what is DDOS?
Distributed Denial of Service. When they use many computers (sometimes thousands).
eta: Probably the first example of a DOS attack was the Ping of Death - where a computer would ping a site thousands of times a second, causing the site to crash. In general, a DOS attack just floods a server with garbage, rendering it unable to function normally. A DDOS is much harder to defend against - a single attacking computer can be blocked, but thousands of attacking computers is much more difficult to defend against.
I just read my Lj Friends just fine...didn't write anything yet, but...
The top five songs my shuffled playlist today,
Spy vs. Spy - Poets and Pornstars
Daylight Dancer - Lacuna Coil
Come Together - Beatles
In the Blood - Better than Ezra
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
No Scandinavian bands among them this time.
I just read my Lj Friends just fine...
A huge site like LJ would have many servers. So it depends on whether you end up on a server that's been brought down by the DDOS or not.
that makes sense, of course.
weird that I'm lucky then.
Thank you all for the birthday wishes! The day has started wonderfully with reading all of your words and then my assistant gave me a necklace with NANCY DREW on it. Does it get any cooler than that? I get to go out to lunch with friends and then to a romantic restaurant for dinner with Mr. Scrappy.
I am very proud to share my b-day with the redoubtable Emaryn.
Happy birthday, Scrappy and Emaryn!
What the pregnant lady said.
Listen to the pregnant ladies, for they are our future. Or something.
