Here in Sweden, the tradition is to watch Dinner For One: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1v4BYV-YvA/ (on TV every year since 1976), get very drunk and then watch fireworks (or set them off yourself and get your fingers blown off if you're drunk enough).

This year I had actually planned to play World of Tanks at midnight since my girlfriend is sick and sleeping.... but of course a colleague showed up and I had to go to a pub run by Russian criminals and drink lots of things. Now I just hope I get sick too so I can stay home and sleep for a week.

Then it's around 4,5TB (including TV-series, movies, porn, games etc)

If it's the important stuff: 780MB (backup of mails since 2001 + textfiles + 3 spreadsheets)

There should be a list of ISP's/hosts that doesn't do anything about it. We (my hosting company) usually get DDoSed by turkish IP's from Turk Telecom a couple of times a month, because of random Kurdish websites their customers don't like. I report them all to to the turktelecom abuse address, but it doesn't seem to help much. (the blocked IP's keep trying)

Last couple of weeks some of our customers (using outdated Joomla-installations with security holes) were used for a DDoS against Bank of America. I shut them down as soon as I got the abusemails. And I don't think we should be punished since we can't be held responsible for customers who thinks it's a good idea to use Joomla-installations with wide-open security holes if we do something about it as soon as we get the abuse reports.

I *think* AOL are one of the good guys in this case, I can't remember seeing any DDoS or spamcampaign from their network going on for a long period of time.

At least you didn't say it in a pub in Dublin... that wouldn't have ended well :-)

Perhaps it's not perfect, but it's quite accurate. At my workplace I see about 10(*) successfull attacks/day (against customers with well-known holes in WP-plugins or Joomla-components), and ther access.log says the same thing as the map.

I wish my boss could authorise hireing a hitman + planetckets so he could take them out. Or at last have him shoot the machines running the bots.

* and many many thousand malware-mails that are eaten by amavis on the mailserver before they reach their destination

Red Hat (around 95 or 96, installed it on my girlfriends parents computer since I was on Amiga at that time)
Slackware (1998-2000, stopped using Linux for a while after that - not slackwares fault)
... ... (Windows/FreeBSD)
Debian (2002-2004, discovered the wonders of apt)
Debian on the server (2002-)
Ubuntu/Xubuntu (2004-2010. 2004 was the year of the Linux Desktop when stuff just worked out of the box for the first time)
Mint (2012-. Cinnamon edition)

Also tried Mandrake, Suse, Gentoo and something else but didn't really like them. Might try Arch some day soon.

Perhaps because new versions spring up so fast or something?

I'm running a fairly new Mint Cinnamon that I'm not quite used to yet, and after a few hours of trial & error and reading various googled suggestions I failed to install any kind of drivers for my external AU-25. Ok, so I just plugged in my guitar as front mike instead.

But then I wanted to play along with my Megadeth-mp3's. The only really good MP3-player I know on Linux is XMMS, and that one is apparently not very populair anymore, so I can't install it with apt (just something called XMMS2 which apparently can do anything except play MP3's).

Well, nobody can prevent me from building it, right? I've been using Linux since 1994, but after 2 hours of trying to crack "configure: error: *** GLIB >= 1.2.2 not installed - please install first ***" by installing just about every dependency on the entire internet, I gave up and apt-get installed rythmbox.

Which kind of worked fine (though it couldn't sort my mp3's in s sane order, which is why I wanted XMMS in the first place) until I got tired of music and wanted to stop. So, I clicked the X in the upper-right corner... the window dissapeared, but the music continued. Great. Had to ps and kill, and now my beer supply is out of sync with my enthusiam for music.

So yeah, Unix/Linux documentation sucks.

Actually, making an analog guitar amplifier sound "right" is probably more difficult than building a rocket. I have a (digital and somewhat modern) VAMP3 and it's not possible to make it sound anything like a real Marshall stack with tubes.

Ruby (and RoR) is not hip anymore. This is 2012, not 2008. The hipsters have moved on to whatever, and those who remains are generally not worse than other coders.

> we began to encounter serious memory/CPU issues with Apache

Can you elaborate, please? I used to work at a webhost that used apache for around 500.000 websites, and memory/CPU was never a problem. (Not for apache, only for PHP and MySQL.) I often see people claim that Apache is bloated, but don't understand in what way (except possibly for the config files, that might might extensive but not really bloated and they don't affect performance)

If they were beaufiful they wouldn't use mascara.

(please think about it for a few minutes before modding me down)

> I work as freelancer over the internet.

Sounds very nice, but how do you find and get those jobs? I've been freelancing a bit too, but I only get local gigs through people I already know.

Ten years? So.... you think the SSSR fell when Jeltsin stepped down?

It's not news, I remember my teacher telling us about this (how you recognize the shape of words, not letters) back in 1982. It has probably been known for much longer than that.

Oh well, this is Slashdot "news"...

(can I take that back? It IS old news, but OTOH it's a cool thing that kind of fits here)

Source?

Good if it's true, I recently abandoned Ubuntu and installed mint because of Unity. Nice, clean and works fine out of the box (or USB-stick). But I don't see how it could be more populair than Ubuntu (yet)?