Well... get a 'geekier' circle of friends...

I've actually pointed out the brown bottle thing, to two different 'circles' of friends. One group called me a nerd and gave me shit about it, the other group nodded and found it interesting, then the conversation shifted to brewing techniques.

Guess which group was my wife's circle of friends and which group was my circle :)

I'm not /really/ old school, but I get it ( I didn't cheat by Googling either) :)

From what I remember when I read about this, back in the day lpd used to report that a printer was on fire if it was reporting a bad status

Just wanted to comment that these were great posts man... really interesting, eye opening stuff.

Where do you get your info? I'm interested in reading the websites or books you've read, where you were able to build such a comprehensive, informed list.

I've been waiting on iotop for a while too... see this comment I made: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239654#c2 back in September of last year.

Argh.

What's a measly 72 months between friends? :)

There are posts that reference other threads where this was "already posted," but clicking those links leads you to a vBulletin "No thread specified" page. Presumably ZA has been deleting threads....

See http://forums.zonealarm.com/showpost.php?p=283423 and http://forums.zonealarm.com/showpost.php?p=283420 for example posts... both those posts reference a nonexistent thread.

Damage control maybe?

As a poster indicates, ZA was bought out by CheckPoint a few months ago. This scare tactic will probably backfire on them...

Why in the hell did someone at CheckPoint say to themselves "Wait a second... Gestapo style marketing that looks like a phishing scam sounds like a great idea!"

My respect for humanity just ratcheted down a few notches. Wow... how can a person be so incredibly stupid?

That's not really the complete story though... Commodore bought out MOS after they'd already made the 'lawsuit compatible' 6502...

"MOS Technology, Inc was a microprocessor manufacturing company founded by entrepreneurs leaving the Allen-Bradley company, most famous for its creation of the ubiquitous 6502 processor. It was acquired by Commodore International in September of 1976, and was brought into Commodore's umbrella subdivision Commodore Semiconductor Group (CSG)."

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/MOS_Technology (which is sourced from the book 'On the Edge: The Rise and Fall of Commodore')

Have you ever briefed such a report to management? Management wants to see the 'bottom line' type of information, not piles of information packed into slides.

Pie charts are common on these types of high level reports... remember that managers are looking at this. To get into the nitty gritty and fix vulnerabilities (or invalidate scan findings if they're false positives) the Information Assurance techs would look at the actual Nessus scan findings, not the pretty pie chart (that's for management).

Oh come on now that's not fair... as I allude to in my reply to Jane Q., there are those even *inside* the DoD community who have the same preconceptions about FOSS "being insecure"....

Yup... and when the subject has been brought up by those spreading FUD at work about FOSS (I'm employed by DoD) I have busted out that very same memo and quoted from it :)

Surprise: the DoD uses Linux, and they have the same guides for locking and hardening Linux as they do for other Unices (Solaris) and for Windows.

See http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/stig/unix-stig-v5r1.pdf (search for Linux) for examples.

Well I got it and laughed, even if nobody else did :p

Tough crowd