10:53am UTC: We have restored services on our european mirror machine which was
not compromised. DNS should be shifting you over right about ... now..
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White noise machines are sold as privacy enhancers and sleep aids and to mask tinnitus. White noise CDs, when used with headphones, can aid concentration by blocking out irritating or distracting noises in a person's environment. In open plan offices, large corporations such as ExxonMobil apply white noise to reduce the reach of speech, thus, by preventing office staff from being distracted by conversations in the background, safeguarding productivity.
37 signals does have customers outside the US but I suppose its a small figure.
I agree with David that no amount will ever keep programmers from programming. So instead of sweating out 14+ hours a day in hope that you can retire in 5 years, why not live your life as you go.
The advantage of this script is that it directly monitors the IPs using netstat so one could stop bots from hammering things other than your webserver, say socket connections.
It is customizable to use APF or iptables and worked quite well when one of my friend's site was hit.
For doc and other formats, one can use openoffice commandline tools to convert them all to pdf.
edit: Some history - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9874527-2.html Scribd initially used the now discontinued flash paper.
http://www.infosys.com/BPO-services/default.asp
Infosys is not a call center. But its not a "pure" software company either.
I have always wondered about how EBS as disk will affect database as it is essentially a network drive. Any info on that would be great.