http://isc.sans.org/volunteer.php
[Needed:] technically savvy volunteers who can help in two ways - at the shelters in implementing Windows and Cisco systems for the volunteers and people living there, and at Red Cross headquarters in the Washington DC area to improve the implementation of security software tools that have been implemented but are not fully exploited. Here's how you can help. 1. People who live near the shelters (or who could get there and who have family/friends with whom you could stay), and who have lots of experience deploying Windows XP and/or Cisco systems, please register your willingness to help at this link <http://isc.sans.org/volunteers>. The Red Cross will contact you directly. 2. People in the Washington DC area (or who could get here quickly) and would volunteer to help, and who have substantial experience with any of the following: -- tuning Cisco IDS -- tuning NetIQ Manager -- tuning McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator please do two things: a. register online <http://isc.sans.org/volunteers>, and b. send me an email at [paller at sans.org <http://sans.org>] telling me which tool you know well and how available and close you are so I can set up a contact for you. SANS is also donating $100,000 to the Red Cross, and we learned today that at least one leading security vendor, TippingPoint, has offered to give the Red Cross the equipment they need to protect their networks - without asking for compensation. If you know of people or companies in the IT or security field who are trying to make a difference in the recovery effort, please let us know what you or they are doing [Email paller at sans.org <http://sans.org>]. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20050911/2dca35c0/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 12 23:52:05 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Hill) Date: Mon Sep 12 23:52:22 2005 Subject: [brlug-general] Re: Linux Help for Hurrican Katrina Response In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I did not have the time, had second thoughts and caved into the FUD. A M$ only solution is liable to punish those who don't use IE by screwing up their application silently. This is something you might have thought of, but I did not till later. These thoughts were reinforced by a brief exposure to XP. I'm glad I did something else with my time. It will be better to let it fall over on it's own than to give the contractor excuses. I imagine that public workstations running IE6 will be a pain to keep working and the database itself will blow up regularly and be fed false information by owned workstations. Why get into a mess like that? It was much more satisfying to drive some old LSU computers across town for John Hebert and the Red Cross. The ultimate pain of windoze is the poor marginal return. You can spend loads of time doing everything "right" and you can spend loads of money on hardware and supporting software and it still won't work. Indeed, it's easy to do something "wrong" and hurt your performance. LSU gave me a laptop to use with XP and it looks like the worst Windoze ever. Just turning it on messed things up. It came loaded with a daily(!) virus scan and XP thinks it owns power management and the wifi. I installed Mepis before I bothered to boot Windoze. Foolishly, I thought the ACPI Windoze setting would flip the dosy bios bits and have me set. Instead, it turned off the wifi, which would only turn back on by forcing it to connect to my home wireless. Nothing happened to power management, not even on the windows side, when I told it to hibernate on closing the lid. On Saturday 10 September 2005 09:09 pm, Adam J. Hogan wrote: > Will Hill wrote: > > I might help a "guinea pigs" myself tomorrow. It would be easy to take > > someone to Charlie's Coffee and try to fill out the forms for them using > > different browsers. > > Any news on whether spoofing Firefox actually works?
