On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Mike Rosberg wrote: > Apparently, The New York Times website, Huffington Post UK's website > and Twitter.com were all attacked by the Syrian Electronic Army > yesterday > http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/08/28/0233202/new-york-times-and-twitter-attacked-by-syrian-electronic- > army well, the story gets stranger. i was having massive trouble using twitter from home from my linux laptop, no matter what browser i was using -- constant "Internal server error" diagnostics. but i pulled out an old 32-bit dell laptop running windows and ... no problem. wtf? tested again from home this morning -- unusable from linux box, works perfectly from windows laptop using IE. finally, got into the code factory where i work during the day ... suddenly, access from linux just fine. so it *appears* to be something happening at home, and possibly coincides with my getting a newer rogers cable modem. the old one was flaking out, so i got a replacement that comes with built-in wifi, but i'm still running a net cable to my netgear wireless router to not mess with my setup. maybe it's some strange combination of the cable modem, going to the wireless router. but it's only twitter that's affected -- every other web site seems fine. and it's only a problem using a browser on my linux laptop, as IE on windows doesn't seem to have any difficulty. i'm baffled. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================