bad Caps. Sucks. Thankfully Netgear is providing a replacement.
For those without Macs. IBM’s Access Connections is what makes Thinkpads feel a bit Mac like.
It allows the computer to change network configs real nice and quick. Kind of like Location manager. Also is capable of automatically finding your network between multiple network adapters. Much more mac like than Windows XP is by default.
Not quite OS X, but it saves me a TON of time.
WiFi is sweet. Perhaps one day I shall document a bit more of good home networking.
Yikes, just got a chance to try out Grub, a distributed web crawling project… aka cheap bandwidth… This thing is scary. If I were a Network Admin, I would be working on ways to block this right now. This thing is bad news.
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