apologies

[woodelf]

Jay West wrote:

>
> The dresden dolls announced recently that they were going on tour with 
> Nine Inch Nails. Wonder of wonder, suddenly their website was sucking 
> up to 45mbps sustained. Maybe it had to do with all those live 
> performance videos & mp3 files. Anyways... I've spent a lot of time 
> dealing with that (as well as the politics of getting them to pay for 
> the bandwidth). bw_mod has become my friend.
>
I guess getting 45's may be a little hard from them. With all the 
download stuff just what do Bands sell anymore?
 

> Then, for the past two days I noticed some network oddities (you know, 
> when an admin can't quite put their finger on it but knows something 
> is amiss)... well, about 6pm tonight I found the culprit. One of the 
> servers that is colocated with us by another band (not managed by us) 
> got hacked. I found all kinds of wonderful udp flood scripts, paypal 
> scripts, irc bots, etc. When will admins learn that their laziness 
> affects others. Anyways, they've charged me with cleaning up their mess.

Install unix on a old PDP ... that may speed things up.   Runs and ducks.