Recent content by Dravic

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    Question Whats your CPU upgrade history? Performance improvements gaps between upgrades?

    Personal computers and Gamers ADAM computer (tape driven coleco vision based computer) from grand parents at 11. dx 486 100mhz (~94) p133 p166 Celeron 333 @ 500 !!!!! pII300 PII450 k2-350 k2-500 duron 650mhz (@ 900mhz) !!!! tbird 1400+ tbrid 1700+ palamino 2100+ (@2.3ghz) 3200+ 3800+ 4800+ x2 @...
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    AMD's Phil Rogers jumps ship to Nvidia

    "corporate fellow from AMD" FYI usually means he helped out but wasn't in charge of much besides special projects. Most 'fellow' positions are place holders until they find an opening or often just a way for high level players to get paid while waiting to figure out what they want to do next...
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    Have you sped up your upgrade cycle, slowed it down, or neither?

    Slowed way down... still I'm on an old overclocked 8150... going into what year 4 or 5...? Will probably grab an 8320 or 8370 this year just to have the last available and most efficient AM3+ CPU for when it becomes the Linux Workstation replacement.
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    returning cpu at fry's

    Or good old acetone fingerail poish remover if you have a Mrs. and are out of alcohol :)
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    Death by OC, share your experiences

    Only failure to OC i can think of: KIII 350 @ 500 - eventually wouldn't even run at 350 anymore.. my two biggest O'C'.s % wise just became obsolete tech... Cel 333 @ 500 - in a box somewhere Duron 650 @ 1000mhz - in a box somewhere Lost a few cheap PSU's along the way, but no boards, and...
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    Cheap wildcard certificate

    You should be able to find one for $100-150, I think the wild card certs at alphaSSL (partner with dynadot) is $149.
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    12 year old son wants to learn programming

    Depends on what he (thinks he) wants to do. I was about 11 when i first learned BASIC, learned PASCAL, C and C++ in school. I went the Unix Admin -> Security Engineer route so I have less need for the low level languages, and a high need for the DRY languages like Python. For me Python...
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    Web developers: what is your platform (back-end) of choice?

    My Current stack - Linux/Nginx/Python+Django/Postgres
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    Update: New 25 GPU Monster Devours Passwords In Seconds

    When I was a senior info sec officer at a bank, we required all passwords to be changed every 28 days with an 8+ password history. Poor password choices and quickly shrinking password crack times were the biggest reasons... That was 9 years ago.
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    One Each - Best Programming and Scripting Language

    Python for scripting all day It replaced Perl for me, and is becoming the default scripting/admin language for most modern Linux distros post Perl. Many of the system admin tools have been written in python, and its usually installed by default.
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    Can my company see my gmail?

    IMHO.. Any company that allows ssh out of its network from the corporate desktop should have their security team replaced. I check my personal email on my asus epad(cell hotspot) or my rezound directly. I very seldom check anything personal from my corporate network.
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    Can my company see my gmail?

    Done every day at the gateway, no warning is generated. Websense is just one vendor that offers HTTPS blind proxy without the end user even knowing it. Most software filters out personal websites like medical and banks, but gmail and things like that are being parsed. It can break applications...
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    Can my company see my gmail?

    In agreement with Luden here. As Security professional we have no choice but to monitor everything I possibly can on the network and end point. They easiest way into a corporate network these days is through the desktop. But rest assured I have no urge, nor the time to look at what you send...
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    My 8150 Bulldozer experience - so far!

    Looking forward to your impressions, I'm probably going to wait for the last am3+ chip as the final upgrade to this rig before it goes into workstation duty. I'm not really running into anything the 8150 cant do for my needs, but the upgrade itch may get me in early/mid 2013. For that matter...