I hope not...

The tubes have some dust in them.

I haven't noticed anything.

No clues, but I've at least been able to access LGF. Which is a relief, after this morning.

BTW, I approve of the Zappa quote: Nothing but the best for my dog.

someone get the Drain-O...the tubes are clogged

it's been a weird day.

From Instapundit:

WORLD WAR III announced by spam: "Hackers are deluging web users with malware-laden spam claiming that World War III has started following a US invasion of Iran. Security experts warned [yesterday] that spam emails with subject lines including 'Third World War has begun,' '20000 US Soldiers in Iran,' and 'US Army crossed Iran's borders' have been intercepted. The emails contain links to a malicious webpage that displays what appears to be a video player showing the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion."

Could this be the explanation?

Clearly the 12th imam is pissed and is getting ready to restore justice.

Scratch that - porn sites are accessible.

Must be the Chinese.

re: #3 Killgore Trout

LGF pages were not available from time to time, I noticed

Hello Charles, what sites can you not link to?

I saw an article about a new DNS cache poisoning attack.... Could be related.

Charles, I posted this a few minutes ago on the last thread, and it's probably just something weird about my old ie6, but I can't seem to get a link or lgf spy to come up. The little hand just hand just hangs there for five minutes & I go nowhere. Clearing cookies, cache and refresh doesn't seem to help.

Let me the first to consider a wild theory. It IS 7-11 on the other side of the pond by now.

A disturbance in the Force?

Things are working for me... maybe it's all us Macheads checking to see if MobileMe is up yet...

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ADJUST YOUR 'PUTERS. WE CONTROL THE VERTICAL. WE ALSO CONTROL THE HORIZONTAL.

Try Hamster viagra? I got an email the other day offering big discounts.

iPhone 3G release?

Something's definitely up.

Here's a link to the article

If a 'cyber attack' is the best these wussies can do...

/Did I spell wussies correctly?

Stop clinging to your internet.

re: #23 rabidsquirrel

Stop clinging to your internet.

Can't I just finish my internets?

well, at least we can eat tomatoes again.

re: #21 dsrtegl

cache poisoning attacks.

That doesn't sound good.

The NSA better be monitoring the net, it is their plate isn't it?

WHEW! Just got done checking to make sure all my porn sites are still online, and, indeed, they are. Looks like I will weather this storm.

Al Gore invented the Intarweb.

re: #26 Killgore Trout
Especially when the patch didn't work with zone alarm. I couldn't even get online this morning.

This is not the intraweb I used to know.

If something were up, where would be the best place (if any) on the Web to get the earliest news of it? Certainly not Google News. Is there an I.T. focused website which monitors this stuff?

Maybe it's a hardware failure somewhere -- but I can't access a lot of sites right now, including the New York Times and the Washington Post.

re: #7 Dianna

From Instapundit:

WORLD WAR III announced by spam: "Hackers are deluging web users with malware-laden spam claiming that World War III has started following a US invasion of Iran. Security experts warned [yesterday] that spam emails with subject lines including 'Third World War has begun,' '20000 US Soldiers in Iran,' and 'US Army crossed Iran's borders' have been intercepted. The emails contain links to a malicious webpage that displays what appears to be a video player showing the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion."

Could this be the explanation?

Oh goody. Mass internet vandalism.

re: #29 sngnsgt

Al Gore invented the Intarweb.

Any attack on the intarweb is therefore an attack on Al Gore.

/That ought to get the left going!

Might this have something to do with what's going on?

Fix found for net security flaw

re: #33 Charles

Isn't that a gift?

Interesting?

Something happened to me today. I went to drudge and it appeared that one of his ads or pictures was trying to load something else down to my computer.

It appears that all my protection was holding, but the activity bar at the bottom of IE7 kept showing a URL and a few other things, and it was repeating over and over.

I finally shut the browser down, checked my processes, had McAfee take a look around, and everthing seemed fine.

But I swear, something keep trying to go out from Drudge and grab something, over and over.

Drudge is HTML 101, really simple stuff, and this was very unusual.

Walter in Golden, Co.

I had to leave for awhile, did I miss anything important?

re: #33 Charles

Maybe it's a hardware failure somewhere -- but I can't access a lot of sites right now, including the New York Times and the Washington Post.

And the down side is?

re: #33 Charles

Maybe it's a hardware failure somewhere -- but I can't access a lot of sites right now, including the New York Times and the Washington Post.

I just got the WaPo website promptly, from Dallas.

re: #28 Gordon Marock

WHEW! Just got done checking to make sure all my porn sites are still online, and, indeed, they are. Looks like I will weather this storm.

Yep, all the porn short-cuts on my desktop work too.

re: #33 Charles

I can get to both from here. Just sayin..

Bangkok is loading LGF smoothly, swiftly...

It also could be that a major peering point is having problems and BGP hasn't worked it all out yet.

It happens from time to time.

It depends on "where you are" and "where you're trying to get"

re: #33 Charles

Maybe it's a hardware failure somewhere -- but I can't access a lot of sites right now, including the New York Times and the Washington Post.

I get both. I am on Cox.

Your avatar always makes me giggle, Charles. :D

Reminds me of my sour-puss next-door neighbor's wife. :D

Last Man talked about an issue with the latest Microsoft hotfix update a couple nights ago. Here's a link to a site with a fix.

I know this is not what Charles it talking about, but I think some other lizards might be having this problem.

Gotta restart now...

re: #33 Charles

Maybe it's a hardware failure somewhere -- but I can't access a lot of sites right now, including the New York Times and the Washington Post.

This is a bad thing?

re: #33 Charles

Weird. I just loaded up the Washington Post without any problems.

Oh, no! It's happening again.

HAL: I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.
Dave Bowman: Yes, I'd like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me.
HAL: It's called "Daisy."
[sings while slowing down]
HAL: Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.

NYTimes works for me, but ew, I got some on me.

re: #19 Charles

Something's definitely up.

Can something like this have something to do with where you are located? Whether you're on the West Coast or in the South or out East?

re: #33 Charles

Maybe it's a hardware failure somewhere -- but I can't access a lot of sites right now, including the New York Times and the Washington Post.

I just got both of them, no problem. Might be you have a fried hamster there.

LGF didn't want to load this morning. Thought it was just the traffic.
Went to work early,even. All seems OK to me now,though.

re: #33 Charles

Could be worse. NYT could be set as your home page.

later,

re: #39 VegasRick

I had to leave for awhile, did I miss anything important?

LGF has been taken over my a race of mutant crocodiles.

re: #28 Gordon Marock

WHEW! Just got done checking to make sure all my porn sites are still online, and, indeed, they are. Looks like I will weather this storm.

Do you get the feeling that if the Chinese actually went through with a massive attack on electronic communications, the pr0n sites would barely be affected?

re: #33 Charles

Maybe it's a hardware failure somewhere -- but I can't access a lot of sites right now, including the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Lucky you. They load easy for me...

re: #45 dsrtegl

It also could be that a major peering point is having problems and BGP hasn't worked it all out yet.

It happens from time to time.

It depends on "where you are" and "where you're trying to get"

Right, that's what I'm starting to suspect.

re: #39 VegasRick

I had to leave for awhile, did I miss anything important?

I stabbed oʇıuƃoɔ with a fork.

I blame Bush

There's definitely a problem, Miscrosoft, Sun and others released emergency patches for DNS exploits the other day, it's reasonable that the hackers would quickly figure out the flaws in design and exploit them. My entire hosting company went down earlier for a half hour, I bet there was lots of patching going on. Beware of all redirects and unknown sites the next couple of weeks folks, and please go get patched.

re: #57 pre-Boomer Marine brat

LGF has been taken over my a race of mutant crocodiles.

They will never take me alive!

Quarantine the hamsters stat.

No Internet?....
Two words...
LGF Magazine !

re: #22 experiencedtraveller

If a 'cyber attack' is the best these wussies can do...

/Did I spell wussies correctly?

China and Russia are by far the haven for most of the cyber attacks and almost all espionage. The US and other western governments are fully aware of what is going. The US Airforce is creating a 20000 man unit to combat these ass-holes. What we need is firewalls and intrusion detection on all the Internet links running into China and Russia. And that would only work if actively monitored and revised as new forms of attacks are detected....

re: #25 nyc redneck

Yes, now we just need to avoid Jalepenos and Serranos.

A very Big internet outage...

[Link: www.theonion.com...]

re: #33 Charles

I did a traceroute.

I leave the cox network at pnap.net.

After that I get request timeouts.

I still get wapo via http.

re: #61 MandyManners

I stabbed oʇıuƃoɔ with a fork.

Wanna borrow a knife?

re: #60 Charles

Right, that's what I'm starting to suspect.

See my post above, think there are dns exploit issues that might be root cause.

Report from the field:

Post and times comes in fine for me.

Walter in Golden, Co.

Someone putting strychnine in the hamster feed? Call the DHS! (Dept. of Hamsters and Squirrels, not the other one...)

re: #39 VegasRick

I had to leave for awhile, did I miss anything important?

Well apparently, when you logged off, you completely effed up the internet. Good thing you're back now. ;)

This is ironic.

Earlier today, I couldn't get into LGF.

Now, LGF is running fine but I can't get into the rest of the Internet.

re: #19 Charles

Something's definitely up.

Oops, sorry, I just started up a misconfigured C2PC client.

re: #67 LoFlyer

China and Russia are by far the haven for most of the cyber attacks and almost all espionage. The US and other western governments are fully aware of what is going. The US Airforce is creating a 20000 man unit to combat these ass-holes. What we need is firewalls and intrusion detection on all the Internet links running into China and Russia. And that would only work if actively monitored and revised as new forms of attacks are detected....

There's a simple fix for this... Unplug their a$$es.

No intarweb for you, comrade.

re: #61 MandyManners

I stabbed oʇıuƃoɔ with a fork.

You should have used a spoon. It would have hurt more.

re: #48 Noam Sayin'
I can't go to your link but did some research on the zone alarm problem earlier. I think their model 7.0.483.000 is suppossed to work with this patch.

re: #61 MandyManners

I stabbed oʇıuƃoɔ with a fork.

In which part of the anatomy, Mandy?

re: #76 Charles

Are you getting 403 forbidden errors or what?

......Wolverineessss!

Karl Rove?

re: #7 Dianna

From Instapundit:

Could this be the explanation?

If it is, then I figure that there some nasty moonbats who have a lot to answer for.

re: #76 Charles

This is ironic.

Earlier today, I couldn't get into LGF.

Now, LGF is running fine but I can't get into the rest of the Internet.

A planet where apes evolved from men? It's a madhouse! A MADHOUSE!

Imaging a NYT web admin logging a stream of hits from the Lizard Army checking their site. They panic and pull up the digital drawbridge causing a node failure, it cascades like the electric grid after a squirrel reaches for a snack, and the whole thing goes down, Copyright invoked, screen rights to be negotiated.

A major DNS flaw was uncovered, could be that

re: #64 VegasRick

They will never take me alive!

Just don't open that door -- the one across the room, behind you.

re: #63 Thanos

There's definitely a problem, Miscrosoft, Sun and others released emergency patches for DNS exploits the other day, it's reasonable that the hackers would quickly figure out the flaws in design and exploit them. My entire hosting company went down earlier for a half hour, I bet there was lots of patching going on. Beware of all redirects and unknown sites the next couple of weeks folks, and please go get patched.

That's sort of like what I got on Drudge this morning. Something kept trying, over and over, to grab something from another URL or redirect me to another URL.

I got the patches this week for what you mention above.

There was a big article somewhere about this. I read it somewhere.

I wonder if the hackers are trying to get a jump on things before the patches get install all around?

Walter in Golden, Co.

re: #33 Charles

Maybe it's a hardware failure somewhere -- but I can't access a lot of sites right now, including the New York Times and the Washington Post.

unfortunately I can get to both from the east coast. I read about the DNS vulnerability several days ago. But my understanding was that the issue was fixed before they released the story....

re: #89 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Just don't open that door -- the one across the room, behind you.

I'm gonna whack him.

re: #83 Ackomanyuki

......Wolverineessss!

Maybe it was the evil badgers the brits released in Iraq...

re: #79 rabidsquirrel

Try a spork.

re: #76 Charles

This is ironic.

Earlier today, I couldn't get into LGF.

Now, LGF is running fine but I can't get into the rest of the Internet.

Then you have been quarantined. Locked into your cage.

re: #82 Thanos

Are you getting 403 forbidden errors or what?

No ... "can't find server" messages, which usually means DNS is failing.

re: #91 LoFlyer

unfortunately I can get to both from the east coast. I read about the DNS vulnerability several days ago. But my understanding was that the issue was fixed before they released the story....

Well, I read the story BEFORE I got a fix from Microsoft. This fix was need both on the server side and the client side.

Walter in Golden, Co.

re: #70 karmic_inquisitor

I did a few traceroutes and they all go through americamustdie.cn. Is that weird?

re: #91 LoFlyer

unfortunately I can get to both from the east coast. I read about the DNS vulnerability several days ago. But my understanding was that the issue was fixed before they released the story....

Patches were proffered, that doesn't mean every admin patched...

re: #96 Charles

Could it be your isp?

Got a different one as a backup?

I had problems with the internets all morning long. For some time, the only page that would load for me was Michelle Malkin's, and not even all of it. And real slow at that. I had blamed my ISP, but now I'm not so sure. I't been humming along fine for the last several hours though.

re: #63 Thanos

are you hosting in Ft Worth/Dallas or Houston?

our servers there are fine so far no issues.....but yes Update

re: #45 dsrtegl

It also could be that a major peering point is having problems and BGP hasn't worked it all out yet.

It happens from time to time.

It depends on "where you are" and "where you're trying to get"

"I'm sorry, Sir, you can't get there from here."

re: #16 Occasional Reader

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ADJUST YOUR 'PUTERS. WE CONTROL THE VERTICAL. WE ALSO CONTROL THE HORIZONTAL.

Loved that show when I was a kid!

re: #73 Walter L. Newton

Report from the field:

Post and times comes in fine for me.

Walter in Golden, Co.

Fine for me too.

gop in AR :)

Btw, the main picture and caption on the WaPo site is hilarious. An empty chair and a name card that says Mr. Karl Rove, with the House Committee in the background. Caption:

Former presidential adviser Karl Rove refuses to attend House Judiciary Committee meeting, so representatives address his empty chair.

I love that they're talking to an empty chair. Heh.

re: #98 cliffster

I did a few traceroutes and they all go through americamustdie.cn. Is that weird?

I am assuming that is a joke, which is a funny one.

re: #89 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Just don't open that door -- the one across the room, behind you.

And stay away from teenagers who are about to have sex. They always get zapped.

re: #96 Charles

No ... "can't find server" messages, which usually means DNS is failing.

yes most likely, try an alternate DNS server to see if you can "patch around the hole".

re: #96 Charles

No ... "can't find server" messages, which usually means DNS is failing.

Can you contact any othe Cali LGF users and see if they are having problems. If a big name server in your area has burped, a lot of people should run up against this.

WIGC

"cannot find server" means one is in a crappy restaurant

re: #68 NGrove

Yes, now we just need to avoid Jalepenos and Serranos.

and that is probably hysteria too.
those can be washed real well.

re: #83 Ackomanyuki

......Wolverineessss!

Red Dawn? Patrick Swaize?

re: #109 Walter L. Newton

Can you contact any othe Cali LGF users and see if they are having problems. If a big name server in your area has burped, a lot of people should run up against this.

WIGC

re: #109 Walter L. Newton

Can you contact any othe Cali LGF users and see if they are having problems. If a big name server in your area has burped, a lot of people should run up against this.

WIGC

I', a Cali LGF user - no problems for me today - except difficulties getting into LGF this morning

I've had a bunch of different "can't find server" this evening.

A communications interruption can mean only one thing.
Invasion. The Paulnuts got their iPhones.

Maybe a dead hamster?

re: #96 Charles

No ... "can't find server" messages, which usually means DNS is failing.

I get those all the time. Assumed it has something to do with the fact I get my internet courtesy of a generous but unknowing neighbors wi-fi. Makes up for their noisy kids music. So I just wait or go through the Safari connection check, odd but the mac mail connection doctor works better I think.

Internet traffic report for N.A

Router
Location
Current Index
Response Time (ms)
Packet Loss (%)

anhm7204.exo.com
California (Anaheim)
0
0
100

mc-gateway.lansmart.com
California (Fresno)
97
29
0

dnsauth1.sys.gtei.net
California (Los Angeles)
98
10
0

rx0ar-technicare.ed.bigpipeinc.com
Canada (Edmonton)
91
82
0

gw02.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com
Canada (Ontario)
91
81
0

anguhub14.net.ubc.ca
Canada (Vancouver)
95
41
0

loopback0.gw2.den4.alter.net
Colorado (Denver)
95
42
0

gigE-0.border0.vosn.net
Colorado (Greenwood Village)
95
42
0

router.firstcls.com
Georgia
97
20
0

atl-datacenter-gw2.capitalinternet.com
Georgia (Atlanta)
94
53
0

loopback0.gw9.chi2.alter.net
Illinois (Chicago)
94
56
0

cisco-gnarly.n-connect.net
Iowa
93
61
0

kyle.sdf.xodiax.net
Kentucky
93
67
0

cisco.syssrc.com
Maryland
92
72
0

pos1-0-0-155m.ar1.bos1.gblx.net
Massachusetts (Boston)
93
62
0

lan-d32-0606-0578.uninet-ide.com.mx
Mexico (Chihuahua)
92
79
0

rr1.torixt.avantel.net.mx
Mexico (Coahuila)
93
61
0

rr2.gdlmha.avantel.net.mx
Mexico (Guadalajara)
93
67
0

rr1.reyixt.avantel.net.mx
Mexico (Tamaulipas)
94
50
0

revenant.netservicesgroup.com
Michigan (Saginaw)
92
70
0

border0-e0.oc48-ypsi.hdl.com
Michigan (Ypsilanti)
90
90
0

wormhole.homeisp.com
Missouri (Kansas City)
95
49
0

pwps-core01.powerpulse.cc
Nevada (Las Vegas)
98
16
0

isp.state.nh.us
New Hampshire
91
86
0

sugaree.arorapc.com
New Jersey
92
78
0

ac-gw.dandy.net
New Jersey (Atlantic City)
91
87
0

sl-gw9-nyc-8-0.sprintlink.net
New York
93
69
0

router.madbbs.com
New York
91
84
0

180.atm6-0.gw7.nyc9.alter.net
New York (NYC)
92
74
0

wookie.core.3z.net
Ohio (Cincinnati)
90
91
0

sl-bb21-pen-15-0.sprintlink.net
Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
92
72
0

brdr-dmz-uunet.simsware.com
Texas
95
43
0

gw-inet.ktc.com
Texas
97
29
0

core-router.centramedia.net
Texas (Pampa)
95
49
0

[Link: www.xmission.com...]
Utah (Salt Lake City)
94
51
0

sl-gw26-pen-0-0-0.sprintlink.net
Virginia
92
73
0

er01.asbn.eli.net
Virginia (Ashburn)
92
74
0

mae-east.wenet.net
Virginia (Vienna)
94
54
0

core1-sttl.sitespecific.net
Washington (Seattle)
96
38
0

gate.netwrx1.com
Wisconsin
92
70
0

core-1601-bmia-elkwpop-1-3.mia.net
Wisconsin (Elkhorn)
89
108
0

I can pull up the Washington Post no problem. Lucky me. I guess second prize would be pulling up the NY Times and the Washington Post.

I started using Adblock plugin for Firefox because many Ads were slowing sites down too much. It has made a huge improvement in performance.

re: #116 FrogMarch

Maybe a dead hamster?

I'm getting a distinct frog smell. It's nothing like a hamster.

It' Global Warming.

re: #105 gop_patriot

I love that they're talking to an empty chair. Heh.

In my best Ed Norton voice, "Hellloooo, Chair!"

Accessing from work...no probs here for WaPo and New York Saddam Times.

re: #118 Walter L. Newton

So just the L.A. area?

I just checked. Not having any trouble accessing favorite porn sites. All is well.

We need CHANGE!

re: #117 lifeofthemind

I get those all the time. Assumed it has something to do with the fact I get my internet courtesy of a generous but unknowing neighbors wi-fi. Makes up for their noisy kids music. So I just wait or go through the Safari connection check, odd but the mac mail connection doctor works better I think.

Way Kewl! I would do the same, but my neighbors locked theirs down.

And we're back to live action...

Our champion, Vern Gagne starts out the round with a headlock on The Baron...

Oops, sorry. I drifted back into childhood for a moment there.

re: #16 Occasional Reader

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ADJUST YOUR 'PUTERS. WE CONTROL THE VERTICAL. WE ALSO CONTROL THE HORIZONTAL.

Used this the other day, thought on LGF

re: #118 Walter L. Newton

anhm7204.exo.com
California (Anaheim)

Dead as a doornail?!?!?!?!

Internet Bug Fix Spawns Backlash From Hackers

Kaminsky made headlines on Tuesday by talking about a major flaw in the DNS (Domain Name System), used to connect computers to each other on the Internet. In late March he grouped together 16 companies that make DNS software -- companies like Microsoft, Cisco and Sun Microsystems -- and talked them into fixing the problem and jointly releasing patches for it." target="_blank">Internet Bug Fix Spawns Backlash From Hackers

But some of Kaminsky's peers were unimpressed. That's because he violated one of the cardinal rules of disclosure: publicizing a flaw without providing the technical details to verify his finding. On Wednesday he took things a step further on his blog, asking hackers to avoid researching the problem until next month, when he plans to release more information about it at the Black Hat security conference.

The flaw appears to be a serious one that could be exploited in what's called a "cache poisoning attack." These attacks hack the DNS system, using it to redirect victims to malicious Web sites without their knowledge. They have been known about for years but can be hard to pull off. But Kaminsky claims to have found a very effective way of launching such an attack, thanks to a vulnerability in the design of the DNS protocol itself.

On Tuesday, however, Kaminsky held back from disclosing the technical details of his finding.

He said he wanted to go public with the issue to put pressure on corporate IT staff and Internet service providers to update their DNS software, while at the same time keeping the bad guys in the dark about the precise nature of the problem. A full public disclosure of the technical details would make the Internet unsafe, he said in an interview Wednesday. "Right now, none of this stuff needs to go public."

He quickly received a skeptical reaction from Matasano Security researcher Thomas Ptacek, who blogged that Kaminsky's cache poisoning attack is merely one of many disclosures underlining the same well-known problem with DNS -- that it does not do a good enough job in creating random numbers to create unique "session ID" strings when communicating with other computers on the Internet.

"The bug in DNS is that it has a 16-bit session ID," he said via an e-mail Wednesday. "You can't deploy a new Web app with less than 128-bit session IDs. We've known about that fundamental problem since the '90s."

"Here comes the onslaught of interviews and media explosion for another overhyped bug by Dan Kaminsky," wrote a jaded (and anonymous) poster to the Matasano blog.

Over at the SANS Internet Storm Center, a highly respected security blog, one blogger speculated that Kaminsky's bug had actually been disclosed three years earlier.

Kaminsky, who is director of penetration testing with security vendor IOActive, said that he was "vaguely surprised" by some of the negative reaction, but that this kind of skepticism was vital to the hacker community. "I'm breaking the rules," he admitted. "There's not enough information in the advisory to figure out the attack and I'm bragging about it."

re: #122 theparson

It' Global Warming.

"Everything is seemingly spinning out of control"

-AP

re: #125 gop_patriot

So just the L.A. area?

That server show completly down. But the detail show it like that for at least the last 24 hours (or more), so I don't think that is the problem. It's probably been off line for a long while.

WIGC

re: #120 LizardoidCaptain

Wrong link. Adblock Plugin. Fixed.

re: #120 LizardoidCaptain

I started using Adblock plugin for Firefox because many Ads were slowing sites down too much. It has made a huge improvement in performance.

Interesting, I couldn't link to the site for adblock. Can anyone else get to it from the posted link?

Goodtogo here on the East Coast. WashPoo and NYSlimes in seconds.

You'll know if there's an issue with the COD4 game servers in a minute.

Cuz it's...

GAME
TIME,
R

i'm going to go upstairs to a party now.
hope it's a group of nice people and no aggressive libs who try to talk me down. it's in my friend's apt. she will cover my back.

Odd this should come up because I applied Microsoft's updates this mourning and was unable to access the internet until I did a system restore. This didn't happen with my neighbor's machine. I will need to do some research.

Charles

Internet Traffic Report shows over 89 percent for all servers in North America (except server anhm7204.exo.com, which seems to have been off line for a long while)

WIGC

re: #135 LizardoidCaptain

Wrong link. Adblock Plugin. Fixed.

Still can't get to it Cap'n.

Nevermind the man behind the curtain...

Charles, I just went to another blog and clicked on a link. I didn't get the little hand like I'm getting here, but it never went to the link. After that, part of the page diappeared at that blog.

re: #142 sngnsgt

Nevermind the man behind the curtain...

A fine Toto YOU make!

Every time I tried to access the WaPo today my browser crashed.

Here at home Firefox just kept crashing on me about a half hour ago, but is working fine now.

Meanwhile, spammers announce WWIII.

re: #118 Walter L. Newton

That Anaheim server could be the problem.

re: #139 sammysdad

Odd this should come up because I applied Microsoft's updates this mourning and was unable to access the internet until I did a system restore. This didn't happen with my neighbor's machine. I will need to do some research.

Interaction with Zone Alarm. Maybe just Zone Alarm Pro. That's what broke my notebook last night.

I would just like to say that neither I nor my MacBook are having any problems at all. Just sayin'

Both come up quick here in Vegas. Oh, and the empty chair thing IS really funny!

All's well in Kansas.

re: #144 pre-Boomer Marine brat

A fine Toto YOU make!

I'll get you too my little pretty!

Damn, this is not good.....I can access both the Washington Post and the New York Times. I have all the rotten luck, it seems. ;)

In the Seattle/Tacoma area with Qwest DSL; there are a couple of websites I semi-frequently visit that are not being found with my Firefox 2.

re: #146 Charles
Sounds possible. I'm in So Cal.

re: #146 Charles

That Anaheim server could be the problem.

Mickey mouse operation.

Anaheim? I blame Branch Rickey.

re: #154 Silhouette

Mickey mouse operation.

Kinda Goofy, huh.

Charles,

You can load balance on demand by using a DNS load balancing method. Also there is Client side load balancing with Ajax. Both are good articles.

No fears lizards! I have an old mimeograph machine in my basement.

OT - Charles, why delete a submitted link to a blog about the Proposed Constitutional Amendment to "ban" Islam? I thought it is an interesting proposal with some heavy discussions. What gives?

Anaheim, we have a problem.

All my hamsters are running @ full speed, I'm in Dreary, PA.

In the meantime, here's George Will on evolution:

Johnson notes that historians interested in genetics believe that the roughly simultaneous emergence of urban living and the manufacturing of alcohol set the stage for a survival-of-the-fittest sorting-out among the people who abandoned the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and, literally and figuratively speaking, went to town.

To avoid dangerous water, people had to drink large quantities of, say, beer. But to digest that beer, individuals needed a genetic advantage that not everyone had -- what Johnson describes as the body's ability to respond to the intake of alcohol by increasing the production of particular enzymes called alcohol dehydrogenases. This ability is controlled by certain genes on chromosome four in human DNA, genes not evenly distributed to everyone. Those who lacked this trait could not, as the saying is, "hold their liquor." So, many died early and childless, either of alcohol's toxicity or from waterborne diseases.

The gene pools of human settlements became progressively dominated by the survivors -- by those genetically disposed to, well, drink beer. "Most of the world's population today," Johnson writes, "is made up of descendants of those early beer drinkers, and we have largely inherited their genetic tolerance for alcohol."

[Link: www.realclearpolitics.com...]

re: #151 sngnsgt

I'll get you too my little pretty!

I happen to have a coffee cup full of water sitting right behind me.

The internet is slow? Sorry about that. It was an accident, I swear.

Router: anhm7204.exo.com (8.15.231.163)
Location California (Anaheim)
Current Index 0
Response Time (ms) 0
Packet Loss (%) 100

Time Warner Cable is having a major problem.

re: #152 FurryOldGuyJeans

Damn, this is not good.....I can access both the Washington Post and the New York Times. I have all the rotten luck, it seems. ;)

In the Seattle/Tacoma area with Qwest DSL; there are a couple of websites I semi-frequently visit that are not being found with my Firefox 2.

SeTac is about as bad as San Francisco. How do you maintain sanity?

re: #146 Charles

That Anaheim server could be the problem.

Well, it's bee totally done for the last 24 hours. Internet Traffic Report doesn't have earlier history.

Internet Health Report show the latency between all major pipes, a lot to look at thought. All the major networks show above 90 percent netwrok availability.

So it appears it's more local, not between the big boy carriers.

[Link: www.internetpulse.net...]

re: #158 experiencedtraveller
I have a selectric and two manual typewriters. I'll type and you can run off the mimeos. LOL

re: #158 experiencedtraveller

No fears lizards! I have an old mimeograph machine in my basement.

The next thread will be courtesy experiencedtraveler

I can load nyt and Washpost fine from Dallas (Southwestern Bell/AT&T), but Traceroute hangs for both of them somewhere on the East coast.

re: #138 nyc redneck

i'm going to go upstairs to a party now.
hope it's a group of nice people and no aggressive libs who try to talk me down. it's in my friend's apt. she will cover my back.

Take a fork with you.

re: #158 experiencedtraveller

No fears lizards! I have an old mimeograph machine in my basement.

My boss (old school Vegas guy) still uses that term when he wants a copy of something. He also says "mark it down" when he wants you to make a note of something.

re: #159 the_flying_pig

OT - Charles, why delete a submitted link to a blog about the Proposed Constitutional Amendment to "ban" Islam? I thought it is an interesting proposal with some heavy discussions. What gives?

"What gives" is what always gives when this ridiculous idea comes up. It's not going to happen, ever, and the only thing it achieves is to make all anti-jihad bloggers look like bigoted morons.

re: #165 markx

Router: anhm7204.exo.com (8.15.231.163)
Location California (Anaheim)
Current Index 0
Response Time (ms) 0
Packet Loss (%) 100

Not good....

I'm on Cebridge in Texas and it's moving right along.

re: #171 David IV of Georgia

I can load nyt and Washpost fine from Dallas (Southwestern Bell/AT&T), but Traceroute hangs for both of them somewhere on the East coast.

You're here (too)?

It was probably that 2-hour search I did through Polish fan sites. Never mind why.

Oh, I thought it was an overload caused by lemmings trying to post anti-Semitic and anti-American comments over at that Obama community site. But that doesn't happen there, does it?

re: #163 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I happen to have a coffee cup full of water sitting right behind me.

I'll send the flying monkeys after you!

re: #169 Pvt Bin Jammin

Does the mimeograph fluid make you giggle? I used to run the old ditto machine for my mom, and I always finished up higher than a kite.

In the movies, the whole world just starts using Morse code.

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.-.-.-

The reason I am getting my internet this way is a reluctance to deal with Time Warner. They are so unpleasant to do business with.

OK, just after I made a smart ass joke, I went to Drudge, and when I navigated away, my computer had a cascading opening of windows that did not stop until I cut the power to my computer and re-booted. Now I am scared and clutching my guns.

re: #170 pre-Boomer Marine brat

The next thread will be courtesy experiencedtraveler

You lizards will definitely have to adjust to a new pace however!

/One thread every 30 days...

re: #182 Silhouette

In the movies, the whole world just starts using Morse code.

.-. --- .--. .. ... - .-. -.-- .. -. --. - --- -.- .. .-.. .-.. ..- ...!

.-.-.-

You're having your little ups and downs, aren't you.

re: #33 Charles

Maybe it's a hardware failure somewhere -- but I can't access a lot of sites right now, including the New York Times and the Washington Post.

LGF is up but the NYT and Post are down. If TPM and Kos are out,it must be...
Rove, you magnficent bastard!

re: #172 MandyManners

Actually for agressive liberals a dull knife will do. They can relate to the dull part certainly.

re: #185 experiencedtraveller

Furlongs per fortnight

re: #182 Silhouette

In the movies, the whole world just starts using Morse code.

.-. --- .--. .. ... - .-. -.-- .. -. --. - --- -.- .. .-.. .-.. ..- ...!

.-.-.-

Sigh, the first network protocol....

We do need to seriously work on COOP (Continuity of Operations) for after an Electro Magnetic Pulse disruption.

re: #129 Noam Sayin'

And we're back to live action...

Oops, sorry. I drifted back into childhood for a moment there.

Don't forget "Championship Wrestling!"

Scroll down to "Where There's Smoke" album ... :D

re: #184 Gordon Marock

OK, just after I made a smart ass joke, I went to Drudge, and when I navigated away, my computer had a cascading opening of windows that did not stop until I cut the power to my computer and re-booted. Now I am scared and clutching my guns.

Go get patched, it's not just MS, it's also Java

re: #177 pre-Boomer Marine brat

You're here (too)?

Garland Actually. I can see Rowlett and Rockwall from my place if the sailboats don't clutter the view.

re: #187 Jim in Virginia

I have no problem accessing NYT.

re: #184 Gordon Marock

OK, just after I made a smart ass joke, I went to Drudge, and when I navigated away, my computer had a cascading opening of windows that did not stop until I cut the power to my computer and re-booted. Now I am scared and clutching my guns.

SEE MY POST ABOVE ABOUT THIS.

I would stay away from Drudge for a while, I think he's got something wrong there, or some ad is trying to push something down to your computer.

Walter in Golden, Co.

re: #195 theparson

I have no problem accessing NYT.

Feel for ya.

re: #182 Silhouette

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Young lady! That's absolutely disgusting! You should be ashamed of yourself! (Not to mention, it's anatomically impossible)

re: #181 Dianna
No wonder I always had so much fun running off the copies of our daughter's grade school newsletter. LOL

re: #191 lifeofthemind

We do need to seriously work on COOP (Continuity of Operations) for after an Electro Magnetic Pulse disruption.

How much real danger is there of a successful EMP strike? That's a nightmare scenario if I ever heard one.

re: #33 Charles

....but I can't access a lot of sites right now, including the New York Times and the Washington Post.

And the problem is?

I will repost this, for you down thread folks...

Something happened to me today. I went to drudge and it appeared that one of his ads or pictures was trying to load something else down to my computer.

It appears that all my protection was holding, but the activity bar at the bottom of IE7 kept showing a URL and a few other things, and it was repeating over and over.

I finally shut the browser down, checked my processes, had McAfee take a look around, and everthing seemed fine.

But I swear, something keep trying to go out from Drudge and grab something, over and over.

Drudge is HTML 101, really simple stuff, and this was very unusual.

Walter in Golden, Co.

re: #184 Gordon Marock

OK, just after I made a smart ass joke, I went to Drudge, and when I navigated away, my computer had a cascading opening of windows that did not stop until I cut the power to my computer and re-booted. Now I am scared and clutching my guns.

Yikes! Keep us updated... are you running anti-virus software, etc.?

I cannot believe NOT ONE ambitious individual has decoded my Morse Code.

re: #194 David IV of Georgia

Garland Actually. I can see Rowlett and Rockwall from my place if the sailboats don't clutter the view.

not all that far from the Galleria

re: #182 Silhouette

In the movies, the whole world just starts using Morse code.

.-. --- .--. .. ... - .-. -.-- .. -. --. - --- -.- .. .-.. .-.. ..- ...!

.-.-.-

Tell 'em how to bring those sonsabitches down!

I have no problems at Drudge. Are you guys sure this isn't just Microsoft stuff?

Heh.

Attack of the Clone Tool

re: #191 lifeofthemind

We do need to seriously work on COOP (Continuity of Operations) for after an Electro Magnetic Pulse disruption.

Thats my greatest fear, Iran lobbing a megaton nuke and detonating it 200 miles over the NE US. Every thing within a 500 mile radius shuts down cold. EMP hardening is expensive and not always fool-proof.

I use Yahoo email. This morning I got an email from a former student of mine. I am a college professor. It sounded like the student wanted to take the same course she had taken before. I was puzzled and replied expressing my puzzlement. The reply with her "original" is in my Yahoo sent box. I then looked more closely and saw that the email I received TODAY [July 10, 2008] had a sent date of July 10, 2006, i.e. TWO years ago ! I sent her a second email saying "never mind".
Now here is the weird part. My Inbox no longer has the email in it...I am 98% sure I did not delete it this morning...

Does not sound good...

re: #206 pre-Boomer Marine brat

not all that far from the Galleria

You live near the mall?

Sorry anout my typing. I was trying to get these messages typed really fast, but you all can get the idea. Yes?

re: #213 David IV of Georgia

You live near the mall?

Yep

re: #210 JammieWearingFool

Heh.

Attack of the Clone Tool

I didn't realize they made those suits in children's sizes.

re: #205 Silhouette

I did. LOL

re: #29 sngnsgt

Someone give Al Gore a quarter..

*inside joke me and a few friends came up with when people mention that Al Gore invented the net..*

re: #210 JammieWearingFool

Heh.

Attack of the Clone Tool

Now that's the Dark Side of the Force that I know!

re: #214 Walter L. Newton

Sorry anout my typing. I was trying to get these messages typed really fast, but you all can get the idea. Yes?

Yes. and thanks.

re: #167 LoFlyer

SeTac is about as bad as San Francisco. How do you maintain sanity?

By being near Ft. Lewis and McChord Air Forces while living in Lakewood. I could not be paid enough money to live in Seattle, period.
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re: #211 LoFlyer

Thats my greatest fear, Iran lobbing a megaton nuke and detonating it 200 miles over the NE US. Every thing within a 500 mile radius shuts down cold. EMP hardening is expensive and not always fool-proof.

We've had lots of posts and links about how that's not a likely scenario, but I'm too tired to look for 'em now.

Hello everyone!
Hope you are all well. I have been having problems with the flippy triangles, and accessing the dings. When I click on any ding button, I am redirected to the last Obama website thread. And, when I click on new comments, it refreshes, but puts me back at the top of the thread. The Triangles do not open for me at all today, and I am using Fire Fox3, on a Dell laptop. LGF is the only site I am having problems with. Oh yeah, I am having NO problems with LGF spy.

re: #189 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Nowadays, I guess Kim Jong Dum in North Korea is the best practitioner of information control.

I can't wait to read some North Korean dissident literature.

re: #214 Walter L. Newton

Sorry anout my typing. I was trying to get these messages typed really fast, but you all can get the idea. Yes?

Oh, just forget it. PIMF. Well, it should be.

Something odd’s happening on the Internet.

It's all those Kiwi iPhones.

re: #221 FurryOldGuyJeans

By being near Ft. Lewis and McChord Air Forces while living in Lakewood. I could not be paid enough money to live in Seattle, period.
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Thanx for the Mozilla links!

There is an external link on the site that twice has stopped the pages loading. It happened two days ago and a few months ago. It looks like an ad server to me. I will note it next time I see it.

re: #201 infidelia

How much real danger is there of a successful EMP strike? That's a nightmare scenario if I ever heard one.

A dirty bomb attack, much more likely, would not produce EMP effects. But a real War, Israel vs Iran, China vs US, NorKs vs Everybody, would produce effects. Very bad for Balkans through South Asia or South Asia through East Asia (notice the Indians are in a Bad Spot. But I'm not sure how it would effect the US. Aside from global economic chaos that is.

re: #226 Cognito

It's all those Kiwi iPhones.

How's the fork wound?

re: #218 baxtrice

Someone give Al Gore a quarter..

*inside joke me and a few friends came up with when people mention that Al Gore invented the net..*

Why, so he can call someone who cares?

re: #229 buzzsawmonkey

It is far more likely that Iran will smuggle nukes in via containerized freight, truck the containers to selected locations and detonate them.

I feel so much better now!

re: #205 Silhouette

I cannot believe NOT ONE ambitious individual has decoded my Morse Code.

But they are Peaceful™!

re: #224 experiencedtraveller

North Korean dissident literature

Only on tombstones

Perhaps Jesse Jackson cut the n--- off the internet?

re: #218 baxtrice

Someone give Al Gore a quarter..

*inside joke me and a few friends came up with when people mention that Al Gore invented the net..*

"Change!"

re: #235 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Only on tombstones

The most powerful kind...

re: #231 VegasRick

How's the fork wound?

Sorry?

re: #217 gop_patriot
re: #234 David IV of Georgia

Thanks. It's no fun telling a joke into the dark. ;-)

re: #239 Cognito

Sorry?

Mandy?

re: #231 VegasRick

COLD!
COLD!

re: #222 Occasional Reader

We've had lots of posts and links about how that's not a likely scenario, but I'm too tired to look for 'em now.

I know what you mean, I still think an EMP attack is the worst scenario facing western civilization. We would collapse under a global attack.

212,000 page view today Charles. Not too shabby...

re: #232 sngnsgt

It was more of a "So, here's a quarter, shut up." thing, but I like your answer better.

Charles...

How are things going at your end? Any changes? If you need us to check and sites, or get you some traffic report, let us know.

re: #182 Silhouette

In the movies, the whole world just starts using Morse code.

.-. --- .--. .. ... - .-. -.-- .. -. --. - --- -.- .. .-.. .-.. ..- ...!

.-.-.-

-.-. .... .. -.-. -.- ... .- -. -.. -.-. --- -.. .

... --- - !

re: #48 Noam Sayin'

Last Man talked about an issue with the latest Microsoft hotfix update a couple nights ago. Here's a link to a site with a fix.

I know this is not what Charles it talking about, but I think some other lizards might be having this problem.

Gotta restart now...

I had the same problem yesterday and called AT&T and they had a bulletin saying the above-mentioned software update from Microsoft was causing a problem with some security software.
I couldn't get on the Internet after this update was installed, but when I lowered my ZoneAlarm security setting to medium I was able to get on the Net.
You'd think Microsoft would check this stuff out before they release these automatic updates, but I guess not.

re: #242 pre-Boomer Marine brat

COLD!
COLD!

LOL!

re: #237 VegasRick

But can you believe in it?

Nope. It's Tommy playing some rock and roll country blues jazz.

re: #230 lifeofthemind

A dirty bomb attack, much more likely, would not produce EMP effects. But a real War, Israel vs Iran, China vs US, NorKs vs Everybody, would produce effects. Very bad for Balkans through South Asia or South Asia through East Asia (notice the Indians are in a Bad Spot. But I'm not sure how it would effect the US. Aside from global economic chaos that is.

Sounds like a scenario in which I wouldn't be getting India when I call tech support for a while...

re: #229 buzzsawmonkey

It is far more likely that Iran will smuggle nukes in via containerized freight, truck the containers to selected locations and detonate them.

I hope they don't realize that Hamtrack, MI, is the hub of all our nuclear, financial, and communication controls.

NOBODY TELL THEM, OKAY?

re: #241 VegasRick

I really don't know.

re: #249 VegasRick

LOL!

Remind me to stand with my back to the wall when you enter the room!

*chuckle*

re: #247 dsrtegl

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re: #227 LoFlyer

Thanx for the Mozilla links!

You are welcome. Better to give other people a choice if they are available instead of just giving a link to one plugin. I personally use the AdBlock Plus plugin myself, but other people might find any of the other plugins more to their liking.

re: #211 LoFlyer

Thats my greatest fear, Iran lobbing a megaton nuke and detonating it 200 miles over the NE US. Every thing within a 500 mile radius shuts down cold. EMP hardening is expensive and not always fool-proof.

Old fashioned tubes were much more survivable than solid state circuitry. Remember the old Foxbat Mig-31 that flew to Japan? It was full of tubes for a reason. Now the Navy is getting rid of Signalmen who know morse code and who can do tactical comms without radio. We are getting more vulnerable. I like good old fashioned low tech gunnery.

The adblock link re: #141 LoFlyer
has a malformed prefix: you've doubled up the http's
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re: #243 LoFlyer

I know what you mean, I still think an EMP attack is the worst scenario facing western civilization. We would collapse under a global attack.

I have a 78 Wagoneer that I believe is EMP proof.

And of course, the Winchester operates fine with or without internet connectivity.

Have I mentioned that I'm not having any trouble on the internet at all?

re: #257 David IV of Georgia

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Th' HELL you say!

I was on Drudge an hour ago- no problems. New comments here refreshes as usual.