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  1. Re:The will have to improve their products then... on Cisco Evolving Into A Security Company · · Score: 1

    1. Their Pixes are a fixed configuration system that handles bandwidth just fine. I managed several customer networks and most of those are running 200-300 mbps per second with anywhere from 10,000 to 80000 concurrent connections. Heck FW1 can't even go above 50,000 concurrent connections.

    2. Their IDSes do lack something to be desired but they are working on it.

    3. Cisco HAS a work around for several years now for the IPSEC issue you reference.

    4. NAC is part of a growing roadmap. Switches are coming this May. Christ, how about you rewrite Windows in a week and make it secure. Cisco has to write and test this shit.

  2. Cisco Announcement on Cisco Evolving Into A Security Company · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It will probably be Cisco's continued development of Network Admission Control(NAC) as it extends further down the network. NAC will interrogate a PC(via Cisco Trust Agent) that is plugged in to see if it running the latest MS patches, latest virus definitions, and Cisco Secure Agent policies. If not, it will prevent the workstation from going anywhere but to MS update, the AV vendor for updates, and the CSA policy server. Cisco is also pushing their IPSes into their devices. I wouldn't be surprised to see Cisco pushing IPSes to their switching line.

  3. JavaHMO on TiVo to Offer SDK · · Score: 1

    JavaHMO is pretty cool. I recommend anyone with a newer Tivo to check it out!

  4. I am sorry but religion should be tought as.... on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    philosophy. Creationism isn't about science, it is about a philosophy. Get it out of science class!

  5. I have no reason to switch. on Is Apache 2.0 Worth the Switch for PHP? · · Score: 1

    A) yes, Apache 1.3 is solid.
    B) I have no requirement to switch.
    C) If A & B are true, I don't recommend 2.0 as it is NOT as tested as 1.3.

  6. Re:Irony is ... on The Media in 2014 · · Score: 1

    wow, that's not a personal attack at all. Fox "News" is not fair and balanced. Pick any story they publish and look on google news to see what everyone else says. They alsmot always have peculiar differences that sometimes are rather large errors.

  7. RAID mirroring in devices on Toshiba Unveils 80GB 'iPod drive' · · Score: 1

    The storage is getting small enough that vendors could actually start making RAID available in their devices.

    ie. mirror all changes over to second drive when I tell it to. Remember, IPods can be used for more than just music1

  8. Someone needs to make spyware illegal on Given Up to Spyware? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Someone needs to make spyware illegal unless someone actively buys a PC sponsored with the crap. ie. those 'free' bannered PCs from years ago. The average computer user just is not capable of keeping this crap off of their computer. Windows is becoming more and more useless as a plaform because of this 'stuff'.

    All I can say is THANK YOU KDE for kiosk mode. I now have my parents surfing with a crap free computer, dynamic DNS, auto-updates, and has been running bug free for months now. 8)

  9. Write once, infect everywhere! on Cross-Platform Java Sandbox Exploit · · Score: 1, Funny

    Write once, infect everywhere!

  10. HR: People gambling department on Electronic Arts Facing Possible Class Action Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd concurr with this. HR is about 'people gambling'. They do what it takes to keep you on board for as little as is possible. Remember, the more they pay you, the worse their numbers are. They in effect are incented to screw you.

  11. Plastic people! We still are dependent. on Could Nuclear Power Wean the U.S. From Oil? · · Score: 1

    We are still dependent because we need oil for plastic. We use plastic so much that is no small portion of our input/output of our consumer/throw away economy.

  12. If MS can't make CE stable... a car? on Will Your Next Car Run Windows? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft had a chance to fix a bunch of design flaws with CE when they started writing it. It is as much of junk as Windows itself is. My CE phone blue screened in the middle of phone calls(POS). Now why should I believe that they can somehow rewrite again and make it work? Come on. Third time is a charm. BS.

    ie. I was at an IBM training session with a partner who sells Citrix terminals. Their citrix terminals can get INFECTED by the same internet worms that affect Windows. WTF?! The answer, 'well just reset the terminal nightly'. Great answer.

    Microsoft is already slow about issuing patches. Are we supposed to wait for MS to issue a patch, the terminal manufacturer to test the patch, then push an upgraded terminal binary? SLOW Now imagine your car, bluetooth enabled or whatever... cracked from several miles away. Does this mean you have to power cycle your car to clear the cracker's breakin?

  13. My gripe isn't so much about gnome or KDE but libs on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I use packages that require GTK and KDE. My single biggest gripe about KDE and Gnome is that for me to function, I need 400megs of crap if I want to make sure I have a good foundation for me work. This is just retarded. Now is the time for all good distributions to merge for the sake of the open-source community. Both packages are excellent. Time to make the community more mean and lean, I don't care if it is knome or gde, just pick a fricken API.

  14. Cisco did this 6-7 years ago on Germans Reach 360 Mbps in Mobile Network Tests · · Score: 4, Informative

    I remember Cisco offering a product six or seven years ago that did vectored orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. It could do 45mbps non-line of sight as point-to-point or as a unidirectional 28 channel T1'looking setup al la Cisco 2600 WIC Cards. I wonder how this is different.

  15. Re:Funny, Firefox adblock... on DoubleClick Hit by DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    (D)enial (O)f (S)ervice, vs. (D)istributed... ... sarcams... JA

  16. Funny, Firefox adblock... on DoubleClick Hit by DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    Funny, my FireFox adblock DOS against DoubleClick has been going for at least a year...

  17. Re:Very true on No 2.7 Linux Kernel Branch Due Soon · · Score: 1

    Because the Kernel is typically where driver bugs are fixed. You know, things that cause the whole system to crap out.

  18. Re:This is bad. on No 2.7 Linux Kernel Branch Due Soon · · Score: 0

    Maybe if you used RedHat or Suse. Slackware w/ 2.4 is great.

  19. This is bad. on No 2.7 Linux Kernel Branch Due Soon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is bad. Not all distribution maintainers have armies of patch people. This will push people to one of a few distributions such as RedHat or Suse. Espcially if 2.6 becomes an unstable piece of crap.

  20. Your couches, chairs, and others are all covered on Is Your Computer Leaking Toxic Dust? · · Score: 0

    Your couches, chairs, and others are all covered in PBDEs. It is a common industry practice to cover their manufactured goods with fire retardants. In fact, they're now finding that most Women have large quantities of PBDEs in their breast milk. The whole fire retardant thing is out of whack. People don't smoke like they use to.

  21. Your couches, chairs, etc.. all are COVERED .... on Return of the TV Wristwatch · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your couches, chairs, and others are all covered in PBDEs. It is a common industry practice to cover their manufactured goods with fire retardants. In fact, they're now finding that most Women have large quantities of PBDEs in their breast milk. The whole fire retardant thing is out of whack. People don't smoke like they use to.

  22. Re:This has happened before on Possible Cisco Source Code Theft · · Score: 2, Interesting

    11.3 is not ancient history. 11.3 is where Cisco began it's modular IOS conversion. You couldn't directly see it but Cisco started converting their IOS releases to a modular format in the back ground(though the images were always monolithic). 12.3 is the final step before every IOS image is the same base "IP Base" and you'd download DLLs or modules that the router could dynamically load. A release of 11.3 would be just as painfull as 12.3 because the architecture would definitely be showing is strengths and weaknesses.

  23. Use a router to fragment on Gigabit Networking for the Home? · · Score: 0

    It takes routers to fragment packets. Which means one of a few things: a) no jumbo frames b) buy a box to act as a router.

    Just to restate though, jumbo frames will only do good in large data transfer environments.

    However, about two years ago when I was doing a high-speed IDS deployment, the scanner was an 1.3 P3 Xeon and it could generate 800mbps of traffic using gig fiber and 1500 byte frames. Try adjusting your TCP window size and application MTU size before resorting to jumbo frames.

  24. Someone please remind Intel.... on Gates: Hardware, Not Software, Will Be Free · · Score: 0

    Someone please remind Intel. They spend BILLIONS setting up fabrication plants. Bill Gate's comment must make them feel soo much better. Now Intel can ask Microsoft for the money to cover the billions of dollars for each plant.

  25. doesn't change the fact that bush is wrong on Scientists Challenge U.S. on Scientific Distortions · · Score: 0

    It doesn't change the fact that bush is wrong and that he does distort scientific evidence. He gutted power plant regs so old plants doing upgrades do not have to purchase new up-to-date scrubbers. He is a moron when it comes to the environment. If there is one thing he should have learned from Reagan's era was that env. regs don't make businesses unprofitable.