__Santa is bearded, corpulent, and dresses funny. __ __When you ask Santa for something, the odds of receiving what you wanted are infinitesimal. __ __Santa seldom answers your mail. __ __When you ask Santa where he gets all the stuff he’s got, he says, “Elves make it for me.” __ __Santa doesn’t care about your deadlines. __ __Your parents ascribed supernatural powers to Santa, but did all the work themselves. __ ...
I always keep my eyes on what modules are undergoing FIPS validation. Here is an email sent to my teams… A shortcoming of open source has always been the lack of validated security modules. Red Hat has recognized this shortcoming and submitted their products and libraries for FIPS validation. As we move to more secure enterprise solutions it will be important to remain aware of these products as to lean on them in our products. Using validated products removes the need to take a hit during C&A or seek waivers. Just a friendly FYI from your IA Architect: ...
If you happen to have a G4 Cube or another system with a MCE upgraded superdrive, you have the issue of dealing with the Master/Slave mappings. You loose the capability to hold the “C” and boot cdrom. Why? Well Open Firmware detects cd as your hard drive. Here is how you can change that function: Hold Command+Option+O+F devalias See what is listed as hd and cd and write those down devalias cd device-path Replace device-path to what is listed after hd from the devalias command boot cd with a bootable CD to verify This is great! Look at it go! How do we make it permanent: ...
This is a picture someone published online that shows all the different types of geeks. I figured I would quickly look at the image and find, THE NICK. My issue, there is NO NICK. Narrowing down the multitude of options was difficult but I decided on 3. Those are listed below. Gadget Geek — I have every gadget you can imagine. I use them as learning devices in order to become all the more a geek. My tool belt looks exactly like his as well as the backpack. When I looked at this picture I didn’t think what a dork, I started to figure out what gadgets the artist was showing. For the record the geek is wearing: Blackberry, iPod, Candy-bar Cellphone, UMPC, and a GPS Apple Geek — This is a short one, looking around my office lets count the number of Apple products: iPod Shuffle, iPhone, 2×24″ iMac, Apple Extreme Router, Performa 6300, and an AppleTV in the living room. That is 7 devices. Yikes. Linux Geek — I have been using Linux 12 years (way before running Ubuntu was cool) and still use it to this day. I have a poster with Linux kernel code in my office. All devices that are capable of running Linux in my household, do. I get excited when a new kernel comes out and rush out to compile. I read over 150 RSS feeds about Linux and Open Source. I am such a dork as I re-read this. Wow…
I am happy to report that usingthe ICE Link for my Mini works great with the mini. I now have a mini computer in my mini car. It even fades when calls come in. If I can get the iPhone to integrate into the bluetooth for the car I will soon be victory dancing!