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my playlist right now...

  • Vietnamese - Nguoi ban than ten buon
  • Wedding Present - No
  • Wedding Present - Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now?
  • Wedding Present - Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft
  • Wedding Present - What Have I Said Now

    today in history...

  • 1794 - Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens
  • 1912 - 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-min periods, formerly played in 30-min halfs, Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep
  • 1948 - WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore, MD (CBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1974 - Rhino Store gives people 5› to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
  • 1996 - Mark Waugh scores 110 v NZ for his third century of the World Cup

    and birthdays...

  • 1827 - Septimus Winner, composer
  • 1911 - Alan Gifford, Boston MA, actor (Time Lock, Up Periscope)
  • 1925 - James Miskin, QC/recorder of London
  • 1945 - Tricia O'Neal, Shreveport Louisiana, actress (Piranha Part II)
  • 1982 - Hasan Raza, cricketer (Test cricketer at the age of 14)

     

  • Analysis of a Slashdot attack

    I'm writing this article "live", so to speak. I was routinely checking my logs a few minutes ago and I noticed page after page of requests for the same file. Actually I noticed that every time I clicked to the next page the total number of pages would have gone up by one so I'd actually be viewing the same page!

    First thought was "what the hell's going on here?". A nano-second later I'd opened up two tabs in my browser. One was directed to news.google.com, in the other I idly entered slashdot, CTRL-ENTER, "just on the off-chance". Results for Google News appeared first ...and there it was, the only result, I'd been "Slashdotted", via peopleaggregator.com

    Actually I'd noticed something slightly amiss two hours before. There were a flurry of reuests for this file followed by about twenty requests all from the same IP, all with no referrer or agent. However I didn't follow up on the trail...

    Anyway now I've downloaded my logs (well the fifty two pages that were there when I spotted this phenomenon) and I'm proceeding to analyze the data. The logs already contain country data which is quite interesting, now I'm proceeding to further disect this ...

    Latest update: all requests have ceased; peopleaggregator went tits up ten minutes ago.

    PeopleAggregator is currently undergoing some significant tinkering and updates, due to the recent attention from Slashdot & others. Sorry for any inconvenience, and thanks for stopping by!

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