Thursday, February 03, 2005

DDoS and Debunking DaVinci

So what else has been happening? Well, nothing more seems to have made the major news sites about Tony Blair and Bill Gates’ graphology experiment. I am a bit of a sceptic anyway, who ranks graphologists not too far above astrologers in the great scheme of things.

We had an interesting afternoon at work today when we suspected we were the subject of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack from the Internet. In the end it turned out we probably weren’t and it was more likley that someone on our network was using illegal file sharing software, but we certainly had an exciting few hours working through the steps to combat the symptoms.

This evening we watched an interesting program based around the facts (and fiction) of the book The Da Vinci Code. I found it interesting because I am quite familiar with the background to a lot of the pieces of the mystery, having read Holy Blood, Holy Grail as a teenager. I’d like to check some of the information from the program for myself, but it was a fairly complete debunking.

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