Posts by Andrew

Dangerous mobe chargers flood UK

Late?

Hasn't this been happening for several years? I thought this was really old news.

AVG fake traffic spares Google AdWords

DoS'd by AVG

I work for a large magazine publisher in the UK. Two of our servers was DoS'd by AVG clients with that string a couple of days ago during an adwords campaign for one of our publications. We had 20 times our normal traffic just with AVG.

Something really needs to be done about this. I don't get paid overtime to sort out their mess!

QXL.co.uk shuts up shop

Re: Here's a mad idea for you

I was having a discussion with one of our developers the other day about this. Would be a good idea if someone had the time to put it together and write code to talk to all the different APIs

Google in mass 404 land grab

Amazon's patent?

Isn't this basically what Amazon's recently approved 404 patent is about?:

'A client component runs on a user computer in conjunction with a web browser and detects errors, such as but not limited to "404: page not found" errors, in which a requested web page or other object cannot be displayed. In response to detecting the error, the client component notifies an error processing server, which uses the URL of the failed request to identify an alternate object to display.'

That lawsuit would be interesting.

Virgin Media dishes out free bandwidth boost

Virgin Media ADSL

So that's where all my ADSL bandwidth has gone then I take it. With massive download speeds of up to 20kbytes/sec in the evenings (some evenings I am lucky to get dial-up speed) despite a good s/n ratio, etc... It really takes the pi**. If it weren't for the fact I would be charged £50 for the privilege I would change providers today.

Government piles filesharing pressure on UK ISPs

Re: Re: Slight over-reactions

> Of course, there's ways commited geeks can anonymise their filesharing completely, but they're a small minority among an increasingly mainstream problem for record and film companies.

The same was said about MP3 and bittorrent itself a while back, somebody will make it easier for the mainstream user. The whole thing will go deeper underground and get harder to track. The only people that will really suffer are online roll playing games and people like me who download OSS via. bittorrent, although I will just fall back to FTP or rsync if this goes ahead.

I highly doubt it will ever get anywhere. As with all these things it is too little too late.