Oh snap! Imminent closure of SORBS!

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This just came in from the [sorbs-announce] mailing list.

All,

Please feel free to forward this message to any other location/mailing list.

It comes with great sadness that I have to announce the imminent closure
of SORBS. The University of Queensland have decided not to honor their
agreement with myself and SORBS and terminate the hosting contract.

I have been involved with institutions such as Griffith University
trying to arrange alternative hosting for SORBS, but as of 12 noon, 22nd
June 2009 no hosting has been acquired and therefore I have been forced
in to this announcement. SORBS is officially “For Sale” should anyone
wish to purchase it as a going concern, but failing that and failing to
find alternative hosting for a 42RU rack in the Brisbane area of
Queensland Australia SORBS will be shutting down permanently in 28 days,
on 20th July 2009 at 12 noon.

This announcement will be replicated on the main SORBS website at the
earliest opportunity.

For information about the possible purchase of SORBS, the source code,
data, hosts etc, I maybe contacted at michelle@sorbs.net, telephone +61
414 861 744.

For any hosting suggestions/provision, please be aware that the 42RU
space is a requirement at the moment, and the service cannot be made
into a smaller rackspace without a lot of new hardware, virtual hosting
is just not possible. The SORBS service services over 30 billion DNS
queries per day, and has a number of database servers with fast disk to
cope with the requirements.

Thank you for all your support over the years,

Michelle Sullivan
(Previously known as Matthew Sullivan)

Current Mood: (ecstatic) ecstatic
Current Music: Tech N9ne - Einstein

The Yardening

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So, for a little over a week now nearly all of my free time has been spent doing some yard work:
I put up a quick and dirty image gallery with some of my progress. Pay no attention to the 2006 timestamps on a few of the photos. The camera is constantly eating batteries and resets [...]

Fuuuuuuuuuu…..

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When did Helix become a pay distro? I’ve been looking at some of the pen testing distros I’ve used in the past and some new ones. I’m honestly not real impressed right now. I know I’ll find something to fit my needs but I was looking forward to being “wow’d”. I’m going to give Samurai [...]

No time to post

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Sorry internet. I haven’t had a lot of time to post lately. I have to thank you for sending this image my way though. Good for many chuckles:

Current Mood:  sleepyCurrent Music: Necessary Response – Spilling Blood

Giant Worm Not Actually Making Spice in Cornwall

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I had to laugh when I read this. I looked these things up and yeah, they sure are creepy looking. More like something out of a lovecraftian world than a Frank Herbert novel in my opinion, but still equally freaky.
“It really does look like something out of a horror movie! It’s over four feet long [...]

A Scanner Darkly

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I think I’d like to read the book and watch the movie again sometime soon.
What does a scanner see? I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner … see into me — into us — clearly or darkly? I hope it does see clearly, because I can’t [...]

windows pci compliance

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So this really is MY fault, but seriously… Enabled = Disabled ? I’m not awesome with windows and I suspect this is a prime example of WHY that is:
(12:03:47) windowsguy: Hey
(12:04:04) me: what’s up.
(12:04:38) windowsguy: on the server you modified for pci compliance yesterday
(12:04:53) windowsguy: You accidently disabled SSL v3 and not SSL v2
(12:05:12) me: [...]

Results are in, it’s hoodie weather.

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I got up early for work this morning. While listening to the rain in my sleepy haze I dug through my pile of clothes in the closet. I’ve realized that I clearly need to get more hoodies. I seem to be running low on them. Between loaning them out, accidentally shrinking them to the point [...]

Apocryppahcryppah is coming!

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Since the new expansion hit the test servers people have been uploading videos of the new stuff. Even CCP has some new videos. I think they have out done themselves this time. The new stuff looks awesome. Here is a short list of some hotness I found on youtube.
CCP employees talk about the new Apocryppahcryppah [...]

VERY STUPID MONSTERS

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I had come across this site a while back and had been meaning to post about it for some time now. I find myself going back and reminiscing over all the old D&D days and wonder if it would still entertain me like it did back then. If nothing else, all the stupid monsters are [...]