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Apple seeks ban on U.S. Nokia imports
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10436415-37.html
Steve Jobs and Sir Tim Berners-Lee baffle the Brits
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| Microsoft boss Bill Gates was the most
| well-known but 5% of the group thought he
| was a comedian or a famous thief.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8458880.stm
Microsoft bots perform denial of service on Perl Testers
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| The Perl CPAN Testers have been suffering
| issues accessing their sites, databases and
| mirrors. According to a posting on the CPAN
| Testers' blog, the CPAN Testers' server has
| been being aggressively scanned by "20-30
| bots every few seconds" in what they call
| "a dedicated denial of service attack";
| these bots "completely ignore the rules
| specified in robots.txt".
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Microsoft-bots-perform-denial-of-service-on-Perl-Testers-906094.html
Recent:
MSNBOT must die!
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| If you've suffered any problems accessing any
| of the sites, the databases, the CPAN mirror,
| etc from the CPAN Testers server last night,
| please direct your wrath at Microsoft. Last
| night the msnbot took out the CPAN Testers
| server with a dedicated denial of service
| attack. As a consequence measures are now
| being put in place to completely ban the
| msnbot from accessing at least the Reports
| site, and probably all the sites on the
| server.
|
| Microsoft in their incompetent wisdom decided
| to unleash 20-30 bots every few seconds. I
| know this because I can see the IP addresses
| in the logs. The ones spotted within a few
| minutes of rebooting the server this morning
| to clear the processes were
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http://blogs.perl.org/users/cpan_testers/2010/01/msnbot-must-die.html
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