DDos thingies, Hacks, World of Warcraft, etc.

Well.. what a week. Doing VERY interesting things for a project which is unfortunately surrounded by secrets (until it is broad casted). So, I cannot reveal anything about that. Than the week is a little bit less interesting.
Anyway, this morning I received an email about our FTP server serving DDos attacks... The thing is that I can see clearly that there have been multiple attempts to break in the server.. but I don't know what to do about it. Then I thought: let's turn on the firewall (that it was turned off in the first place made me wonder). But then the proftpd server cannot get through anymore. I remember reading about it that it is such a hassle to configure the openSuse firewall... but now it is still turned off as otherwise I cannot serve files through FTP anymore (still get it?)

Well then. What's up with the WoW-thingie? Hmm.. I got it running on my Laptop running Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop (that should not have happened as it was supposed to be an office laptop with no gaming capabilities... but where the heart goes...)

The annoying thing is that I cannot get it to run when I use my beloved XGL desktop. I have to switch back to the 'normal' 2D desktopmodus (hey, what can you care about in the first place)

Anyway, that's all for now. Nothing to see here anymore, please walk... ;)