At its best, the Obama candidacy is about ending a war—not so much the war in Iraq, which now has a momentum that will propel the occupation into the next decade—but the war within America that has prevailed since Vietnam and that shows dangerous signs of intensifying, a nonviolent civil war that has crippled America at the very time the world needs it most. It is a war about war—and about culture and about religion and about race. And in that war, Obama—and Obama alone—offers the possibility of a truce.However many irrational political arguments (although they happen much less frequently now) I've had with my wife, we agree on Obama. His authenticity (most recently his comments on "inhaling" were a case in point).
It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man—Barack Hussein Obama—is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm. A brown-skinned man whose father was an African, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, who attended a majority-Muslim school as a boy, is now the alleged enemy. If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can.And the willingness of Independents (who might lean more Rep than Dem) on some issues, putting the issues aside
Of the viable national candidates, only Obama and possibly McCain have the potential to bridge this widening partisan gulf. Polling reveals Obama to be the favored Democrat among Republicans.... It isn’t about his policies as such; it is about his person. They are prepared to set their own ideological preferences to one side in favor of what Obama offers America in a critical moment in our dealings with the rest of the world. The war today matters enormously. The war of the last generation? Not so much. If you are an American who yearns to finally get beyond the symbolic battles of the Boomer generation and face today’s actual problems, Obama may be your man.And on Senator Clinton:
Her liberalism is warped by what you might call a Political Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome. Reagan spooked people on the left, especially those, like Clinton, who were interested primarily in winning power. She has internalized what most Democrats of her generation have internalized: They suspect that the majority is not with them, and so some quotient of discretion, fear, or plain deception is required if they are to advance their objectives. And so the less-adept ones seem deceptive, and the more-practiced ones, like Clinton, exhibit the plastic-ness and inauthenticity that still plague her candidacy. She’s hiding her true feelings. We know it, she knows we know it, and there is no way out of it.And on Obama's authentic spirituality
To be able to express this kind of religious conviction without disturbing or alienating the growing phalanx of secular voters, especially on the left, is quite an achievement. As he said in 2006, “Faith doesn’t mean that you don’t have doubts.” To deploy the rhetoric of Evangelicalism while eschewing its occasional anti-intellectualism and hubristic certainty is as rare as it is exhilarating. It is both an intellectual achievement, because Obama has clearly attempted to wrestle a modern Christianity from the encumbrances and anachronisms of its past, and an American achievement, because it was forged in the only American institution where conservative theology and the Democratic Party still communicate: the black church.And the final pargraphs on the stakes of the waning years of the first decade of the 21st century
I fear the future of a rematch from the pastThe paradox is that Hillary makes far more sense if you believe that times are actually pretty good. If you believe that America’s current crisis is not a deep one, if you think that pragmatism alone will be enough to navigate a world on the verge of even more religious warfare, if you believe that today’s ideological polarization is not dangerous, and that what appears dark today is an illusion fostered by the lingering trauma of the Bush presidency, then the argument for Obama is not that strong. Clinton will do. And a Clinton-Giuliani race could be as invigorating as it is utterly predictable.
But if you sense, as I do, that greater danger lies ahead, and that our divisions and recent history have combined to make the American polity and constitutional order increasingly vulnerable, then the calculus of risk changes. Sometimes, when the world is changing rapidly, the greater risk is caution. Close-up in this election campaign, Obama is unlikely. From a distance, he is necessary. At a time when America’s estrangement from the world risks tipping into dangerous imbalance, when a country at war with lethal enemies is also increasingly at war with itself, when humankind’s spiritual yearnings veer between an excess of certainty and an inability to believe anything at all, and when sectarian and racial divides seem as intractable as ever, a man who is a bridge between these worlds may be indispensable.
We may in fact have finally found that bridge to the 21st century that Bill Clinton told us about. Its name is Obama.
Continuing on the cleaning up my home network (aka Dummy!) theme , I decided to turn on remote syslog from one of my routers. We use syslog-ng on a lot of our boxes at work, but I've never actually configured it on any my Debian/Ubuntu boxes at home. How hard could it be? (HINT: A hell of a lot easier than on *BSD or *&$%*! Solaris)
sntp server 192.168.100.100
851w#conf t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
851w(config)#sntp ?
broadcast Configure SNTP broadcast services
logging Enable SNTP message logging
multicast Configure SNTP multicast services
server Configure SNTP server
source-interface Configure interface for source address
Who knows what the future holds
Or where the cards may fall
But if you don’t come out west and see
You’ll never know at all
I look off in the distance
And blow a kiss your way
The thousand miles between us
Will disappear some day
I watch as all the starling
Fly in from the north
The beating of their wings
Echoes the beating of my heart
I sleep out in the desert
Under the stars above
And keep making an effort
To wander in your love
Who knows what the future holds
Or where the cards may fall
But if you don’t come out west and see
You’ll never know at all
"Canonical has produced a robust virtualised OS core in the Ubuntu JeOS Edition that is optimized for virtual appliances," said Dan Chu, vice president of emerging products and markets at VMware. "Virtual Appliances are fundamentally changing how software is developed and deployed, with ISVs now including a thin and highly optimized OS along with their application in a ready-to-run virtual machine. We are excited that Canonical is providing Ubuntu JeOS for vendors interested in building VMware virtual appliances."
The CallManager CLI provides a backup management interface to the system in order to diagnose and troubleshoot the primary HTTPS-based management interfaces. The CLI, which runs as the root user, contains two vulnerabilities in the parsing of commands. The first vulnerability may allow an authenticated CUCM administrator to execute arbitrary operating system programs as the root user. The second vulnerability may allow output redirection of a command to a file or a folder specified on the command line.And in cisco-sa-20010131-arrowpoint-cli-fs
The Cisco CSS11000 must be configured to permit command line access to users by providing a management address and defining user accounts. Once command line access is gained by non privileged users (defined user accounts without administrative privileges), running a command requiring a filename, and providing a filename that is the maximum length of the input buffer can cause the switch to reboot, and a system check to be started which will prevent normal function of the switch for up to 5 minutes. The show script, clear script, show archive, clear archive, show log, and clear log commands are capable of causing the CSS to restart if the specified file name is the maximum length of the input buffer. Cisco Bug ID CSCdt08730.And from cisco-sa-20060719-mars
The CS-MARS CLI is a restricted shell environment which allows authenticated administrators to perform system maintenance tasks. The CLI contains several privilege escalation vulnerabilities which may allow shell commands to be executed on the underlying appliance operating system with root privileges. These vulnerabilities are documented by Cisco bug IDs CSCsd29111 ( registered customers only) , CSCsd31371 ( registered customers only) , CSCsd31377 ( registered customers only) , CSCsd31392 ( registered customers only) and CSCsd31972 ( registered customers only) .And Cisco Security Response: Cisco IOS Reload on Regular Expression Processing
Some regular expressions that make use of combined repetition operators ('*' or '+') and pattern recalls ("\1", "\2", etc.) into the same expression may result in a stack overflow on the Cisco IOS regular expression engine. A stack overflow will result in a reload of the device.Given the ubiquity of dumb (IOS-like) shells on network devices (and not just on Cisco boxes), it would appear that this might be fertile ground for a tool that:
> > Development is not the same process as writing a whiny mail.
>
> that is a shame. i can probably better understand the relectance to
> re-visit this if it has failed before. perhaps, others are right,
> perhaps linux can tolerate it because it's not as good as openbsd.
> i think we'll simply agree to disagree. i personally find it quite
> disheartening to hear the attitude that prevails here but that's the
> community's decision. it certainaly seems to refelect the attitute
> of it's leaders (developers).
>
Consider it the voice of experience (bitter).
Its easy to tell which ones are the programmers.
They write code, then they submit it, it does not suck too much and they
take the suggestions of the current project leads. Then they resubmit
better code.
The rest of us should simply buy CD's, ask and answer the occasional
question, and other wise keep quiet.
