text: Good looking bird. Ask around on taxidermy.net if you want some. I don't have anything left from this season. Just gifted birds and some set aside for my class. Gosh I can't wait for the class. School is almost out 3 weeks then I can finish my birds I have skinned. Gonna be a busy summer go to Iowa for a week then the Florida keys for a month then my class for a week.


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What The Heck Happened To Reg? Rosa's "brief" explanation.
Posted 20 May 2008 - 10:14 AM
What I do feel you all deserve is an explanation of what was happening, and what we were and are still doing to try and counteract it and correct for next year.
To clear up a rumor I've heard from more than one person-- no, our registration database was not hacked. Here's what I know as of right now: beginning about an hour after the reg line opened on Friday, our servers were subjected to a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. Basically, in an attack like this, there are a number of computers in multiple locations spamming the servers with so many requests that they couldn't respond to everything, and began to 'drop' traffic. Dropping traffic first caused us to slow down, and backed up our badge print queue, and then ultimately completely squashed our ability to get to the registration system, which was the same system we used for online reg.
When the web registration tool at con had issues, we moved to our backup plan. Offline data was supposed to be used, and we had a network connection through the convention center for processing credit cards. Unfortunately, thousands of Otaku brought thousands of laptops, and my theory is that the convention center's whole network was under a much heavier-than-normal load because of it. In any case, the network connection to and through RES was stable on Thursday night, but for Friday and a portion of Saturday we experienced a lot of network instability.
Our third fall-back plan, manual badges and manual payments, was put in place, but not as quickly as any of us would have liked on Friday. At that point, we had the lines moving, though still not quickly enough, because the manual process was slow and somewhat cumbersome. We also discovered Thursday that the convention center had not understood the floorset we provided to them, and the lines were not oriented as we had planned--this created bottlenecks at badge claim.
Friday night the coding team worked the overnight hours (Thanks Riker, thanks Eli!) and IT switched off the ACEN server and made some processing changes to speed up and streamline things so that we didn't have to hit anything at our server site to process registrations. We also purchased wireless modems from our cellular provider for several of the computers as a 'Plan Four', so that even if the network wasn't stable we could get on to run cards and manage payments. Those became very useful on Saturday as it became clear the network wasn't being our friend.
There was also vandalism late Friday night to some of our registration computers and network equipment, and because of this Saturday we were more limited in the number of stations we had available. I don't excuse this kind of behavior, but I actually can understand where it came from, because there was an immense amount of frustration and anger at having to sit in that line interminably. That said, if any of you who were in the line near the end of the night saw anything and want to talk privately about it, I'll be happy to listen, because the damage sure didn't help.
All summarized, there is a massive amount fail in the paragraphs above, some internal, some external. We're working things through right now to figure out where we can fix what was broken, and how we can correct and contingency plan for next year. Any and all suggestions you guys have are welcome--we have quite a few of our own, and if any of you are nerd-trained like myself, we're always looking for extra folks for our tech team if you're interested in helping us make it better. We know it can be much better, and quite frankly, it has to be better. We don't want to ever put you guys through anything like that again.
We still love you guys, and we know some of you are very upset. If anyone wants to talk, feel free to reach out to me. Right now, I'm going to go get some more sleep.
Posted 20 May 2008 - 10:53 AM
sisterdiscord, on May 20 2008, 11:14 AM, said:
What the hell? WHAT THE FREAKIN' HELL!
I am about to sound like my mother when I say this but I have to say it. What the hell is wrong with kids these days? What are you thinking? I AM ANGRY GRRR OTAKU SMAAASH!!! ???????
YEAH, that is going to make registration run smoother.
Thanks for the explanation Sister Discord I hope that things go better next year. I have attended Acen since 1998 and it is a fun con.
Posted 20 May 2008 - 11:02 AM
So we did get DDoS'ed. Grrr... jerks.
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Posted 20 May 2008 - 11:44 AM
I was wondering if you'd gotten a chance to peruse the thread in the Suggestions/Gripes forum, linked here: http://www.acen.org/...showtopic=23262
To sum it up, lines are always going to be a fact of life at conventions. Even if Registration goes off without a hitch, as others have pointed out, there are just a lot of people who want to get into this con. Wedge, the ADH of I.R.T. has stated that it is not ACen's policy to let people back in line if they get out of it. However, that policy is completely impractical and poses a great health risk to anyone who is standing in line for long stretches of time, as they were for Registration and the Soap Bubble. There are many guests with medical needs, whether they appear to have those needs or not. There is also the hard and fast reality that everyone, regardless of their health status, needs to stay hydrated and use the washrooms, or they will be sick. I don't want to see people hurt, nor do I want to see the con canceled due to someone getting hurt and the con getting into trouble for it.
Some have suggested reporting individual I.R.T. folks who didn't let people back into the lines or who were unduly rude about it. However, I do not want to report I.R.T. folks who are caught between a rock (the policy stated by Wedge) and a hard place (the needs of the con-goers). It is not I.R.T.'s fault that the policies are completely out of step with reality.
So what I'm looking for is an apology to those who were sick in lines because they were faced with the decision to either get out of line and have to spend yet more hours at the back of the line, or stop eating/drinking/using the restroom and got sick as a result. I'm also looking for a commitment from the highest levels of ACen leadership to come up with a sensible, practical solution to this problem that will help reduce the stress and danger to both con-goers and I.R.T. Finally, I am looking for the new policy to be published so that con-goers have something in writing to defend themselves when staff implements the policies in an inconsistent manner.
Thanks for any answers you can provide.
Posted 20 May 2008 - 12:30 PM
Caerulea Windseeker, on May 20 2008, 05:44 PM, said:
I'm looking at it right now, and will reply over there in a bit. Still recovering, and have come down with the ever popular Con Funk since I got home, so I'm not yet operating at 100 percent.
Caerulea Windseeker, on May 20 2008, 05:44 PM, said:
Actually, when we recognized that the lines were out of bounds that policy was gone. We were allowing folks to step out of line and back into line, to get food, to run to the bathroom, and so on. I think that the notice of that went out on channels a few dozen times, but not every staff member has a radio, and it's possible folks were applying old rules out of habit. For the inconsistency, I do apologize, and it can, will, and frankly MUST be addressed. You have my personal commitment that this will happen, and since Momma Rosa has no plan on retiring after this year, you can bet your Keyblade that it'll get the attention it deserves.
We surely didn't want anyone to be sick or ill, we stationed EMRT staff nearby just in case, and we were actively pulling and seeing to people where we could if they didn't look well. Part of the problem is that in that mass of people, it was hard to spot someone not feeling well, unless they or someone near them told us about it. Especially in cosplay/masks/facepaint/dressed like a zombie.
We did have problems with people trying to cut into line, and IRT was handling those pretty seriously, so if no one communicated "Hey, gotta potty and grab a dog, be back in a few.." then it's possible that's where some of the issues came from. If you or any of yours experienced treatment that wasn't appropriate, I will certainly extend an apology, and do my best to correct things.
We do everything we can to make sure ACen is a safe and fun experience every year. Like lots of folks have said on this thread, we're all volunteers, and sometimes communication is our big stumbling point. I will add some additional basic IRT/line control and courtesy education to the menu for all staff who come on board or stay for next year, and we'll make a run at coming up with a way to identify people who're stepping out of line--maybe a wrist band, or a hubcap on a string or something.
We love you guys. We want to get this right, and we know it's not going to be perfect, but it can certainly be much less imperfect.
Posted 20 May 2008 - 12:34 PM
Here's to hoping you guys find a suitable resolution to the registration problems NEXT year.
Posted 20 May 2008 - 05:04 PM
I'd just like to say that whatever is done to help ensure peoples' basic needs are met while in the Registration line ought to be implemented in all lines. I like how you phrased it--line control education. Lines happen at cons; they are a fact of life and I think people expect some queuing when they come to a convention. How the lines are handled makes a big difference in how acceptable they are to people. So long as we get new line policies that are easier, more realistic, fairer to both the volunteers and the con attendees, and implemented for all events, I am very happy.
I feel much, much, much better after reading Rosa's and AngelMercury's posts.
Posted 20 May 2008 - 08:59 PM
You had time to deal with this, and you didn't. You had time to make backup preparations for something like a denial of service attack (which should have been in place ANYWAYS for ANY large-scale realtime operation that involves online anything) and you didn't. You kept the entire line in the dark about everything that happened, and then only gave a five-dollar discount (because oh yeah, we missed Friday entirely) to I don't know how many people, and as far as I know, that was only after I grabbed the finance manager and gave him a...friendly talking-to. On the forums you claimed there would be at-con reg on Thursday night. My party (ten people) left a day early to take advantage of this option, and got there only to find out that there WAS no at-con reg, only pre-reg. Thanks, guys. I missed another day of work and paid for another night's stay for no reason whatsoever.
If you people cannot handle what this convention has become, you need to hand over certain tasks to professionals. Two of those tasks are security and registration, both of which became serious issues during the marathon reg wait. Otakon is a convention that eclipses ACen in every way, from attendance to events to guests, and I have never waited for more than three hours in their registration line in the last five years, even with the line wrapped several times around the Baltimore Convention Center.
That was pathetic, ACen. You screwed it up last year, you screwed it up this year, and I'm certain you'll have some woeful explanation for the newest crisis when you screw it up again next year.
You need to fix this from the ground up, or you're going to collapse under the weight of your own hubris.
PS. If it WAS you, Anon, well played. It was a perfect storm.
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Posted 20 May 2008 - 09:06 PM
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Posted 20 May 2008 - 09:09 PM
Lenne, on May 20 2008, 11:06 PM, said:
Doesn't matter. If you choose to place yourself in a position of leadership at an event as large as ACen, it is YOUR responsibility to stay informed up to and throughout the event. The idea that the senior staff goes "offline" and basically checks out during the crucial last days before the event is ludicrious. The obvious time to perform a sabotage is at the last minute, and anyone with half a brain knows to be prepared for that.
Excuses, excuses. Is that the official response to everything?
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Posted 20 May 2008 - 09:56 PM
Better communication at the time of the incident would have been the biggest help. As I stated in a seperate thread, had I realized the computers were likely tot ake several hours to fix I would have left and come back later.
You mentioned that IRT was allowing people to leave and come back for bathroom breaks etc. Would it be possible to formalize a system for people to leave and come back later in the case of another major shutdown like this one? Part of the problem was that many of us felt "trapped" on Friday; it was either stick it out for a "little while longer" (actualy a lot longer) or go through the whole ordeal again. We're all "stuck" in line, bored and causing trouble fopr IRT at that point. That more and more people were constantly being added to the line could not have been helping.
An option to leave the line without loosing 3, 4, 7 hours of waiting would have allowed many people a chance to cool thier heads. You mentioned that long lines breed longer lines. reducing the line size might also help things run more smoothly once things are running again. Also, it might help reduce the load on IRT, who I'm sure were not ahppy about keeping that many people in line.
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 08:59 AM
angrypata, on May 20 2008, 09:59 PM, said:
You had time to deal with this, and you didn't. You had time to make backup preparations for something like a denial of service attack (which should have been in place ANYWAYS for ANY large-scale realtime operation that involves online anything) and you didn't. You kept the entire line in the dark about everything that happened, and then only gave a five-dollar discount (because oh yeah, we missed Friday entirely) to I don't know how many people, and as far as I know, that was only after I grabbed the finance manager and gave him a...friendly talking-to. On the forums you claimed there would be at-con reg on Thursday night. My party (ten people) left a day early to take advantage of this option, and got there only to find out that there WAS no at-con reg, only pre-reg. Thanks, guys. I missed another day of work and paid for another night's stay for no reason whatsoever.
If you people cannot handle what this convention has become, you need to hand over certain tasks to professionals. Two of those tasks are security and registration, both of which became serious issues during the marathon reg wait. Otakon is a convention that eclipses ACen in every way, from attendance to events to guests, and I have never waited for more than three hours in their registration line in the last five years, even with the line wrapped several times around the Baltimore Convention Center.
That was pathetic, ACen. You screwed it up last year, you screwed it up this year, and I'm certain you'll have some woeful explanation for the newest crisis when you screw it up again next year.
You need to fix this from the ground up, or you're going to collapse under the weight of your own hubris.
PS. If it WAS you, Anon, well played. It was a perfect storm.
Yes because apparently the "anonymous" are to be taken seriously at all times. Who on these forums said that at-con registration was happening Thursday night? AFAIK Thursday night has always been pre-reg only.
Posted 21 May 2008 - 09:23 AM
Posted 21 May 2008 - 11:40 AM
angrypata, on May 21 2008, 03:09 AM, said:
Excuses, excuses. Is that the official response to everything?
I remember a few years back ACen implemented like an instant online update thing where staffers can go online during con and update any last min changes during the con for those who have internet access to their rooms. Don't know if they still do it, but I thought it was awesome.
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 12:11 PM
angrypata, on May 20 2008, 10:09 PM, said:
Excuses, excuses. Is that the official response to everything?
Please link to where an ACen staffer said that there would be at-con reg Thursday. I can find no evidence to back up this claim. This has never been the case.
We do not "check out." We go to the convention site and set up our departments and begin our duties, which generally do not include surfing the forums. Or, we may be in transit. We have not yet managed to find a way to warp time and space and appear at the con instantaneously, alas.
For example, I set up our internal print shop, take delivery of the program books and schedules and generally run around making sure everyone who has print needs is taken care of. By Friday morning I had printed several thousand impressions on our high speed printer alone, not counting the offsite printing my ADH did. I have relatively light duties at the con, most of our print needs are taken care of in advance.
I understand your frustration, but you are being irrational here. Your suggestion makes very little sense-are you serious that you feel senior management should be surfing 4chan for possible threats rather than overseeing convention setup? Isn't that a dereliction of duties in and of itself? It can also be very difficult to measure the seriousness of Internet threats-plenty of people make them, very few carry them out. What solution do you propose for determining what threats to take seriously?
We are perfectly willing to take criticism, but we need suggestions that can actually be implemented.
Posted 21 May 2008 - 01:03 PM
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 02:06 PM
Unfortunatly, the dozens of angry people on the forums and beyond are wanting someone to step up and accept responsibility for the failings of the Registration department. I have heard multiple people ask for both the Reg DH and the Con Chair to step down, and that is just foolish. Ultimatly the failing was the fact that they were fully dependant on Web servers, instead of the much more logical (and secure) local server, and anyone who does any IT work will tell you that people in charge, in most cases have no clue what setup any computer systems are using. I highly doubt either of those two, who obviously have far more responsibilities were responsible. However, whoever was responsible should take responsibility. I'm sure it will be unpleasant for you, but I'd much rather see the one or two people who messed up getting flamed here then all the inocent staff that did their best, or even ACen as a whole.
I'd also like to see ACen stop trying to blame others. Yes its unfortunate you got attacked, and those responsible should be tarred-and-feathered and publicly humiliated next acen; but ultimately the failing was yours. I'm not saying you should have been aware of, or ready to stop such an attack, but your network shouldn't have even been conected to the web in the first place. The Reg staff did the same thing last year with badge mailings. You guys foolishly mailed bulk mail very close to the con, then tried blaming the post office for your own mistake. ACen should start to accept responsibility for its own failings, if you can't do that you are never going to improve.
And as far as understaffed issues (which i didn't see here, but have heard others name), that is also ACen's fault. I would gladely give up some of my time to help ACen, if your staffing requirements weren't so rediculious. I have in previous threads been saying 18 hours, however I recently saw a staffer say 24 hours of work. That is $180 at minimum wage in IL, for a $50 badge and maybe a room. Not to mention that means missing alot of events that you are there to see. I'm sorry, I appreciate everything ACen staff does, and would like to give back, but I'm not sacrificeing my vaction for you, and alot of others I know feel the same way.
Posted 21 May 2008 - 02:25 PM
davebb, on May 21 2008, 07:03 PM, said:
Okay, bear with me on this since (A), I have no real idea whether this has been touched on and (, have no real desire to slog through the umpteen threads on this subject.
Everyone knows about the DDoS by now. One possible solution to a repeat is to download preexisting reg info (and onsite reg software) to a CPU or server specifically disconnected from your ISP in order to avoid a domain-wide DDoS from causing a massive SNAFU like this again. After the convention, those updated forms and info can be uploaded back to oldcrows.net (I'm presuming that's still acen.org's backbone provider), which means that a DDoS doesn't actually hit anything except online functions. Why this wasn't done in the first place when the 420chan threat came through is beyond me unless no one took it seriously.
That being said, my irritation with having to be in reg 9-plus hours on Friday is somewhat mitigated by the fact that Acen was caught with their pants down on this, but not much. If this had actually been caused by outright incompetence instead of an external attack, this would've been a much nastier post to read.
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 02:46 PM
Posted 21 May 2008 - 02:53 PM
magicreaver, on May 21 2008, 08:06 PM, said:
I'd honestly sooner take the beatings myself than pass them on to staff members who volunteered their time and energy in good faith to help make this happen, Reaver. I'm one of the officers responsible for the event, and a piece of the preplanning for that event failed. Lack of oversight is not an excuse, you're right, and I wasn't trying to offer excuses, but I did want to explain and try to dispel some of the crazy myths I'd heard...everything from staffers maliciously damaging stuff to us firing half the reg staff, none of which are true.
As for stepping down, no, I'm not going to do that, and not going to ask Artie to. I want to be around like an old dog to see this fixed. We're drastically increasing our IT team, and taking a page from six sigma as far as our failure and contingency planning strategies. Drastic changes to our technology strategy are required, and those changes will be made.
magicreaver, on May 21 2008, 08:06 PM, said:
You are absolutely correct. We do our due diligence every year, and we take every threat seriously. There are threats of some sort every year, and when we learn of them we make our staff, the hotel, and Rosemont police aware. I did know about the 420chan thread, as I posted elsewhere on the forums. I personally interpreted it as more of a physical mischief threat, unfortunately, than an electronic one, and I'm not even certain that the registration issue was related to the 420-chan thread. I'm not local to Chicago, so as of this writing I'm out of the loop on those proceedings.
magicreaver, on May 21 2008, 08:06 PM, said:
Your point is well taken and one I'll sit down with our chief of staff and review. Yes, there is a high time commitment for full staff, and many of us, myself included, don't see much of the con. The "gofer" or volunteer squad has a lower commitment, badge/badge+crash space, depending on the hours worked.
What seems like a fair middle ground that won't radically increase our staff numbers?
Posted 21 May 2008 - 02:58 PM
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There could have been numerous reasons why ACEN registration was down: DDoS unlikely.
"PS. If it WAS you, Anon, well played. It was a perfect storm."
It wasn't. We don't raid convention websites... oops did I say we?!
animefan1977 I'm only going to agree with you on #2. Yet if you're running on your backup plan for 5 hours straight, you have been running at less than capable performance.
Posted 22 May 2008 - 02:45 PM
Sakamura, on May 21 2008, 08:58 PM, said:
Hotel Internet - Perfect (1 Gb of glory)
There could have been numerous reasons why ACEN registration was down: DDoS unlikely.
"PS. If it WAS you, Anon, well played. It was a perfect storm."
It wasn't. We don't raid convention websites... oops did I say we?!
animefan1977 I'm only going to agree with you on #2. Yet if you're running on your backup plan for 5 hours straight, you have been running at less than capable performance.
It was actually angrypata who said that, not animefan1977. And I agree: backup plans should have included standard dial-ups and a few modems in case the broadband failed, and the registration process never should have relied on an off-site server, especially on the same IP as the website. That was an unfortunate design, because it stuck a gigantic huge point of failure/avenue of attack in the middle of a critical process. I'm in embedded programming, not IT administration, but that just seems like common sense to me.
Here is what I'd like to see ACen staff do to respond to the cries of "get professional registration and security staff": get a bunch of estimates on what this would cost. Post them publicly on the forums. I would be willing to bet that it would require raising badge costs by a hundred bucks or more. I would also love to be proved wrong.
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Posted 22 May 2008 - 02:54 PM
gregly, on May 22 2008, 03:45 PM, said:
This is the same thing we are discussing in regards to bringing in professional con planners. Price is a big deal to many people who attend the con, it has to be decided if we want to lose those folks in exchange for a high quality con (although it would be nice to have both ).
Posted 22 May 2008 - 09:03 PM
Our mailing this year had a 1%-2% fail rate, compared to last year thats amazing so if you're worried about lines do that next year.
And for next year we will not be hooked to the internet other then for credit cards. (some mail problems were the us postal service with a post marked envelope for April 14th showing up early May)
The computers that were ruined.. whoever did that, you're a special sort of person. I didn't see numbers so i don't think people realize how serious it was. 18 keyboards, 17 mice (2 survived because they were unplugged by con goers and thrown behind our curtains) a few monitors were written on in permanent marker and 3 or 4 towers were ruined(there was a pen cap shoved in a cd-rom, things put inside hard drives..). That is a large hit to our reg supplies and definitely slowed things down a lot.
Sure Acen says full time staffers work 24 hours over the weekend. I spent a lot of time in reg (no I am not reg staff ignore the side info thing but Im married to the DH and help a lot) I would say 90% of that staff worked from 7am until closing every day of the convention and barely took breaks. Most of them never saw the dealers hall or their favorite voice actors. These guys and girls worked their butts off to make things run and make up for the half of staff that decided not to show and will not be invited back on staff.
My husband and I are discussing ways to ensure staff shows up and works their hours. If you have -any- ideas other then hire a company which we wont be doing, then please PM me or email firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject title staff suggestion or something along that line. Even after Acen I will be checking email but watch here for when we change to acenreg09 we will post a sticky.
Finally I am sorry I have not been posting on here but I was one of the lucky few who caught "con plague" and I'm just getting over it >.< So if emails from firstname.lastname@example.com aren't answered they will be shortly unless they are not constructive. We do keep record of complaints but there is no need to reply to most. EVERY email is read.
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Posted 22 May 2008 - 09:11 PM
Bloo09, on May 22 2008, 10:03 PM, said:
Wow. Just... wow.
And yay! Bloo09 is back. Thought maybe you and Tevva had taken off on a long vacation or something. You guys deserve it.
Posted 22 May 2008 - 09:41 PM
Caerulea Windseeker, on May 20 2008, 12:44 PM, said:
I am not at the highest levels of ACen leadership -- quite the opposite -- but I agree with you that the policies should be published ahead of time. As one of the reg programmers I have some ideas on how to improve the visibility of this information. I need to have them approved and discussed first, but it is something that I'm paying attention to.
angrypata, on May 20 2008, 09:59 PM, said:
I don't mean to steal anyone's thunder, but the five-dollar discount was my doing. I spent a fair amount of time on the radio with our finance manager (who is a woman, by the way, so I don't know who you were talking to) advocating for a discount. Five dollars was what my superiors authorized me to give, despite me asking for more, so that's what we implemented. (Note that I am NOT trying to pass the buck on this to my superiors. They are responsible for maintaining the financial stability of the con and I stand by their decisions.) We then had to send runners to get five-dollar bills to stock the cash registers so that we would have enough to make change for the discounts. It wasn't something we could implement with a moment's notice. I had to get it cleared and then we had to get the actual cash.
angrypata, on May 20 2008, 10:09 PM, said:
I can vouch for what Alysia said earlier -- there is so much to be done in the days leading up to ACen every year that the staff barely has time to check their voice mail, let alone surf the forums randomly looking for anything out of the ordinary. However, while reading this, I did have a thought. It might be feasible to have a staff member whose job it was to monitor the forums throughout the convention and the days leading up to it, and notify senior staff of any concerning threads. I will bring this up at our meetings this year and see if we can keep closer tabs on this. I can't promise anything but this is a good idea that deserves some thought.
jrbestler, on May 20 2008, 10:56 PM, said:
JR, I apologize. If we had realized the computers were going to take that long to fix, we would have let you know. At first we suspected a network problem in the convention center, so we wanted to wait a few minutes to see if our network tech could fix it. Then later we suspected the server itself was the issue, so we rebooted it. (Many of you may remember me yelling at everyone trying to explain this.) It wasn't until we had already been down for quite some time that our network tech discovered that the problem was a DDoS attack. Also remember that it began gradually, with the network getting slower and slower before grinding to a halt. A sudden failure would have been easier to comprehend and diagnose. By the time we knew for sure what was going on, we were already into the manual-badge-writing phase and it was felt that pushing through and getting badges to all the people who had been waiting would be better than turning anyone away. Honestly, I apologize. If we'd known it was going to be that long we would have let you know.
As another consideration, I thought a few times about standing up and shouting to everyone that we were being DDoS attacked. But not everyone understands a DDoS attack, nor why it's outside our realm of direct control to stop. I decided it was best not to waste my voice explaining networks to the entire reg line.
magicreaver, on May 21 2008, 03:06 PM, said:
The Archfiend, on May 21 2008, 03:25 PM, said:
Yoric, on May 21 2008, 03:46 PM, said:
OK. I have multiple levels of response to this. First of all, the decision to keep all the information on the web server was a poor one. I can tell you, as one of the people who contributes to ACen's computer setup, that there was no moment when we said, "sure, we'll just keep it on the web server, everything will be fine!" Instead, there was a general failure of a number of people to think that strategy through and consider possible points of failure. No one person is responsible for that strategic decision; everyone who might have caught it didn't do so, myself included. I know I've been kicking myself about it since Friday afternoon and frankly, we all have been. We're aware that we missed a doozy. We feel bad about it. And we're fixing it.
Secondly, the local server is exactly what we did do, beginning Saturday morning. We brought in a server Friday night at 1 am and myself and Rabbi stayed up all night moving our database and software onto it, and reconfiguring the floor computers to use it instead of the online server. This wasn't a solution that could be implemented immediately (for one thing, we had to find a server that one of our staff had access to that could handle the load, and then get it driven in from an hour away). For another thing, all of the staff who might have been working on that solution were busy trying to get people through the line and out of it as quickly as possible. Installing an operating system, configuring apache, importing the database, loading our software onto it, and testing does not happen in a few minutes.
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Riker, on May 23 2008, 03:41 AM, said:
Secondly, the local server is exactly what we did do, beginning Saturday morning. We brought in a server Friday night at 1 am and myself and Rabbi stayed up all night moving our database and software onto it, and reconfiguring the floor computers to use it instead of the online server. This wasn't a solution that could be implemented immediately (for one thing, we had to find a server that one of our staff had access to that could handle the load, and then get it driven in from an hour away). For another thing, all of the staff who might have been working on that solution were busy trying to get people through the line and out of it as quickly as possible. Installing an operating system, configuring apache, importing the database, loading our software onto it, and testing does not happen in a few minutes.
Ah, well then I applaud the work done. Upon hearing just how much physical damage was done to the systems Friday night, I can understand the situation for Saturday. I work in IT, so I know how long it can take to set up a server and get the entire network running off of it, so I again, I applaud the hard work and long hours put in to fixing everything as best as can be expected during a network crisis. Keep up the good work, and I have faith that all this will be fixed for '09.
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Yoric, on May 22 2008, 11:39 PM, said:
Thanks Yoric. I'm sorry if I seemed a little defensive in my last post. It's been a very frusterating saga with this attack and all the fallout from it. =)
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Riker, on May 23 2008, 12:42 AM, said:
I appreciate the work you did trying to make the problem better Saturday. That kind of stuff can be maddening to do even when you're not pressured for time. My main concern has been line management, since lines will happen at conventions and there's no getting around it. This is why I have complained so much about how the lines are handled, not so much that there were lines in the first place. I kind of figured those who had systems in place to fix last years' problems would be quite aggravated at the new crop of problems this year. I hope that you guys can catch whoever damaged con property and force them to pay restitution.
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Riker, on May 23 2008, 06:42 AM, said:
I can totally understand, not from experience, but just thinking about being in your position makes me shudder at what kind of stuff is coming at you and the rest of the staff.

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Others have their own secular-growth themes, such as the renaissance of oil and gas, the desire to look and feel well, and the aging population. Those themes are myriad and pervasive, and I spend the next chapters describing the best ones to profit from over the long term and which stocks best fit the long-term winning theses.
But all stocks, whether they be cyclicals, growths or hybrids, get graded the same way by analysts: Are the underlying fundamentals of the enterprise better or worse than expected, as expressed by the consensus of the analysts' estimates? Consider this whole investment process as an Olympic diving match. The analysts are the judges, and they grade on many different inputs. The ones we care about are sales expectations, or the top line, and the earnings expectations, or the bottom line. Many people are fixated just on the top line, the revenues, as a way to judge whether a company is growing faster than the global economy or its own cohort.
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Nicholas just started reading in the last 3 months and reads Frog and Toad. When he reads outloud he points to each word while reading. This is probably because when I was reading outloud to him for practice, I was pointing to each word as I said it. I thought I was teaching him to connect with the word while reading. I only did this for reading practice time. When I read to him ALL other times, I do not point while reading.
Now I am thinking I started him in a bad habit???? Is this something to worry about?
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That's totally fine! Lots of beginning readers do that. As he reads more quickly and naturally he will stop doing that. Relax and enjoy!
It's not a problem at all. He may do that for a short time or may do it for a year or more....wither way, it is not a problem but will help his eyes stay focused on the words and the correct line. He will most likely break this on his own as he becomes a more advanced and confident reader. I would never feel it to indicate a problem unless he goes on reading for several years without breaking the habit AND is also a slow reader at that point.....then I would wonder...BUT....I have a feeling you'll never get to that point...so just sit back and ENJOY!!
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At school they teach them to do this to start with.
As a first grade teacher, I DO want my children doing this when they begin reading. It helps them attend to the print and keep track of where they are at. Like everyone else has said, as your child gets quicker and more confident he'll drop the finger pointing. I have readers in my class who no longer do it, some that do, and others that I wish did because it would help them so much more to focus on the sounds the letters make instead of guessing at something that doesn't make sense.
Thank you everyone. I will let it go and enjoy having him read out loud to me
Goodness--I never knowledged to myself that YEAH I taught him to read!! I am so worried about all the little things.........
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I am a big fan of peppermint white mochas. In fact, once the cool weather comes around, that's pretty much the only espresso drink I want. They just seem so festive, and I can't resist the peppermint and white chocolate combination. Since we have an espresso maker at home, it seems silly to always run out to a coffee shop whenever the craving hits. Since not much was going on here Sunday, I decided to make peppermint simple syrup so that I can have peppermint white mochas whenever I want. This is both a good and very bad thing.
Simple syrup is just that – simple. Once you know how to make it, you can pretty much make any flavor you want. I love making things on a whim, and this was definitely one of those things. Eric and I were enjoying peppermint white mochas shortly after I decided to make the syrup. Gotta love that! You only need three ingredients – sugar, water and peppermint extract. I started with a 1/2 teaspoon of extract, which wasn't strong enough, so I increased it to 1 teaspoon. I also added some candy cane pieces to give it that pretty pink color, but that's certainly not necessary.
I was unsure about storage and looked up how to store simple syrup. From what I've read, it seems best to refrigerate syrup made with a 1:1 ratio of sugar to water (apparently more sugar gives it a more stable shelf life, so 2:1 simple syrup could be stored in the pantry). I've read it can be kept from one month to up to six months, but I don't think you'll have any problem using it in a month's time. At the rate I'm using it, I'll probably be making more next week. If espresso drinks aren't your thing, I think this would be great in a martini or mixed with club soda, too.


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When Equinix Chief Information Officer Brian Lillie wants new business tools, he seeks advice from a venture capitalist, bypassing sources like IT consultants or the biggest names in enterprise software.
He takes that unusual route because many of the latest innovations in cloud computing and software-as-a-service are coming from startups, not enterprise mainstays like Oracle or International Business Machines. Venture backers who get early looks at emerging companies as they consider cash infusions can be the best guides to the most promising new technology.
Lillie regularly speaks to Asheem Chandna at Greylock Partners, John Vrionis at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Scott Sandell at New Enterprise Associates.
"I'll call them up and ask, 'Do you know of something that would solve this problem? What should I be using?'" Lillie said. "The possibilities are cropping up so fast now. My contacts help me filter through the baloney, and I might find a way to solve a problem nobody else is solving."
There were 573 venture deals for enterprise software companies last year, up 37 percent from 2009, according to the National Venture Capital Association. The trick for Lillie to find the right fit for Equinix, an Internet data-center operator, is identifying the standout startup among the hundreds of choices, many of which have unproven technology or lack needed scale.
More than ever, chief information officers like Lillie rely on their peers and venture capitalists to learn which products would make business easier and—just as crucial—avoid the ones that would make things harder.
Chandna, whose firm invests in enterprise startups including Workday and Dropbox, says the calls and visits from CIOs have become more common as businesses use data virtualization and try to figure out how to move their servers to the cloud. These days, they reach out at least a dozen times a month.
Even IBM, the world's largest computer services provider, brings its enterprise customers to meet with venture capitalists. Clients want to hear about services they should be using, directly from the people who have already vetted the options.
"The customers want to know who these startups are, so we really need to pay attention to what these guys are doing," said Claudia Fan Munce, head of IBM's venture arm.
Many of the tools Lillie adds fit technology needs that didn't have clear solutions when he became CIO in 2008. Equinix didn't have a way to collaborate with customers on one network—now handled by Box. It lacked a single sign-on tool for business applications—now done by Ping Identity. It needed automated marketing—now facilitated by Marketo.
Some of those came out of tips from venture investors, and others came from Lillie's CIO peers at companies including Clorox, Informatica, and Qualcomm. For an infrastructure question, he'll call Bask Iyer at Juniper Networks. For an applications question, he'll call Chris Bedi at JDSU.
Lillie wrote down "Ping" after hearing two people mention it at a meeting of CIOs at Electronic Arts. He asked his peers how the startup's single sign-on tools measured up against Okta and McAfee, and decided to try it. Employees had been using separate passwords for every business tool. After Lillie sent out an e-mail about Ping, a single log-in home page with buttons for different applications, half the company was using it within two hours.
ServiceNow, an online tech support provider, fields questions from Equinix employees, thanks to a referral from Bedi, who used the site when he was CIO of VeriSign. "He called me up and said, 'Whatever you're doing in this area, stop doing it and move it over,'" Lillie recalled. "I said, 'That's the best advice you ever gave me because we run IT on that thing.'"
Previously, requests to IT came in from six different systems plus e-mail, he said. Now there's a single page, from a button on Ping, and Lillie can sort the requests by type and region. "We can have an intelligent conversation about what's the most important thing to do," he said.
A proliferation of apps with "freemium" versions or low-priced monthly subscriptions have taken away the financial risk of trying out products from startups, said David Smoley, CIO of Flextronics, who is also one of Lillie's go-to guys.
"We need to be experimenting, because the next 10 years are going to be defined by these little breakthrough companies," Smoley said. "I don't know exactly how social is going to work in the enterprise, and today mobile is not a huge driver of what we do and how we do it. But it's clear to me from what happened in the consumer world that they're both going to be impactful."
As involved as Lillie and his peers try to be, some software still gets adopted without input from the chief information officer. Mike Tuchen, chief executive officer of Rapid7, a 250-employee company that evaluates corporate security risk, got a shock after an audit of applications in use.
He expected to find about five apps—but there were about 50, some charged to corporate credit cards. About 75 percent of them didn't pass the company's security tests.
"Each one of the applications did have an actual business sense," Tuchen said. "Once we started to realize how broad-based that cloud usage was, we started to be a little more deliberate in trying to make sure they were safe."
After screening, Rapid7 still uses about 40 applications because employees clamored for them. Everything gets cleared by the CIO, though, and any companies that can't fix security issues are banned.
Lillie admits that not every startup ends up being the cost-effective, user-friendly service it claimed to be. Box, Ping, and Marketo are among "the ones that worked," he said, reflecting on his vetting talks with venture capitalists. "Sometimes I'll call and they're like, 'Dude, stay away, it was twice as expensive as advertised, very complex, and hard to maintain.' And those get filtered out."


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#899 Feb 15, 2013
Everybody knows your administration is corrupt. Your actions define you, forget the fact do not have an argument for you and yours, what you do say tells it all! Anger and finger pointing is also popular with men who abuse women, and just like them, you actually quack!
#900 Feb 15, 2013
You abuse women? Dont let the police find out. now that would be real trouble.
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#902 Feb 15, 2013
This information just in:
It has been told that DC and JC are planning on hiring JC's ex wife's ex boyfriend. The two are so bitter and hateful that they will do anything to get back at his ex. Supposedly this guy from Windsor who only has 12 college credit hours will be hired for an Aces or Bridges postition. He is already telling everyone he has the job and it hasn't even been approved yet. Clearly there are more qualified people that have actually worked in the district that would be better for that postition. It's amazing the lengths that they will go to, just to get back at her - starting a nasty new thread and now hiring her ex.
What losers !!!
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#903 Feb 15, 2013
I hope they are that confident to do that , I want to hear Scott say he is the most qualified. Followed shortly by a firing of everybody involved !
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#904 Feb 15, 2013
Just wanted to encourage as many people as possible to show up at the Board Meeting on tuesday! A special shout out to Dianne and Todd who tried to have their lawyers shut me up. I have said repeatedly that these people are bullies, and that they would never change, which is why we must actively seek to replace the School Board. The Board, given time, and enough new members, can then straighten out the administration. It is a simple process and one they obviously fear! This is the place to exercise our first amendment right to oppose people in power who have misused their power. There is no greater example of that than the hiring of a non-qualified Board relative over super-qualified school district employees! I also have said that this is worth fighting for just for the simple reason that the ones who got "screwed" can not do it themselves, they'll get in trouble if they do. I stand by that! For those that claim I am a "disgruntled" fired employee I flatly deny that. Fired yes, but proud and happy about it! Disgruntled? Not at all, but if I were, what would be the problem? Disgruntled workers,(those in a state of dissatisfaction) many times have very good reasons to be that way! Addit, again I want to thank you for standing up for me the other day, could not do it the other day until my family was protected! Unless something really changes in the next couple of weeks, something unforseen, I am voting for Jones and Holloway! Let's fill the place tuesday night!
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Sam there are worset examples I been readin.
There need to be regulasr peoples and parents on there to stop corruption. You see a lots of education wasted on superfloozy and burgerface.
Maybe schoolboards president needs more than 12 credits of college tho!
How much they have? Call for an audit at the boards meetin and talk to them media men if they shows up!!!!! Audit only thing that will make any differences!!! They jus push everything under rugs more without it.
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All of these new allegations, just strengthens my belief of attending all school board meetings. Along with removing current members Newman and Nash.
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Just remember, the only way to facilitate change is through large numbers of the tax paying public voicing outrage at them!
#908 Feb 16, 2013
I agree
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#909 Feb 17, 2013
Only one small problem....Newman is running in April NOT Nash. The other board member running is Pete Nicholas. Good luck defeating Newman or Nash.
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#910 Feb 17, 2013
No not Jones and Holloway....VOTE FOR Dan Kroupa. He is backed by teachers.
#911 Feb 17, 2013
Mark Jones is the right choice.
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Mark Jones is doing a "meet and greet" at the library in Arnold on the 28th from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. If you have not met him then take the time to go meet him and you will see why he is a really good fit for the community. Mark gets my vote no matter what! Dan Kroupa I am leary about, but it is only based on the fact that he has a history of politics in Arnold. I believe the NEA endorsed him but that does not mean "the teachers" back him, I am sure some do but plenty back Mark Jones and he was not endorsed by the NEA. Having said that I am willing to make my second vote for anyone other than the incumbants. So if it looks like Kroupa will get a huge backing then I am more than willing to vote for him.
#913 Feb 17, 2013
Holloway is backed by teachers...... Just ask around!
#914 Feb 17, 2013
I forgot to mention Holloway is also backed by cooks, nurses, bus drivers, aides, janitors, AND parents!
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Holloway will most likely get my other vote. He has shown up to parent organization and other meetings and seems to share my views. I haven't heard from any other candidates or found even Facebook pages for them.
Steve's wife is a teacher, so it would be odd if he DIDN'T get the NEA endorsement. Kroupa has attained office before and has money behind him, including the name Ron Counts. While I didn't get the NEA endorsement, I do have the endorsement of state representatives, my county councilwoman, our county executive and, more importantly, many employees, teachers and even a few administrators (not central office) who are desperate for change.
Check out my site www.missouriforjones.org , my Facebook page www.facebook.com/MissouriForJones or come see me on Feb. 28th at the library. If you're serious about wanting change, you may like what I stand for. If you want the status quo, then vote incumbent and get the same results you've gotten for the last 12-15 years that they have each sat on the board.
I won't cry if I don't win. This isn't an ego trip or resume enhancement endeavor for me. I'm just tired of the nonsense and complaining alone doesn't get you anywhere. It's time to put action to our beliefs and actually change things for the better.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
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#916 Feb 17, 2013
Which one will put STUDENTS firsts! NEA has backed losres before and are not ther smartest org in the world. Screw them. Pick a total outider that cares more about the kids than how much they gonna be fed and get power! Clean out the board and admin! Putting one or two new member in is not enough. Espeshally if u expectin another insider candidate to make a difference! Don't be fools again! That's how we got this mess to begins with. Geez! And superfloozy need to quit postin on here like we don't know! Lol!
#917 Feb 17, 2013
First the NEA, gives a questionnaire out to candidates. Depending on answers to the questions and interview process gets their backing. Occasionally you get a board member that doesn't follow what they say they will do. That said the NEA does have the best intentions for students and teachers! We already know that Newman and Nicholas are self serving and need to go!
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