Comments on: Digging A Hole http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/03/digging/ There's No Place Like /Home Sat, 12 May 2012 20:16:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dan http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/03/digging/comment-page-1/#comment-1278 Dan Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:23:36 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=488#comment-1278 @Barry - Nice theory :D Sadly the nature of DDOS makes it pretty much impossible to trace, at least with my meagre resources. It's hundreds of different computers connecting at once so finding whoever triggered them isn't really an option. Not worth worrying about now @Barry – Nice theory :D Sadly the nature of DDOS makes it pretty much impossible to trace, at least with my meagre resources. It’s hundreds of different computers connecting at once so finding whoever triggered them isn’t really an option. Not worth worrying about now

]]> By: Barry Williams http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/03/digging/comment-page-1/#comment-1275 Barry Williams Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:26:53 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=488#comment-1275 Did you trace back the DDOS it didn't come from the vicinity of Redmond did it. A certain Balmer not liking what he saw activating the in built botnet in windows :) Did you trace back the DDOS it didn’t come from the vicinity of Redmond did it. A certain Balmer not liking what he saw activating the in built botnet in windows :)

]]> By: Dan http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/03/digging/comment-page-1/#comment-1262 Dan Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:24:03 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=488#comment-1262 @rpcutts - Everything is fine thank you and like I said I'm not upset about any of the Digg stuff, that's cool. It was only the DDOS thing that wicked me off a bit but I even got over that pretty quickly. I haven't bothered looking at the comments on Digg because I can do without the abuse, others have and tell me they're not too bad but life is too short :) I have to confess I did go over there last night to see why I was still getting so much traffic though and the article has over 600 Diggs which is nice to see and it's still near the top of the Linux/Unix section. Not bad considering it was just a quick post :D @rpcutts – Everything is fine thank you and like I said I’m not upset about any of the Digg stuff, that’s cool. It was only the DDOS thing that wicked me off a bit but I even got over that pretty quickly. I haven’t bothered looking at the comments on Digg because I can do without the abuse, others have and tell me they’re not too bad but life is too short :) I have to confess I did go over there last night to see why I was still getting so much traffic though and the article has over 600 Diggs which is nice to see and it’s still near the top of the Linux/Unix section. Not bad considering it was just a quick post :D

]]> By: rpcutts http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/03/digging/comment-page-1/#comment-1261 rpcutts Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:09:51 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=488#comment-1261 You could tell from some comments that people were not reading the article and just commenting on the opening paragraph. Glad it's all ok now. You could tell from some comments that people were not reading the article and just commenting on the opening paragraph.

Glad it’s all ok now.

]]> By: Dan http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/03/digging/comment-page-1/#comment-1259 Dan Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:19:15 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=488#comment-1259 @Rami - Hi thanks for the comment, I had super-cache installed but it wasn't enabled sadly, I've fixed that now, I appreciate the tip though :) Unfortunately someone was definitely trying to bring my site down with a coordinated DDOS attack. It was a bot net and I've been trying to deal with it with my host. They did it for a couple of hours but thankfully got bored and moved on after that. I was very happy with all the legitimate traffic from Digg and it's very nice I agree. Just could do without the attacks. Whoever submitted the article to Digg was only trying to help me and I'm very grateful for that, someone who saw it through that wasn't so nice. I discussed it with the server admins but there was no way we could block the attack and keep the legitimate traffic getting through. So I had to disable the site for a couple of hours, perhaps if I'd had the caching set up right it would have survived who knows. I'm pleased over 600 people voted for it, that's amazing :) @Rami – Hi thanks for the comment, I had super-cache installed but it wasn’t enabled sadly, I’ve fixed that now, I appreciate the tip though :) Unfortunately someone was definitely trying to bring my site down with a coordinated DDOS attack. It was a bot net and I’ve been trying to deal with it with my host. They did it for a couple of hours but thankfully got bored and moved on after that. I was very happy with all the legitimate traffic from Digg and it’s very nice I agree. Just could do without the attacks. Whoever submitted the article to Digg was only trying to help me and I’m very grateful for that, someone who saw it through that wasn’t so nice. I discussed it with the server admins but there was no way we could block the attack and keep the legitimate traffic getting through. So I had to disable the site for a couple of hours, perhaps if I’d had the caching set up right it would have survived who knows. I’m pleased over 600 people voted for it, that’s amazing :)

]]> By: Rami Taibah http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/03/digging/comment-page-1/#comment-1258 Rami Taibah Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:09:09 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=488#comment-1258 I just read this: "At first I was a little pissed off that someone would decide to try and kill my site just because they didn’t like what I was saying. I quickly got over it." Man nobody is trying to kill off your site. LOL. Actually its quite the opposite. From the screenshot 597 people loved your article and thats something great. This is what digg does, it sends 1000's of new visitors to your site, no harm intended. I just read this:

“At first I was a little pissed off that someone would decide to try and kill my site just because they didn’t like what I was saying. I quickly got over it.”

Man nobody is trying to kill off your site. LOL. Actually its quite the opposite. From the screenshot 597 people loved your article and thats something great. This is what digg does, it sends 1000′s of new visitors to your site, no harm intended.

]]> By: Rami Taibah http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/03/digging/comment-page-1/#comment-1257 Rami Taibah Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:05:45 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=488#comment-1257 Congrats man on your first Digg front page. The traffic can sometimes be intoxicated. I remember how my first Digg was like. First off you should enable wp-super-cache plugin. Monitor your blogs, if anything was submitted by a top user on Digg, or got around 50 diggs in 12 hours or so, enable full caching. Anyways, keep up the good work, looking forward for your stuff to submit on digg. Am pretty solid there...hehe :) Congrats man on your first Digg front page. The traffic can sometimes be intoxicated. I remember how my first Digg was like.

First off you should enable wp-super-cache plugin. Monitor your blogs, if anything was submitted by a top user on Digg, or got around 50 diggs in 12 hours or so, enable full caching.

Anyways, keep up the good work, looking forward for your stuff to submit on digg. Am pretty solid there…hehe :)

]]> By: Dan http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/03/digging/comment-page-1/#comment-1256 Dan Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:44:15 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=488#comment-1256 @Fab - Cheers, I think most people don't know what the word zealot means but I'm not getting into that. Thanks for the support :) @Fab – Cheers, I think most people don’t know what the word zealot means but I’m not getting into that. Thanks for the support :)

]]> By: Fab http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/03/digging/comment-page-1/#comment-1255 Fab Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:07:17 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=488#comment-1255 What a ride, eh? :) When you said "you can’t please all the people all the time", I was immediately thinking of Peter Tosh. You can't <em>fool</em> all the people all the time either. One of these days the moment will come when Microsoft & Apple can't keep the brainwashing up anymore (probably because it's too expensive). Many of the people on Digg remind me of the teenagers I see in school these days and my class mates when I was in school (not that long ago). I think most of them are too lazy to question the marketing propaganda because they are much too busy to exlaim how emo and counterculture they are. And then they go and buy a Mac... Get up, stand up, I say. But then I was always in the minority with that (especially in school). I do believe things will change at some point, though. I hope. See? How's that for zealotry right there, eh? :D What a ride, eh? :)

When you said “you can’t please all the people all the time”, I was immediately thinking of Peter Tosh. You can’t fool all the people all the time either. One of these days the moment will come when Microsoft & Apple can’t keep the brainwashing up anymore (probably because it’s too expensive). Many of the people on Digg remind me of the teenagers I see in school these days and my class mates when I was in school (not that long ago). I think most of them are too lazy to question the marketing propaganda because they are much too busy to exlaim how emo and counterculture they are. And then they go and buy a Mac… Get up, stand up, I say. But then I was always in the minority with that (especially in school). I do believe things will change at some point, though. I hope.

See? How’s that for zealotry right there, eh? :D

]]> By: Dan http://danlynch.org/blog/2009/03/digging/comment-page-1/#comment-1254 Dan Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:02:34 +0000 http://danlynch.org/blog/?p=488#comment-1254 @Richard - Thanks for the comment, I don't know who this Adrian Kinglsey-Hughes is but I hope he doesn't sue me for image rights ;) As for the Dvorak thing, like I said in the original piece I don't know how serious he is and I don't listen to or read the guy normally. People seemed to think I was some crazed Dvorak fan without reading the bit at the start which said I don't really like him. I do find it interesting that he's made these comments in the public arena though and I really hope he's genuine. A lot of people do seem to follow his advice so let's hope they try Linux. As you say the backlash will be severe if he is scamming. Only time can tell. @Richard – Thanks for the comment, I don’t know who this Adrian Kinglsey-Hughes is but I hope he doesn’t sue me for image rights ;) As for the Dvorak thing, like I said in the original piece I don’t know how serious he is and I don’t listen to or read the guy normally. People seemed to think I was some crazed Dvorak fan without reading the bit at the start which said I don’t really like him. I do find it interesting that he’s made these comments in the public arena though and I really hope he’s genuine. A lot of people do seem to follow his advice so let’s hope they try Linux. As you say the backlash will be severe if he is scamming. Only time can tell.

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