Nice read, my favorite part was when he talks about the filtering system going online for the first time:
"The attack went to 1.5Gb, with bursts up to 3Gb. It wasn't targeted at one thing. It was going to routers, DNS servers, mail servers, websites. It was like a battlefield, where there's an explosion over here, then over there, then it's quiet, then another explosion somewhere else," says Lyon. "They threw everything they had at us. I was just in shock." 3Gb?! Ouch! On 5/23/05, John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Saturday, Nov. 22, 2003, 7:57 a.m. > Origins of an Onslaught > > The e-mail began, "Your site is under attack," and it > gave Mickey Richardson two choices: "You can send us > $40K by Western Union [and] your site will be > protected not just this weekend but for the next 12 > months," or, "If you choose not to pay...you will be > under attack each weekend for the next 20 weeks, or > until you close your doors." > > > http://www.csoonline.com/read/050105/extortion.html?action=print > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20050524/13b87e26/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 24 13:51:01 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Fruchey) Date: Tue May 24 13:50:08 2005 Subject: [brlug-general] Cox DVR? In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If you're interested, a friend of mine got pissed off at Tivo, so he jumped ship to the cableco's DVR (Comcast in this case). Here are the features he missed most: http://www.wessalmon.com/000326.html Joey On 5/23/05, jr_G-man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have any of you tried either MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org/) or Freevo > (http://freevo.sourceforge.net/)? > > > > > > >------------------------------ > > > >Message: 4 > >Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 07:33:28 -0500 > >From: Joseph Fruchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Cox DVR? > >To: [email protected] > >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > >Yep, plain old IDE drives. The only considerations are noise and heat. > >Maxtor makes a near-silent drive specifically for DVR/HTPC > >applications that you can get from WeaKnees.com. As for heat, just go > >for a 5400rpm, as the 7200 doesn't really offer a performance gain > >when streaming video like that. Buffer size isn't an issue either, > >since you're rarely accessing the same data like a buffer would help > >with. > > > >On 5/22/05, Justin W. Pauler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I wasn't aware you could replace hard drives in the TiVo, kinda makes > >>it worth getting one... What does it use, standard IDE drives? > >> > >>On 5/22/05, Ryan McCain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Tim, > >>> > >>>Does the Cox DVR give you the option to record at differenty quality > >>>levels (ie: Low, Medium and High)? > >>> > >>>Thanks, Ryan > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/22/05 10:44 AM >>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>I've owed a TiVo and now I use a Cox DVR. They'll both change the way > >>>you watch TV. The TiVo does make for a better DVR with the Suggestions > >>>feature and more intelligence, but the Cox one has two tuners and the > >>>ability to record HDTV. Myself I'm going to stick with the Cox DVR until > >>>TiVo has a model that has two tuners and HDTV capability (that's not a > >>>DirecTV model). > >>> > >>>-Tim > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>General mailing list > >>>[email protected] > >>>http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >>> > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>General mailing list > >>>[email protected] > >>>http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>General mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
