perhaps I was addressing Kat.
Of course you were addressing me.
I linked because I was curious about the exact words and I had to search a thread or two to find it. then I realized it was never secret at all.
Oh my god. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing!? Oh right, that would be me. Back to work.
Wash ,'Bushwhacked'
Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
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Kat - May 13, 2005 11:09:57 am PDT #4843 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
§ ita § - May 13, 2005 5:04:18 pm PDT #4844 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Every night I get mailed a log of access attempts to the buffistas.org server (web doesn't count).
Some days it's small, 3K, just bitching about DNS. Other days, it's 177K, because some jackhole in the Netherlands is botting us and trying to log in as test, guest, user, admin, r00t, amar, adam, adela, anonymous, adrian, etc.
It's kinda sad that bandwidth and CPU cycles are that cheap.
Jesse - May 13, 2005 6:09:48 pm PDT #4845 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Can you tell me more about what that means?
Betsy HP - May 13, 2005 6:10:16 pm PDT #4846 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I went to the Alexa launch party back in the .com era; Karl, is the Wayback Machine a descendant of Alexa?
DXMachina - May 13, 2005 6:22:18 pm PDT #4847 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Can you tell me more about what that means?
It means that there's a cockbite in Holland with nothing better to do than bang away on our server by trying to log in under every possible generic username he can think of.
Jesse - May 13, 2005 6:30:34 pm PDT #4848 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In order to log in with an existing username? And then what? Spam us in diguise?
Pix - May 13, 2005 6:38:13 pm PDT #4849 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Hee. Jesse, your tag seems very appropriate with that last post.
Jesse - May 13, 2005 6:39:24 pm PDT #4850 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't want to be THAT kind of bad guy!!
Pix - May 13, 2005 6:41:47 pm PDT #4851 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
You don't want to thwap the irritating spammer? Eesh. I do.
§ ita § - May 13, 2005 6:41:51 pm PDT #4852 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not web stuff. They're trying to log into the server.
I doubt they care what kind of server -- they might be flexing scriptkiddy muscles, or hoping there's CC data or something lurking.