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2005-12-29

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Posted by Fred 2005-12-29 12:54|| || Front Page|| [11138 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fred, I just sent in $50.00. Hope it helps. I love this site it has really helped me in "wading" through all of the news out there.

Posted by Jan 2005-12-29 13:34|| 2005-12-29 13:34|| Front Page Top

#2 What kind of HW FW? I have a lot of familiarity with Cisco PIX (501, 506E, and mainly the 525E as well s IOS based firewalling), and just got a new ASA 5000 series to play with.

Posted by Oldspook 2005-12-29 14:00|| 2005-12-29 14:00|| Front Page Top

#3 What kind of HW FW?

I wouldn't make that public...if I were Fred.

Posted by Hupearong Ebbanter3918 2005-12-29 14:10|| 2005-12-29 14:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Bravo, Jan! Good on ya!

Posted by .com 2005-12-29 14:46|| 2005-12-29 14:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Careful, Fred. The hw firewall might toss its Rantburg cookies. Remember, no milk; clear liquids only.

Posted by badanov 2005-12-29 15:09|| http://www.freefirezone.org/cgi-bin/index.pl]">[http://www.freefirezone.org/cgi-bin/index.pl] 2005-12-29 15:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks, Jan, and all the others who've kicked in. Bad was kind enough to point me to a low-cost firewall the other night that's gotten good reviews from people he knows. Tiger Direct was kind enough to get it to me in a couple days. I expected to spend hours configuring it, but it went in slick like a whistle, and one CPU cycle gobbler is now gone from the machine.

The main activity task manager now shows is MySQL and McAfee. I've moved a lot of our stuff from MySQL to Postgres and that's helped. I can't dump our antivirus, so we're stuck with that. So this looks like what it's going to be until I'm smart enough to set up and run a Linux server (done) and make it do the same sort of things I can make a Windows server do (not done).

Thanks for your patience.

Posted by Fred 2005-12-29 15:18|| 2005-12-29 15:18|| Front Page Top

#7 So the question remains: with the FW up, are the RB cookies still rampaging thru readers' frillies?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-12-29 15:44|| 2005-12-29 15:44|| Front Page Top

#8 only when I'm wearing them, and that's a feature, not a bug :-)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-29 16:09|| 2005-12-29 16:09|| Front Page Top

#9 To paraphrase, "What happens in your frillies, stays in your frillies.

But I also like the new billboard The Palms has up around town now:
"What Happens at The Palms,
Never Happened."

Hard to top that one...

Posted by .com 2005-12-29 16:15|| 2005-12-29 16:15|| Front Page Top

#10 ROFLMAO Frank. You're in deep, deep trouble. It's too late for you, can I have your stein?

Posted by Leon Clavin 2005-12-29 16:38|| 2005-12-29 16:38|| Front Page Top

#11 reminder, as I emailed PD:

"What Happens at The Palms, Never Happened."

that's between me and my palms

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-29 17:11|| 2005-12-29 17:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Lol - by golly you did! Er, email me, lol.

Posted by .com 2005-12-29 17:18|| 2005-12-29 17:18|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm going through pages now, trying to reduce trips to the server. Let me know if there are problems.

Posted by Fred">Fred 2005-12-29 17:44|| www.rantburg.com]">[www.rantburg.com] 2005-12-29 17:44|| Front Page Top

#14 I just managed to comment without it showing up, but I'm trying not to screw things up... Really.

Posted by Fred">Fred 2005-12-29 17:46|| www.rantburg.com]">[www.rantburg.com] 2005-12-29 17:46|| Front Page Top

#15 Fred, I have faith in you.

Posted by Florida Gators 2005-12-29 17:48|| 2005-12-29 17:48|| Front Page Top

#16 Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, Fred.

(Even the trolls thank you, for where would they troll if not for Rantburg? :-D)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-12-29 18:12|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2005-12-29 18:12|| Front Page Top

#17 I just rewrote the Headlines page in PHP. I changed it a bit from the way it was before. Default is the past 30 days. You can change the date and get the previous 30 days from there, and you can now filter by category.

Assuming you want to know what the Short Attention Span Theater headlines were between 2004-08-01 and 2004-08-30, just enter 2004-08-30 and select SAST.

Keep in mind that some of the category names have changed over the years, so some might not show up on a filtered search. Sorry.

Posted by Fred">Fred 2005-12-29 19:01|| www.rantburg.com]">[www.rantburg.com] 2005-12-29 19:01|| Front Page Top

#18 Fred - I am trying the demo cd that came out X-Mass eve for Xen3.0.
It runs unmodifed OSs virtualized with about 1-3 percent speed hit.
The demo only comes with Centos (the super secure linux) and Debian. BUT the word is Win2kXP and Server run in it. This lets one run in a sandbox and talk via a built in NAT server on the circle zero OS (either Centos or Debian). It has the potential to run windows in a safer mode....
maybe much safer..
http://www.xensource.com/

Posted by 3dc 2005-12-29 19:24|| 2005-12-29 19:24|| Front Page Top

#19 Wow. Page loading is nice and fast again. Like the good ol' days...

Posted by Rafael 2005-12-29 19:25|| 2005-12-29 19:25|| Front Page Top

#20 If this firewall is so good, how can a Florida Gator get in? Did you leave the John Deere port open?

Posted by Leon Clavin 2005-12-29 19:54|| 2005-12-29 19:54|| Front Page Top

#21 Ummm... Does that mean I could run both Linux and W2K at the same time?

Posted by Fred 2005-12-29 21:11|| 2005-12-29 21:11|| Front Page Top

#22 no help here, Fred - I run XP and donations..

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-29 22:09|| 2005-12-29 22:09|| Front Page Top

#23 If this firewall is so good, how can a Florida Gator get in? Did you leave the John Deere port open?

Hi. My name is DragonFly, and I am a Florida Gator.

Posted by Florida Gators 2005-12-29 22:11|| 2005-12-29 22:11|| Front Page Top

#24 right, Steve S.....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-29 22:16|| 2005-12-29 22:16|| Front Page Top

#25 They are saying Xen doesn't support Win but when they do it will be Xp and Win Server 2003.

Posted by badanov 2005-12-29 22:24|| http://www.freefirezone.org/cgi-bin/index.pl]">[http://www.freefirezone.org/cgi-bin/index.pl] 2005-12-29 22:24|| Front Page Top

#26 There's prolly a 12-step program for that, DF. G'luck, heh.

Posted by .com 2005-12-29 22:24|| 2005-12-29 22:24|| Front Page Top

#27 I guess I'll have to wait. That might solve all my Linux/Win problems...

Posted by Fred 2005-12-29 22:33|| 2005-12-29 22:33|| Front Page Top

#28 Of course, if the performance would stay like this, I might just forget about them...

Posted by Fred 2005-12-29 22:35|| 2005-12-29 22:35|| Front Page Top

#29 works for me

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-29 22:38|| 2005-12-29 22:38|| Front Page Top

#30 Fred, have I mentioned lately that you are a god? And all the mods are saints. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-12-29 23:29|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2005-12-29 23:29|| Front Page Top

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