Unless they put Elon on the Board, not sure what he can do....
Imagine, there is a group with majority voting % that will keep him off....

By John Wyszynski (Starsabre) on Tuesday, April 05, 2022 - 11:12 am: Edit

Elon Musk has been appointed to the board of Twitter. There is an agreement that limits him to own 14.9% of the stock.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, April 05, 2022 - 04:27 pm: Edit

He is limited to 14.9% until 90 days after he resigns from the board, assuming he ever does.

The point is for Twitter to not be afraid of a hostile takeover and for Elon to be convinced that Twitter will change the political attitudes that ruined their profitability.

Twitter has lost a lot of revenue and stock value because it censored one political viewpoint while allowing Russia, Iran, various terrorist groups, and the other political viewpoint to post unrestricted. The half of the country who felt censored were taking their business elsewhere.

By Eddie E Crutchfield (Librarian101) on Tuesday, April 05, 2022 - 06:39 pm: Edit

INteresting Twitters revenue is reported up 37% 2021 over 2020. Stock value is interesting. April 3 2020 23.09, Apro; 1, 2021 63.83, April 4, 2022 50.98 Numbers can be deciving.

By Richard Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Tuesday, April 05, 2022 - 09:00 pm: Edit

Doesn't seem like they're hurting.

By A David Merritt (Adm) on Tuesday, April 05, 2022 - 09:52 pm: Edit

In fairness, there are a lot of people on Twitter that don't care about American politics, whether they follow entertainment figures, sports stars etc. or are foreign.

One should also note that when people who do follow politics say the country is divided in half, they are actually talking about the ~60% who votes. We are split; non-voters ~40%, GOP ~25%, Democrats ~25%, and swing voters ~10%.

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Wednesday, April 06, 2022 - 12:39 am: Edit

Folks, political commentary is not allowed.

Jean
WebMom

By John Wyszynski (Starsabre) on Thursday, April 14, 2022 - 06:46 am: Edit

Elon Musk has now launched a hostile take over bid of Twitter for $43 Billion.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Sunday, May 29, 2022 - 12:55 am: Edit

Anyone here ever taken on-line courses from the SANS Institute? Recently, I took the SEC-401 Cyber Security Essentials course (it's not cheap, but work paid for it). Last Monday, I drove 50 miles to the nearest testing center to take the certification exam. Let me tell you, that was a bear; probably the hardest test I've ever taken, even if it is open-book. Four-hour time limit, 95 questions and 11 lab exercises, need a 73% to pass. Somehow, I managed to make an 84% on it.


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By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Sunday, May 29, 2022 - 02:13 pm: Edit

Garth I have always known You as a Inteligent man. So passing that test was a thing You could do. Congrats on that...

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Friday, July 29, 2022 - 09:00 pm: Edit

Anyone here good with writing BASH scripts??


Garth L. Getgen

By Ken Kazinski (Kjkazinski) on Saturday, July 30, 2022 - 11:00 am: Edit

Which version of BASH are you using? Email me and I can see what I can do to help.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Saturday, July 30, 2022 - 12:10 pm: Edit

Not sure of version number. We're using Red Hat / RHEL at work. One of my co-workers is trying to write a script, and I thought I'd try to help.

We have a long list of IP addresses in a TXT file, and we need to create a set of firewall rules based off that list. The idea is to use a DO-WHILE loop to read in each line from the file, assign a unique sequential SID number to each rule, and merge those two things into the text for the rest of the rule, which is written to end of a file.

I could probably do it in BASIC, but who uses BASIC anymore??


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By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Saturday, July 30, 2022 - 12:23 pm: Edit

Sounds like a job for awk. :-)

--Mike

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Saturday, July 30, 2022 - 12:47 pm: Edit

Not really. Each line of the TXT file is a single IP address. I would think that the READ command should work well enough.

Now, if you wanted to take a set of rules and extract the IPs into a list, then yes, the AWK is what you want, I think.


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By Ken Kazinski (Kjkazinski) on Saturday, July 30, 2022 - 02:55 pm: Edit

Garth,

Seems straight forward. Read a line, increment a counter (SID number) and pipe it to another file.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Saturday, July 30, 2022 - 04:14 pm: Edit

Yes, the logic is easy enough. Getting the syntax right is where we hit the brick wall. For example, he has the script ask the user for the starting SID number, but instead of mathematically adding the increment, it reads it as text and concatenates the increment on the end. :-/


Garth L. Getgen

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Saturday, July 30, 2022 - 04:45 pm: Edit

Ken is quite sharp so I think you are in good hands, and if you need any additional assistance I'd be happy to help.

--Mike

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Monday, August 01, 2022 - 06:36 pm: Edit

So, back in May, I took the test for the SANS-401 course and passed. today I took the test for SANS-450 "Blue Team Fundamentals: Security Operations and Analysis" course and passed it, too. It was a two-hour 75-queston test (no labs, just multiple guess) with a 67% minimum. I scored a 76 somehow.


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By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Monday, August 01, 2022 - 11:09 pm: Edit

Congratulations! 450 is quite complicated subject matter.

--Mike

By Joseph Jackson (Bonneville) on Tuesday, August 02, 2022 - 01:18 pm: Edit

A hearty congratulations to you!

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Friday, September 09, 2022 - 12:39 pm: Edit

Not really “technology” as discussed here, but this is noteworthy.

The Motor vessel, Mark W. Barker is fitting out in the port of Cleveland, Ohio.

This ship is the first Great Lakes freighter built in the United States since 1981.

26,000 tons, main power provided by diesel engines, this is a bulk freighter intended for service on the Great Lakes. Been under construction since 2019.

The times, they are a changing.

I think it is a good thing that the United States is building its own civilian ships again.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Friday, September 09, 2022 - 04:46 pm: Edit

That's on par with the deadweight tonnage of SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Saturday, September 10, 2022 - 01:01 am: Edit

Each of the Great Lakes is at a slightly different elevation, so there are locks (and often full canals) to go from one to another. Normally, ships are built to BAAAAAREly slip into these locks, so it does kinda cap the deadweight tonnage.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Saturday, September 10, 2022 - 11:00 am: Edit

If you think back to the start of the Russian invasion, no one predicted that it would last this long. In fact, IIRC, question boiled down to days vs weeks guesses (yes, there were a few outliers... but in general the smart money was on Putin and Russia winning eventually.)

There are a few blogs that have discussed the chances that Putin will intentionally destroy the nuclear reactors (creating a Chernobyl like disaster) or deploy tactical nuclear weapons in a last ditch effort pacify the Ukrainian nation into subservience.

There are rumors that the Russians have attempted to use assassins to decapitate the Ukrainian leadership. (No proof that would stand up in court that I know of.)

Putin has painted himself into a corner. He can’t win outright. The Ukrainian position is hardening into a total withdrawal of Russian forces, and sanctions are having serious effects on the Russian economy.

Just how far will Putin go?