Not worth the read IMHO, only three generic references, none of which explain anything about Gryphon-X. While I agree that trying to use the same old defenses against an adapting adversary means you will get breached eventually, most organizations are not even properly managing the traditional security controls, much less developing next generation controls. I am skeptical of how well this could be applied widely to protect data, even assuming it is moonshot awesome.
From the same page you linked: >** Volume pricing:Volume discounts, site licenses, and corporate-wide licensing are available for environments larger than 1,000 managed resources. Contact Zenoss Sales to learn more.
So I call BS on the $500,000-$900,000/year number you gave.
I was really impressed by Zenoss, which has all the slick features that cost the earth from vendors like HP for Openview. You get automatic discovery, CMDB inventory, availability monitoring, alerting, and performance graphs all in a web portal.
You get open source, commercial support, and a good community of users and plug-in developers. The best of both worlds IMHO.
did anyone really think Oracle was going to continue to release fully featured JDKs for free?????.....this is why the day Oracle bought Sun, i started learning C#....
lol, yes because C# is owned by a much more FOSS-friendly company. Microsoft would never charge to support experimental features in production-code.
OK, so they double-bond cable modems, giving you twice the usual speed to your desktop. Then you get on the same clogged, shared network as the rest of your neighborhood, and hope they have enough bandwidth upstream to handle the potential doubling of clients (from double-bonding). In a dense residential area (urban apartment buildings for example), I have never seen a cable company actually be able to back up their claims of speed, upload or download.
To me, this sounds as bogus as the dual-bond 56K modems where you had to buy two phone-lines just for data, and then you would want one for voice, and heck maybe even a fourth for FAX.
The thing is, tenure is earned by outstanding scholarship over years of teaching and research. It is a long-standing tradition of university life. Further, it is crucial that we as a society have high-profile people that can question and critique the status-quo of governments, companies and other powerful groups without great fear of reprisals. Such protections are needed, else the relatively low pay and long hours of professors would hardly seem worth it when contrasted with executives and their exorbitant pay.
There is a decent book on this from the Cisco Press: The Business Case for Network Security: Advocacy, Governance, and ROI by Catherine Paquet and Warren Saxe. Not only does it help put this in terms the execs and bean counters can understand, but the appendix shows you the equations to compute ROI for preventing security breaches. If you've never taken a business administration or accounting class and feel lost when the PHB asks for this stuff in a power-point deck, this book can help.
This works pretty well if everyone has a copy of the game. I have done this a lot and had great fun. Since it was made in 2002, the graphics are a bit dated, but that means you can actually run it on some older machines. Luckily it is very affordable now and you can get it to run under Linux and Mac OS X. The Linux version requires having the PC version, then downloading the Linux client here. The mac version is here, but you need to buy bothexpansions seperately so it's more expensive than the PC version.
Be sure everyone updates to the latest game patches. The new Community Expansion Pack v2 is coming out soon with neat stuff like ridable horses, hundreds of new items, a thousand new monsters, and a couple of thousand placable objects. You can build your own modules in the toolset, or just download some great ones from Neverwinter Vault. Then just serve it from your broadband connected machine either with the stand-alone server or the dm client.
With all that for running table-top like games, plus a good single player game and lots of multi-player persistent world modules it's like three games in one, and the best part is no monthly fees.
I am not sure that thinking of signals from the eye to the brain work the same way as computer networks is very helpful. I don't think that there is the same sort of contention in a nervous system as there is in ethernet. Synapses as we understand them today do not appear to have any sort of collision detection. Neurons may have tens of thousands of other neurons that they are connected to in a many-to-one configuration and the whole process is analog, which is very different than ethernet frames. Also a single ganglion cell may send "10 million bits" of information, but the optic nerve is made of many such cells in parallel. I would not be surprised if our current estimates are wrong by at least an order of magnitude.
Yeah, seriously, "League of Professional System Administrators" Are they a superheroes, a group of sports teams, WTF!? Contray to what LOPSA says SAGE is not dead. In fact, anyone that's been around long enough remebers that when SAGE became a part of USENIX in 1992 it was a win-win for both SAGE and USENIX. You get better benefits, more members and a common purpose in promoting and using *NIX. Why mess with a good thing?
If we can't manage to deal with each other here in the relative abundance of Earth, how could we possibly have less social or political problems in the fragile and resource starved environments of spacecraft and extra-terrestrial habitats? If we are to survive, it will be dealing with our problems here, not running from them like some 21st century Thoreau.
The thought that an average user will personalize their web interface like they personalize their celll phone doesn't fly with me. If that were true, we would see copies of Tweak UI on a lot more wintel boxes. Everyday people would be replacing the explorer shell with LightStep. I don't see that happening. About the most personalization I have seen is people putting up a picture of their girlfriend or baby up as desktop wallpaper. Geeks use custom tools, but most geeks are savvy enough about phishing to not fall for it.
Right now I am doing LDAP programming on a local directory server running on my Solaris x86 laptop. The server works just as well for development as the real one back at the office does. Sure I wouldn't want to handle all the authentication, naming services and directory look-ups for the whole company like the big iron does, but that's not what hacking on dev-code is about. This suits just fine for everything but performance tuning, and that's what our DR/pre-prod boxes are for!
Provided this isn't breaking some school rule or civil law about equal access for special needs types or something, I think she is entitled to set whatever policy she thinks is most effective in teaching her classes. However were I a student in one of her classes, I would likely drop it if it was still in the window to do so, or if not argue that she should wait till the next term to do so, giving people fair warning so they can decide up-front to agree with her teaching style or not.
To me a laptop is an essential tool, my notes go into it real-time, my research materials, my papers, my projects, there is just no way I would go back to leaving all that behind and have to spend time transcribing hand written notes into something useful. I also think that hand writing notes is no less invasive than typing them, for me at least I type much faster than I write, so I can listen, take notes, think and respond much easier with a laptop than without.
It works for books, CDs, DVDs, pretty much anything you would want to catalogue that they sell at B&N or Amazon. It downloads information from those sites for your catalogue database, even images of the book covers. Readerware is shareware, but it runs on Linux, MacOS, Windows, and even Palm and iPod! Since you already have a bar-code scanner, you can download the software and try it, if you like it pay for a code, if not, you can uninstall and all it cost you is time.
I didn't have a barcode scanner, but Readerware happily gave me a free one with my codes for Readerware, ReaderwareAW and ReaderwareVW, the whole thing cost less than $100. There is even a client/server multi-user edition that costs a little more with either a 5 user license or an unlimited license. it saved me a ton of typing for bibliographies in papers, and I could easily export it to a format that made it simple to import into Endnote for citation
I don't run the OpenBSD OS, but based on this report, I donated. Since I do use OpenSSL and OpenSSH all the time and want to keep them under active development and if everyone that uses these important open source tools for network security kicks in some bucks, we can keep this good thing going.
I've used it for years, simple easy email and web driven work request system.
Here's the site and here's a live WREQ queue to poke at with read-only access.
Meeting Maker the server runs on Windows, Mac, Solaris or Linux. Native clients for Macs and PCs, Web clients for anything with a decent browser. Lots of good features like iCal or outlook integration, PDA sync, all sorts of cool bits.
Well in the jarjon used by telcom techs, a sudden and innexplicable loss of 100% of your signal on your T1 line is called a backhoe fade for a reason;)
OK, I check the framerates posted at Tom's or other hardware review sites as much as the next guy, but to me an article on slashdot about a new 3D benchmark program is about as exciting as one on a new type of screwdriver. This stuff should just work, and if it were not for the non-stop planned obsolence of video-cards where the obsurdly expensive card you bought three months ago is now obsolete.
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Did not want Netcraft to confirm this. RIP Rob :(
Here's the report itself: http://icitech.org/wp-content/...
Not worth the read IMHO, only three generic references, none of which explain anything about Gryphon-X. While I agree that trying to use the same old defenses against an adapting adversary means you will get breached eventually, most organizations are not even properly managing the traditional security controls, much less developing next generation controls. I am skeptical of how well this could be applied widely to protect data, even assuming it is moonshot awesome.
From the same page you linked:
>** Volume pricing:Volume discounts, site licenses, and corporate-wide licensing are available for environments larger than 1,000 managed resources. Contact Zenoss Sales to learn more.
So I call BS on the $500,000-$900,000/year number you gave.
I was really impressed by Zenoss, which has all the slick features that cost the earth from vendors like HP for Openview. You get automatic discovery, CMDB inventory, availability monitoring, alerting, and performance graphs all in a web portal.
You get open source, commercial support, and a good community of users and plug-in developers. The best of both worlds IMHO.
did anyone really think Oracle was going to continue to release fully featured JDKs for free?????.....this is why the day Oracle bought Sun, i started learning C#....
lol, yes because C# is owned by a much more FOSS-friendly company. Microsoft would never charge to support experimental features in production-code.
OK, so they double-bond cable modems, giving you twice the usual speed to your desktop. Then you get on the same clogged, shared network as the rest of your neighborhood, and hope they have enough bandwidth upstream to handle the potential doubling of clients (from double-bonding). In a dense residential area (urban apartment buildings for example), I have never seen a cable company actually be able to back up their claims of speed, upload or download.
To me, this sounds as bogus as the dual-bond 56K modems where you had to buy two phone-lines just for data, and then you would want one for voice, and heck maybe even a fourth for FAX.
What's next, a seven-bladed razor?
The thing is, tenure is earned by outstanding scholarship over years of teaching and research. It is a long-standing tradition of university life. Further, it is crucial that we as a society have high-profile people that can question and critique the status-quo of governments, companies and other powerful groups without great fear of reprisals. Such protections are needed, else the relatively low pay and long hours of professors would hardly seem worth it when contrasted with executives and their exorbitant pay.
There is a decent book on this from the Cisco Press: The Business Case for Network Security: Advocacy, Governance, and ROI by Catherine Paquet and Warren Saxe. Not only does it help put this in terms the execs and bean counters can understand, but the appendix shows you the equations to compute ROI for preventing security breaches. If you've never taken a business administration or accounting class and feel lost when the PHB asks for this stuff in a power-point deck, this book can help.
This works pretty well if everyone has a copy of the game. I have done this a lot and had great fun. Since it was made in 2002, the graphics are a bit dated, but that means you can actually run it on some older machines. Luckily it is very affordable now and you can get it to run under Linux and Mac OS X. The Linux version requires having the PC version, then downloading the Linux client here. The mac version is here, but you need to buy both expansions seperately so it's more expensive than the PC version.
Be sure everyone updates to the latest game patches. The new Community Expansion Pack v2 is coming out soon with neat stuff like ridable horses, hundreds of new items, a thousand new monsters, and a couple of thousand placable objects. You can build your own modules in the toolset, or just download some great ones from Neverwinter Vault. Then just serve it from your broadband connected machine either with the stand-alone server or the dm client.
With all that for running table-top like games, plus a good single player game and lots of multi-player persistent world modules it's like three games in one, and the best part is no monthly fees.
I am not sure that thinking of signals from the eye to the brain work the same way as computer networks is very helpful. I don't think that there is the same sort of contention in a nervous system as there is in ethernet. Synapses as we understand them today do not appear to have any sort of collision detection. Neurons may have tens of thousands of other neurons that they are connected to in a many-to-one configuration and the whole process is analog, which is very different than ethernet frames. Also a single ganglion cell may send "10 million bits" of information, but the optic nerve is made of many such cells in parallel. I would not be surprised if our current estimates are wrong by at least an order of magnitude.
Yeah, seriously, "League of Professional System Administrators" Are they a superheroes, a group of sports teams, WTF!? Contray to what LOPSA says SAGE is not dead. In fact, anyone that's been around long enough remebers that when SAGE became a part of USENIX in 1992 it was a win-win for both SAGE and USENIX. You get better benefits, more members and a common purpose in promoting and using *NIX. Why mess with a good thing?
In case you are like me and hate the reg only articles at sites like the NYT, here's the same topic from Ars Technica,
If we can't manage to deal with each other here in the relative abundance of Earth, how could we possibly have less social or political problems in the fragile and resource starved environments of spacecraft and extra-terrestrial habitats? If we are to survive, it will be dealing with our problems here, not running from them like some 21st century Thoreau.
The thought that an average user will personalize their web interface like they personalize their celll phone doesn't fly with me. If that were true, we would see copies of Tweak UI on a lot more wintel boxes. Everyday people would be replacing the explorer shell with LightStep. I don't see that happening. About the most personalization I have seen is people putting up a picture of their girlfriend or baby up as desktop wallpaper. Geeks use custom tools, but most geeks are savvy enough about phishing to not fall for it.
Right now I am doing LDAP programming on a local directory server running on my Solaris x86 laptop. The server works just as well for development as the real one back at the office does. Sure I wouldn't want to handle all the authentication, naming services and directory look-ups for the whole company like the big iron does, but that's not what hacking on dev-code is about. This suits just fine for everything but performance tuning, and that's what our DR/pre-prod boxes are for!
I have to agree we need to fight. We are not alone in battling corporate-speak. Check out http://www.fightthebull.com.
Provided this isn't breaking some school rule or civil law about equal access for special needs types or something, I think she is entitled to set whatever policy she thinks is most effective in teaching her classes. However were I a student in one of her classes, I would likely drop it if it was still in the window to do so, or if not argue that she should wait till the next term to do so, giving people fair warning so they can decide up-front to agree with her teaching style or not.
To me a laptop is an essential tool, my notes go into it real-time, my research materials, my papers, my projects, there is just no way I would go back to leaving all that behind and have to spend time transcribing hand written notes into something useful. I also think that hand writing notes is no less invasive than typing them, for me at least I type much faster than I write, so I can listen, take notes, think and respond much easier with a laptop than without.
I second the Readerware suggestion.
It works for books, CDs, DVDs, pretty much anything you would want to catalogue that they sell at B&N or Amazon. It downloads information from those sites for your catalogue database, even images of the book covers. Readerware is shareware, but it runs on Linux, MacOS, Windows, and even Palm and iPod! Since you already have a bar-code scanner, you can download the software and try it, if you like it pay for a code, if not, you can uninstall and all it cost you is time.
I didn't have a barcode scanner, but Readerware happily gave me a free one with my codes for Readerware, ReaderwareAW and ReaderwareVW, the whole thing cost less than $100. There is even a client/server multi-user edition that costs a little more with either a 5 user license or an unlimited license. it saved me a ton of typing for bibliographies in papers, and I could easily export it to a format that made it simple to import into Endnote for citation
I don't run the OpenBSD OS, but based on this report, I donated. Since I do use OpenSSL and OpenSSH all the time and want to keep them under active development and if everyone that uses these important open source tools for network security kicks in some bucks, we can keep this good thing going.
I've used it for years, simple easy email and web driven work request system. Here's the site and here's a live WREQ queue to poke at with read-only access.
You can script that can't you? Then just drop the script in crontab and you're done.
Meeting Maker the server runs on Windows, Mac, Solaris or Linux. Native clients for Macs and PCs, Web clients for anything with a decent browser. Lots of good features like iCal or outlook integration, PDA sync, all sorts of cool bits.
Well in the jarjon used by telcom techs, a sudden and innexplicable loss of 100% of your signal on your T1 line is called a backhoe fade for a reason ;)
OK, I check the framerates posted at Tom's or other hardware review sites as much as the next guy, but to me an article on slashdot about a new 3D benchmark program is about as exciting as one on a new type of screwdriver. This stuff should just work, and if it were not for the non-stop planned obsolence of video-cards where the obsurdly expensive card you bought three months ago is now obsolete.
For we that pay with US Dollars rather than Sterling, you can get the same thing from MUJI in the US at MoMAstore.