Cathryn
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Problems on here this morning?I am having problems with the site today. I was on here very early and it was slow. Now getting phbb: critical error. Unable to access database (or something like that). And the joomla one, contact you Jema. Apparently it's not me.  (It's not other sites are fine.)
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jema
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We were getting a bit of a DOS attack, it has now been blocked.
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snowball
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DOS means denial of service, see, I do listen to his ramblings.
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Rob R
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| Snowball wrote: | | DOS means denial of service |
Is that a computing or marital term?
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chez
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Could be either 
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Cathryn
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He sounded very masterful then didn't he. 
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chez
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I thought so. It made me go all wimbly
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jema
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I think I am also going to write my own code to automatically deal with a lot of this sort of thing.
I use various things that other people have written, but after more than three years of running servers I now actually think I know more than most people and should start dealing with things my way 
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chez
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Gosh Snowball! He's VERY assertive this morning
There is something *very* satisfying about learning about something by borrowing someone else's code and then doing it better, I agree.
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wellington womble
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| jema wrote: |
I think I am also going to write my own code to automatically deal with a lot of this sort of thing. |
Is that the coding equivalent of 'Yes, Dear. I'm sorry' And buying perfume?
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mihto
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| jema wrote: | | We were getting a bit of a DOS attack, it has now been blocked. |
Why would anyone be interested in a DOS attack against a website like Downsizer? What is in it for them? Or is it an attack against a server with many more clients?
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jema
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Downsizer is on a pretty big server.
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