Livejournal Questions

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This actually has nothing to do with the recent drama.

I have a confession to make. I'm a genius. But I'm really tragically stupid also.


-how to put on a header. And why everyone can figure it out but me.
-what a DDoS attack is. Looked it up on Wikipedia. Still really don't understand.
-where everyone gets the equipment to do all the icons and everything they do. Seems to me that stuff costs a fortune.
-how to write short fanfic.
-who Rodney is.
-Henry Jenkins.
-GIP.
-how NOT to hotlink some images. I can do it if the image is in a format Photobucket will upload, otherwise I don't understand.
-how people keep up with their flists.
-how people keep up with stuff like which new cat macro is funniest.
-how anyone keeps up with anything.
-why seraphcelene can't be here RIGHT NOW, I dunno, making pie with me.
-how people find out people are talking about them when said people are not talking to them. It's not that I don't like gossip. It's that I don't understand it. I literally seem to have trouble paying attention to anything not aimed straight at me with a missile launcher.
-why I like Harry/Draco.
-flangst.
-how people not being able to post really isn't connected to the Great Strikethrough.
-how to play most online videos, or dl the equipment.
-birthdays.
-why I didn't find a plane ticket to NYC for an earlier day so I could watch DB with a2zmom.
-Spike.
-betas.
-most emoticons.
-who Jo is.
-what Due South is.


In other news, The Sound of Music in Sparta. (link courtesy imnotacommittee.)

Comments

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

You gots questions? I gots some answers.

DDOS attacks.

Think of a server as an airport hub. So everything goes into the hub and then everything flies back out of the hub. When you post a message to me, you don't actually send it to me - you send it to the LJ server (the LJ hub, so to speak) and then LJ sends it to me. Now imagine, there's traffic jam. Instead of the 200 incoming messages that LJ can handle in an hour (in reality, it's way more, but lets keep this simple), 2000 messages come in. LJ has no way to handle this other than canceling messages (like airports canceling flights). Most of the 2000 messages it's canceling are garbage, sent in to deliberately overload the server, but some are legit. If it's a legitimate uptick in messaging, than LJ would go out and purchase another server, but it isn't. It's a group trying to close the airport.

Does that make it clear? Feel free to ask for more specifics. I'm not a network person, but I've picked up useless knowledge over the years.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

The main thing I wasn't getting was--if it was a group trying to "close the airport"--why didn't anyone think it was anger over the recent censorship?

But apparently it's the result of Russain politics, or something (according to this comment).

I still think it's weird how there's all this hulabaloo in fandom and also on LJ, and some of the issues are connected and some are separate. I'm not a conspiracy theorist and I do believe in coincidences. But since I didn't get what was happening anyway I thought it was awfully strange. But now it's a bit clearer--so, thanks!

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Nowadays, sending tons of spam is likely not to close the airport, although in the past it would have. Software now just cancels the flights.

As to why people think clogging up networks is going to accomplish anything except make many, many people pissed at them is beyond me.