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Mitigating DDoS Attacks

Aug 082013

Article by Chris Pentago

DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks) have been a global Internet phenomenon and a problem for quite some time now. Ever since the Internet started being used for making money and for generating large amounts of revenue, there have been people who have been trying (for whatever purpose) to bring down these webpages.

These attacks have a final goal of stopping the functioning of a website, which will, in turn, make it inaccessible for everyone on the Internet. Website downtime can, as I mentioned, bring about substantial losses of revenue, which is why these attacks have to be stopped at all costs.

Now, when it comes to the targets for these attacks, they are usually websites of some high-profile companies and businesses, as well as important government agencies. They target the websites that are hosted on major web hosting providers, ensuring that these pages stay down for a couple of hours.

If the problem is not dealt with, or is dealt with poorly, then the downtime can be prolonged indefinitely and can, after a while, cause the owner of the website (be it a business, a government agency or anything else) to break, usually financially.

The Race Is Over, Open Source Has Won. Sorta.

Articles, Opinion 1 Response »

Aug 052013

Article from Tcat Houser editor-in-chief of TRCBNews.com.

Philosophies on how to approach things in life, for example Open Source Versus Closed, run in cycles. In the 1970s hobbyists would be carefully typing BASIC code from there enthusiast magazine. Commodore, Apple or the highest podge of C/PM machines.

Open Source went out of fashion (relatively speaking) with the emergence of DOS and Microsoft. In terms of absolute numbers, Open Source actually grew. It was the relative percentage in the overall digital world with major players doing proprietary code that made it look like Open Source was old-fashioned.

Coinciding with Microsoft starting several years of development work on ‘Chicago’ (Windows 95) Linux started to gain some real traction in the shadows. In my opinion this is only because the attempts to create (again) a Unified UNIX in the late 1980s failed (again).

We find ourselves where we are today because there are two types of computer users. Some of us like the joy of figuring something out, while others merely see it as something to get something else done. There are a few of us that do the former to help the latter. I’m one of those few.

I am keenly aware of the fact that readers here are solidly in the former camp and do not understand those in the latter camp.

Mobile Media Converter on Linux

Articles, Reviews 1 Response »

Jul 212013

You are new to Linux, you are searching for a simple method to convert your videos or your music to fit your Mobile’s resolution or your player’s supported formats.

You are tired from using the terminal and commands to convert your music, videos and films and searching for a simpler alternative to do repetitive boring tasks for you ?

You are trying to find an application that covers the power of ffmpeg with a simple graphic user interface ?.

You have arrived to the right place !

Benchmark: X.org VS Mir

Articles, Opinion, Reviews 4 Responses »

Jul 172013

This is an interesting article by Paolo Rotolo, it’s a comparison of MIR (in the Xmir version that will be present on Ubuntu 13.10) and the current Xorg.

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After the announcement of Canonical on Mir, which will be included as a default display server in Ubuntu 13.10, I decided to do some tests (benchmark, in the jargon), to see whether the performances of Mir are comparable to those of the good old X.org (the daemons currently present on Ubuntu), as promised by Mark Shuttleworth on his blog.

All benchmarks were performed with the suite “Phoronix Test” on Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander).

I’ve done all the test run on an hardware with low-medium specs (especially the video card), because with a more powerful PC, the differences between X.org and Mir would have been less relevant.

Linux Games: Left 4 Dead 2

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Jul 142013

Some days ago Left 4 Dead 2 has been released on Linux on Steam Gaming Platform.
The game was released on 2009 for many gaming platforms such as Xbox and Windows, but if like me you like to play games on your Linux box, this is a good opportunity to play one of the most famous FPS cooperative survival Zombie games.

This game is a co-operative single or multiplayer action horror FPS that takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
You’ll play as one of four survivors armed with a wide and devastating array of weapons. In addition to firearms, you’ll also get a chance to take out some aggression on infected with a variety of carnage-creating melee weapons, from chainsaws to axes and even the deadly frying pan.
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