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The playbook only tells you the general plan. In reality, players have to react to hundreds or thousands of variables. Dumb people don't make it in real football... which is not to say that real football players don't do some really dumb stuff, but then you should see what goes on after hours at Strings.

See xmlgrep. Also xgrep and xml command line utilities.

you, like all GNU fools, can't live without verbosity

A strange comment considering Plan 9's Unix origins.

Indeed. Anyone old enough will also remember that we only found out about Chernobyl after 2 days when radiation set off detectors of nuclear plant workers in Sweden. Even then I'm not sure how long it took for anyone to figure out it was a nuclear reactor explosion in Russia.

There is a real nice, stripped clean and naturally free linux distro for firewalls/routers called bifrost. The latest few versions use 2.4-kernels, but they keep a nice annotated back-log of their old distros since 1997. The distro has a fairly clever system for dealing with mobile users (called nomad). It lacks a "click-and-go" wui by design, due to the risk of unneccesary security breaches - in my translation from the swedish pages - Correct filterrules are preferentially constructed "offline", and transfered by scp. For those who want clickability and colors, we recommend Xemacs for suitable coziness. Imho, thats the way to go (although I zealously use emacs instead).

The guys who maintain bifrost/nomad spend a lot of time on fairly advanced network performance testing with different hardware/driver combinations, so you maight want to consider their hardware recommendations as well. For the machines they put together for the Swedish university network, they go with flash-drives for safe (and fast) storage.

If you are curios about the name of the distro, the following helps:
The name Bifrost comes from the nordic mythology, where Bifrost is the bridge between Midgård (The Earth) and Asgård (the home of gods) and is called The Rainbow by humans. It's so strong that it will not be destroyed until Ragnarök - the end of the world. Bifrost is guarded by Heimdall and the red color one can see in it, is a flaming fire that prevents the giants to climb up to Asgård.

There is a real nice, stripped clean and naturally free linux distro for firewalls/routers called bifrost. The latest few versions use 2.4-kernels, but they keep a nice annotated back-log of their old distros since 1997. The distro has a fairly clever system for dealing with mobile users (called nomad). It lacks a "click-and-go" wui by design, due to the risk of unneccesary security breaches - in my translation from the swedish pages - Correct filterrules are preferentially constructed "offline", and transfered by scp. For those who want clickability and colors, we recommend Xemacs for suitable coziness. Imho, thats the way to go (although I zealously use emacs instead).

The guys who maintain bifrost/nomad spend a lot of time on fairly advanced network performance testing with different hardware/driver combinations, so you maight want to consider their hardware recommendations as well. For the machines they put together for the Swedish university network, they go with flash-drives for safe (and fast) storage.

If you are curios about the name of the distro, the following helps:
The name Bifrost comes from the nordic mythology, where Bifrost is the bridge between Midgård (The Earth) and Asgård (the home of gods) and is called The Rainbow by humans. It's so strong that it will not be destroyed until Ragnarök - the end of the world. Bifrost is guarded by Heimdall and the red color one can see in it, is a flaming fire that prevents the giants to climb up to Asgård.

At the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences they have put together a router for wirespeed Fast-Ethernet. I am runnign several of these, with good results. They run a customized kernel with very customised tulip-drivers and can do 148kpps at 64byte/packet.

http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net/

http://dwheeler.com/ secure-programs/Secure-Programs-HOWTO.html

http://i30www.ira.uka.de/SawMill/index. html

http://immunix.org/

http://medusa.fornax.sk/

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ob1/index.ht ml

http://soledad.cs.ucdavis.edu/

http://users.ox.ac.uk /~mbeattie/linux/ANNOUNCE.mac30-20000214

http://www.data.slu.se/bifrost/index.en .htm

http://www.guug.de/~winni/posix.1e/

http://www.lids.org/

http://www.rsbac.de/rsbac/

http:// www.securecomputing.com/archive/press/2000/nsa_faq _secure_linux.html

http://www.trinix.org