SecureCon, SciPy, Gaming/Blade Runner

[tcpip]

Gave my presentation at SecureCon yesterday. PDF of the slides available, notes coming soon. The medieval castle metaphor does work particularly well for network security; also caught up with catsidhe who was present. Unfortuntely have not been able to attend today, but have successfully fixed an install of NumPy and SciPy, which required some annoying modifications to the code.

This Sunday I start the アイヌ語のラットの伝説 game. Tonight playing Polaris, last night D&D 'Ralia where my wide-eyed Hobbit continues to play the idiot savant. Tomorrow expecting some more gaming goodness with imajica_lj, kremmen, hathhalla, ser_pounce all making appearances before we head to the Astor to see Blade Runner, the Final Cut.

Ahem: I'm a goose; that's next Saturday which of course I'm booked with severina_242 and _zombiemonkey. Better fix that..

Yesterday slotted in another three scenes to my online HeroQuest Glorantha game. Have also completed a review of a classic RuneQuest/Judges Guild module, Broken Tree Inn on rpg.net

I've been saying this for years: Without Words there are no concepts (from hasimir via flemco). 8 limbed girl has operation. A blunt and pithy assessment of the economic claims in the Australian election. Howard on being sorry, and keeping wages down. News just in: Howard heckled with 'scumbag' taunts.

Comments

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Hey that would be pretty cool.... I'm not a particularly graphics intensive user, but I know Visio is one of the best things MS has going for it these days...

[evil-genius.livejournal.com]

Well they have managed to pervert it quite completely from it's original HIGHLY USABLE 2000 version(which was little more than a repacking purchase they had recently made). But with enough swearing and screaming one can generating some fairly shocking stuff with it.

www.ratemynetworkdiagram.com/

Is just full of stuff people have banged out with it.

Check these out aswell:
http://www.cenic.net/operations/documentation/CENIC-Design.jpg
http://www.cisco.com/iam/unified/ipt1/images/04implem-13.jpg
http://www.bvisual.net/images/WorldCom%20-%20Auto%20network.gif

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Yeah, ratemynetwork is one of my favourite sites..

I've discovered a whole bunch of near-Visio options in the FOSS world as well..

http://www.webservertalk.com/archive291-2005-6-986650.html

[evil-genius.livejournal.com]

Oh indeed there is a small army of them available. I've unfortunately found some absolutely killer capabilities that Visio has that no other single piece(or easily integrable group of) software has.

More on that in a few weeks.
(you are going to love this... er rather hate that no OSS has the same capabilities yet)