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07 Mar 2011 14:14

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Tech: WordPress founder confirms DDoS assault came from China

  • last week WordPress, the exemplary blogging platform, was hit with a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that stalled its servers. At the time, they believed it may have been politically motivated against a Chinese language blog.
  • this week While WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg updated the record in an email to IDG News Service, saying he no longer believed the motive to be political, he did confirm that the DDoS attack originated from China. A little international intrigue? source
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15 Jun 2010 11:49

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Tech: Nice: Random Mac Mini redesign comes out of nowhere

  • Can we just say that this was the most neglected part of Apple’s entire lineup? Well, until today, that is. Apple redesigned the box to be used the way people actually use it – as a small, efficient server or as a beefed-up TV device, complete with all the necessary ports to make it a part of your living room. We approve. source
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24 Mar 2010 22:37

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Tech: Wikipedia went down today, and the world somehow survived

  • And so we remember Thursday, March 25, 2010 as the day every English speaking student failed their research papers.
  • Wikipedia commenter “Jimmy” • Regarding the server meltdown that the site had earlier today. The meltdown, which knocked out the site’s European data center, caused the server not to load for many users. It was due to overheating probably caused by someone looking up this article. “This problem was quickly resolved, but unfortunately it may take up to an hour before access is restored for everyone, due to caching effects,” a blog post on the downtime said. source
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24 Aug 2009 21:01

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Biz, U.S.: Cash for Clunkers deadline extended. Here’s a monster truck video.

  • Car dealers have until noon tomorrow to get all that paperwork in, thanks to server problems on the government’s end. Which is the not-fun part of the Cash for Clunkers program. Above? The fun part.source
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17 Apr 2009 22:05

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Tech, World: The Pirate Bay’s old server is notable enough to be in a museum

  • This is an object of contemporary society and a museum collects such items.
  • Nils Olander • Curator of Sweden’s National Museum of Science and Technology, on the reasoning for putting the server, confiscated in a raid by police last year, in his museum. Despite losing the Spectrial today, it appears that the creators of The Pirate Bay are well on their way to martyrdom. • source
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03 Apr 2009 07:01

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Biz: IBM tries to steal some sunshine with a big aquisition

  • $7 billion to buy Sun and form a really big, bright and blue company source
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