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MIT student arrested for fake bomb
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
An MIT student was arrested in Logan intl Airport for wearing a sweatshirt with a prototyping board on it and a 9 volt battery which lit up some led’s that said MIT course VI which is the numerical designation for computer and electrical engineering majors. The shirt which she has and has been wearing for a long time, was something that a class of students made as a project. The police surrounded her in the airport with automatic weapons and arrested her, then commented that she was lucky to be alive. As you can see from the link to the article below anyone who has half a brain can see that it is a piece of techno art. However I just wanted to post this to solicit your opinions about the fear of electronics in this country and the sad state of affairs. This is even worse considering that MIT is known for its research in embedded computers in clothing and the airport is right around the corner from MIT! Also she walked up to the airline desk and asked when a flight was coming in because she was picking up a friend. She did not even try to get through the security checkpoint.
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html
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Open Solaris 10 sandbox
Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Thanks to those friendly people from Digg.com who decided it would be fun to bring my Solaris box to its knees by forking and other things to DDOS my Solaris zone. I have learned many ways of enhancing the security of Solaris zones. I have limited the Sandbox zone to 1% of total CPU usage. I have limited the total number of processes to 1000 and I have installed the Solaris Jass security hardening script. I plan to post many of my discoveries in the future. Work has been busy lately and it is on the burner of things to be done along with part 2 of solaris zones.
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First Production ZFS server today
Monday, July 2nd, 2007
I have plenty of small business clients and sooner or later they all face one big challenge. They all outgrow the initial 80GB tape drives that we put on their servers. The problem is that most of these are small businesses and most of them could just afford the initial network, and asking them to pony up $2000+ for a new tape drive or worse yet autoloader is out of the question.
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TV Networks Just Don’t Get it
Monday, July 2nd, 2007
I t seems to me that the big four tv network either don’t understand what people want or simply don’t care. If you look at the cable networks you have stimulating things to watch like Nip Tuck, Dexter, Sleeper Cell, Battlestar Galactica, Monk, and too many other good dramas to mention. However when you turn to the major networks they simply show one copied worn out reality show after another.
Until recently I assumed they just didn’t get it, but then I found out that it cost the networks on average 4 to 8 times as much money to produce a script based show. Kind of makes you think doesn’t it?
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Blog Migrated
Sunday, June 24th, 2007
I just upgraded the blog, It has been migrated from a 800mhz FreeBSD based system to a 2ghz Sun Solaris 10 based system with ZFS storage. The web server is also running in its own isolated container/zone. In migrating I have decided not to import all of the old articles, Instead? I will go through them and pick the best ones to include here.
Stay Tuned More to come!
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