Thursday, June 22, 2006
With the return of a good number of players from the 2002 World Cup squad, expecatations were sky high for the 2006 US Men’s National Team in Germany. Unfortunately, due to some issues of their own making and some issues of FIFA’s making, those expectations were not realized.
I do not want this post to be a rant about the low quality of refereeing we have seen this Cup. Nor do I want it to be about our initial seeding. It will mostly be about my observations regarding the perfomance of team USA.
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Monday, June 5, 2006
For years, infosec experts have called the firewall a critical ingredient to security, whether it’s in a large enterprise or on a home PC. But the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has defied that logic with what some would consider surprising success.
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Personally, I think that this is a wrong approach.
A firewall is just another device in the security design of the network. He is essentially using firewalls on all his hosts, if I am understanding the article correctly. A centrally managed firewall is going to help regardless if you have firewalls running on the hosts. Imagine if you have someone attacking your network with a DDOS. Theoretically, this is going to be stopped at the border by your firewall. If you did not have a device to block this traffic, now your LAN is going to be flooded with traffic. In addition, each host is now going to waste processing cycles to determine whether the influx of traffic is valid or not.
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