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three key servers were hit by a barrage of data
Not sure what they were trying to accomplish. There are 13 root servers scattered around the world (and I use the word "server" loosely, they're more like clusters). Even if you could knock over three of them, you might add just a few milliseconds to a DNS query because it has to go further, geographically speaking, to query another root. Plus, I'd guess that the large majority of popular website's addressing info is cached on local DNS servers, so you'd have to take out all 13 roots and then sustain that attack long enough for the cache lifetime of the local DNS servers to expire, which would probably be at least a day.
Even if this was a dry run for a bigger operation, this seems to be a pretty futile effort if you ask me.
Anyone have a Zune? I'm trying to work out if I should just give my Zunified (ew) friend the .m4vs I have in iTunes (convertified by iSquint) or I should give him the originals or convert them again.
The first conversion page I hit suggested I download Windows Media Encoder 9, but Microsoft irritates me quite irrationally by wanting to validate my (valid) copy of Windows.
Does anyone know if the CBS Innertube online videos on the CBS website are just incompatible with Macs in general? I've tried to access them in the latest available Mac versions of Safari, Firefox, and Netscape and either get no response (Safari and Netscape) or browser crashes (Firefox) every time.
I just got it to work in Safari last night, by using the RealPlayer setting rather than Windows Media - there's a button in the upper right that says something like player settings.
Matt, it seems to be hit or miss. Sometimes I can get it to work wonderfully, and other times I can't get it to even start.
I've been getting consistently good results with Firefox, Matt. I think I'm using RealPlayer.
Thanks everyone! I'm pretty sure I've used the RealPlayer option for some attempts, but I can keep trying knowing that others have gotten intermittent connections.
It appears that Linspire and Ubuntu are going to do a lot of sharing of features.
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Pretty interesting (for a limited audience), especially the prospect of easily installing commercial software.
Never mind! I found what I needed.
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