I have recently installed OpenBSD on my home
router-firewall-workstation after running
2.6 - 2.9 and lemme tell ya, pf ROCKS
with less than 10 lines changed across 4 files in
/etc I was able to get the following configured
for my network:
-firewalling (enable pf in/etc/rc.conf and put
4 rules in/etc/pf.conf)
-full nat (enable ip forwarding in/etc/sysctl.conf
and put 1 line in/etc/nat.conf)
-full port forwarding with ip header rewriting (put
2 lines in/etc/nat.conf)
I am completely BELOW the scale these people
are talking about, which strengthens my argument.
my tape silos would not even approach the scale
needed for 8 terabytes a day at infinite retention.
now figure that, on average, hard drives cost
about $1.75/GB right now ($140 for an 80GB drive),
while AIT-2 costs a mere $0.75/GB.
this doesnt even take into account that tapes
themselves do not require power.
you are either stuck keeping each drive in the ide
solution powered, or coming up with some novel
approach to hot-swapping it in when you need to
retrieve data. tapes definitely come out on top
here.
just think, with a inter-continental deliverable blackhole (ICDB), there wouldnt be all those pesky bodies to clean up when we want to use the real estate either!
back in 1994-ish, there were a few geek advocates of linux on my Uni campus giving away free linux cd's.
You'd be really surprised how much less apprehensive someone is about installing linux when you compare the case where they have to seek out the cd online and buy it for $1 to that of the case where they get one for free.
although, I'm thinking my friends' disks mostly got used as coasters, since the people he was giving them to were not really interested in the first place =/
I might be just a little pissed off if I was part
of a company marketing high-end home and car cd players
that utilized cd-rom drives and now Universal
decides to make their disks such that they won't
play on my head units and players...
I would be all about lawsuits for lost business
and research
and here are the morons trying to explain why the
employees feel okay about absconding with equipment:
"They may have difficulty blaming themselves when they get laid off, so they direct their anguish at the company."
uh, yeah. earth to psychologists: the people getting
escorted to the dot-com's door rarely have anything
to blame THEMSELVES for, and frequently have their
lying, hot-air-blowing dot-com execs to blame for
MOST of their turmoil.
raise your hand of you've heard this one:
"I know it may seem ridiculous today that you're working
80 hours a week for 40 hours' pay, but won't you be
loving life when those options pay off???"
I've been a professional UNIX admin for 10 years
now, and actually have a clue as to how frustrating
it is to hear some asshole manager type tell me my
budget for (insert business-crucial hardware here)
has been turned down because he's too much of a
pansy-ass to tell the board that whoever did their
pre-startup consulting work never bothered to suggest
that the place might want data backed up to tape,
or want a redundant router here and there, etc.
too many places pay too much for worthless manager
types, the place gets so top-heavy that no work
ever actually gets through all the fucking red
tape that each manager has "invented", and the whole
company goes under. common story...
I can already imagine that the government will be
re-inserting the previous, larger error back into
GPS satellites after what happened last tuesday...
It's really too bad so many great consumer products
go by the wayside because we live in a world where
crazies just might exploit convenient technology
to blow something new up.
the government has announced that it will soon be
mandatory to use state-approved envelopes to send
all mail.
these new envelopes will be entirely transparent
when viewed under a federally produced lightbulb,
but there is no need to worry about these lamps
getting out to bad people, since it is time-tested
proof that all government employees are completely
honest and lack all self-serving traits present
in every other human being.
besides, it's for your own good and protection!
and if you have something to write that you don't
want everyone to read, maybe it's time for that
all-important self-examination to reveal your
underlying paranoia complex...
the US has definitely funded its share of *bad*
people, but do those mistakes counteract the aid
we have sent to the tens of countries in the past
decade alone?
point me to whatever perfect country you're living
in, please, because I would like to live in the
same Utopia you seem to be enjoying!
I'm not saying the US is always a nice place to
live... we have bad laws, government officials
that care more about padding their own pockets
than about doing the right thing, and civilians
who don't always treat each other with the amount
of respect they should, but as I look around, I'm
not seeing any other country doing anyhting much
better.
I have a really great idea, and no, I am not in
the least bit joking:
If our foreign policy is what caused this all, and
people in other countries are tired of us interfering
in their lives and with their countries, then I think
the USA should start today to sit quietly on its
rump and not "intervene" in any other country's
affairs.
-we should immediately stop the H1-B program and
send all the ingrates back to whatever hellhole
from whence they came
-we should immediately stop sending money and
supplies to oppressed and tragedy-stricken
countries
-we should immediately seal off all borders (except
Canada, we like them for the most part) and send
all illegal immigrants back to their country, instead
of letting them collect welfare while working
under-the-table for cash.
-we should immediately stop schooling anyone
not born in the USA.
you see, if we did all these things, we would no
longer feel compelled to have our hands in the
affairs of others...
it's like parents who have raised their kids and
sent them through college, and helped them get a
nice cushy job--they now somehow have the RIGHT
to scold you and sanction you when you screw up,
even though you're 25 years old!
and the parent who leaves the child to fend for
himself at age 10? of course, this person will
likely never have a say in the child's life again.
the authority and respect have not been earned!
I haven't seen one mention of this technique to
fool the sensor.
It is a basic concept of chemistry (osmosis) that
the concentration of ethanol vapor would be MUCH
lower with the window open at 0 mph, not to
mention if
the car is moving at any respectable speed.
If you wanna get cartoon-ish, imagine breathing
through a huge straw out a cracked window:)
I quit drinking caffeinated sodas and took up
sprite and others a while back because I was
getting bad headaches on the weekend (when I
usually dont drink my first coke until 5pm or so).
now i'm back to caffeine and resist quitting because
I don't want to be like non-caffeine people when
it comes to drinking a single soda at 9pm and
not being able to sleep.
tolerance can be a very, very good thing:)
nothing quite like drinking a nice big coke at 11:30 pm
and then hitting the sack!
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I have recently installed OpenBSD on my home
/etc/rc.conf and put
/etc/pf.conf)
/etc/sysctl.conf
/etc/nat.conf)
/etc/nat.conf)
router-firewall-workstation after running
2.6 - 2.9 and lemme tell ya, pf ROCKS
with less than 10 lines changed across 4 files in
/etc I was able to get the following configured
for my network:
-firewalling (enable pf in
4 rules in
-full nat (enable ip forwarding in
and put 1 line in
-full port forwarding with ip header rewriting (put
2 lines in
so simple, so powerful, and BUNDLED!
'nuff said
he asked for a public defender since he could not afford an attorney.
let's stay ontopic here though...
I am completely BELOW the scale these people
are talking about, which strengthens my argument.
my tape silos would not even approach the scale
needed for 8 terabytes a day at infinite retention.
now figure that, on average, hard drives cost
about $1.75/GB right now ($140 for an 80GB drive),
while AIT-2 costs a mere $0.75/GB.
this doesnt even take into account that tapes
themselves do not require power.
you are either stuck keeping each drive in the ide
solution powered, or coming up with some novel
approach to hot-swapping it in when you need to
retrieve data. tapes definitely come out on top
here.
In my datacenter I have a few ADIC Scalar 1000
libraries that house 1000 AIT-2 tapes each.
please tell me where I can buy 100GB server-speed
fiber or SCSI drives for $75.
oh, an can I get those in 4" x 2.5" x 0.5" form factor please??
in which case, they are going into the right business!
"hi, my name is bob, and I am a rehabilitated
porn star. thanks to gangs-to-webbies, I now
run a highly profitable adult website!"
heh
just think, with a inter-continental deliverable blackhole (ICDB), there wouldnt be all those pesky bodies to clean up when we want to use the real estate either!
heh!
once they use all power reserves, could we then refer to California as "the black state with the black hole?"
*grin*
I used to LOVE opening up broken electronic stuff and trying to understand how it worked when I was a kid...
will the laws include provisions for lesser jail sentences for minors who "attempt to circumvent copyright-enforcing hardware for media playback"?
"selling old VCR's..."
shouldn't that read "trafficking media copyright circumvention devices" ?
*grin*
back in 1994-ish, there were a few geek advocates of linux on my Uni campus giving away free linux cd's.
You'd be really surprised how much less apprehensive someone is about installing linux when you compare the case where they have to seek out the cd online and buy it for $1 to that of the case where they get one for free.
although, I'm thinking my friends' disks mostly got used as coasters, since the people he was giving them to were not really interested in the first place =/
did anyone else notice that most ambient noise,
sound effects, and background music were set to
about the same level as the dialogue?
I found at least half of the dialogue to be
incomprehensible and drowned out!!
I am hoping this is a provider glitch and just
my market suffered... otherwise they really need
to reprioritize.
I might be just a little pissed off if I was part
of a company marketing high-end home and car cd players
that utilized cd-rom drives and now Universal
decides to make their disks such that they won't
play on my head units and players...
I would be all about lawsuits for lost business
and research
the Afghan people have tried that already, and it
hasn't kept them very safe from bin Laden...
*rim shot*
I'll be here all week folks! =)
and here are the morons trying to explain why the
employees feel okay about absconding with equipment:
"They may have difficulty blaming themselves
when they get laid off, so they direct their
anguish at the company."
uh, yeah. earth to psychologists: the people
getting escorted to the dot-com's door rarely have
anything to blame THEMSELVES for, and frequently have their
lying, hot-air-blowing dot-com execs to blame for
MOST of their turmoil.
raise your hand of you've heard this one:
"I know it may seem ridiculous today that you're working
80 hours a week for 40 hours' pay, but won't you be
loving life when those options pay off???"
yeeeah buddy...
Geeks running the place is the way it SHOULD be!
I've been a professional UNIX admin for 10 years
now, and actually have a clue as to how frustrating
it is to hear some asshole manager type tell me my
budget for (insert business-crucial hardware here)
has been turned down because he's too much of a
pansy-ass to tell the board that whoever did their
pre-startup consulting work never bothered to suggest
that the place might want data backed up to tape,
or want a redundant router here and there, etc.
too many places pay too much for worthless manager
types, the place gets so top-heavy that no work
ever actually gets through all the fucking red
tape that each manager has "invented", and the whole
company goes under. common story...
they sound like Borg when they say:
"New machines, network links, and resources should be automatically assimilated."
heh!
I can already imagine that the government will be
re-inserting the previous, larger error back into
GPS satellites after what happened last tuesday...
It's really too bad so many great consumer products
go by the wayside because we live in a world where
crazies just might exploit convenient technology
to blow something new up.
the government has announced that it will soon be
mandatory to use state-approved envelopes to send
all mail.
these new envelopes will be entirely transparent
when viewed under a federally produced lightbulb,
but there is no need to worry about these lamps
getting out to bad people, since it is time-tested
proof that all government employees are completely
honest and lack all self-serving traits present
in every other human being.
besides, it's for your own good and protection!
and if you have something to write that you don't
want everyone to read, maybe it's time for that
all-important self-examination to reveal your
underlying paranoia complex...
"this shit will never fly"
"the shit just shit the fan"
the US has definitely funded its share of *bad*
people, but do those mistakes counteract the aid
we have sent to the tens of countries in the past
decade alone?
point me to whatever perfect country you're living
in, please, because I would like to live in the
same Utopia you seem to be enjoying!
I'm not saying the US is always a nice place to
live... we have bad laws, government officials
that care more about padding their own pockets
than about doing the right thing, and civilians
who don't always treat each other with the amount
of respect they should, but as I look around, I'm
not seeing any other country doing anyhting much
better.
My $0.02
I have a really great idea, and no, I am not in
the least bit joking:
If our foreign policy is what caused this all, and
people in other countries are tired of us interfering
in their lives and with their countries, then I think
the USA should start today to sit quietly on its
rump and not "intervene" in any other country's
affairs.
-we should immediately stop the H1-B program and
send all the ingrates back to whatever hellhole
from whence they came
-we should immediately stop sending money and
supplies to oppressed and tragedy-stricken
countries
-we should immediately seal off all borders (except
Canada, we like them for the most part) and send
all illegal immigrants back to their country, instead
of letting them collect welfare while working
under-the-table for cash.
-we should immediately stop schooling anyone
not born in the USA.
you see, if we did all these things, we would no
longer feel compelled to have our hands in the
affairs of others...
it's like parents who have raised their kids and
sent them through college, and helped them get a
nice cushy job--they now somehow have the RIGHT
to scold you and sanction you when you screw up,
even though you're 25 years old!
and the parent who leaves the child to fend for
himself at age 10? of course, this person will
likely never have a say in the child's life again.
the authority and respect have not been earned!
I forgot to mention that I have never seen a
cologne or perfumed product with ethanol in it...
you will seriously doubt your opinion if you go
look at the percentage of ethanol in Listerine.
the best breathalyzer in the world cannot distinguish
between Listerine and Jack Daniels (in the same
proportion)
I haven't seen one mention of this technique to
:)
fool the sensor.
It is a basic concept of chemistry (osmosis) that
the concentration of ethanol vapor would be MUCH
lower with the window open at 0 mph, not to
mention if
the car is moving at any respectable speed.
If you wanna get cartoon-ish, imagine breathing
through a huge straw out a cracked window
I quit drinking caffeinated sodas and took up
:)
sprite and others a while back because I was
getting bad headaches on the weekend (when I
usually dont drink my first coke until 5pm or so).
now i'm back to caffeine and resist quitting because
I don't want to be like non-caffeine people when
it comes to drinking a single soda at 9pm and
not being able to sleep.
tolerance can be a very, very good thing
nothing quite like drinking a nice big coke at 11:30 pm
and then hitting the sack!