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Site Downtime

By Michael Palmer |  Sep 18, 2003  | #blog, #website, #outage | 1 min read
Well, the site was down for most of the day today due to what I assume is a DOS attack. It’s still going on, but has slown down a bit. There are about 6000 unique hosts that are hitting the site, all requesting a certain url that doesn’t exist. Possibly this is a mass email with a link to the site? Maybe someone has control of 6000 virus laden boxes. I’m not sure.
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Linux on Linksys

By Michael Palmer |  Sep 8, 2003  | #networking, #linux | 1 min read
Linux access on the WRT54G – This is a mini Linux distribution for the Linksys wrt54g. In about 20 seconds, you can install a small set of Linux tools to your access point’s ramdisk. Thanks Metlhed
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Microsoft Highschool

By Michael Palmer |  Sep 5, 2003  | #microsoft | 1 min read
The Gates Foundation is funding a highschool. A $46 million high school dazzling with the latest technology – from interactive digital textbooks and computerized tablets to electronic play diagrams for the basketball team – will be built by the Philadelphia School District in partnership with the Microsoft Corp., officials announced today. Read More : Microsoft to design city high school
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Gentoo PortageView

By Michael Palmer |  Sep 4, 2003  | #linux, #programming | 1 min read
Been working on a side project. It’s finished pretty much. PortageView. Its sorta a searchable database of portage. Works nice. and its Fast. Saw Type-O Negative in concert last night. It was a great concert, except the club it was at had a lot of audio problems and Peter was getting pissed off. But what can you expect from a 25 year old club that has no working A/C.
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Site Update - Blog

By Michael Palmer |  Aug 27, 2003  | #blogging | 1 min read
Made some more changes to the sites today.. Added three random images to the top right of the main page, from my photoblog. It updates the random images everytime I make a new entry. Also at the bottom of the photoblog I now display the last 6 entries thumbnails. Looks better i think. Some links to keep you occupiedGeorgia for the second year in a row scored lowest in the nation on SAT.
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MSN Update Mandatory

By Michael Palmer |  Aug 20, 2003  | #microsoft | 1 min read
Well, maybe I’ll stop using MSN if this really goes through, that or Microsoft releases a client for linux. October 15th is the deadline. Microsoft is changing its MSN instant messaging service to lock out users of third-party software that uses the service as well as users of older versions of Microsoft’s own Messenger client, the company says. Users must upgrade to newer versions of MSN or Windows Messenger by October 15 or they will no longer be able to log on, says Sean Sundwall, a Microsoft spokesperson.
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