First run a slow portscan across your network, with clean connection tear-down (i.e. send QUIT to a SMTP server insted of just closing the connection) and look over your results. Operations shouldn't have too much of a problem with this if you do it right.
Second look at the least common ports. These will be the oddball services that an administrator tossed up to test, or an engineer was trying to sneak past security with, and are most likely to be overlooked when updates are released.
Third, look at the most common ports. If you have a lot of machines with port 80 open, you should invest some time into researching web vulnerabilities. Same for other protocols. Based on these results you can launch smaller scans within maitnence windows to check for say, open relays on all machines listening on port 25.
Building apon this process and fitting it to your situation would be a good course of action. This obviously isn't as indepth as a good auditing plan should be, but it will get you going in the right direction.
Also realize that yout operations team has a good point, regardless of how concerned about security you are. Don't do like I did and take a off the shelf application (Nessus or Cisco Security Scanner) and blast away at your network. I ended up taking down a dozen mission critical devices because the vendor of the hardware in question didn't account for portscans. The devices ended up hanging because they received a connection with no command in it.
Can anyone recommend a good source for buying stocks online? Most sites i've looked at want at least $500 to start, but I don't think i'd but more than a hundred or two into Google.
Most likely he he was trying to politely convey "we would rather you didn't come in off the street and hook your laptop up to our $3000 floor display"
You know, if your laptop was whacked out and outputting the wrong voltages (or something, im no electronics major), you could damage the inputs. They might not notice even notice untill the future buyer brings it back.
We have customers in lots of countries and as far as I know, its established up front that all of our support folks speak english or spanish.
We've developed lots of extensive documentation in english and paid outside companies to translate them for us into a half dozen languages. When the docs don't cover it, the company finds an employee inside their orginzation that speaks passable english or spanish and have them call us. From what I understand, this isn't that big of a deal for them, and is a hell of a lot easier than us finding a dozen people who speak every language under the sun.
Keep in mind, english is the language of business.
> Global DNS needs the same thing, maybe only 1 such TLD, or several. Reserved for private use.
Per RFC 2606 there are 4 TLDs reserved for private use:
.test is recommended for use in testing of current or new DNS related code.
.example is recommended for use in documentation or as examples.
.invalid is intended for use in online construction of domain names that are sure to be invalid and which it is obvious at a glance are invalid.
.localhost TLD has traditionally been statically defined in host DNS implementations as having an A record pointing to the loop back IP address and is reserved for such use. Any other use would conflict with widely deployed code which assumes this use.
If I start allocating blocks out of, for example, 69.250.0.0/16 and setting up VPNs to make them work... should this bar ARIN from allocating these blocks to legitimate users?
How about if I propose a alternate TLD to an alternate root which conflicts with the ISO code for a country thats forming?
The problem with catering to alternate roots, or alternate registries of any sort for that matter, is your encuraging people to break the standard.
Actualy your both wrong. This months GamePro has an interview with an id's level designer(?). He said that the XBox and PC versions of the game were being written side by side.
There is as little porting of code as possible, and its taking place in both directions. id software is focusing on optimizing the game for PC, and Vicarious Visions is focusing on heavy optimization for the XBox.
A ultra-tweaked engine for both platforms is the ultimate goal. Mostly because id makes most of their bank from selling engines to other companies. This is, in my opinion, one of the driving factors in bringing an experienced console developer into the mix.
Counting cards dosent really help you untill atleast half way through the deck. Hence why most good cheats will bet the minimum every hand and count the cards as they play, then bring in another player to bet the max while relying on signals from the player who has the count.
I'm not saying player swapping is nessisary in a PHP implementation, but anyone working on this should not rely on the count data untill atleast half the cards are gone. Which will leave another loophole for the programmer to account for: there can be anywhere from 1 to 10 decks.
A good blackjack player (not just a cheat) can not only count cards, but intimately knows their favorite version of the blackjack odds table, and most importantly how to bet to minimize the risk to their seed money and maximize profits when the cards are in their favor.
Another thing that must be compensated for is the greatest tool in any players bag of tricks. The ability to just get up and walk away. If the cards aren't treating you right, move to another table. This dosen't work in tournements, but is a great tactic for limiting your losses.. which is casino speak for "winning".
Oh, and when testing, make sure your shuffle is truely random.
If you have caller ID, or hit Star 69, and do not immediately recognize the number, punch it into google. Bonus: maps to the street address on file for that number.
It's a little picky on format (you have to do (555) 555-4444, not 5555554444 or 555-555-4444), but in general very awesome.
Something I haven't seen anyone else touch on is the fact that even if every man woman and child in the US wins a billion dollar lawsuit aginst the RIAA, it's just an association.
The reason associations are started on behalf of member companies is even if there is a huge backlash, the member companies are completely protected. Much in the way a business you started can be sued into oblivion without having any real affect on you or your family.
If this lady does actualy win, everything the RIAA has in the bank will go for legal fees, she won't get a dime, and the record industry will form some other orginization to take the RIAAs place.
What we need to be doing is suing the labels themselfs for racketeering!
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This article gives no basis to its arguments whatsoever.
I fashion myself a bit of a sniper, thats the roll I play for the most part in Battlefield 1942. I also take part in competitive long range shooting IRL.
The truth of the matter is the military employs snipers for two basic reasons: 1 or 2 well placed snipers can hold down 50+ troops. And snipers can create a sense of fear on the battlefield, that any second your head is going to be whisked off your shoulders by an unseen enemy. This same fear is what makes multi-player FPS games fun.
Like it or not, in the real world a sniper rifle is "the finger of god" also.
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(if you don't get it, visit other C|NET sites.)
First run a slow portscan across your network, with clean connection tear-down (i.e. send QUIT to a SMTP server insted of just closing the connection) and look over your results. Operations shouldn't have too much of a problem with this if you do it right.
Second look at the least common ports. These will be the oddball services that an administrator tossed up to test, or an engineer was trying to sneak past security with, and are most likely to be overlooked when updates are released.
Third, look at the most common ports. If you have a lot of machines with port 80 open, you should invest some time into researching web vulnerabilities. Same for other protocols. Based on these results you can launch smaller scans within maitnence windows to check for say, open relays on all machines listening on port 25.
Building apon this process and fitting it to your situation would be a good course of action. This obviously isn't as indepth as a good auditing plan should be, but it will get you going in the right direction.
Also realize that yout operations team has a good point, regardless of how concerned about security you are. Don't do like I did and take a off the shelf application (Nessus or Cisco Security Scanner) and blast away at your network. I ended up taking down a dozen mission critical devices because the vendor of the hardware in question didn't account for portscans. The devices ended up hanging because they received a connection with no command in it.
It was MIT, on the great dome. The car was a mockup too.
http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1994/cp_car/
Port numbers have nothing to do with transfer speed.
Can anyone recommend a good source for buying stocks online? Most sites i've looked at want at least $500 to start, but I don't think i'd but more than a hundred or two into Google.
But does random j. salesguy know that? Thats my point.
Most likely he he was trying to politely convey "we would rather you didn't come in off the street and hook your laptop up to our $3000 floor display"
You know, if your laptop was whacked out and outputting the wrong voltages (or something, im no electronics major), you could damage the inputs. They might not notice even notice untill the future buyer brings it back.
We have customers in lots of countries and as far as I know, its established up front that all of our support folks speak english or spanish.
We've developed lots of extensive documentation in english and paid outside companies to translate them for us into a half dozen languages. When the docs don't cover it, the company finds an employee inside their orginzation that speaks passable english or spanish and have them call us. From what I understand, this isn't that big of a deal for them, and is a hell of a lot easier than us finding a dozen people who speak every language under the sun.
Keep in mind, english is the language of business.
cat grandpa.mp3 | uuencode > /dev/printer
> Global DNS needs the same thing, maybe only 1 such TLD, or several. Reserved for private use.
.test is recommended for use in testing of current or new DNS related code.
.example is recommended for use in documentation or as examples.
.invalid is intended for use in online construction of domain names that are sure to be invalid and which it is obvious at a glance are invalid.
.localhost TLD has traditionally been statically defined in host DNS implementations as having an A record pointing to the loop back IP address and is reserved for such use. Any other use would conflict with widely deployed code which assumes this use.
Per RFC 2606 there are 4 TLDs reserved for private use:
If I start allocating blocks out of, for example, 69.250.0.0/16 and setting up VPNs to make them work... should this bar ARIN from allocating these blocks to legitimate users?
How about if I propose a alternate TLD to an alternate root which conflicts with the ISO code for a country thats forming?
The problem with catering to alternate roots, or alternate registries of any sort for that matter, is your encuraging people to break the standard.
Just what we need to give the Chiniese people, an unlimited supply of open proxies to use!
Don't you already get enough spam from them?!
Actualy your both wrong. This months GamePro has an interview with an id's level designer(?). He said that the XBox and PC versions of the game were being written side by side.
There is as little porting of code as possible, and its taking place in both directions. id software is focusing on optimizing the game for PC, and Vicarious Visions is focusing on heavy optimization for the XBox.
A ultra-tweaked engine for both platforms is the ultimate goal. Mostly because id makes most of their bank from selling engines to other companies. This is, in my opinion, one of the driving factors in bringing an experienced console developer into the mix.
Yeah, it's not too bad for low cost machines.
The only complaints I have is more specificly in the cheap machines built with them. The powersupplies are total crap.
I don't have an Intel or AMD you insensitve clod!
Counting cards dosent really help you untill atleast half way through the deck. Hence why most good cheats will bet the minimum every hand and count the cards as they play, then bring in another player to bet the max while relying on signals from the player who has the count.
I'm not saying player swapping is nessisary in a PHP implementation, but anyone working on this should not rely on the count data untill atleast half the cards are gone. Which will leave another loophole for the programmer to account for: there can be anywhere from 1 to 10 decks.
A good blackjack player (not just a cheat) can not only count cards, but intimately knows their favorite version of the blackjack odds table, and most importantly how to bet to minimize the risk to their seed money and maximize profits when the cards are in their favor.
Another thing that must be compensated for is the greatest tool in any players bag of tricks. The ability to just get up and walk away. If the cards aren't treating you right, move to another table. This dosen't work in tournements, but is a great tactic for limiting your losses.. which is casino speak for "winning".
Oh, and when testing, make sure your shuffle is truely random.
They must have seen my post on slashdot and updated it.
If you have caller ID, or hit Star 69, and do not immediately recognize the number, punch it into google. Bonus: maps to the street address on file for that number.
It's a little picky on format (you have to do (555) 555-4444, not 5555554444 or 555-555-4444), but in general very awesome.
Something I haven't seen anyone else touch on is the fact that even if every man woman and child in the US wins a billion dollar lawsuit aginst the RIAA, it's just an association.
The reason associations are started on behalf of member companies is even if there is a huge backlash, the member companies are completely protected. Much in the way a business you started can be sued into oblivion without having any real affect on you or your family.
If this lady does actualy win, everything the RIAA has in the bank will go for legal fees, she won't get a dime, and the record industry will form some other orginization to take the RIAAs place.
What we need to be doing is suing the labels themselfs for racketeering!
...May 2004: Microsoft announces purchace of Nintendo. Gamecube becomes rebranded Xbox.
(turn your sarcasam detectors on before moderating)
Anyone around here remember when the Apple QuickDraw code was leaked 1989?
Yeah. I remember thinking to my 7 year old self.... oh wait.
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What kind of home user uses a command line only OS?
Now THAT is a stupid question to ask on slashdot.
This article gives no basis to its arguments whatsoever.
I fashion myself a bit of a sniper, thats the roll I play for the most part in Battlefield 1942. I also take part in competitive long range shooting IRL.
The truth of the matter is the military employs snipers for two basic reasons: 1 or 2 well placed snipers can hold down 50+ troops. And snipers can create a sense of fear on the battlefield, that any second your head is going to be whisked off your shoulders by an unseen enemy. This same fear is what makes multi-player FPS games fun.
Like it or not, in the real world a sniper rifle is "the finger of god" also.
AniMusic. Not much of a plot, but it will impress the hell out of your party goers.