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Comment Erm... Requirements? (Score 2, Insightful) 268

by teqo (#30771368) Attached to: Powerful Linux ISP Router Distribution?
So AirControl "doesn't play well with other network monitoring software" (which one, and why?), and MikroTik "isn't built for what [you] need" (what's that?) - other than that, you don't give us any idea what you really expect. What are your requirements? Suggestions out of the blue: OpenWRT with quagga/zebra, hostapd, radius, olsrd, b.a.t.m.a.n. etc. etc, or you might want to have a look at Vyatta (no affiliation).

Submission + - Airport Access IDs Hacked in Germany (spiegel.de)

Submitted by teqo
teqo writes: Hackers belonging to the Chaos Computer Club have allegedly cloned digital security ID cards for some German airport successfully which then allowed them access to all airport areas. According to the Spiegel Online article (transgoogleation here), they used a 200 Euro RFID reader to scan a valid security ID card, and since the scanner was able to pretend to be that card, used it to forge that valid ID. Even the airport authorities say that the involved system from 1992 might be outdated, but I guess it might be deployed elswewhere anyways.

Feed Berkeley's "respectful" surveillance cameras disregard faces (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

While blatantly spying on us is one thing, attempting to freshen it up by suggesting a venerating alternative is bordering on preposterous. As we've seen at the Sky Harbor airport, officials are trying nearly anything they can to make forthright invasions of privacy seem a bit less offensive, and a CCTV camera developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley is next up to bat. The so-called "respectful cameras" are aimed at places of employment, where specified workers would wear a given marker that could be recognized by the camera. After being identified, the camera would then spot out the face of the individual to provide some sort of false assurance that their identity is magically safe. The best, er, worse part, however, is that the system doesn't actually delete the face beneath the circle, as it "allows for the privacy oval to be removed from a given set of footage in the event of an investigation." So much for dodging Big Brother.

[Via SciFiTech]

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Comment Two more features... (Score 4, Interesting) 556

by teqo (#11407308) Attached to: PostgreSQL 8.0 Released

... and it would really really rock!

  • Hot tablespace-based backups, combined with write-ahead log backups, as seen in Oracle since version 8 (or even 7?) This is an extremely nice feature when you have large databases and no chance for regular scheduled downtime and still want backups, both complete and incremental ones. Compared to the export-based feature of PostgreSQL, it would put way less load onto the server, because tablespace-based and WAL-based backup bypasses the SQL engine, so it is copying a (for example) 200 GB files vs. 200 GB query-based export
  • Better and more integrated replication. There are a number of independent projects that want to create replication add-ons, like pgreplication and the older, more academic Postgres-R, but that's not really production quality so far. According to some consultant that is working tightly with PostgreSQL and the developers, they are working on it, but he was really hedging when asked about advanced features and was theorizing how practically impossible and/or expensive multi-master realtime replication would be... An optional feature for many users, granted, but still something you might want for scaling beyond certain limits.

Said that, PostgreSQL is a really great thing, and being FOSS, I could of course always go ahead and add the named features... .)

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