Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 03.04.2013 13:16, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > On Wed, April 3, 2013 11:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:46:07 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> Do guinea pigs work better or worse than tribbles at calming you? >>> Tribbles don't keep people calm indefinitely. At some point they al

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, April 3, 2013 11:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:46:07 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> >Do guinea pigs work better or worse than tribbles at calming you? > >> Tribbles don't keep people calm indefinitely. At some point they all >> die from starvation and humans would follo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:46:07 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >Do guinea pigs work better or worse than tribbles at calming you? > Tribbles don't keep people calm indefinitely. At some point they all > die from starvation and humans would follow soon after :) AFAIR guinea pigs don't last forever

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
Raymond Jennings wrote: >Do guinea pigs work better or worse than tribbles at calming you? > > >On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann < >volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Am 03.04.2013 02:35, schrieb walt: >> > On 03/31/2013 06:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >> Am 01.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread Raymond Jennings
Do guinea pigs work better or worse than tribbles at calming you? On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann < volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 03.04.2013 02:35, schrieb walt: > > On 03/31/2013 06:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> Am 01.04.2013 01:12, schrieb walt: > >>> A

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread luis jure
on 2013-04-02 at 17:58 walt wrote: > On 03/31/2013 08:37 PM, luis jure wrote: > > > i'm more than irritated by the > > assholes minimizing the problem, or treating this as "non-news". > > Of course I don't know exactly which irritating people you mean, i was referring specifically to the guar

[gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread walt
On 03/31/2013 08:37 PM, luis jure wrote: > i'm more than irritated by the > assholes minimizing the problem, or treating this as "non-news". Of course I don't know exactly which irritating people you mean, but there is one senior poster in this mailing list who (very rarely) lapses into posting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 03.04.2013 02:35, schrieb walt: > On 03/31/2013 06:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> Am 01.04.2013 01:12, schrieb walt: >>> Any of you admin types out there have any grumpy thoughts about this >>> article? :) Is it really just marketing BS from cloudflare, or is it >>> solid stuff? >>> >>>

[gentoo-user] Re: [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack

2013-04-02 Thread walt
On 03/31/2013 06:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 01.04.2013 01:12, schrieb walt: >> Any of you admin types out there have any grumpy thoughts about this >> article? :) Is it really just marketing BS from cloudflare, or is it >> solid stuff? >> >> http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-al