Cisco Guard has to be some implementation of a *nix-like OS...
From a sample session I found on a security update:
prompt$ ssh root@detector.example.com
root@detector.example.com's password:
Last login: Tue Nov 23 15:48:13 on ttyS0
[root@DETECTOR root]# passwd
Changing password for user root.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
Looks like *nix to me...It certainly aint Windows.
I have to say it sounds initially like they just stick the machines out there and let them fend for themselves. Then you read on and find that Microsoft can't live on the web without surrounding their servers by a ring of *nix devices providing Packet Filtering.
They don't trust even Win2k8 servers to be secure enough without the *nix safety blanket.
I hope the people who add up the matter also include all the energy too. IANAAP (Astro-Physicist) but doesn't the fact that we can see all the universe add up to a helluva lot of matter that has been converted to energy to enable us to see everything. If matter is energy and vice versa, wouldn't energy also have gravitational attraction?
Why not wait until 2008 starts, then they don't run the risk of "Cancer Cure Found!!!" occurring on the 31st December. I know it's not very likely, since all the scientists will likely not be inventing any more, but getting hammered every day until the holidays are over, but still...
For College Students try having them pick out brands of beer, or maybe arrange glasses from full down to empty. Let's see how the Chimp does on that one.
Let's see, US/Canada border - 8000kms. US/Mexico border 3000kms, plus a guess for the coastlines - let's say, conservatively, another 8000kms. Total 19,000kms.
So in order for these to be effective you only need (19000 * 100)/2 = 950,000 of these things arranged at 10m intervals around the country and you're completely safe. Unless the terrorists use airplanes.
What makes people think that a device has to be smuggled into the country to be effective? If something big went off in a vessel in the port of New York there wouldn't be a lot left of Manhattan.
The fact that you can do this in 15 minutes means I'd hire you. The fact that your company is set up to allow this to happen probably means that I wouldn't want to be one of your customers though.
In this day and age, quite often it's the company that can respond quickest who gets the business. You can't afford a three week integration testing period whilst fifty trucks per hour show up at a gate waiting to be processed.
I had a similar experience when Asus brought out their Dual Pentiums - I thought I could buy one CPU now, then slot another one in later to save upgrading the machine. Trouble was, the OS (er, Windows) required another CPU with the same "stepping level" (IIRC) and they weren't easy to pick up a year or two down the road.
I know the two are kinda unrelated, but that experience is what pointed me away from the SLI expandability path and I went with just one, decent, graphics card.
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Not so - you do know this is how lawyers are conceived, right?
It'll take all the fun out of Call of Duty 5 if they model the monitors after those.
It's fun shooting the monitors while the sarge is talking...
Say, you don't happen to work for Sony, do you?
...and I just bought myself a Blu-ray :(
Bloody typical.
Arf arf - where's my mod points when I need 'em.
Cisco Guard has to be some implementation of a *nix-like OS...
From a sample session I found on a security update:
prompt$ ssh root@detector.example.com
root@detector.example.com's password:
Last login: Tue Nov 23 15:48:13 on ttyS0
[root@DETECTOR root]# passwd
Changing password for user root.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
Looks like *nix to me...It certainly aint Windows.
I have to say it sounds initially like they just stick the machines out there and let them fend for themselves. Then you read on and find that Microsoft can't live on the web without surrounding their servers by a ring of *nix devices providing Packet Filtering.
They don't trust even Win2k8 servers to be secure enough without the *nix safety blanket.
That's good, but whenever I do that it always bites me on the ass later.
I hope the people who add up the matter also include all the energy too. IANAAP (Astro-Physicist) but doesn't the fact that we can see all the universe add up to a helluva lot of matter that has been converted to energy to enable us to see everything. If matter is energy and vice versa, wouldn't energy also have gravitational attraction?
There, fixed it for you.
Why not wait until 2008 starts, then they don't run the risk of "Cancer Cure Found!!!" occurring on the 31st December. I know it's not very likely, since all the scientists will likely not be inventing any more, but getting hammered every day until the holidays are over, but still...
Then it would be called the iKindle, silly!
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They'll find they can run a lot more programs concurrently. Don't believe all that '640k is enough for anybody' bumf.
For College Students try having them pick out brands of beer, or maybe arrange glasses from full down to empty. Let's see how the Chimp does on that one.
You think??
Hold on, I thought the NSA's botnet was something called Windows? I know it's old, but there could still be merit in this claim.
On the one hand I don't think it'll fly in it's most draconian form - we'll probably end up with a somewhat watered down version.
On the other hand though, my Usenet connection is likely to be humming along 24/7 for the next couple of months.
I guess 'passive' exposure to Second-hand Gaming just bores you to death.
Let's see, US/Canada border - 8000kms. US/Mexico border 3000kms, plus a guess for the coastlines - let's say, conservatively, another 8000kms. Total 19,000kms.
So in order for these to be effective you only need (19000 * 100)/2 = 950,000 of these things arranged at 10m intervals around the country and you're completely safe. Unless the terrorists use airplanes.
What makes people think that a device has to be smuggled into the country to be effective? If something big went off in a vessel in the port of New York there wouldn't be a lot left of Manhattan.
The fact that you can do this in 15 minutes means I'd hire you. The fact that your company is set up to allow this to happen probably means that I wouldn't want to be one of your customers though.
In this day and age, quite often it's the company that can respond quickest who gets the business. You can't afford a three week integration testing period whilst fifty trucks per hour show up at a gate waiting to be processed.
Good on you for responding to your customers.
Thanks for that - I needed a good larf today :)
I had a similar experience when Asus brought out their Dual Pentiums - I thought I could buy one CPU now, then slot another one in later to save upgrading the machine. Trouble was, the OS (er, Windows) required another CPU with the same "stepping level" (IIRC) and they weren't easy to pick up a year or two down the road.
I know the two are kinda unrelated, but that experience is what pointed me away from the SLI expandability path and I went with just one, decent, graphics card.
You should be amaized.
Just put it in a folder called "Simian Chastisement"