Well It’s been a little while since my last entry. Somewhat because nothing has been going on, but mostly because I’ve been too busy. This quarter is hell. I scheduled for summer and next quarter yesterday. My summer should be ok, I’m taking 4 classes. But my autumn quarter will be about the same as this quarter. I registered for 6 classes. It will all be worth it thought when I get to spring quarter and only have to take 11 hours :).
Big goings on at work this week. On Monday the university police in collaboration with the FBI and us raided four dorms and confiscated four computers believed to be involved in a large P2P network known as direct connect. It is estimated that they were hosting around 51 terabytes (yes terabytes) of data, used by around 3000 students on resnet. We also estimate that it consumed roughly 10% of OSU’s total bandwidth (not just ResNet’s). Our security lead was key in helping to track these guys so that’s kinda cool. Also last night 200 people got their ports shut off for violations reported to use from the RIAA. Since we can’t connect a person with their computer until they call and complain their Internet doesn’t work, we simply shut them off once they call we have them remove the offending material and turn them back on (it takes a little time, there is a process to these things). Anyway, this is newsworthy because a coworker was on the phones last night when a girl called and he explained the situation to her. She asked if there was anything she could do to speed up the process of getting her port turned back on. When he explained not really, she said “so there isn’t anything I can do to speed up the process”. I about died laughing when I heard this this morning.
So that’s about it for now. I’ll try to make more frequent posts, but no guarantees.
Even though I am in no way associated with The Ohio State University, I think I might be able to help the female. It all depends on what she looks like. My hunch is that her connection was shut down because she was running her own high-quality porn site on campus, and was using too much bandwidth. If that is the case, I could take her under my wings (or under something else of mine).