With less than 100 days till elections the Republicans need to shake the boggie man and try to create some terror. Republican need terror and rigged votimg machines to win elections. With Lieberman losing it's Red Alert, new plot to blow up planes.
Lets see what this plot looks like next week. I remember the last two plots that fizzeled out into nothing. Lets see where this one goes. Expect a lot more trror as we get close to the election. Maybe they can even fet Bush's buddy Osama to make an election eve endorsement like he did in 2004.
I want to be the person at the airport who's supposed to inspect the breast milk.
If you are like me and loyal Linuxcong user you might have noticed that the web interface (http) stops working on FC5. I figured out the problem. The pam modules with Linuxconf are not compatible with Fedora Core 5. The fix is simple.
cd /etc/pam.d
rm linuxconf*
ln -s login linuxconf
ln -s login linuxconf-pair
This makes the code in login run for linuxconf. In theory it makes Linuxconf even stronger because it gives it LDAP compatibility. And it will help Linuxconf stay current with future changes.
New details are coming out about Lieberman's lie about the site hack. This Yahoo Story has some interesting new details.
The campaign spends about $100 to $150 a month on Web hosting services with MyHostCamp, said Dan Geary, who administers the site for the campaign. Geary said that MyHostCamp, which is owned by a friend of Geary's, gave the site more than enough bandwidth — 200 gigabytes a month — to handle a crush of visitors.
200 gigs a month? Is that all? If that's a hard limit it's no wonder it's down. This server that this blog is on puts out about 6000 gigs of data a month. Two years ago during the last 2 weeks of the 2004 election we put data out at a rate of 32000 gigs/month. That's over 100 times the capacity that Lieberman had, and I'm not running for Senate.
If Lieberman ran into his bandwidth caps wich considering the national attention he should have then the issue isn't an attack, but that he was just tyring to be cheap.
Additionally the tech admitted something important.
Geary acknowledged that he has no idea who hacked into the site. Lamont's campaign has denied any involvement.
So if Lieberman's tech guy admits he has no idea who is behind the attack then why is Lieberman shooting off his mouth accusing Lamont of doing it. For all he knows it could be Hezbollah or Republicans. Or most likely there wasn't an attack. They just didn't buy the bandwidth to handle the traffic. I'd say that there's no way 200 gigs a month is enough for Lieberman when 200 gigs a day is barey enough for me.
From Lieberman's web site.
UPDATE ON THE ATTACK ON THE LIEBERMAN CAMPAIGN WEBSITE
STATEMENT FROM SEAN SMITH: "For the past 24 hours the Friends for Joe Lieberman's website and email has been totally disrupted and disabled, we believe that this is the result of a coordinated attack by our political opponents. The campaign has notified the US Attorney and the Connecticut Chief State's Attorney and the campaign will be filing a formal complaint reflecting our concerns. The campaign has also notified the State Attorney General Dick Blumenthal for his review."
"We call on Ned Lamont to make an unqualified statement denouncing this kind of dirty campaign trick and to demand whoever is responsible to cease and desist immediately. Any attempt to suppress voter participation and undermine the voting process on Election Day is deplorable and has no place in our democracy."
The problem is that it's just not true. Lieberman doesn't have a dedicated server. He shares his server with hundreds of other sites that are all working fine. I tested his email and it appears to be fine as well. For more information about Lieberman's server, Click Here. I just sent an email to postmaster@joe2006.com and according to my logs it to 5 seconds to deliver it.
Of course Lieberman has called on Lamont to stop it as if Lamont has something to do with it or can control it. This is just a political ploy. Nothing More.