Ramblings of a techy Southern gent
Dell is championing Fibre Channel in its fight back against iSCSI and NAS, with its launch of a £5899 (E8499) low-end SAN kit which includes a Brocade switch, two QLogic host adapters and a new Dell-EMC storage subsystem based on Serial-ATA hard disks.
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FreeBSD 4.10 will become the first “Errata Branch”. Release branches for previous versions of FreeBSD would only have critical security fixes applied. With FreeBSD 4.10 the scope of fixes will be expanded to include local Denial of Service fixes as well as other significant and well-tested fixes that may not represent security issues.
The current plans are for one more FreeBSD 4.X release which will be FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE. It is expected the upcoming FreeBSD 5.3 release will have reached the maturity level most users will be able to migrate to 5.X. Most developer resources continue to be devoted to the 5.X branch.
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I’m very excited to announce the arrival of BadHorsie.net! This new site is dedicated to all things guitar from artists to techniques to new product reviews.
In 1984 William Gibson used the term “cyberspace” in his novel Neuromancer and Cisco had two employees. Twenty years on, Cisco employs 34,466 people and turns over almost $19bn.
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I guess I’m just not keeping up. I was perusing thru my LUG email, and saw that PF has been ported to FreeBSD.
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10. Use the Google Toolbar—An add-on to Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), the Google Toolbar (http://toolbar.google.com) incorporates Google’s search box in IE’s toolbar, letting you do a search from any Web page. As a bonus, the Google Toolbar blocks pop-ups.
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This is old news, but interesting to say the least…
“A Japanese cryptographer has demonstrated how fingerprint recognition devices can be fooled using a combination of low cunning, cheap kitchen supplies and a digital camera.
First Tsutomu Matsumoto used gelatine (as found in Gummi Bears and other sweets) and a plastic mould to create a fake finger, which he found fooled fingerprint detectors four times out of five.
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“According to this article on Yahoo, Linus is not the real father of Linux and Open source software is really just code nicked from other sources. ” Groklaw has done a dissection of the press release. It’s a press release by the Alexis de Toqueville Institution, who gets funding from MSFT, as well as believes that US IT troubles are because of free software. Oh, and terrorism works better because of open source, and the “Star Wars” program was a good idea.
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Some folks use telnet to administer their PIX firewalls. Telnet is bad bad bad.
Here is a short tutorial on setting up SSH on your PIX firewall.
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I had always wondered in my college years where the GZA got some of his movie samples for Liquid Swords. Then I saw Kill Bill Vol. 2. David Carradine mentions Shogun Assassin at the end of the movie. Then I hear some of what I remember being on Liquid Swords while Uma (The Bride) and her daughter watch the movie.
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