800LB Gorillas Piss Me Off

So maybe I've been living under a rock for 6 months, but as my previous boss used to say on occasion, "what a d^ck move." I was working on a VPN issue today and I found that while I was sleeping Cisco reversed their statement there would NOT be a 64 bit IPSEC client for 64 bit Windows Vista/7. Ahem, so they released it in late April after many companies including the one I work for blew a wad of cash on buying SSL VPN licenses. Yeah, so 64 bit XP can't run it but how many people are running 64 bit XP? No offense if you are, but there just aren't that many of you.

Makes me about as happy as when M$ said Exchange public folders are going away for good years ago. At least until everyone started drinking the SharePoint kool-aid and then SURPRISE, just kidding. We'll let you keep your public folders. I am a SharePoint fan, but still.

Grrr..... Happy Monday to me.

Sourcefire Razorback

I had meant to post this some months ago when fall seemed far away, but the announcement (timed for Black Hat) of Sourcefire's brand new thing aka Razorback caught my interest. The meaty articles are still somewhat lacking, but this brief markety bit on Dark Reading makes it sound worth a look. And true to form from the people who brought you Snort, the new 'mean pig' logo is just cool. Now if only one of the guys I used to work with would volunteer to help me get it up and running...