All things Linux

[Noodles]

I was using Claude to go through some things I can do to optimize the webserver I have from Digital Ocean and one thing was to reboot it because it had an uptome of like 220 days.

 

[Essence Lumin]

I was using Claude to go through some things I can do to optimize the webserver I have from Digital Ocean and one thing was to reboot it because it had an uptome of like 220 days.

Then there was windows 95 which had some 32 bit counter in a device driver causing it to crash in 49.7 days. Not many people were affected since generally windows 95 crashed before then anyway.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Microsoft keeps making that mistake:

Microsoft

In Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Vista, TCP connection start information was stored in hundredths of a second, using a 32-bit unsigned integer, which caused TCP connections to fail after 497 days.
Windows 95 and Windows 98 had a problem with rollovers in a virtual device driver, VTDAPI.VXD, which used unsigned 32-bit integers to measure system runtime in milliseconds; this value would overflow after 49.7 days, causing systems to freeze.
Until version 6.0, Microsoft's .NET platform had a bug that caused threadpool hill-climbing to fail periodically after 49.7 days due to an overflow while handling milliseconds since startup.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bugs

 

[Free]

Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day

The outage has hampered communication concerning a critical vulnerability that gives root.

arstechnica.com

Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical were knocked offline on Thursday morning and have remained down ever since, a situation that’s preventing the OS provider from communicating normally following the botched disclosure of a major vulnerability.

Attempts to connect to most Ubuntu and Canonical webpages and download OS updates from Ubuntu servers have consistently failed over the past 24 hours. Updates from mirror sites, however, have continued to work normally. A Canonical status page said: “Canonical’s web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and we are working to address it.” Other than that, Ubuntu and Canonical officials have maintained radio silence since the outage began.

A group sympathetic to the Iranian government has taken credit for the outage. According to posts on Telegram and other social media, the group is responsible for a DDoS attack using Beam, an operation that claims to test the ability of servers to operate under heavy loads but, like other “stressors,” are, in fact, fronts for services miscreants pay for to take down third-party sites. In recent days, the same pro-Iran group has taken credit for DDoSes on eBay.

 

[Noodles]

Microsoft probably getting nervous about everyone dumping Windows 11.

 

[Govi]

Don Tzu: "People in grass houses should be careful about flaming rocks."

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Interesting trivia: