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Re: [News] "Burying the truth? Boycott Novell hit by Denial of Service attack"


On Wed, 20 May 2009 10:04:51 -0500, William Poaster wrote:

> On Wed, 20 May 2009 09:00:33 -0500, above the shrieking, FUDding &
> whining of the trolls SomeBloke was heard to say:
> 
>> On Wed, 20 May 2009 15:41:11 +0200, Hadron wrote:
>> 
>>> SomeBloke <stuff@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, 20 May 2009 07:30:36 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
>>>>>   this bit o' wisdom:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Burying the truth? Boycott Novell hit by Denial of Service attack
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://blogs.computerworld.com/
>>>> burying_the_truth_boycott_novell_hit_by_denial_of_service_attack
>>>>> 
>>>>>    Boycott Novell is one opinionated site. If you think I'm
>>>>>    pro-Linux and hard on Microsoft, you haven't been reading Roy
>>>>>    Schestowitz, who makes me look as mild as a May day.
>>>>>    
>>>>> :-D
>>>>> 
>>>>>    Boycott Novell, which was founded in 2006 in reaction to Novell's
>>>>>    partnership with Microsoft, is very popular with about a million
>>>>>    hits per month, but it's also made enemies. Enemies who seem to
>>>>>    have had enough of Boycott Novell recently launched a DDoS
>>>>>    (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, which has almost knocked
>>>>>    the site out.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I've struggled with it for 3+ days. I'm still restoring data. I
>>>>>> needed to set up the account again.
>>>>> 
>>>>> And they think /we/ are the zealots!
>>> 
>>> I would not think of you as in any "we". You so wish and so suck up to
>>> make it so, but no, there is no "we". You are a windows programming
>>> professional.
> 
> PKB
> 
> <quote>
> I'm a long term Windows user and programmer. <unquote>
> Hadron - Message-ID: <87y7hxdaei.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> alt.os.linux.ubuntu
> 
> Ironic, don't ya think "SomeBloke"?

Don't use long words like 'Ironic' around Hardon, it makes him over 
excited. But not in a good way!
> 
>>>>>    In Boycott Novell's case, I strongly suspect that that someone
>>>>>    iis a person with a screw loose and a grudge against
>>>>>    Schestowitz's strong anti-Microsoft and proprietary software
>>>>>    views. If that seems a little bit over-the-top, well, as I just
>>>>>    pointed out, it doesn't really require any technical expertise to
>>>>>    knock out a Web site. All you need is a grudge and the right
>>>>>    contacts.
>>>>
>>>> There are at least 5 non-de-plumes trolls I could suggest as
>>>> potential screw loose cases who would seriously consider doing such a
>>>> thing. The rest of the trolls are too thick!
>>> 
>>> So says "SomeBloke" ....
>>> 
>>> BoycottNovell is ignored generally because it's a crank web site.
>>> 
>>> The recent spanking the usual suspects got on the subject of Mono was
>>> priceless.
>> 
>> So says "Hardon" ...
>> 
>> It doesn't take much for the usual stalker to turn up, does it?
> 
> Only to be expected from the M$ fanboi.





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