I have a sneaking suspicion that if the new show does well, and is renewed, the Nation estate and the Beeb will suddenly discover their strong mutual interest in reviving the flow of money from Dalek merchandising.
(Can someone explain to me how it is that Nation's estate personally own the Daleks? Didn't he write those scripts on spec for the BBC?)
It's limited to what TCP fingerprinting can discern, so no, there's no easy way to distinguish between a corporate Exchange server running on Windows Server 2003, and a trojaned Windows XP Home box.
Expect to have to do some extensive whitelisting if you actually use the approach. I certainly would not recommend doing it on your company's firewall.
Why can't we cannibalize ATM technology for voting?
Er, what do you think Diebold's primary line of business is?
(For anyone who had ever walked up to a Diebold ATM or point-of-sale terminal and seen a Blue Screen of Death, none of the news of the last two years has come as any kind of surprise.)
Now, I'll be the first to admit that (a) my tinfoil hat has some large pits and holes from the air corrosion here in NYC, and (b) I am but a bear of very little brain, and thus may not completely comprehend the astounding master plan of our new RedHat overlords......but it seems to me that if RedHat were organizing an astroturfing campaign for Fedora based around/. articles, they might, maybe, just possibly, do it by submitting stories that portrayed Fedora in a positive light, unlike this story?
Question is: has that strategy paid off for Apple?
Looking over the last two or so years worth of quarterly statements from both Apple (wildly profitable) and Sun (bleeding cash from every orifice), I'd say that the answer is pretty clearly "yes".
There's actually plenty of competitors for Akamai's product -- it's one of the reasons they're having such trouble getting to profitability. It turns out that a static edge caching service is, while tricky, not quite rocket science, and several companies have done it: off the top of my head, Speedera, Globix, and Digital Islands (or whoever owns them now; probably level3).
He filled a small fish tank with Sapphire and submerged a book, a laptop, and a flat panel TV. Both electronics were turned on when submerged; all three items came out completely unharmed.
Wow, just like, uh, inert mineral oil. Stop the presses?
Save Zodiac for last. That way, after flogging yourself through his increasingly turgid prose, increasingly leaden dialog, and increasing immunity to proper editing, you can enjoy the treat of a Neal Stephenson novel with a tight plot, believable characters (well, by comparison) and an actual ending.
The sex scene in Cryptonomicon was quite possibly the worst one ever written, including the ones written by Newt Gingrich. Serious Bulwar-Lytton territory.
Farscape isn't scifi, its fantasy. Star trek is scifi. Firefly was scifi. Babylon 5 was scifi. Farscape shouldn't be mistaken for a scifi show. It is fantasy, have always been, will always be. Scifi is shows that extrapolate technology in the future. Which farscape have never done.
Exactly. For instance, here is an illustrative example of the difference between SciFi and Fantasy:
Fantasy: "TobiasTheCommie will have carnal knowledge of a woman at some point in his life." This is just cool stuff you could do, not based on anything plausible.
Scifi: "TobiasTheCommie will die a virgin." This is careful extrapolation of current technology into the future.
Dunno if you're joking or not, but one of my first temp jobs after I left college was at an AT&T small business sales office, where my job was to take massive fan-fold printouts made from one of AT&T's big internal mainframe databases (some scary thing that dated back into the Ma Bell era), and retype them into a local MS Access database.
I didn't consider myself a programmer or anything at the time -- just another liberal arts school dropout who needed to pay rent. But after a few weeks of this, I was literally going mad with boredom, and found myself reading through Access' online help files. A few days later, I'd written a little VBA script that imported the data into Access directly, thus launching a strange and twisted career...
So you're suggesting trying to bluff your way past a Russian military checkpoint into a restricted area, using a fake ID you've assembled from scans on the net?
And how do you plan to manage those OpenBSD (or whatever) boxes evenly distributed around the globe?
Wow, there are certainlynotoolsatall that I could think of that would help me do that...
To quote one of my favorite legendary assholes: "This is unix. Stop acting so helpless."
(In all seriousness: yes, there are probably plenty of cases where there's no business case to be made for rolling your own system, and where Checkpoint's management console or a similar tool is probably a good choice.)
What if you add VPN to the soup?
Using Checkpoint? I'd say that you now have a pressing need for an aspirin. YMMV.
Six months? What did you do, attempt to read the INSPECT code line by line?
No, I tried to make SecuRemote work as advertised. (Or, really, at all.) Silly me.
(The rule zero comment was a throwaway line to appease the moderators; you may safely assume that I did in fact read the documentation and knew what I was doing.)
I'll happily concede that there are situations in which a commercially supported firewall with central management and deployment capability are a better choice than a unix box with a bolted-on packet filter. I also strongly suspect that the vast majority of Checkpoint users don't fall into that category.
Step three: launch CheckPoint into Low Earth Orbit, or at least into the neighbor's hedges.
Step four: install an OpenBSD box with two ethernet interfaces and configure PF.
(Step four can alternatively be replaced with Linux/Netfilter, FreeBSD/IPF or Solaris/IPF -- whatever your poison is.)
But I'm only bitter because I was stupid enough to buy into CheckPoint's snake oil. Fool me once, shame on me, etc -- that goddamn thing cost me close to six months of time that could have been productively spent doing just about anything else. Never, ever again.
(Okay, just for kicks, here's an actual tidbit of useful Checkpoint info: There's a Rule Zero. It doesn't appear in the rules screen. It's probably not doing what you think it's doing.)
...a massive shareholder lawsuit, alleging conflict of interest, kickbacks and breach of fiduciary duty, the instant that PIXR's stock slips below 40 or they ship their first non-hit movie.
Good luck convincing a jury that you switched to a 2- to 3-times as expensive per seat hardware/software platform and it had nothing to do with the fact that the same guy is CEO at both companies.
Nope, the linux-on-mach stuff never made it back into the mainstream kernel. Linus's position on microkernels in general (and mach in particular) is, ah, well-documented: he'd be more likely to assign the linux trademark to Bill Gates and run off to join the circus.
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I have a sneaking suspicion that if the new show does well, and is renewed, the Nation estate and the Beeb will suddenly discover their strong mutual interest in reviving the flow of money from Dalek merchandising.
(Can someone explain to me how it is that Nation's estate personally own the Daleks? Didn't he write those scripts on spec for the BBC?)
It's limited to what TCP fingerprinting can discern, so no, there's no easy way to distinguish between a corporate Exchange server running on Windows Server 2003, and a trojaned Windows XP Home box.
Expect to have to do some extensive whitelisting if you actually use the approach. I certainly would not recommend doing it on your company's firewall.
...or just filter out machines that match windows' tcp fingerprint from your SMTP port.
Yes, you can do this, at least with current versions of pf.
Why can't we cannibalize ATM technology for voting?
Er, what do you think Diebold's primary line of business is?
(For anyone who had ever walked up to a Diebold ATM or point-of-sale terminal and seen a Blue Screen of Death, none of the news of the last two years has come as any kind of surprise.)
Now, I'll be the first to admit that (a) my tinfoil hat has some large pits and holes from the air corrosion here in NYC, and (b) I am but a bear of very little brain, and thus may not completely comprehend the astounding master plan of our new RedHat overlords... ...but it seems to me that if RedHat were organizing an astroturfing campaign for Fedora based around /. articles, they might, maybe, just possibly, do it by submitting stories that portrayed Fedora in a positive light, unlike this story?
Question is: has that strategy paid off for Apple?
Looking over the last two or so years worth of quarterly statements from both Apple (wildly profitable) and Sun (bleeding cash from every orifice), I'd say that the answer is pretty clearly "yes".
There's actually plenty of competitors for Akamai's product -- it's one of the reasons they're having such trouble getting to profitability. It turns out that a static edge caching service is, while tricky, not quite rocket science, and several companies have done it: off the top of my head, Speedera, Globix, and Digital Islands (or whoever owns them now; probably level3).
He filled a small fish tank with Sapphire and submerged a book, a laptop, and a flat panel TV. Both electronics were turned on when submerged; all three items came out completely unharmed.
Wow, just like, uh, inert mineral oil. Stop the presses?
Save Zodiac for last. That way, after flogging yourself through his increasingly turgid prose, increasingly leaden dialog, and increasing immunity to proper editing, you can enjoy the treat of a Neal Stephenson novel with a tight plot, believable characters (well, by comparison) and an actual ending.
The sex scene in Cryptonomicon was quite possibly the worst one ever written, including the ones written by Newt Gingrich. Serious Bulwar-Lytton territory.
Farscape isn't scifi, its fantasy. Star trek is scifi. Firefly was scifi. Babylon 5 was scifi. Farscape shouldn't be mistaken for a scifi show. It is fantasy, have always been, will always be. Scifi is shows that extrapolate technology in the future. Which farscape have never done.
Exactly. For instance, here is an illustrative example of the difference between SciFi and Fantasy:
Fantasy: "TobiasTheCommie will have carnal knowledge of a woman at some point in his life." This is just cool stuff you could do, not based on anything plausible.
Scifi: "TobiasTheCommie will die a virgin." This is careful extrapolation of current technology into the future.
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I'm guessing this is Mike Montague.
Yeah. Populating a database .. manually.
Dunno if you're joking or not, but one of my first temp jobs after I left college was at an AT&T small business sales office, where my job was to take massive fan-fold printouts made from one of AT&T's big internal mainframe databases (some scary thing that dated back into the Ma Bell era), and retype them into a local MS Access database.
I didn't consider myself a programmer or anything at the time -- just another liberal arts school dropout who needed to pay rent. But after a few weeks of this, I was literally going mad with boredom, and found myself reading through Access' online help files. A few days later, I'd written a little VBA script that imported the data into Access directly, thus launching a strange and twisted career...
Certainly sounds like it.
...after taking a motorcycle tour through the Chernobyl interdiction zone, it's contact with slashdotters that is creeping her out.
Well, okay, actually I'll buy that.
D'oh. You are of course correct. How embarrassing.
Sorry man, the habits of childhood die hard -- for most Americans, growing up, the entire USSR was effectively "Russia".
So you're suggesting trying to bluff your way past a Russian military checkpoint into a restricted area, using a fake ID you've assembled from scans on the net?
You first.
...it makes her hot in more ways than one.
And how do you plan to manage those OpenBSD (or whatever) boxes evenly distributed around the globe?
Wow, there are certainly no tools at all that I could think of that would help me do that...
To quote one of my favorite legendary assholes: "This is unix. Stop acting so helpless."
(In all seriousness: yes, there are probably plenty of cases where there's no business case to be made for rolling your own system, and where Checkpoint's management console or a similar tool is probably a good choice.)
What if you add VPN to the soup?
Using Checkpoint? I'd say that you now have a pressing need for an aspirin. YMMV.
Six months? What did you do, attempt to read the INSPECT code line by line?
No, I tried to make SecuRemote work as advertised. (Or, really, at all.) Silly me.
(The rule zero comment was a throwaway line to appease the moderators; you may safely assume that I did in fact read the documentation and knew what I was doing.)
I'll happily concede that there are situations in which a commercially supported firewall with central management and deployment capability are a better choice than a unix box with a bolted-on packet filter. I also strongly suspect that the vast majority of Checkpoint users don't fall into that category.
Step one: remove power cord from CheckPoint box.
Step two: load CheckPoint onto trebuchet.
Step three: launch CheckPoint into Low Earth Orbit, or at least into the neighbor's hedges.
Step four: install an OpenBSD box with two ethernet interfaces and configure PF.
(Step four can alternatively be replaced with Linux/Netfilter, FreeBSD/IPF or Solaris/IPF -- whatever your poison is.)
But I'm only bitter because I was stupid enough to buy into CheckPoint's snake oil. Fool me once, shame on me, etc -- that goddamn thing cost me close to six months of time that could have been productively spent doing just about anything else. Never, ever again.
(Okay, just for kicks, here's an actual tidbit of useful Checkpoint info: There's a Rule Zero. It doesn't appear in the rules screen. It's probably not doing what you think it's doing.)
...a massive shareholder lawsuit, alleging conflict of interest, kickbacks and breach of fiduciary duty, the instant that PIXR's stock slips below 40 or they ship their first non-hit movie.
Good luck convincing a jury that you switched to a 2- to 3-times as expensive per seat hardware/software platform and it had nothing to do with the fact that the same guy is CEO at both companies.
...she's kinda hot.
I guess in many senses of the word now.
Nope, the linux-on-mach stuff never made it back into the mainstream kernel. Linus's position on microkernels in general (and mach in particular) is, ah, well-documented: he'd be more likely to assign the linux trademark to Bill Gates and run off to join the circus.
Oni was third-person.