I have experience with Xen. Can set up a virtual machine for Sage. It's not that difficult anyway.
Serge William Stein wrote: > Jason Grout wrote: >> William Stein wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> A security researcher decided to purposely take down sage.math to >>> demonstrate that it is possible to fork bomb the machine through the >>> public sage notebook servers. I had always plan to run these comletley >>> public servers until something like this happened. Therefore, >>> sagenb.org (and the other public sage notebook servers I host) will be >>> completely disable until further notice. >>> >>> I might re-enable them in the future if I set them up from scratch >>> using a vmware virtual machine and vmware server. Given that I've never >>> successfully configured vmware server on any Linux box, I don't know >>> when this will happen. If a Sage developer would like to attempt to do >>> this instead of me on sage.math please contact me, since this is not >>> currently my highest priority (especially, because I'm in France >>> traveling right now). >> >> If this is a final decision, at least for the short term, can we pull >> the links from the sage website and put some explanatory text up? > > Yes, this is a shortterm final decision. I always planned to run the > public servers as is until some script kiddie $%%#$^% etc. I assume > Harald Schilly will fix the website. > > Note that as I say above, this "final decision" really is "short term", > i.e., probably 2-3 weeks. vmware is perfect for this application. > > William > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
