Good question. It has been so slow it sometimes it generates a script error message because it times out.

I'm on really fast cable and getting about 1450 MBPS so unless some router is acting up, it proably is something to due with SoFo ISP.

i glad sumon menchun it i thoot it was jis miine sddiity compudr ;);):) ;9!

hope it's not dem terrorists

It's had phases like this in the past. There have been several DDoS attacks around the world this week; my own web server got hit several billion times in the span of less than an hour yesterday afternoon and it put me offline for almost 5 hours until my ISP could block enough of the traffic to make it safe to go back on. Grrrrrr. It was an organized attack from thousands of hijacked computers all over the world. Definately terrorists, even it it was only a bunch of script-kiddies playing around, i'd say they still qualify as digital terrorists.

It may not necessarily be that SonicFoundry is being directly by an attack, but the increase in traffic on the 'net in general from all the attacks is slowing everything down.

Actually I only see the slowdown here. Every other board I go into loads instantly on my cable modem. Thought maybe the good news was that so many people were buying SoFo products and visiting the boards that it was tying up their servers!

Script kiddies* are a pain in the butt. But DOS (Denial of Service) attacks are what the name suggests; aimed at a specific target, they do not impact the entire web, however some routers may get flooded and slow down some. I think the slowness of SoFo is more related to how the forums are set up. Anyone that's visited vcdhelp sees that they have far more forum traffic and don't have the lag that SoFo does which is substantial even when things are more "normal", which they have not been for the last several days. :-(

Script kiddies generally refers to losers that are too incompetent to hack on their own and rely on how-to from those that do,hence the name script kiddies. A DOS attack is an attempt to network a bunch of computers usually by first comprising them by uploading a Trojan via port scanning, then use them unkowningly to the owner to attack in force some target by flooding their server making it far more difficult for legimate visitors from reaching such and such site.

My guess is that it's that new Adobe virus. I hear they put it out in an effort to discredit any company that actually encourages good user communication and support. It gives them a great edge by frustrating the users of users of competing products. The goal, it seems, is to make the competitor's support vehicle look even slower than their own and thus, they end up looking better without actually having to improve.

In the next version of the virus they are going to have it secretely remove transitions and FX until all competitor's products fail any reasonable checklist comparison. They are working closely on a royalty arrangement with Symantec to put a filter into their NAV 2004 product. The cure will be complete, but will come a little late as, by then, all of the competitor's customers will have switched back to Adobe NLE products.

OK... it's a guess. I don't really know why it is so slow, but it seems to only be slow on this BBS and on the topic list screen.

Tom

LOL!

Here is an interesting note:

Just before the vote on the House version of the Homeland Security bill, on Wednesday, I believe it was, someone snuck in an amendment. The bill was passed 299 to I think 121, and contains a proviso that anyone caught hacking and causing "substantial" damage, could be imprisoned "For Life." This proviso is worded such that it is doubtful the damage would have to be to national security, just "substantial" damage. It is probably too vague to stand, and will probably meet some resistance in the Senate, but it is interesting what people want to do to hackers.

See:

http://netscape.com.com/2100-1105-965930.html?type=pt

for a short version of that story and several other blurbs.

The speed seems to be picking up... it is now 6:00pm edt.

It seems like the time to load the post-listing is the slow part now.

Perhaps a drive in a raid failed and the replacement is now close to recovery... y'know, auto data-reconstruction or whatever you want to call it when you hotswap a raid-5 drive.


MPH

the board is still slow here, sometimes not loading at all. i hope sofo will address this problem asap because it is nearly impossible to read this board anymore.

The slow part is the topics listing, perhaps a data base issue. Maybe it would help to dump some of the oldest threads, or put them in an archive section. There's also some security problem with the GIFs in the Caption and IE6 (?).