how sad that you were unable to be with us today. we were all wondering what happened.... are you okay?

this seems to happen a little more often than one might expect.... you must be quite upset. perhaps some of us could help....?

you know what i think would just be a great idea? what if you made some sort of announcement and explained to us all how we can help.... you know, in general i think we all hate to see you collapse like this and i'm sure there must be some of us who can help.

there's certainly no need to be embarassed - we only want what's best for all of us.

incidentally, there are a lot of issues which the official "imc collective" seems to keep pretty quiet about these days here in LA. why is that? is there some rule or something that us visitors and supporters must not know what is going on behind the curtain?

what IS going on....? from time to time we see something about editorial policy and certain posts disappear while others do not. it certainly does bewilder some of us visitors and supporters.

would it be terribly stressful to just post some notes as to how problems have been resolved and where things are heading from time to time.... and how we can help?

bringing this to the collective

I have been hiding assinine comments that directly counter any flow of conversation. That is the rare comment which is entirely out of the blue and seems like nothing other then piss. If I have any doubts about the possible discursive value of the post, I personally choose to keep it up. Discursiveness is a new editing concept.
from Bush Admirer
Looking at those pictures gives little reason to attend. No good looking women.> (he wouldn't attend a protest anyway- waste of reader's energy.)

Beyond that, we still essentially just hide pattently racist and sexist posts. The vast majority of hidden posts are repeats or stuff we the webitorial collective have posted ourselves for center column peices.

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im damned if those little cunts ever fuck with me again
ih really sick of bums bothering me for money so lets get together and run those little crack whores out of town canada or something there all on welfare up there>


We did write a small center column peice thanking you all for posting and writing previous to the big peace demo. Look, its there. Hopefully, more thoughts from the collective will be forthcoming.

so why does LA-IMC keep breaking down?

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>>> from Bush Admirer
Looking at those pictures gives little reason to attend. No good looking women.> (he wouldn't attend a protest anyway- waste of reader's energy.)

Hey, if the babes are hot, I'll come out!

B.A.

Only 2 out of 100 babes see as sexy people that think Rush Limbaugh is the litmus test of inteligent news. Bush Asswipe, you're out of luck.

Though its not my doing, last week the server was being moved. This week, no clue.

shooting in the dark:

"Weekend's Cyber-Attacks linked to Anti War Movement"
-- for a counter argument find the word: 'register' on this page, or....

"Who would benefit from shutting down the Internet?"

01/26/03 Wired article: "global worming attack.... fried much of the Internet this weekend"

sf.imc: anybody know what's wrong with LA-IMC?

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** Internet worm starts to slow **
A two-day-old computer worm that wreaked havoc on the Internet over the weekend appeared to slow
to a crawl late on Monday, fizzling out as quickly as it emerged.

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_email.asp?/news/864184.asp

FYI - 1:35pm 1/27/03 - pages still freezing up as they try to display on screen. Server may be infected, or the transient net conditions are still affected (although other sites continue to operate normally...)

If you guys have some operating system on your server(s) which is neither a: micro, or b: soft, time to segue on to Linux...

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/28/technology/28SOFT.html?ex=1044772023&ei=1&en=265b0fe9c8ac86f5


"Worm Hits Microsoft, Which Ignored Own Advice

January 28, 2003
By JOHN SCHWARTZ

The frantic message came from the corporation's information
technology workers: "HELP NEEDED: If you have servers that
are nonessential, please shut down."

The computer system was under attack by a rogue program
called SQL Slammer, which affected servers running
Microsoft software that had not been updated with a patch -
issued months ago - to fix the vulnerability. The worm
hindered the operations of hundreds of thousands of
computers, slowed Internet traffic and even disrupted
thousands of A.T.M. terminals.

But this wasn't happening at just any company. It was
occurring at Microsoft itself..."


...and more...


http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/mssqlm.shtml

"...BACKGROUND

The outbreak of worm was detected in the Internet on 25th of January 2003 at 05:30 GMT. After that it has been detected from most countries around the world. However, there are unconfirmed reports of the worm traces being spotted already on January 20th.

The worm generates massive amounts of network packets, overloading servers and routers and slowing down network traffic. As many as 5 of the 13 internet root nameservers were down because of this during Saturday the 25th.

This worm does not infect typical end user machines at all: it only infects computers running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or MSDE 2000. End users might only notice this worm because of network slugginess. This worm is not a massmailer: it does not send any e-mails.

The worm only spreads as an in-memory process: it never writes itself to the hard drive. In this sense it is similar to the Code Red from July 2001.

The worm uses UDP port 1434 to exploit a buffer overflow in MS SQL server. Close down this port on your firewall unless you really need to have your SQL servers visible to the world.

As the worm does not infect any files, an infected machine can be cleaned by simply rebooting the machine. However, it will soon get reinfected if the machine is connected to the network without applying relevant patches for MS SQL Server..."

let's see.... maybe the next mysterious breakdown will happen saturday morning, March 22nd....
better yet: MAYDAY BLACKOUT!!

why did the IMC not work today? opacity is the mother of speculation.

Unless this is sensitive information.

la-imc's breakdown is consistent with even worse failure at kpfk

protest movement silenced. opportunistic "experts" abound.

opacity.....

your mysterious breakdown
shouldn't minutes from la-imc meetings be posted publicly on the la-imc website?
alternative media?
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your mysterious breakdown

2. la-imc should publicly post explanations of significant or total losses of funtcion as soon as possible after the lapses occur. when explanations are unavailable for any reason, that should also be posted. these notices should tell imc users how they can help. all this info should be highly visible.

shouldn't minutes from la-imc meetings be posted publicly on the la-imc website?
alternative media?
some links
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it's sad that whoever is managing the technical end doesn't care enough to ask for help - or even tell us what is going on. by my count la-imc lost funtion for more than twenty hours out of the last two days.
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This was the last news item posted to LA IMC before some "hacker" shut-down the site. http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/07/75396_comment.php#75433

Coincidence? Maybe.

Then again, maybe not.