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Semi tech note
2008-03-02
'Burg still wonky and content will improve as circumstances allow. In the meantime, take a walk and say "hi" to your families, they prolly miss you, I know mine does.
Posted by:Seafarious

#14  A little over 24 hours till super-Tuesday. Ricin found in Las Vegas. Internet cables cut to the middle east. And NOW Rantburg goes down for an extended outage. Coincidence? I think not!
Posted by: The Conspiracy Guy   2008-03-02 20:46  

#13  At the moment the server is handling only about 45 or 50 connections. At its peak it was trying to deal with 700 at a time. The attack seems to have been a "syn flood," which would have told me zip before I read up on it.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience and for the paucity of posts. I've been parked here for two solid days, trying to do something when there hasn't really been much I could do. I've set up a second web server on a second IP address, which is probably how most of you have gotten in today. In the process I managed to hose some configurations, which I'll have to fix over the course of the next few days.

I think I might, when things get back to normal, dedicate the new server to the O Club. That way we'll have two pretty much autonomous systems running. The O Club uses Oracle, for the most part, and by the time I'm done it'll use it exclusively. The only limitation there will be system resources -- if the CPU's too busy it won't be able to serve the club, either.

I've installed a couple things that should make the site stronger -- presumably that's why we're still running. I installed one of them just before the number of connections went down. Dunno if it was cause and effect or serendipity. I guess we'll find out.


Posted by: Fred   2008-03-02 20:45  

#12  Whew!

Was getting a little worried....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-03-02 20:30  

#11  30 hours later, my Rantburg withdrawel symptoms are in the red zone! Ashkelon gets hit with a dozen rockets, Hugo is going nuts again, and and and....!!!!!
Posted by: Omung Squank9908   2008-03-02 20:14  

#10  Follow the money.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-03-02 19:49  

#9  Another mod test
Posted by: Steve White   2008-03-02 19:16  

#8  Trying again with a mod comment.
Posted by: Steve White   2008-03-02 18:22  

#7  Maybe he's using K/Y jelly, Fred.
Posted by: GK   2008-03-02 18:13  

#6  Why is it that nobody can get in today, and yet we get hit by some stoopid pørn dork?
Posted by: Fred   2008-03-02 17:48  

#5  

At Halliburton/KBR, sexual assault is just part of the workplace experience
for women Like many viewers, I watched this ABC 20/20 report when it first aired
in December with jaws-open, eyes-bugging horror. It told the story of two women
workers for Halliburton/KBR who had been sent to Iraq. There, one, Jamie Lee
Jones, a young computer tech, was gang-raped on her fourth day by coworkers
after being drugged; the other, Tracy Barker, was sexually assaulted by a State
Department employee. Both immediately reported their assaults, only to have
KBR first lock them in isolation, then question their accusations. In the case
of Jones, it even "lost" the medical report that documented evidence
of gang rape.

Click on a small picture to see shocking photos:



Posted by: ORDERLYHIENRY   2008-03-02 17:08  

#4  Using Safari under Windoze, the comments page just pops right up...
Posted by: Fred   2008-03-02 16:29  

#3  Mod test on comments.
Posted by: Vinegar Craviter9050   2008-03-02 16:17  

#2  Comments page takes forever to load, which would suggest there is something wrong with it besides its inability to handle single quotes.
Posted by: Fred   2008-03-02 14:31  

#1  Thanks Em for the update...
and I'll go and see mom tomorrow then.
Posted by: RD   2008-03-02 06:45  

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