dew4au - Slashdot User

Comment: Say Goodbye to Autoplay (Score 1) 250

by dew4au on Tuesday August 11 2009, @12:32AM (#29019901) Attached to: Music Labels Working On Digital Album Format

My guess is that the format is really just a way to bundle the autoplay executable, and other "extended extras" found on the data track of modern audio CDs.

Good luck with the autoplay thing... It's outsky in Windows 7.

Comment: Re:Nothing gets fixed until it breaks (Score 1) 266

by dew4au on Thursday April 30 2009, @05:11PM (#27779827) Attached to: ARIN Letter Says Two More Years of IPv4

Level 3 Probably uses a good bit of those /8s. I mean, they do have one of the largest backbone nets, and they use allocate their IPs to content providers on their networks.

ARIN: Two More Years of IPv4-> 0

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dew4au

on Thursday April 30 2009, @03:45PM

dew4au writes "A reader over at SANS Internet Storm Center pointed out a certified letter his organization received from ARIN. The letter notes that all IPv4 space will be depleted within two years and outlines new requirements for address applications. New submissions will require an attestation of accuracy from an organizational officer. It also advises organizations to start addressing publicly accessible assets with IPv6. Is ARIN hoping to scare companies into action with the specter of scarce resources? This may be what's needed to spur adoption since there appears to be no business case for IPv6 deployment."
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Comment: You can sell your steam games individually (Score 1) 242

by dew4au on Thursday March 05 2009, @04:54PM (#27083133) Attached to: Amazon.com To Accept Game Trade-Ins

So, even if I do have the right to resell them, what good is it? I can't meaningfully exercise it.

Yes you can.

It's called gifting. I bought Half Life 2 when it came out, but later bought the Orange Box. It notified me that I had one extra copy of HL2 and I was able to give it as a gift to one of my buddies.

You can gift any game that you've purchased. Just have someone send you paypal, then gift the game to their username.

You can sell your Steam games. By saying otherwise you're just spreading FUD.

Comment: Cisco IDS (Score 1) 264

by dew4au on Wednesday July 20 2005, @07:49PM (#13119515) Attached to: Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention?

I use a combo of HIDS(host-based) and NIDS(network-based) to detect malicious activity. Our core switches (cisco 6509s)each have an IDSM blade that pops right in. Cisco VMS for the management interface is pretty crappy. Servers get Cisco HIDS just to make sure nothing fishy is going down.