I use the CyberGuard SG530 for my personal VPN needs. It's a box about the size of your average 8-port switch, it runs a version of embedded linux and come default with PoPToP for PPTP v2 and FreeSwan for IPSEC. It has a web based config and if fairly painless to set up.
I was searching specifically for a PPTP device simply because it is so easy to configure and use, especially for Windows-based clients.
If you have a spare computer you wanted to use for this, you may want to look at IPCop, but at about US$350 the sg530 is not a bad alternative.
It was Frankfurt airport and I was getting on a plane to JFK. I was only 17 years old, but I was wanded, my carry-on was searched, and I had to identify my bags on the tarmack before they were loaded and I was able to board the plane. You know how many other people had to do the same? All of them.
Three years earlier I flew into Brussels from London without any such searches. That time I missed seeing a car bomb detonated in Belgium by 30 minutes. It is very strange to see the alley side of two building ripped open.
The point is that when someone has declared war against you... like the socialist/communist terrorist groups did in Germany during the 70s and 80s and islamic terrist have against the US in the 80s 90s and 00s. There are going to be times when in public places and entry and exit points you have to deal with security.
The same does not apply in your home. If the cops do not have a warrant, only can give up your right. That doesn't mean you need to be an asshole, but you certainly do not need to give into the the 'if you don't have anything to hide' mind game.
Consider "Hobbies: reading, cinema, dinner with friends" against "Hobbies: Field Archery (37th in National Championships), Cooking (Tex-Mex a speciality), RPGs with friends"...Which are you going to employ?
Definately the first one.
As anyone who has worked with avid RPG players can attest. It's annoying having to wait for their pantomimed d20 throw every time you ask them a question.
I think you need to rethink your never lie maxim. Maybe you can allow for embellishment or omission.
I've been on both sides of the fence, and for a job with a number of applicants, the hiring process has two distinct phases: the exclusionary phase and the inclusionary.
Looking through the resumes and the phone or first in-person interview. You are trying to cull the field down to 3 or 4 good candidates. Only then can you try to figure out who would be the better candidate.
You must treat the interview questions as being as broad as possible. If the job is looking for a linux application developer and you are asked if you have done any work with the kernel. Even if you have only recompiled the kernel, the answer is yes.
I interviewed once for Win32 application development position where I was asked about DirectX. They really had no use for the technology in their product, but it was being thrown out there as a meter. So, even though I'd never used it myself, I had compiled and ran one of the samples, and I knew a little about the history and that it was a COM based API. My answer was yes, and I talked about the development history and tied it in with Microsoft's shift to COM-based APIs. I didn't always treat questions like this as broadly.
About 8 years ago I was asked about databases in an internal position interview at what was then a leader in the online communications industry. This job was not for a database programmer, just someone who would need to use a database as a part of the job. I answered very truthfully, outlining what I had an had not done with databases to that point. The interview went great, but they ended up hiring someone with less qualifications based on that one question (I *do* know this was the reason). I left the company not too long after, having obtained a position programming database applications for reference and multimedia CDs. It was at once both a frustrating and eyeopening experience. I'm very glad it happened early in my work life.
If it is fundamental to the job, an outright lie about knowledge or experience will be found out and probably lead to your firing.
You must treat the early hiring process as a game. Figure out where you are in the process and act accordingly.
They made a strategic mistake with the open architecture of the IBM PC XT and AT coumbined with Microsoft controlling the OS. All it took was Compaq to reverse engineer the BIOS and everybody was off to the races. When legal action did not put the genie back in the bottle, they tried really hard to correct their mistakes and take back control of the machine with their proprietary MicroChannel arctitecture. Fortunately, people saw through that, and those 386-based machines were relegated to the confines of technically innept corporations and backward universities such as Ohio State, whose CompSci and IT staffs wouldn't know any better if you beat them all day with clue sticks.
I have read the first six Honor Harrington books and I find the books interesting and quite enjoyable. The plots are not the same. I also enjoyed Weber's The Apocalypse Troll. (I find mentioning the Troll book very appropriate to this little review).
It would seem that the reviewer, who did not enjoy the books, yet read more than one. And the reviewer, who could navigate across country, yet could not find a single book seller along the way to find more appropriate reading, should seek help.
It's nice cover when the AOL/Time-Warner or any of the other two or three conglomerates can cower behind a front organization that does not sell anything and thus is fairly immune to threats or boycotts.
The question I have is... does the RIAA have standing to sue? *They* do not own the copyrights, the labels do.
The cityscapes in Blade Runner were all models. They did use computer controlled cameras, but that was about it.
From the ILM books and 80's Siggraph annuals you should look at:
The early days -- Replacing models with CGI. The spectical of CGI itself.
TRON (CGI + Live Action + Rotoscoped Animation) Young Sherlock Holmes (stained glass knight) The Great Mouse Detective (use computers to create 'pencils' for clockworks scene) Star Trek II (Genesis Planet animation -fractals) Last Starfighter (cgi spaceship) Abyss (cgi/actor interaction)
The middle phase -- Hybrid/Partially Synthetic actors. Partially Synthetic environments.
Jurassic Park (synthetic non-human actors, sorta) Flintstones (dino) Babylon 5 - (synthetic environments, desktop-level software) Star Wars - The Phantom Menace (Yoda, Jar Jar)
Then we have a leap. With The Matrix you now have the ability to create a synthetic camera. Add to this the leap in sythetic environments (subway fight scene).
The next phase is going to be realistic human synthetic actors. So far, the results are not that impressive. Spiderman CGI was over animated as was the cgi humans in the Matric reloaded.
Artists will need to realize that the squash and stretch so necessary to create convincing motion in non-realistic animation carries with it, the immediate recogition as non-real. Subtle effects based on movement, cloth and interaction with the environment will come in the next five years to create realistic human movement. Creating the realistic human face will take a lot longer.
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I use the CyberGuard SG530 for my personal VPN needs. It's a box about the size of your average 8-port switch, it runs a version of embedded linux and come default with PoPToP for PPTP v2 and FreeSwan for IPSEC. It has a web based config and if fairly painless to set up.
I was searching specifically for a PPTP device simply because it is so easy to configure and use, especially for Windows-based clients.
If you have a spare computer you wanted to use for this, you may want to look at IPCop, but at about US$350 the sg530 is not a bad alternative.
When Beos switched from a Metroworks based toolkit to a gcc based one, they also moved to the ELF format.
It was Frankfurt airport and I was getting on a plane to JFK. I was only 17 years old, but I was wanded, my carry-on was searched, and I had to identify my bags on the tarmack before they were loaded and I was able to board the plane. You know how many other people had to do the same? All of them.
Three years earlier I flew into Brussels from London without any such searches. That time I missed seeing a car bomb detonated in Belgium by 30 minutes. It is very strange to see the alley side of two building ripped open.
The point is that when someone has declared war against you... like the socialist/communist terrorist groups did in Germany during the 70s and 80s and islamic terrist have against the US in the 80s 90s and 00s. There are going to be times when in public places and entry and exit points you have to deal with security.
The same does not apply in your home. If the cops do not have a warrant, only can give up your right. That doesn't mean you need to be an asshole, but you certainly do not need to give into the the 'if you don't have anything to hide' mind game.
Consider "Hobbies: reading, cinema, dinner with friends" against "Hobbies: Field Archery (37th in National Championships), Cooking (Tex-Mex a speciality), RPGs with friends"...Which are you going to employ?
Definately the first one.
As anyone who has worked with avid RPG players can attest. It's annoying having to wait for their pantomimed d20 throw every time you ask them a question.
I think you need to rethink your never lie maxim. Maybe you can allow for embellishment or omission.
I've been on both sides of the fence, and for a job with a number of applicants, the hiring process has two distinct phases: the exclusionary phase and the inclusionary.
Looking through the resumes and the phone or first in-person interview. You are trying to cull the field down to 3 or 4 good candidates. Only then can you try to figure out who would be the better candidate.
You must treat the interview questions as being as broad as possible. If the job is looking for a linux application developer and you are asked if you have done any work with the kernel. Even if you have only recompiled the kernel, the answer is yes.
I interviewed once for Win32 application development position where I was asked about DirectX. They really had no use for the technology in their product, but it was being thrown out there as a meter. So, even though I'd never used it myself, I had compiled and ran one of the samples, and I knew a little about the history and that it was a COM based API. My answer was yes, and I talked about the development history and tied it in with Microsoft's shift to COM-based APIs. I didn't always treat questions like this as broadly.
About 8 years ago I was asked about databases in an internal position interview at what was then a leader in the online communications industry. This job was not for a database programmer, just someone who would need to use a database as a part of the job. I answered very truthfully, outlining what I had an had not done with databases to that point. The interview went great, but they ended up hiring someone with less qualifications based on that one question (I *do* know this was the reason). I left the company not too long after, having obtained a position programming database applications for reference and multimedia CDs. It was at once both a frustrating and eyeopening experience. I'm very glad it happened early in my work life.
If it is fundamental to the job, an outright lie about knowledge or experience will be found out and probably lead to your firing.
You must treat the early hiring process as a game. Figure out where you are in the process and act accordingly.
They made a strategic mistake with the open architecture of the IBM PC XT and AT coumbined with Microsoft controlling the OS. All it took was Compaq to reverse engineer the BIOS and everybody was off to the races. When legal action did not put the genie back in the bottle, they tried really hard to correct their mistakes and take back control of the machine with their proprietary MicroChannel arctitecture. Fortunately, people saw through that, and those 386-based machines were relegated to the confines of technically innept corporations and backward universities such as Ohio State, whose CompSci and IT staffs wouldn't know any better if you beat them all day with clue sticks.
I have read the first six Honor Harrington books and I find the books interesting and quite enjoyable. The plots are not the same. I also enjoyed Weber's The Apocalypse Troll. (I find mentioning the Troll book very appropriate to this little review).
It would seem that the reviewer, who did not enjoy the books, yet read more than one. And the reviewer, who could navigate across country, yet could not find a single book seller along the way to find more appropriate reading, should seek help.
And what's language is the little red tricyle with the bell and the flowery basket?
It's nice cover when the AOL/Time-Warner or any of the other two or three conglomerates can cower behind a front organization that does not sell anything and thus is fairly immune to threats or boycotts.
The question I have is... does the RIAA have standing to sue? *They* do not own the copyrights, the labels do.
I'd recommend "Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java". It's a short book and it has funny pictures. What more could a grad student at the U of M need?
Go Bucks! (where the safe choice, Thinking in Java, is recommended)
The cityscapes in Blade Runner were all models. They did use computer controlled cameras, but that was about it.
From the ILM books and 80's Siggraph annuals you should look at:
The early days -- Replacing models with CGI. The spectical of CGI itself.
TRON (CGI + Live Action + Rotoscoped Animation)
Young Sherlock Holmes (stained glass knight)
The Great Mouse Detective (use computers to create 'pencils' for clockworks scene)
Star Trek II (Genesis Planet animation -fractals)
Last Starfighter (cgi spaceship)
Abyss (cgi/actor interaction)
The middle phase -- Hybrid/Partially Synthetic actors. Partially Synthetic environments.
Jurassic Park (synthetic non-human actors, sorta)
Flintstones (dino)
Babylon 5 - (synthetic environments, desktop-level software)
Star Wars - The Phantom Menace (Yoda, Jar Jar)
Then we have a leap. With The Matrix you now have the ability to create a synthetic camera. Add to this the leap in sythetic environments (subway fight scene).
The next phase is going to be realistic human synthetic actors. So far, the results are not that impressive. Spiderman CGI was over animated as was the cgi humans in the Matric reloaded.
Artists will need to realize that the squash and stretch so necessary to create convincing motion in non-realistic animation carries with it, the immediate recogition as non-real. Subtle effects based on movement, cloth and interaction with the environment will come in the next five years to create realistic human movement. Creating the realistic human face will take a lot longer.