I would like to make sure that my Windows 2008 servers are hardened against DDOS attacks.  There is a Microsoft Technet article on , but it was last revised in January 2006. There is another article (somewhat duplicative) specifically for , but I can't find one for Windows Server 2008.  Does anyone know if these protections are already in place in Windows Server 2008's TCP/IP stack or if they are still relevant?  I found a portion of a book on Safari called Windows Server 2008 TCP/IP Protocols and Services that :     TCP in Windows Server 2008 and Windows   Vista use SYN attack protection to   prevent a SYN attack from overwhelming   the computer.   and      TCP in Windows Server 2008 and Windows   Vista no longer supports the   TcpMaxConnectResponseRetransmissions,   SynAttackProtect, TcpMaxHalfOpen, and   TcpMaxHalfOpenRetried registry values.   ...but I can't find a mention of the other registry values nor a second source for this information.
This is a  about DoS and DDoS mitigation.   I found a massive traffic spike on a website that I host today; I am getting thousands of connections a second and I see I'm using all 100Mbps of my available bandwidth.  Nobody can access my site because all the requests time out, and I can't even log into the server because SSH times out too!  This has happened a couple times before, and each time it's lasted a couple hours and gone away on its own.  Occasionally, my website has another distinct but related problem: my server's load average (which is usually around .25) rockets up to 20 or more and nobody can access my site just the same as the other case.  It also goes away after a few hours.  Restarting my server doesn't help; what can I do to make my site accessible again, and what is happening?  Relatedly, I found once that for a day or two, every time I started my service, it got a connection from a particular IP address and then crashed.  As soon as I started it up again, this happened again and it crashed again.  How is that similar, and what can I do about it?
When I have equations, as in  \begin{equation} ... \end{equation}   Can I arbitrarily assign the numbers to the equations? Instead of the usual order (1), (2), (3), ..., I'd like something like (1), (2.1), (2.2), (2.3), (3.1), (3.2), (4), ... Why does blowing on someone who is wet feel colder than on someone who is dry? How do I add a Pokestop to an area that has none? It is an area where there are tons of businesses but unless I drive about a mile from my work area there are no Pokestops.   I want to add one since we have 1000's of people in the work area, a lot of them play Pokemon Go, and we all can't leave work to drive a mile away to get to a Pokestop area.   Plus it would be nice to be able to capture Pokemon on our breaks. How should artwork be setup for T-shirt printing? What does it mean to colour separate the artwork for T-Shirt printing? It is normally suggested to use Pantone colours for T-Shirt printing. Is it the Pantone Coated or the Pantone Uncoated? The Uncoated one has more subtle colours and we can't choose brighter shades if the design requires that. What is more appropriate for printing? Can we use gradients in T-Shirt printing or is it suggested to stick to flat colours only?   The reason for asking if gradients were ok was to use it as an option for this design:    I was considering it an option, as it will be difficult to colour separate since the textures are clip masked inside the lion. The set of limit points of the sequence $1,\frac12,\frac14,\frac34,\frac18,\frac38,\frac58,\frac78,\frac1{16},\frac3{16},\ldots$ Modified pattern does not see the pattern color option Implicit 'which is', 'which are' A new study has shown that millions of pieces of junk floating in  space could be a big hazard for satellites orbiting Earth.   Is there an implicit 'which are' in front of floating in space? Why is 'which are'  not written? The Newtonian description of gravity can be formulated in terms of a potential function $\phi$ whose partial derivatives give the acceleration:  $$\frac{d^2\vec{x}}{dt^2}=\vec{g}=-\vec{\nabla}\phi(x)=\left(\frac{\partial\phi}{\partial x}\hat{x}+\frac{\partial\phi}{\partial y}\hat{y}+\frac{\partial\phi}{\partial z}\hat{z}\right)$$  However, in general relativity, we describe gravity by means of the metric. This description is radically different from the Newtonian one, and I don't see how we can recover the latter from the former. Could someone explain how we can obtain the Newtonian potential from general relativity, starting from the metric $g_{\mu\nu}$? What Topology does a Straight Line in the Plane Inherit as a Subspace of $\mathbb{R_l} \times \mathbb{R}$ and of $\mathbb{R_l} \times \mathbb{R_l}$ Given a straight line in the plane, what topology does this straight line inherit as a subspace of $\mathbb{R_l} \times \mathbb{R}$ and as a subspace of $\mathbb{R_l} \times \mathbb{R_l}$, where $\mathbb{R_l}$ is the lower limit topology?  So trying to figure this out definitely made my brain hurt.  I believe that as a subspace of $\mathbb{R_l} \times \mathbb{R}$, all non-vertical straight lines just inherit the lower limit topology $\mathbb{R_l}$, while vertical lines inherit the standard topology on $\mathbb{R}$.  As for $\mathbb{R_l} \times \mathbb{R_l}$, as far as I can tell, the only difference is that now all straight lines, including vertical ones, inherit the lower limit topology.  My reasoning was basically that for $\mathbb{R_l} \times \mathbb{R}$, open sets on the line all have an initial left end point, since the x-coordinate of this left end point is always captured by the open sets [a,b) in $\mathbb{R_l}$, and this in turn drags the y-coordinate of the initial left end point along for the ride (so to speak).  This is true in all but the vertical line case where there is no shift in the horizontal direction and thus the topology is inherited strictly from $\mathbb{R}$.  As for $\mathbb{R_l} \times \mathbb{R_l}$ it's basically the same argument except now the vertical lines inherit from $\mathbb{R_l}$ as well.  Can someone let me know whether I've reasoned correctly?  Thanks. This one is killing me, any help is greatly appreciated! What does $b_i\mid b_{i+1}$ mean in this context? In the computational topology literature, the reduction algorithm for computing the Smith normal form of a boundary matrix uses the notation $b_j &gt; 1 \: \text{ and }\: b_j\mid b_{j+1}$ in the context of the diagonal elements of the Smith matrix. Can anyone give me an idea for what it means? Keep getting error 'list' object has no attribute 'split' Mounting Flashdrive - mounted to home directory I wanted to mount my flashdrive, and made the mistake of setting the mount path as /home/my_name. Now all of my documents, downloads, pictures, etc. are unavailable since my flashdrive has replaced my previous home folder.  When I go to terminal and type sudo umount /home/my_name I get the error message:   umount: /home/my_name: device is busy.         (In some cases useful info about processes that use          the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))   Is there a way to fix this, where I can restore my old /home/my_name folder and then mount the flashdrive to a proper location? If my Schengen visa starts on the day of arrival which is one day ahead of departure, would they let me get into the plane? I have a question, I applied for the Schengen visa through Germany, on the form they ask me when I'd arriving (to Germany) and when I'd returning. they take this exact date as the visa period.  I wondering if they would let me get into the plane, even though my flight it a day before the arrival.  Let get the real deal; let say this:  My visa is valid from 02/12/2014 to 02/02/2015. But, my flight is scheduled to be departing on 01/12/2014, but entering Germany 02/12/2014. the flight duration is almost 9hours and there is 7hours difference between Germany and the departing flight country. How to calculate the Fourier transform of a Gaussian function? I would like to work out the Fourier transform of the Gaussian function   $$f(x) = \exp \left(-n^2(x-m)^2 \right)$$  It seems likely that I will need to use differentiation and the shift rule at some point, but I can't seem to get the calculation to work. Does anyone have any advice?  By the way, I am using   $$\mbox{FT}(f)(k)=\int_{-\infty}^\infty f(x)e^{-ikx}\,\mathrm d x$$  as my definition of a Fourier transform. Many thanks. I have forgotten the password or username for my Google account, or I'm unable to access my account for other reasons.  How can I recover my account?  (This Q&amp;A is meant as a general description for all Google and Gmail username/password questions. See: ) Prove the equality: $\det\left[\begin{smallmatrix} -2a &a+b &a+c \\ b+a&-2b &b+c \\ c+a&c+b &-2c \end{smallmatrix}\right] = 4(a+b)(b+c)(c+a)$ i have to prove:   $$\begin{vmatrix} -2a &amp;a+b  &amp;a+c \\   b+a&amp;-2b  &amp;b+c \\   c+a&amp;c+b  &amp;-2c  \end{vmatrix} = 4(a+b)(b+c)(c+a)$$   I have tried many calculations between the rows and columns of the determinant to get to the answer i want to solve the exercise however none of them gave me something right. Can someone help? Can I boil milk unattended (and still keep the pan clean)? Deleted Ubuntu 20 alongside windows 10 and unable to install again I have a lot of 3D objects of various sizes, shapes in blender 2.76b and I would like to set the origin to the bottom center of the objects bounds.  I cannot select the bottom edge and snap to cursor etc as each shapes edges are in different X/Y positions.  Is there a script or tool that will allow me to set the origin to the lowest edge z position?