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TheQuirk:

quote:Originally posted by void main:


Bah, I quit reading /. a long time ago. It's full of M$ dweebs now. It used to be a pretty good site.
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Oh? There are lots of Linux guys on /. - of course, I heared the router-packet-filtering thing _on_ slashdot, so there _might_ be a _little_ inaccurate info there  

It's pretty interesting to read all the trolls, and some good response, countered by better responses, countered by fresh new jamin replies such as "u all sux lol lol lol" with a +5 score on "funny."

I still like Slashdot. What do you read, anyway? I'm quite partial to everything2.com, but it's not news. (Owned by the same guys that made Slashdot, but not by OSDN).

voidmain:
I don't like the sites that have *tons* of replies, like /.. Just too time consuming to filter through all the crap. The thing I don't like and I've seen it a lot on the few times I have been back there browsing around is there will be a pro M$ post that is left in full where there will be equally or better Linux posts that are moded down.

Lately I've only been checking 3 sites daily which only consumes about 15 minutes of my day. That would be www.theregister.co.uk, linuxtoday.com, and newsforge.com. You have to make sure you have your ad filter turned on to view newsforge though as they have a lot of M$ ads. I like them because you can keep up to date on everything they have fairly quickly. Not a lot of traffic. And of course I spend the rest of my day here.  

Calum:
i like the register and will try the other two as well upon your recommendation...

the DDoS info site is a bad idea as people would not submit the info in time, plus the point about it being another incentive for morons to do these DDoS attacks is another good reason this DDoS index site shouldn't exist. finally, if you host a site of this nature, yes it would need to be the definitive one where everybody goes. like google is for search engines, or like i imagine netcraft is for finding out what software a host is running, or like sourceforge is the first stop for finding some piece of source code and rpmfind is the first stop for finding an rpm.

The promotion alone would make this a ridiculous venture, and at the end of the day, this site would be the number one target for DDoS attacks itself and nobody would probably ever be able to access it as a result.

[ December 20, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

lazygamer:
I have theregister set up as my homepage. I wonder though, what happened to the www.theregus.com?

Ok here is a n00b question about this DoS/DDoS stuff. Script kiddies are dumbasses who don't realize how big a trail they leave. So can professional crackers do this sort of thing, and be able to cover their tracks?

Calum:
not entirely, but the tracks they leave are all on private server and router logs, so you need to actually ring up the admins of each of the computers involved and ask them to go through their logs and so on.

am i right, people-who-know-these-things?

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