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Does causing a bajillion machines to reboot constitute a DDoS attack?
The reason behind Skype’s downtime this week looks somewhat like this image of a malicious DDoS attack, no?
Attacker: Microsoft
Handlers: Windows Upgrade Servers
Zombies: Windows users!
Victim: Skype
Just sayin’.

Milton Friedman died at the age of 95 yesterday. Milton was a proponent of controlling the economy by working with the supply-side of the equation. You have Milton to thank for your 2.185% mortgage. Ultimately, Milton promoted a clear and free market across the board, with less government regulation and interaction.
He played [...]

Just a helpful note if you have both TiVo and children: set a parental control code or your children will.
Tonight, the wife and I sat down to enjoy some wholesome television, including Moral Orel and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. We quickly learned that our child, currently fast asleep, had set a parental control code [...]

This is Velcro.
She was the oldest of the 6 cats who reside in our house.  About 6 years ago, we almost lost her to infection and kidney stones.  She managed to pull through quite well.  This week, she took a downturn.  Collapsed lung.  A mass near her liver.  This morning, while Rebecca was driving her [...]

Through the kick-ass efforts of Ben Walding (pictured left with his, um, jaffles iron…) and major assists by Contegix, sanity has started to return to the haus. All repositories are capable of being open for business, pending the project despots decision. So, if CVS/Subversion is missing, go bug the project lead.
We’ve got all [...]

After fighting with backups (check your backups, kids!), we’ve started getting the haus back online. Subversion repositories are back, read-only over HTTP at http://svn.codehaus.org/, the various distribution repos are back, such as http://dist.codehaus.org/. We did lose some commits in the SVN, and some deployments may be missing from dist. Now’s the time [...]

Alas, it’s been a bad month for opensource communities.  SourceForge has had its share of problems lately, as did the ASF.  And now, even the Codehaus is not immune.  Our CVS/Subversion server is offline with an angry disk.  We’re trying to recover it, but preparing to restore from backups if need be.  We have no [...]