In the past week there were a couple of companies(tumblr and 37signals) who publically blamed Rackspace for the downtime of their sites (tumblr here and 37signals here, here) . In both cases the downtime wasn’t widespread and was limited to the individual sites. In both cases someone from the respective site blogged about how it [...]

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Oh yea. I forgot to mention that i released a new version of my campfirenow.com bot framework. It is quite a bit better and a lot more robust – however i imagine that 37signals has changed things to stop it.
Check out the source: here
I also released a proof of concept flood. its real annoying and [...]

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So i was playing around with campfire and i noticed that i could easy write a bot for it. so i did. it sucks. but it shows what you could do. how i love www mechanize. and perl. check it out:
http://nata2.info/?path=code%2Fcampfire_bot_hack
Oh yea. campfire is sweet. the 37signals guys did a great job. although i am [...]

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