yawn

how in FUCK would this stop a DoS attack...

good, innit.

Finally! I can down vote.

@mossy Well, if the DoS attack is that your site is unreasonably popular on ask.com and your server has a big impact servicing those requests...

@mossy But only twice :P

I need to ask another question about one of our hilariously antiquated systems so I can get pity upvotes before I can downvote again

Anyone familiar with i5/OS and NetServer?

@r.tanner.f You can downvote questions without loss of reputation.

@Patrick Run the backup manually if you want to shrink it ASAP

@freiheit I don't know... I feel like this guy should look elsewhere for his server becoming unresponsive.

@JoelESalas i will try that when the server comes back up. updating SAN Firmware right now, so i shutdown all the servers using it.

@mossy It's an exceedingly unlikely scenario, yes. Generally not really a DoS attack as much as "we have a terribly performing app that somehow shows up on ask.com when people search for 'Britney Spears Boobs'". I could see doing a rule like that for blocking a very specific pattern of traffic.

i was with you up to britney spears.

though i was back on at boobs.

so.... I need to figure out how to modify printer drivers

Give them whips?

rather you than me

on both counts

I need to modify a driver to replace random four letter words starting with specific letters with other specific four letter words starting with a specific letter. And only effect certain IP addresses or usernames

Hmm, can't seem to find to 64'er comic of a printer driver

How do you define a word?

@MattBear That might be possible with a filter in CUPS...

Except that your input is likely to break up words in ways you don't expect

I just need to figure out where to start...

en.opensuse.org/…

its a very important project...

But good luck with that... You'd better hope your software isn't tweaking kerning or anything fancy like that...

for my own personal entertainment

:p

Warning: Kittens! new.livestream.com/FosterKittenCam/RipleysKittens

in a unrelated note.... a dumb note

@Hennes Gee thanks now I'm guaranteed to not get any work done today

Heh

a maintenace plan performing daily backups on my sql server, had .bak instead of bak in the delete old backups task....

found that out from a low disk space warning :p

random four letter words ? this reminds me of a batman word filter for a twitter ticker i made. replaced cussing with "bam!" "pow!". prolly my all time favourite bit of code.

@Hennes The problem with live kitten cams is that kittens sleep 23+ hours a day

@Sirex exactly!! except the other direction

could watch customers slag our company off and get a free batman fight scene at the same time.

replaces bam! shoe four etc... with b*** s*** and f***, without the asteriks

@MattBear You can swear in here, we're all grown adults

(well, adults anyway)

might be overkill though. on a print driver ? - i only did it for the twitter feed cos the top bosses didnt like the large screen tv's full of swearing.

HP!!!!

@MarkHenderson really? cool!

hell fart damn!

i think you've wasted your chance, to be fair @MattBear

@Sirex basically I want to screw with a friends print jobs... :p

@MattBear In fact I'm dissapoint^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hsurprised that the conversation hasn't been about fisting in a few weeks

ah. A nobel endeavour

exactly

Probably cos @cole is away for a few weeks

@MarkHenderson anal, varginal, oral, or nasel?

or ocular

nasal fisting would be a great name for a metal band

@MarkHenderson latex gloves, nitrile gloves, or gloveless?

testicular.. penile...