Re: [Bricolabs] praxicology: new texts on thenextlayer.org

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Author: John Hopkins
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Subject: Re: [Bricolabs] praxicology: new texts on thenextlayer.org
Good morning Armin!

>yesterday, minutes after i sent this, the server where TNL gets hosted
>suffered a DDOS attack. stupid script kiddie stuff it seems but badly
>effective. they had to shut down apache for a while. before that there
>was some dns issue a few days earlier. so lets say the hosting situation
>was a bit turbulent lately, but there wasnt much that I could do. on the
>same server are some quite prominent projects such as GWEI by
>Ubermorgen, so who knows maybe Google tried to shut us down;-) No, but
>seriously, I am sure Hans from Ubermorgen calls the sysops 10 seconds
>after he realises the server is down, so I dont have to be in their neck
>as well


instability in alternative and fringe systems is the ground condition
which, while annoying at times, brings more contingent life to
be-ing. I'd rather have this than you maintaining a triple-redundant
military system! ;-)) Gives me a good excuse to write you a note!

>functions have resumed to normal, I really rcommend both the jaromil and
>the john barker piece


gracias! Looking forward to seeing you in Hasselt!

Cheers,
JOhn


PS -- I try it now, but it still seems away and down... :-(

Does that mean I have to get back to writing rather than reading?