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Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by reihal on Thursday 07/Feb/2002, @21:58

Who could have a motive to do such a thing? It boggles the mind, I can't think of anyone, can you?

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by jmalory on Thursday 07/Feb/2002, @22:31

I can. Steve. It has to be Steve.

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by Nick Betcher on Thursday 07/Feb/2002, @23:09

yes, we have to find this "Steve" character since we ALL KNOW WHO "STEVE" IS :) Jobs? Steve Betcher? What Steve? Steve Edwards?

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by Ill Logik on Thursday 07/Feb/2002, @23:53

I don't know what he meant, but I imagined the Dell commercail Steve.... But whatever....

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by fredi on Friday 08/Feb/2002, @05:04

Steve Ballmer o fcourse :)

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by Michael Collette on Friday 08/Feb/2002, @13:32

Yeah right... sheeesh! Like where is Ballmer going to get a box that can DoS a Unix server?

Oh God, maybe their using the FreeBSD boxen over on HotMail! Eeeek!

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by Data-Phil on Sunday 10/Feb/2002, @02:08

>Oh God, maybe their using the FreeBSD boxen over on HotMail! Eeeek!

Do you think they have someone who can use a Unix box?
Oh my god, i'm getting scared :-)

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by just some joker on Wednesday 13/Feb/2002, @15:17

Steve Erkel.

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by Tyler on Sunday 21/Mar/2004, @21:00

DUDE my dad's name is steve betcher

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by Lenny on Friday 08/Feb/2002, @01:34

There are always guys who can only enjoy life by destroying stuff and killing people.

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by Malcolm Agnew on Friday 08/Feb/2002, @03:58

So it was probably an American then? Well that's alright.

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by e.a on Friday 08/Feb/2002, @05:24

...or a german

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by Malcolm Agnew on Friday 08/Feb/2002, @06:22

Just for the record I'm from England not Germany. I thought that I was just issuing a fairly mild rebuke at the concept of relating a DoS with killing people. I didn't really want to start a flame war.
Actually what interests me most at the moment is whether kde3 will correct the broken kio_help in KDE2.2.2.

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by Lauri Watts on Friday 08/Feb/2002, @13:24

kio_help is broken? News to me, it's working perfectly happily on my (and many other) 2.2.2 installations. Have you reported a specific bug on bugs.kde.org that we can look into?

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by Malcolm Agnew on Friday 08/Feb/2002, @13:52

Search on google:

gg:klauncher said Error loading kio_help

and it takes you to the corressponding kde bug report quicker than you will find it from the kde site.

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by Aaron J. Seigo on Friday 08/Feb/2002, @15:53

i had similar problems with kde2. they seem to have gone for good with kde3, as the helpcenter now works 100% reliably here. yay for progress!

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by Lauri Watts on Saturday 09/Feb/2002, @09:20

bugno: <a-number> would get you there there even quicker.

For help to work, you need libxml2 (this is not the same thing as libxml) and libxslt. These are dependencies for kdebase - which versions do you have installed?

You need to have installed the help - some early versions of the RedHat RPMs inadvertantly didn't install it. Do you have the most up to date ones available? I'm assuming you have RedHat, as the bug report above is referring to RedHat. Do you have anything in $KDEDIR/share/doc/HTML/<yourlang>/<appname>/ ? You should have, depending on the application, an index.docbook, an index.cache.bz2, and perhaps some .png files if the document has screenshots.

If you go into one of these directories and run "meinproc index.docbook", do you get any more error messages?

The bug reports referenced above look rather like packaging errors, but there's not enough information provided to even investigate them.

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by e.a on Friday 08/Feb/2002, @05:25

...or a german

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by guillomovitch on Friday 08/Feb/2002, @05:37

Stupidity has no boundaries...

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by Sean Pecor on Friday 08/Feb/2002, @06:06

I think script kiddies are universal. It's the 21st century equivalent of neighborhood vandalism. Unfortunately DoS attacks effect thousands of people and are a great drain on resources.

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by Shamyl Zakariya on Friday 08/Feb/2002, @09:26

As an American I could choose to be offended or to chuckle. I'll chuckle ;)

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by Uwe Thiem on Friday 08/Feb/2002, @10:24

Good for you that you can chuckle. Can we, nonetheless, stop this crap? I actually like a good brawl (a good one, I said ;-), I like hefty jokes. But jokes like this one are tasteless and bound to get people offended.

Let's stick to puns the targets can laugh about!

Uwe

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by Anonymous Coward on Friday 08/Feb/2002, @15:14

> Let's stick to puns the targets can laugh about!

Like: Are Uwe Thiem or are Uwe Thus?... as the president might say.

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by Shamyl Zakariya on Saturday 09/Feb/2002, @11:07

Looks like you've got a good brawl going on below -- once again, the Gnome/KDE war flares up ;)

Silly, silly people.

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Re: Who's behind the DoS attack, then?
by AC on Tuesday 12/Feb/2002, @11:37

As a German, I choose `leo:chuckle' which returns
glucksen, kichern, leise lachen.

Thank you for ALT+F2 !!!

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Microsoft sales personel are descending on SAfrica
by NameSuggesterEngine on Saturday 09/Feb/2002, @19:54

... this was timed to coincide.

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