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6:30AM Pacific. Heard a report on NPR that some kind of Internet-wide denial of service attack is underway. They quote Microsoft saying it's serious. If you have more information, esp Web pages I can point to, please post a comment on my Radio weblog. Thanks.

Reports: CNN, BBC, Slashdot, Beta News, Google, AP.

Lawrence Lee: "Here's a chart from the Internet Traffic Report with global packet loss for the past 24 hours."

Freedom.Org: "Quick fix is to firewall port 1434/UDP traffic, and reboot the affected SQL servers."

Slashdot: "If you run Microsoft SQL Server, make sure the public Internet can't access it."

Beta News: "The attack used a buffer overflow to execute code on a vulnerable SQL Server, causing that system to randomly seek out other computers to infect and in the process consume massive amounts of bandwidth."

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"IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN this Supervillain / Linux parody of those Apple 'switch' ads, well, watch it. It's funny." [via  Jack Burton, via InstaPundit]

[The Shifted Librarian]
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Manifest Destiny 101.

The Growth of the United States (requires Flash)

"A ten-minute, animated atlas." [via The Noodle Incident, via MetaFilter]

[The Shifted Librarian]
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Excellent Idea, Ernie!.

Announcing PDF for Lawyers

"It is with great hope and little fanfare that I announce my new project:  PDF for Lawyers.  Right before the blog affliction took me I had been planning to write a book for lawyers on using PDF files.  I never was able to write the book (too much blogging no doubt).  Well, now that I understand how to use Radio better I have figured out how to host this at a different site and use Radio to post to it.  So, that's it.  If you are a lawyer interested in using Acrobat to make your office less paperful (going paperless is a dream) then tune in, drop comments, send me emails with tips and let's all learn more about using Adobe Acrobat.  Oh, and of course it has an XML/RSS feed." [Ernie the Attorney]

[The Shifted Librarian]
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Apple Adds X Windows support to Mac OS X. This interesting development enables Mac OS X to relatively easily run Unix-based applications. Mac OS X is, in fact, a version of Unix with Apple's famous ease-of-use graphic user interface hiding the details of Unix under the covers. This new feature, now in Beta test, would make OS X more appealing to business customers. [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology]
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Senate Votes Unanimously To Close Down Total Information Awareness Office [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology]
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