However, I am not looking forward my 2.9 firewall to 3.1. Since OpenBSD 3.x releases no longer support IPF, I need to have the new FP ruleset in place before I do anything serious on that machine.
Yeah, I know how you feel - I'm in the same boat. And now that 2.9 is 2 versions old and not actively patched anymore, it looks like I'm gonna have to start trying pf. Not that I have anything against pf - just that my ipf rules had tons of groups in them.
Let me get this straight - these guys combed through a database of ??? earthquakes and found a whopping two instances where two earthquakes hapened within a few seconds of each other on nearly-opposite sides of the world. Given how frequent these small earthquakes are I'm surprised they only found two - just from random chance.
But wait, if they stop assuming the particles passed through the centre of the earth, they could correlate any two earthquakes anywhere. It must be true!
Seriously, have they thought that adding up the lengths of all the faults (known and unknown) in the world, and looking at tremor return periods for all those faults, that there might just be a likelihood of two coinciding at any one time. Hell we get 1000 earthquakes a year in NZ, that's 3 a day in one small part of the world - how many would happen daily worldwide? 1000s??
Two earthquakes a few seconds apart don't mean squat. I notice each event was only mentioned on 2 seismometers (Bolivia came up twice?) - maybe someone bumped a table seconds apart in both locations? No mention of NZ seismometers, both events seem to have happened nearby, and NZ is renowned (along with Japan and California) as earthquake research experts.
Maybe if they could explain detecting the rippling through the earth better, I might be convinced.
Yeah, but that construction analogy isn't entirely applicable. Sure the architect/engineer etc own the copyright on the blueprints, but the customer owns the building.
Applying the analogy, that would be more like the programmer owning the copyrights to the specification and use cases etc, while the customer owns the software.
I would think that contract programming would be a 'work for hire' kinda deal.
There is at least one way to get full control though to kill those pesky processes etc. If the task scheduler service runs as local system, you can run stuff as local system by scheduling it to open a command prompt in one minutes time. Then when the prompt opens, you can then run all kinds of stuff from it.
All good software, but this CD isn't aimed at folks that want telnet, ssh, MUDs etc. People that want that sort of 'geeky' software already know how to find it and install it.
This CD seems aimed at the people that aren't even aware there are free (beer and speech) alternatives available for the everyday programs they use.
It is a way for law abiding users to save money, and for users that don't want to be 'pirates' to not worry about being busted anymore. It could even be marketed as being 'spyware free!' etc.
As for the whole "software built like a bridge" crap... there's a bridge over the Mississippi near where i live. It causes traffic backups in both directions every day because it doesn't scale. They're planning on fixing it... it will take six years, cost millions of dollars, and make traffic even worse during that time. Does this sound like a software project to you?
I think you're confusing bridge engineering (the designer) with traffic engineering (the client - ie a roading authority). It's still standing ain't it?
That would be like blaming the programmer for software that bogs down with 200 simultaneous users, when the client asked for a cheap solution to handle 5 users.
With a firewall on every machine and a general network firewall, you have a layered defense that is exponentially harder to subvert. It will also help stop internal attacks by employees, which are much more likely to succeed than external attacks.
All true, but how effective would this be? Don't forget that just about every enterprise desktop is windows using netbios. Open the firewall on the NIC enough to let the netbios ports through, and you've pretty much opened the machine up to 90% of potential attacks anyway.
It could have a use in stopping certain groups of machines being able to talk to each other at all though.
I know W2K and later don't need netbios, but they can also have centrally managed IPSec group policies to achieve pretty much the same thing as this firewall.
This card doesn't seem worth the extra expense to me - upgrading the OS to W2K would probably be comparable in cost to upgrading the NIC.
Forgive my ignorance being a non USian - Is that the same Feinstein that was into music censorship with Tipper Gore? ie a Jello Biafra comic strip bad guy?
Sailing's cool, but if you want a more exciting and hi tech gearhead experience - try windsurfing. Modern gear is fast and easy to use and more versatile than in the past.
Just like sailing there are a lot of different forces to balance, so an understanding of vectors, moments and aerodynamics really helps.
One word of advice though - get professional lessons!
Deploying a JAR to two different places (jBoss and Tomcat). Firstly, I question what the problem is. I didn't get that bit either - these days Tomcat is embedded in JBoss (unless you use the Jetty version of course) - you just deploy to JBoss. There is no separate Tomcat configuration to do.
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"I can install Red Hat from a bootable CD. The machine is not connected to a network and all I do all day is type ps, pwd and ls. I'm so l33t."
You think that's exciting? Wait until you figure out 'cd' - you'll wet your pants!
The really cool thing about 'cd' is it adds a whole new dimension of gameplay to 'pwd' and 'ls'. Beware though, you'll waste so much time playing 'cd' that your Xbox productivity will suffer.
Marketing discovered all that corporate customers were demanding was the Win95 shell on top of the existing NT, and improved graphics response. Voila! NT 4.0
Hehe
Anyway, after I finally got the article to open properly (CNet slashdotted - surely not!) there was a nice section about Cairo's history of vapour (since 92). Quite embarrasing for MS really.
Wasn't this supposed to be part of Cairo - that magical vapourware version of NT that was all the rage about 7 (or more?) years ago.
W2K seemed to finally bring some of those features (eg a hierachical directory service), but I seem to remember an object oriented filesystem being one of the big ones.
I've installed an HP Ultrium 215 (the slow one!) at a client site, and it rocks.
It backs up faster than data can be sent to it - there must be plenty of headroom on the faster models. The client was just using a bunch of intel servers though, no high powered SANs or anything to back up.
No idea on reliability yet though - no probs so far (still less than a year). They get hot though, so don't cram them in a crowded server.
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However, I am not looking forward my 2.9 firewall to 3.1. Since OpenBSD 3.x releases no longer support IPF, I need to have the new FP ruleset in place before I do anything serious on that machine.
Yeah, I know how you feel - I'm in the same boat. And now that 2.9 is 2 versions old and not actively patched anymore, it looks like I'm gonna have to start trying pf. Not that I have anything against pf - just that my ipf rules had tons of groups in them.
That wasn't so much a technological disaster, as a post deregulation not wanting to pay for maintenance disaster.
And the award for 'most valuble use of the carriage return' goes to... tps12.
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The deft usage of a handful of well placed carriage returns turned a '-1, Troll' post in to a '+4, Funny'.
Congratulations
Let me get this straight - these guys combed through a database of ??? earthquakes and found a whopping two instances where two earthquakes hapened within a few seconds of each other on nearly-opposite sides of the world. Given how frequent these small earthquakes are I'm surprised they only found two - just from random chance.
But wait, if they stop assuming the particles passed through the centre of the earth, they could correlate any two earthquakes anywhere. It must be true!
Seriously, have they thought that adding up the lengths of all the faults (known and unknown) in the world, and looking at tremor return periods for all those faults, that there might just be a likelihood of two coinciding at any one time. Hell we get 1000 earthquakes a year in NZ, that's 3 a day in one small part of the world - how many would happen daily worldwide? 1000s??
Two earthquakes a few seconds apart don't mean squat. I notice each event was only mentioned on 2 seismometers (Bolivia came up twice?) - maybe someone bumped a table seconds apart in both locations? No mention of NZ seismometers, both events seem to have happened nearby, and NZ is renowned (along with Japan and California) as earthquake research experts.
Maybe if they could explain detecting the rippling through the earth better, I might be convinced.
Why should Britney Spears or any other singer be paid millions for singing a song that someone else, probably a 9-to-5 office worker, wrote?
Hey wow, you're telling me that the reason that crap rakes in the millions is because of the creative lyrics?
Hell, it would probably sell better without the words!
Yeah, but that construction analogy isn't entirely applicable. Sure the architect/engineer etc own the copyright on the blueprints, but the customer owns the building.
Applying the analogy, that would be more like the programmer owning the copyrights to the specification and use cases etc, while the customer owns the software.
I would think that contract programming would be a 'work for hire' kinda deal.
There is at least one way to get full control though to kill those pesky processes etc. If the task scheduler service runs as local system, you can run stuff as local system by scheduling it to open a command prompt in one minutes time.
Then when the prompt opens, you can then run all kinds of stuff from it.
All good software, but this CD isn't aimed at folks that want telnet, ssh, MUDs etc. People that want that sort of 'geeky' software already know how to find it and install it.
This CD seems aimed at the people that aren't even aware there are free (beer and speech) alternatives available for the everyday programs they use.
It is a way for law abiding users to save money, and for users that don't want to be 'pirates' to not worry about being busted anymore. It could even be marketed as being 'spyware free!' etc.
As for the whole "software built like a bridge" crap... there's a bridge over the Mississippi near where i live. It causes traffic backups in both directions every day because it doesn't scale. They're planning on fixing it... it will take six years, cost millions of dollars, and make traffic even worse during that time. Does this sound like a software project to you?
I think you're confusing bridge engineering (the designer) with traffic engineering (the client - ie a roading authority). It's still standing ain't it?
That would be like blaming the programmer for software that bogs down with 200 simultaneous users, when the client asked for a cheap solution to handle 5 users.
Does that mean that Gamespot are commercially exploiting the source? ;-)
(I was refering to the copyright notice mentioned above)
With a firewall on every machine and a general network firewall, you have a layered defense that is exponentially harder to subvert. It will also help stop internal attacks by employees, which are much more likely to succeed than external attacks.
All true, but how effective would this be? Don't forget that just about every enterprise desktop is windows using netbios. Open the firewall on the NIC enough to let the netbios ports through, and you've pretty much opened the machine up to 90% of potential attacks anyway.
It could have a use in stopping certain groups of machines being able to talk to each other at all though.
I know W2K and later don't need netbios, but they can also have centrally managed IPSec group policies to achieve pretty much the same thing as this firewall.
This card doesn't seem worth the extra expense to me - upgrading the OS to W2K would probably be comparable in cost to upgrading the NIC.
Forgive my ignorance being a non USian - Is that the same Feinstein that was into music censorship with Tipper Gore? ie a Jello Biafra comic strip bad guy?
Sailing's cool, but if you want a more exciting and hi tech gearhead experience - try windsurfing. Modern gear is fast and easy to use and more versatile than in the past.
Just like sailing there are a lot of different forces to balance, so an understanding of vectors, moments and aerodynamics really helps.
One word of advice though - get professional lessons!
yeah 16 nautical miles per hour per hour is pretty crappy acceleration.
;-)
Hopefully the brakes are a bit more effective
Deploying a JAR to two different places (jBoss and Tomcat). Firstly, I question what the problem is.
I didn't get that bit either - these days Tomcat is embedded in JBoss (unless you use the Jetty version of course) - you just deploy to JBoss. There is no separate Tomcat configuration to do.
"I can install Red Hat from a bootable CD. The machine is not connected to a network and all I do all day is type ps, pwd and ls. I'm so l33t."
You think that's exciting? Wait until you figure out 'cd' - you'll wet your pants!
The really cool thing about 'cd' is it adds a whole new dimension of gameplay to 'pwd' and 'ls'. Beware though, you'll waste so much time playing 'cd' that your Xbox productivity will suffer.
Thanks, that really cleared it up.
Who said anything about humans?
Marketing discovered all that corporate customers were demanding was the Win95 shell on top of the existing NT, and improved graphics response. Voila!
NT 4.0
Hehe
Anyway, after I finally got the article to open properly (CNet slashdotted - surely not!) there was a nice section about Cairo's history of vapour (since 92). Quite embarrasing for MS really.
From memory, MS licensed a lot of the (cut down) dynamic volume management stuff in W2K from Veritas.
:)
No I can't be bothered searching for a reference either
Speaking of hearing all this before....
Wasn't this supposed to be part of Cairo - that magical vapourware version of NT that was all the rage about 7 (or more?) years ago.
W2K seemed to finally bring some of those features (eg a hierachical directory service), but I seem to remember an object oriented filesystem being one of the big ones.
Ummm, ipf is/was stateful as well. OpenBSD has always had a stateful packet filter.
Didn't Vietnam start that way?
I've installed an HP Ultrium 215 (the slow one!) at a client site, and it rocks.
It backs up faster than data can be sent to it - there must be plenty of headroom on the faster models. The client was just using a bunch of intel servers though, no high powered SANs or anything to back up.
No idea on reliability yet though - no probs so far (still less than a year). They get hot though, so don't cram them in a crowded server.
Is that with a silent R?