The BBC’s Animation Director incorrectly states “they clearly are not designed to fly”…the BBC should have looked at footage of the penguins underwater instead of just in the air.
Category Archives: Security
VMware vShield Audit via REST API
Richard Park from Sourcefire has a great write up on managing VMware vShield configurations with perl scripts.
We’ll focus today on how to use the API to programatically make firewall rule changes. Here are some of the things you can do with the API:
- List the current firewall ruleset
- Add new rules
- Get a list of past firewall revisions
- Revert back to a previous ruleset revision
Then a cloud occurs…
as predicted by Sydney Harris
Thames River Bylaws and Signaling
The Port of London Authority’s River Bylaws of 1978 has a wonderfully simple and illustrative guide to signals on the Thames used to indicate movement, purpose, and size.
This is Byelaw 27(1)(b) for example:
By night a ferry shall carry amidships in addition to sidelights, and the forward and stern lights prescribed by Rule 23(a) a blue light over a white light not less than 2 metres or more than 3 metres apart visible all round the horizon at least 1 mile.
Byelaw 29(2) caught my eye:
When the headroom of an arch or span is reduced, but still open to traffic, the following signals shall be suspended from the centre of that arch.
By day – a bundle of straw large enough to be easily visible.
Might be about time to update that signal. I guess we can be thankful it has already been updated from the old practice of hanging screaming convicts or rotting animal corpses.