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Comment: Re:Why are network providers allowing FORGED packe (Score 1) 158

by gmack (#46218621) Attached to: DDoS Larger Than the Spamhaus Attack Strikes US and Europe

He didn't say spoofing, he said transiting, so they are people who have their own IP blocks assigned and are using those. The advantage is that you can have multiple uplinks and use the second as backup if your primary goes down and all of the ips never change.

Comment: Re:Horse Battery Staple is common too (Score 2) 299

by gmack (#45578565) Attached to: Why People Are So Bad At Picking Passwords

If I had to guess, I'd guess that the website uses the password to authenticate to a mainframe somewhere and is just a front end for some EDBIC based protocol so cracking the website wouldn't get access to the actual list.

Not that it excuses the short limit, but then I'm hard pressed to find something better considering our banks all got together and designed a PayPal competitor that
A. Is designed not to compete with their credit card processing system.
B. Is designed around clicking links in emails.

Comment: Re:Horse Battery Staple is common too (Score 1) 299

by gmack (#45574835) Attached to: Why People Are So Bad At Picking Passwords

Not all of my passwords can be that long. My bank password (the one I care about the most) has a 5 char limit and and I hate random passwords. I came across a good method a few years ago for generating passwords that need to be short: Take a song and chose a line then take the first character of each word and you have an easy to remember but hard to guess password.

Comment: Re:I switched to CentOS and never looked back (Score 1) 346

by gmack (#45544085) Attached to: The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu

Ubuntu tries to allow you to do major upgrades in place, but after a year or two you have to reinstall to clear out the crud.

Say what? Unless something has really changed between Debian and Ubuntu there really shouldn't be much crud being built i`since it provides a remove feature for obsolete dependencies. I have been running Debian for over a decade and I only reinstall for server replacement or corrupted drives.

Comment: Re:So many improvements (Score 1) 190

by gmack (#45442243) Attached to: Linux 3.13 Kernel To Bring Major Feature Improvements

I had the same problem with the Nvidia drivers but 3.12 was such a large difference on my other systems that I spent the time and patched the Nvidia drivers myself using patches I found using a Google search "Nvidia Linux 3.1.2".

You should be able to do the same but if you get stuck, feel free to contact me for help.

RAM wasn't built in a day.