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2008-03-02

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Posted by Seafarious 2008-03-02 00:11|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Thanks Em for the update...
and I'll go and see mom tomorrow then.

Posted by RD 2008-03-02 06:45|| 2008-03-02 06:45|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-03-02 14:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Mod test on comments.

Posted by Vinegar Craviter9050 2008-03-02 16:17|| 2008-03-02 16:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Using Safari under Windoze, the comments page just pops right up...

Posted by Fred 2008-03-02 16:29|| 2008-03-02 16:29|| Front Page Top

Posted by ORDERLYHIENRY">ORDERLYHIENRY 2008-03-02 17:08|| 2008-03-02 17:08|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-03-02 17:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe he's using K/Y jelly, Fred.

Posted by GK 2008-03-02 18:13|| 2008-03-02 18:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Trying again with a mod comment.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-03-02 18:22|| 2008-03-02 18:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Another mod test

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-03-02 19:16|| 2008-03-02 19:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Follow the money.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-03-02 19:49|| 2008-03-02 19:49|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-03-02 20:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Whew!

Was getting a little worried....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-03-02 20:30|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-03-02 20:30|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-03-02 20:45|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-03-02 20:46|| Front Page Top

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