Legolas, you are right, thats what I get for replying without thinking. Portsentry is good, especially in conjunction with logcheck.
BTW, have you set up a time with Gimli to visit the Glittering Caves of Aglarond? Seems he went to Fangorn with you and you haven't been to eager to go back to Helm's Deep with him. He won't stop pestering me!
About those figures... 100 Million of the US population covered? Divided by what penetration rate? Divided still further by the fact that a certain percentage of that penetration rate is customers locked into 1-3 year contracts by the current providers.
It's like the estimate that 60-75% of the population lives within range for DSL. This may be true, but when you look at hard stats, companies are focusing on denser population areas that in all likely hood only cover 20-50% of the population. Add to that that the less dense the population of an area is, the more likely you are to have strange loops that run in a cable all the way acroos town and back, old facilities, bridge taps, slicks, remotes, and what not..
Did anyone notice this shot? Looks like an ethernet card to me.
Now, while I have not read many of the articles surrounding the n-cube, the "perepherial atattachment area" on the bottom of the box looks very much like a male USB port.
Any comments? I can imagine if this is a USB port the things that can be done!
As much as I have diseregarded nintendo over the past few years (as well as most other console systems), I want one of these to try to hack. Actuall, better make that two, so I still have one to play on!
I like this even better than the Network General Guide To Communications protocols poster.
I think I know what my kid's room wallpaper is going to be.
I love the guys comment at the end of the page as to why Steve Jobs is listed. I don't have an opinion as to whether NeXT was the best or not. I will however say this, if it was not for my community college getting 5 donated NeXT machines, I may have never had the early exposure to Unix and the Internet that I had. Within 2 months of playing on one of those I was putting toghether my own Slackware boxes with something like kernel 1.2.xx
Ahh the days of xfree86 on a 486dx 33 with 8MB of RAM. (Old geezer mumble)
Anyone remember trying to get an accelerated xserver to work with the video cards back then?
Or hunting for hours among Slackware mirrors that would export NFS to you because you did not have enough HD space for The Disksets and a partition to install on (floppies aside).
God.. I am being nostalgic! HELP ME!
This whole situation is simply a mirror of most investors and bean counters technical inability.
Look at Covad for example.. how in the world could a company like covad ever be valued at the amount it was (something like 9 billion IIRC). For a company with as small of a footprint as they have, without even owning thier entire network, the only reason they could be valued so high is inability on the part of the investors to comprehend and understand the technology and infrstructure behind the company. It was all about the service provided.. "This business is going to explode!" Well it did, but not in the way that was expected.
While people tout the benifits and possible revenues generated by any new technology (or use of existing technology), one thing investors must realize is that business and society in general is much slower to adopt and buy into such things. Partly because of fear of technology as a whole, partly because the rate of advancement is so fast, why would an individual (or business) Spend the amounts of time and money projected, when 2 months down the line there is something newer, better, faster, and cheaper.
I think the market is better served with more realistic valuations and slower growth. Sure, we won't have as many instant millionaires, but we also will not have people doing stupid things to protect their (overvalued) ideas.
Now if we could just get sorporate america's hands out of the pockets of the government and bring things back to the individual, we would be much better off.
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Legolas, you are right, thats what I get for replying without thinking. Portsentry is good, especially in conjunction with logcheck. BTW, have you set up a time with Gimli to visit the Glittering Caves of Aglarond? Seems he went to Fangorn with you and you haven't been to eager to go back to Helm's Deep with him. He won't stop pestering me!
For linux get nmap. Then get knmap or nmapfe to provide a gui front end if you like. Nmap is the best *nic port scanner around.
It's like the estimate that 60-75% of the population lives within range for DSL. This may be true, but when you look at hard stats, companies are focusing on denser population areas that in all likely hood only cover 20-50% of the population. Add to that that the less dense the population of an area is, the more likely you are to have strange loops that run in a cable all the way acroos town and back, old facilities, bridge taps, slicks, remotes, and what not..
Now, while I have not read many of the articles surrounding the n-cube, the "perepherial atattachment area" on the bottom of the box looks very much like a male USB port.
Any comments? I can imagine if this is a USB port the things that can be done!
As much as I have diseregarded nintendo over the past few years (as well as most other console systems), I want one of these to try to hack. Actuall, better make that two, so I still have one to play on!
I like this even better than the Network General Guide To Communications protocols poster. I think I know what my kid's room wallpaper is going to be. I love the guys comment at the end of the page as to why Steve Jobs is listed. I don't have an opinion as to whether NeXT was the best or not. I will however say this, if it was not for my community college getting 5 donated NeXT machines, I may have never had the early exposure to Unix and the Internet that I had. Within 2 months of playing on one of those I was putting toghether my own Slackware boxes with something like kernel 1.2.xx Ahh the days of xfree86 on a 486dx 33 with 8MB of RAM. (Old geezer mumble) Anyone remember trying to get an accelerated xserver to work with the video cards back then? Or hunting for hours among Slackware mirrors that would export NFS to you because you did not have enough HD space for The Disksets and a partition to install on (floppies aside). God.. I am being nostalgic! HELP ME!
Look at Covad for example.. how in the world could a company like covad ever be valued at the amount it was (something like 9 billion IIRC). For a company with as small of a footprint as they have, without even owning thier entire network, the only reason they could be valued so high is inability on the part of the investors to comprehend and understand the technology and infrstructure behind the company. It was all about the service provided.. "This business is going to explode!" Well it did, but not in the way that was expected.
While people tout the benifits and possible revenues generated by any new technology (or use of existing technology), one thing investors must realize is that business and society in general is much slower to adopt and buy into such things. Partly because of fear of technology as a whole, partly because the rate of advancement is so fast, why would an individual (or business) Spend the amounts of time and money projected, when 2 months down the line there is something newer, better, faster, and cheaper.
I think the market is better served with more realistic valuations and slower growth. Sure, we won't have as many instant millionaires, but we also will not have people doing stupid things to protect their (overvalued) ideas.
Now if we could just get sorporate america's hands out of the pockets of the government and bring things back to the individual, we would be much better off.