However, I can tell you that it was created at 1:03pm on Monday, June 9, 2003, by Robin Whaling, who seems to be a functionary at Foundstone, responsible for such things as the maintenance of security class enrollment and such. Probably and executive assistant.
I can tell you that the document was probably created on a non-current version of Distiller.
I can say with some certainty that it wasn't produced with a Macintosh version, and almost certainly was produced on a Windows, rather than Unix, version of the software.
I can also say that on April 4, they switched from using NES 4.1 on OpenBSD to a Mac OS X-centric enterprise suite as their primary webserver. Given the coincidence in dates, one wonders whether that copy of NES was licensed properly.
(he ended up doing time for hacking into NASA owned systems at the University of Florida - in fact, I believe that he is still incarcerated).
He really knew his shit, especially when it came to invisibly manipulating Cisco equipment and covering his tracks in Unix/Linux/BSD logs.
I fail to see how "he is still incarcerated" supports the claim "really knew his shit." One might almost think that, if he really knew his shit, there would be no incarceration to mention.
I've been thinking about this problem, and its various dead-end solutions (micropayments, rewriting SMTP, strong client/server auth, third-party circles of trust), and have come to the conclusion that none are necessary, or particularly desireable.
I've put together the beginnings of an alternate proposal, which draws on some of the good aspects of the above approaches, without the need to rewrite SMTP. It's a community-based, peer-based approach that leaves the power in the hands of the operator. Plus, there's no profit motive (except that it's in an operator's best interest, and thus the corporate owner's best interest, to maintain his/her server's level of trust).
Not if, in that advanced society, the majority of people believed the way you do. They'd just kick back and wait for us to find them.
Only, we'd be expecting the same of them.
Besides, I'd much rather see "tons of money" (which is privately donated, by the by) spent on this than the way we recently spent seventy-five billion (let that rattle around in your head a bit: Seventy. Five. BILLION.) dollars in the Middle East.
She wasn't the insrpiration for the movie itself, no. That was Carl Sagan and his book of the same name. However, there are several characters in the movie that bear much more than a passing resemblance to folks who actually work at the SETI Institute.
You're joking, of course. However, before someone makes some MS-bashing comment, the system the SETI Institute will deploy at the ATA runs mostly on Linux. Debian, at the moment. What isn't Linux is Solaris, and that's mainly the control and data archiving system.
Of course, this also means the two programmers have to be on the same LAN segment. Rendezvous doesn't route.
However, it is possible to build a Rendezvous proxy. Given that, it should be fairly easy to set one up to listen for Rendezvous apps on one network, and proxy-advertise them to another. This would be easy to do with the mDNSClientPosix and mDNSProxyResponderPosix example code available from Apple.
Those of you discussing SETI@Home, would you please READ the information provided before mouthing off? The software under discussion has nothing to do with SETI@Home.
Yes, but they're using others as well. That's but one of many...I was curious what others they were using, or perhaps what other visually captivating, dynamically-updating network visualization tools other folks might be aware of.
I wonder what network visualization tools they're using? It'd be interesting to see what visualization tools are compelling enough to use in a spectator sport.
I checked the site, but there was only a link to one.
Does anyone else know of any dynamic, visually-interesting (and preferably free) visualization tools? Something like this might be a big hit if done at conferences and the like. I'd like to introduce them to a few I attend.
Matrix? Original? The sound you're now hearing is Lewis Carroll, spinning in his grave. Or any of a number of other authors from whom various plot devices were borrowed.
Yes, it's larger than the orbit of Pluto. It's defined by the reach of Sol's influence, and the buondary is the heliopause -- the point at which the solar wind meets the interstellar gasses, and ceases to have influence over them.
Think of it this way: Sol is blowing in all directions, sweeping things away from it. At some point, the strength of that wind dies out, and the "currents" that exist between stars are stronger than the solar wind. That's the heliopause.
The Pioneer 10 signal is 4 watts. It's 7.5 BILLION miles away. Intentional attempts at interstellar communication are almost certainly going to use something stronger than a mouse fart.
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I can't tell.
However, I can tell you that it was created at 1:03pm on Monday, June 9, 2003, by Robin Whaling, who seems to be a functionary at Foundstone, responsible for such things as the maintenance of security class enrollment and such. Probably and executive assistant.
I can tell you that the document was probably created on a non-current version of Distiller.
I can say with some certainty that it wasn't produced with a Macintosh version, and almost certainly was produced on a Windows, rather than Unix, version of the software.
I can also say that on April 4, they switched from using NES 4.1 on OpenBSD to a Mac OS X-centric enterprise suite as their primary webserver. Given the coincidence in dates, one wonders whether that copy of NES was licensed properly.
I fail to see how "he is still incarcerated" supports the claim "really knew his shit." One might almost think that, if he really knew his shit, there would be no incarceration to mention.
is one based on peer-maintained and user-maintained trust. I have written the outlines for such an approach.
That's exactly what I propose here.
I've been thinking about this problem, and its various dead-end solutions (micropayments, rewriting SMTP, strong client/server auth, third-party circles of trust), and have come to the conclusion that none are necessary, or particularly desireable.
I've put together the beginnings of an alternate proposal, which draws on some of the good aspects of the above approaches, without the need to rewrite SMTP. It's a community-based, peer-based approach that leaves the power in the hands of the operator. Plus, there's no profit motive (except that it's in an operator's best interest, and thus the corporate owner's best interest, to maintain his/her server's level of trust).
What the flippin' 'eck is X? If you're referring to the Unix-based windowing system developed at MIT, it's called "X11", or "X11R6".
Don't call it X.
Why? That's a claim that deserves a bit of support, rather than being tossed out like that, cold, naked, and alone.
Not if, in that advanced society, the majority of people believed the way you do. They'd just kick back and wait for us to find them.
Only, we'd be expecting the same of them.
Besides, I'd much rather see "tons of money" (which is privately donated, by the by) spent on this than the way we recently spent seventy-five billion (let that rattle around in your head a bit: Seventy. Five. BILLION.) dollars in the Middle East.
SETI@Home and the SETI Institute are two separate efforts.
She wasn't the insrpiration for the movie itself, no. That was Carl Sagan and his book of the same name. However, there are several characters in the movie that bear much more than a passing resemblance to folks who actually work at the SETI Institute.
You're joking, of course. However, before someone makes some MS-bashing comment, the system the SETI Institute will deploy at the ATA runs mostly on Linux. Debian, at the moment. What isn't Linux is Solaris, and that's mainly the control and data archiving system.
Not at all. In fact, I appreciate it.
1) Reduce your font size
2) I use a TiBook most of the time, and I don't need a page that big
3) Even when I'm working on my desktop (2048x1536), I don't run huge browser windows
4) Many browsers interpret stylesheets and tables slightly differently, and getting that layout to look correct in all of them is nigh impossible
5) Fixed it, so you can stop complaining.
That's very cool. Rendezvous is really coming into its own. I wrote up instructions on how to Rendezvous-enable pretty much anything you'd like, using any Unix box and a bit of C code and shell scripting.
Document Posted: 11-17-2002.
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Nitpick: SATAN was a security assessment tool, not SAINT's predecessor.
Errr...folks? You're posting system monitoring software. He wanted HARDWARE monitoring solutions.
Those of you discussing SETI@Home, would you please READ the information provided before mouthing off? The software under discussion has nothing to do with SETI@Home.
Read the #$*&^ stories before you post them!!! The people arrested were arrested on drug charges and for work on the TK worm, NOT Sapphire/Slammer.
Yes, but they're using others as well. That's but one of many...I was curious what others they were using, or perhaps what other visually captivating, dynamically-updating network visualization tools other folks might be aware of.
I wonder what network visualization tools they're using? It'd be interesting to see what visualization tools are compelling enough to use in a spectator sport.
I checked the site, but there was only a link to one.
Does anyone else know of any dynamic, visually-interesting (and preferably free) visualization tools? Something like this might be a big hit if done at conferences and the like. I'd like to introduce them to a few I attend.
Matrix? Original? The sound you're now hearing is Lewis Carroll, spinning in his grave. Or any of a number of other authors from whom various plot devices were borrowed.
Original, indeed.
Yes, it's larger than the orbit of Pluto. It's defined by the reach of Sol's influence, and the buondary is the heliopause -- the point at which the solar wind meets the interstellar gasses, and ceases to have influence over them.
Think of it this way: Sol is blowing in all directions, sweeping things away from it. At some point, the strength of that wind dies out, and the "currents" that exist between stars are stronger than the solar wind. That's the heliopause.
The Pioneer 10 signal is 4 watts. It's 7.5 BILLION miles away. Intentional attempts at interstellar communication are almost certainly going to use something stronger than a mouse fart.