"Regrettably, the best advice I have is this: Find a different field of endeavor. Unless you're in the top rank, there's little future for you in IT... The supply of programmers exceeds demand "

The IT rust belt

NetMon, the "sister" of NetReg, collects and processes information from the network. It captures CAM table and ARP table information from network devices, as well as store DHCP lease information (updated every minute by the DHCP servers). The goal of NetMon is to provide a real-time as well as historical view of the network. Using NetMon we are able to detect misregistered and unregistered machines.

No need for Lucent QIP or Nortel NetID anymore.

[ Originally from Rattle. Shweeeet! This rocks. --Rek ]

NetReg/NetMon

"A presidential advisor encouraged the nation's top computer security professionals and hackers Wednesday to try to break computer programs, but said they might need protection from the legal wrath of software makers."

Some very encouraging words from the Bush administration at this year's Black Hat Briefings.

AP Wire | 07/31/2002 | Bush adviser encourages hacking

Beyond the surface, the potential intrigue could get fascinating. This is where the soap opera aspects come in. Buffett's investment could set in motion a complex web of relationships and -- if you play it all out in just the right way -- put Bill Gates ( news - web sites) in charge of every fiber-optic line in the USA.

checkmate?

"People believed that the GPL made it impossible for a company to come along and steal code that was the result of community effort. That may have been the case so long as the processor was open, and anyone could access supervisor mode. But TCPA changes that completely. Once the majority of PCs on the market are TCPA-enabled, the GPL won't work as intended any more. "

A more coherent discussion of the threat of processor certs. (I did a talk on this at SummerCon 1997.) People should simply refuse to buy computers that refuse to do what they are told. Worked with DivX... If this fails, then lets organize a collaborative cracking effort...

More Ross Anderson on Vile TCPA

Ok...for the first time since the apple II, I actually want to play with a Mac. I think UNIX is awesome, but I am too lazy to start using it, so Mac OSX makes me happy.

[Originally from Nanochick. MacOS X Rules. There is no doubt.]

Apple - Mac OS X

Despite the fact that this guy is basically off-base and a complete idiot, I'm going to recommend this. I just wish memestreams could capture my comments in a reasonable way, but I think this article is so stupid that it should be obvious to any thinking person.

Let me get this straight. Ralph Nader (news - web sites) -- former presidential candidate (and close friend of Al Gore (news - web sites)), consumer crusader and political activist -- believes the way to bring Bill Gates (news - web sites) to his knees is for President Bush (news - web sites), in the guise of the Office of Management and Budget, to mandate that the government limit its purchases of Microsoft products.

In other words, spread the dollars around to Apple, IBM, Corel, Linux (news - web sites) firms and other manufacturers to encourage competition and get better pricing. Or as Nader himself told Reuters, "The only consumer in North America who can break up the Microsoft monopoly simply through purchasing strategies is the U.S. government."

Why Nader's Microsoft plan is flawed

"Back in the day, there were boards. Bulletin Board Systems. BBS's. No Net, no Web, no cyberspace, nothing. Just boards, and their ugly stepchildren, D-Dials. All strung together with phone lines, hand-rolled software, and 8-bit computers. No backbone, no hubs, no routers, no DNS tables. Just one computer picking up the phone, calling another, and having a little chat. "

Salon.com Technology | When 300 baud was the bomb

China's telcom thugz

China's cable firms fight deadly turf war

Cool... Now, just give me this for all memestreams navigation and I'll be super happy.

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