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Hey ARN you think that worm would have hit the xserve running applestuff! Lets hope not ! and to just mention this, a freind of mine just got a hp with 2.4 intel for a grand and let me tell you that thing looked and was cheap! The plastic is just a step up from what my model airplanes where made! He's still figuring it out!
 
Originally posted by übergeek
Koreans happen to have the greatest percentage of internet users worldwide but look, America and many other countries have a leser amount of hackers but they're more malicious.
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I don't know if the original person meant it or not but the worm was reported to have been a disaster to the Koreans. As hard hit as US and Europe were, most of the US and European sites functioned normally. However, according to reports, Korea was devastated. There were some claims that the three largest providers in South Korea were basically down.

Since Korea was especially hard hit and seemed to be the source, it does not seem too large of a leap to think that a Korean probably unleashed it. I don't know why someone outside of Korea would specifically target South Korea when there are so many insecure sites in every region of the world.
 
Originally posted by Dont Hurt Me
Hey ARN you think that worm would have hit the xserve running applestuff! Lets hope not ! and to just mention this, a freind of mine just got a hp with 2.4 intel for a grand and let me tell you that thing looked and was cheap! The plastic is just a step up from what my model airplanes where made! He's still figuring it out!
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How is that note of your friend getting a HP related to the subject?

BTW, deviating from the subject, Apple had design flaws on the TiBooks--they peel, they are fragile, etc. So what? Good thing they're moving to Aluminum alloy, which should stronger and no paint needed.
 
Originally posted by Macmaniac
Maybe someone with deep pockets should give arn $25000 for a few XServes:)
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it wouldn't have made a difference... my entire provider was offline. ALL boxes hosted there were offline.

arn
 
Originally posted by MacCoaster

That's not a good thing. I'm sure that Microsoft.com took as much abuse, if not MUCH more, yet it was up the entire night and it did not receive any performance hit. Engineering the network for speed and response is important. Rejecting traffic for unnecessary ports are important; apparently, Apple did not do this.
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Maybe, maybe not. It could have been lots of things. Since Microsoft.com and Apple.com get their network connectivity from different providers, Apple.com's ISP may have been hit and been off the air. I read that in some places the traffic was so high the Cisco routers were tanking and not the servers.

It is quite possible that Apple.com was completely untouched but their upstream provider was dead.
 
Originally posted by MacCoaster
I personally use Microsoft SQL Server, because it IS the best bang for the buck enterprise solution. Luckily, I wasn't affected one bit by the attacks.
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Try PostgreSQL. :cool:

MacRumors should dogfood and run on Mac OS X... unless it's Linux is a saffron canine.
 
there are better mac linux distro's than YD and most are free while YD is not
 
Down all night

It really sucked last night when I couldn't access anything online. I needed to ship some international packages this morning but couldn't access USPS to figure the shipping rate. I'm not happy : (.
 
Downplayed....

Great to see you back up again......

The press really downplayed the seriousness of this virus.
This, I'm betting had a very large effect worldwide!

Another reason everything should be Apple based!
 
Originally posted by übergeek


Not a nice thing to say...

Koreans happen to have the greatest percentage of internet users worldwide but look, America and many other countries have a leser amount of hackers but they're more malicious.

And I'm not all korean but i find this very offensive.

And it was a worm :(
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well sorry but i was joking.


not to be taken seriously. i just put that there because of the fact that korea was hit the hardest.


could of been anyone! hacking knows no gender nor race. dang... must people always be pc around here. its a joke... meaning im messing around. hell for all i care it could have been my own race... hispanics... Lord knows we do stupid sh*t just like anyone else... the only difference is that we are inspired by frijoles. but alas... it probably was neither of the groups i mentioned. the truth is that it probably was an american kid.
 
Originally posted by cubist
Try PostgreSQL. :cool:

MacRumors should dogfood and run on Mac OS X... unless it's Linux is a saffron canine.
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I run PostreSQL as well. It is the BEST open source DB software. Puts MySQL to shame. I love PostreSQL.

However, it is extremely kludgy to set up and does not offer as many tools as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server do. Microsoft SQL Server also clusters way easier and more efficient. [see http://www.tpc.org/ for performance of high end database servers and notice Microsoft SQL Server is the fastest in most and you do not see a single instance of MySQL nor PostreSQL]

I have all my PHP stuff using db from PostreSQL and my ASP.NET stuff using Microsoft SQL Server. You'll never see me switching to J2EE/JSP :p -- such a nasty attempt to bring Java to generate dynamic pages, IMO and in my experience.

Linux is just fine for hosting. It doesn't mean that MacRumors is a heretic by not running Mac OS X. Mac OS X servers ARE expensive, you know.
 
Lol, macrumors runs on linux!

Even Mac heads know linux is better! J/K.

Seriously though with apache and php available for OS X why not run a Mac-centric site on a Mac OS?
 
Arn... you should check your openssl

Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a mod_log_bytes/0.3 mod_bwlimited/1.0 PHP/4.2.2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6b

(from netcraft.com) you should make sure your OpenSSL isn't vunerable. I know there is a hole in anything before 0.9.6g and 0.9.7 is out now.

Great site btw... it's truly turned me into a machead (lol, i'm on my winblows box right now... damn tv tuner card)
 
re: why not run a Mac-centric site on a Mac OS?

*gets ready to run*

performance and cost...

*running*

i don't know what hardware macrumors runs on now but i often get server busy messages
 
Why do people think MSSQL is any good, anyway?

I am getting annoyed with all these people claiming that MSSQL is the best. I have NEVER seen benchmarks to back this up. The best I have seen are ones that claim it isn't the worst thing out there (ironically, Access always wins that title).

I did a quick search for comparisons including MySQL (the one I use). Here is the first hit I found:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,293,00.asp

Truthfully this is comparing with a MySQL Max build but that will be mainstream before to long and is available now (and I have found it very good so far).

Just thought you guys might be interested,
Jeff.
 
Re: Lol, macrumors runs on linux!

Originally posted by jamilecrire
Even Mac heads know linux is better! J/K.

Seriously though with apache and php available for OS X why not run a Mac-centric site on a Mac OS?
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Because it's hard to find a Mac-based dedicated service provider that's competitive.

It's not like I run MacRumors out of my basement. :)

arn
 
Re: Lol, macrumors runs on linux!

Originally posted by jamilecrire
Even Mac heads know linux is better! J/K.

Seriously though with apache and php available for OS X why not run a Mac-centric site on a Mac OS?
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If you're collocating your own hardware then it's easier to make that choice, but if you lease hardware the majority of providers will be based around linux, unix or windows. Larger choice of provider, competition and probably lower prices.

Also, although i use OS X all the time for desktop use i wouldn't be confident enough to use it as a server, where i know linux far better. Fact that it's a Mac-centric site shouldn't affect what's used to host it imho. Best tools for the job and all that :)
 
Re: Re: Lol, macrumors runs on linux!

Originally posted by arn


Because it's hard to find a Mac-based dedicated service provider that's competitive.

It's not like I run MacRumors out of my basement. :)

arn
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well put arn :D.
I'm just glad you're not running winblows.
 
Re: Downplayed....

Originally posted by Sonofhaig
Great to see you back up again......

The press really downplayed the seriousness of this virus.
This, I'm betting had a very large effect worldwide!

Another reason everything should be Apple based!
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Sure, that would be great. But, if everything was Mac-based, there would be a lot more Macintosh viruses.
 
just out of curiosity, has anyone actually had a virus on their mac?

was in in os9 or osx?
was it malicious?
 
I've never experienced a virus on a Mac. Of all the Macs at my school, none have ever had viruses. However, we just got a few PC's from the Rockwell Collins reuse of PC's center (or something like that) and of the PC's we got, most currently have viruses. It's a pretty bad situation.
 
Re: Re: Lol, macrumors runs on linux!

Originally posted by arn


Because it's hard to find a Mac-based dedicated service provider that's competitive.

It's not like I run MacRumors out of my basement. :)

arn
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Sounds like you found a new line of work. Apple based hosting service. Hell I'd use it. Just think, you could write off the redundant OC-3s running to your basement. lol. Just like that new Hummer you'd need to move the equipment around town!!! (I'm on one of my linux servers now... just testing)
 
Originally posted by melchior
just out of curiosity, has anyone actually had a virus on their mac?

was in in os9 or osx?
was it malicious?
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My father did with his newly purchased iMac G3 with OS 9 running (and OS X stored on as well). He had to call the place he got the iMac from www.smalldog.com to boot up the computer and solve the problem.
 
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