You really dont need to subcontract this out. Just get m0n0wall. It is a free embedded firewall package that runs beautifully, and supports all the VPN stuff you could ever want.
It is absolutely perfect for site to site VPN's. All you need is a static IP address for each endpoint.
I run ours on a Soekris net4501 embedded computer. Total cost of computer + flash card + hardware encryption accelerator chip = $300. This is cheap for what you get.
This reminds me of the William Gibson novel "Virtual Light" where the police were cruising around in electrically charged Armored Vehicles. Authors play a large part of things to come, even if it only seems like dreams when they write it.
This is not saying that Gibson came up with this kind of idea first, but rather pointing out how things from books make their way into reality with a surprising regularity.
That's what I thought too. That sentence definately needs to be rewritten by the author. It could be that each office is set up with it's own peoplesoft instance, and they manage their shipping individually, but i really really doubt it.
I agree with you, NAIM has a really nice interface once you figure it out. Have you ever chatted with the author? He is still the default contact on every NAIM install. I think that is pretty cool. On his web page he mentions that he meets at least 10 people a day from new installs.
Sometimes you dont have access to a client machine that has it. Basically if you are using an ssh terminal from a remote site.
SSH is soo easy to use for remote admin, although not for everyone. Also remember that i'm a linux admin, not a windows admin. I am however very excited about microsoft's recent push to update their command line interface, which should make the occasional windows system I have to work on easier to deal with.
I think that mobile applications are the biggest driver for text based user interfaces. There will always be a desire for the smallest gadget ever, and those LCD text displays continue to provide.
Also, for remote administration of systems, text based user interfaces are indespensible. It is such a hastle to work on systems remotely that dont have them, requiring Remote Desktop Protocol, or VNC, or a graphical web browser, all things hard to set up on the fly.
If anyone wonders why nerds go to such extreme lengths to avoid early classes, they simply have to realize that most nerds work until 3 or 4am on their projects. It's really just a shifted lifecycle.
Now if only engineering schools could be more understanding of their primary audience. BTW, I really like your idea. What would be awesome if there was a built in laser pointer so the "flying bee robot" could point at the white/blackboard while asking questions.
I've been in the situation before where you are fairly sure that things are going downhill in the company and that layoffs are already starting to sprout up.
It is an absolutly horrible environment to work in, to the point where you feel physically sick when you wake up in the morning to get ready to go to work. That being said i've seen some people in this situation fight to the last breath to try and prop the company back up. The difference in the AT&T wireless situation is that these employees knew that even if they did get the system up, they were going to get the shaft. I couldnt even imagine how horrible it would be to have people tag around with you to be your replacements.
In general I stick with small companies that cant afford the logistics of outsourcing. The apparent security of working for a big company is just an illusion if you have any morals and dont step on other people to keep your job.
The problem really is that there are people that want to have their hands held in their computing experience. These are not generally the people that follow ESR's how to ask a question guidelines. They want to know the absolute least possible about their computer to get it to do what they want.
Microsoft caters to this group. The question then becomes, do you want to take over that duty? I sure dont want to take care of people who have no will to learn anything on their own. This is why I still install winblowz on client computers when I cannot be around to support them. (client desktops, i always install linux servers for clients).
What really pisses me off is when M$ tries to make it hard for linux to move up in the other spaces, besides joe idiot user.
Yes, such bitterness comes from being a former windows NT/2k admin for about 4 years before finding linux.
Think of it this way, he just payed 20 million to work for free in space. I think the russians really had the right idea when they started doing space tourism.
"Cosmonauts are too expensive, how can we cut out their already small pay? Answer: Get americans to pay us to work for us. Call it a work for us tax."
The summer camp you describe sounds VERY VERY cool. I wish something like this had been around when I was growing up.
Of course Gimp would be useful. Along with OpenOffice and Blender.
As for the macromedia shockwave stuff, perhaps you could get a group discount on the student edition, and get codeweavers to donate some copies of their version of wine for you to run the apps on.
And by cant run on the underlying hardware directly, you mean that you cant run on the bare core of the transmeta chip, as opposed to it's x86 translation layer?
As far as I know Linux runs fine on top of it's translation layer, as the chip was designed to do.
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I was blown away when someone asked him (paraphrased): If you believe the GPL license is unconstitutional, what right then do you have to distribute SAMBA in your products.
At this they said (again paraphrasing): Samba is good, we dont believe that Samba is tainted in any way.
They did not answer in any way what right they have to distribute Samba if they believe that the GPL is invalid. If the GPL is proven invalid (unlikely), it does not mean that the work suddenly becomes public domain. They cant seem to admit to the fact that they are basically screwed either way.
I would highly doubt that SCO could come up with a clean room implementation of the SMB protocol in any reasonable span of time that they could incorporate into their products. And imagine the reduced value of an SCO OS platform if it did not have open source tools like samba embedded.
I would cherish the day that Darl & Co goes up to the Samba developers to negotiate a seperate license and those developers tell them to go to hell. They will never do this even if it is shown that they have no right to distribute Samba because their core business is no longer software development, but litigation.
Has anyone played MOCAP boxing? There is one arcade game I would definately pay money to play (and have). At DisneyQuest (the DisneyWorld Arcade in FL) you pay a fee to get in and can play all the latest arcade games all day. Coin op is not dead, it's just moved to a pay once play all day format. This is much better than the old days where you had to have armed gaurds carry a sack of quarters around with you so you could get in time on the 75cent new games.
They probably took one look at this guy and decided he wouldnt last a second in prison. The media definately would have found him adorable enough to make some bad press for the lab.
In a case like this they should make him do community service for the lab. Like build web pages and the like. Static HTML only of course (you dont want such a l33t hacker working with scripts;)
Alternatively you might consider getting one of their pole mounted 12dbi omni antennas, it might not be that noticeable if you place it on the side of your vehicle, perhaps near the bumper.
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What are you using for the remote ipsec identifier on the main office setup? 0.0.0.0? I know you have to put something here.
You really dont need to subcontract this out. Just get m0n0wall. It is a free embedded firewall package that runs beautifully, and supports all the VPN stuff you could ever want.
It is absolutely perfect for site to site VPN's. All you need is a static IP address for each endpoint. I run ours on a Soekris net4501 embedded computer. Total cost of computer + flash card + hardware encryption accelerator chip = $300. This is cheap for what you get.
You really think he paid for them?
This reminds me of the William Gibson novel "Virtual Light" where the police were cruising around in electrically charged Armored Vehicles. Authors play a large part of things to come, even if it only seems like dreams when they write it.
This is not saying that Gibson came up with this kind of idea first, but rather pointing out how things from books make their way into reality with a surprising regularity.
That's what I thought too. That sentence definately needs to be rewritten by the author. It could be that each office is set up with it's own peoplesoft instance, and they manage their shipping individually, but i really really doubt it.
I agree with you, NAIM has a really nice interface once you figure it out. Have you ever chatted with the author? He is still the default contact on every NAIM install. I think that is pretty cool. On his web page he mentions that he meets at least 10 people a day from new installs.
Sometimes you dont have access to a client machine that has it. Basically if you are using an ssh terminal from a remote site.
SSH is soo easy to use for remote admin, although not for everyone. Also remember that i'm a linux admin, not a windows admin. I am however very excited about microsoft's recent push to update their command line interface, which should make the occasional windows system I have to work on easier to deal with.
I think that mobile applications are the biggest driver for text based user interfaces. There will always be a desire for the smallest gadget ever, and those LCD text displays continue to provide.
Also, for remote administration of systems, text based user interfaces are indespensible. It is such a hastle to work on systems remotely that dont have them, requiring Remote Desktop Protocol, or VNC, or a graphical web browser, all things hard to set up on the fly.
If anyone wonders why nerds go to such extreme lengths to avoid early classes, they simply have to realize that most nerds work until 3 or 4am on their projects. It's really just a shifted lifecycle.
Now if only engineering schools could be more understanding of their primary audience. BTW, I really like your idea. What would be awesome if there was a built in laser pointer so the "flying bee robot" could point at the white/blackboard while asking questions.
I've been in the situation before where you are fairly sure that things are going downhill in the company and that layoffs are already starting to sprout up.
It is an absolutly horrible environment to work in, to the point where you feel physically sick when you wake up in the morning to get ready to go to work. That being said i've seen some people in this situation fight to the last breath to try and prop the company back up. The difference in the AT&T wireless situation is that these employees knew that even if they did get the system up, they were going to get the shaft. I couldnt even imagine how horrible it would be to have people tag around with you to be your replacements.
In general I stick with small companies that cant afford the logistics of outsourcing. The apparent security of working for a big company is just an illusion if you have any morals and dont step on other people to keep your job.
The problem really is that there are people that want to have their hands held in their computing experience. These are not generally the people that follow ESR's how to ask a question guidelines. They want to know the absolute least possible about their computer to get it to do what they want. Microsoft caters to this group. The question then becomes, do you want to take over that duty? I sure dont want to take care of people who have no will to learn anything on their own. This is why I still install winblowz on client computers when I cannot be around to support them. (client desktops, i always install linux servers for clients).
What really pisses me off is when M$ tries to make it hard for linux to move up in the other spaces, besides joe idiot user.
Yes, such bitterness comes from being a former windows NT/2k admin for about 4 years before finding linux.
Think of it this way, he just payed 20 million to work for free in space. I think the russians really had the right idea when they started doing space tourism.
"Cosmonauts are too expensive, how can we cut out their already small pay? Answer: Get americans to pay us to work for us. Call it a work for us tax."
It doesnt seem to work anymore. Maybe Google took it out to ease their /. load?(joking)
Bummer, that was one of the funniest things i've ever seen.
How in the world did you find this one. It's freaking awesome.
Seriously, nothing these days is certian job wise. Just do what makes you happy in the near term. Cheaper than therapy later.
Your tin foil hat must be made of some really AMAZING stuff (joking, mostly). That's a pretty interesting thing to just notice out of thin air. Cool.
Can I get a link re:Bayer's patents. It sounds interesting.
The summer camp you describe sounds VERY VERY cool. I wish something like this had been around when I was growing up.
Of course Gimp would be useful. Along with OpenOffice and Blender.
As for the macromedia shockwave stuff, perhaps you could get a group discount on the student edition, and get codeweavers to donate some copies of their version of wine for you to run the apps on.
Here is an example of a transmeta cluster.
LANL Transmeta Cluster (PDF Link)
And by cant run on the underlying hardware directly, you mean that you cant run on the bare core of the transmeta chip, as opposed to it's x86 translation layer?
As far as I know Linux runs fine on top of it's translation layer, as the chip was designed to do.
I was blown away when someone asked him (paraphrased): If you believe the GPL license is unconstitutional, what right then do you have to distribute SAMBA in your products.
At this they said (again paraphrasing): Samba is good, we dont believe that Samba is tainted in any way.
They did not answer in any way what right they have to distribute Samba if they believe that the GPL is invalid. If the GPL is proven invalid (unlikely), it does not mean that the work suddenly becomes public domain. They cant seem to admit to the fact that they are basically screwed either way.
I would highly doubt that SCO could come up with a clean room implementation of the SMB protocol in any reasonable span of time that they could incorporate into their products. And imagine the reduced value of an SCO OS platform if it did not have open source tools like samba embedded.
I would cherish the day that Darl & Co goes up to the Samba developers to negotiate a seperate license and those developers tell them to go to hell. They will never do this even if it is shown that they have no right to distribute Samba because their core business is no longer software development, but litigation.
Has anyone played MOCAP boxing? There is one arcade game I would definately pay money to play (and have). At DisneyQuest (the DisneyWorld Arcade in FL) you pay a fee to get in and can play all the latest arcade games all day. Coin op is not dead, it's just moved to a pay once play all day format. This is much better than the old days where you had to have armed gaurds carry a sack of quarters around with you so you could get in time on the 75cent new games.
They probably took one look at this guy and decided he wouldnt last a second in prison. The media definately would have found him adorable enough to make some bad press for the lab.
;)
In a case like this they should make him do community service for the lab. Like build web pages and the like. Static HTML only of course (you dont want such a l33t hacker working with scripts
Remind him that you are not just doing your job, and that it definately is personal.
If you can weild two pokers at once try sending one Darl's way.
Get a magnetic mount antenna from HyperLink Tech.
Alternatively you might consider getting one of their pole mounted 12dbi omni antennas, it might not be that noticeable if you place it on the side of your vehicle, perhaps near the bumper.