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
as predicted by Sydney Harris
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.
The Chefs at Coi in San Francisco admit they did not come up with a “new” item for their menu.
The idea came from a conversation with my sous-chef. We were trying to find a new way to cook carrots, and he recalled working in a restaurant in France…
Shocking. Americans stealing ideas from French kitchens…if any one of those kitchens had some Google-sized orphelines they’d be all over America right now with accusations of cuisine warfare. I can hear the military sabre rattling now…
“If you steal from our kitchens,” said one unnamed official, “maybe we will put a soufflé down one of your chimneys.”
Here’s some more shocking news. Coi has discovered that hay is best served to farm animals.
And if you’re considering eating the hay itself, I wouldn’t. The flavor is great, but unless you’re a farm animal, the texture leaves much to be desired.
If that hasn’t dissuaded you, Coi also offers health and safety warnings, which beg the question of why they even bother to use hay in the first place.
Most farms and farm-supply stores carry hay, but because you’ll use it in direct contact with food, make sure it hasn’t been treated with chemical pesticides. And beware: Before you place your order, stake out some serious storage space. A bale of hay is enormous.
Unfortunately the reader gets no indication of how exactly they “make sure” it has no chemical pesticides. Count the legs and eyes on the farm animals that eat from the same bale?
Oh well, if the French do it, must be good. I might have to ride my horse down to Coi and check it out.