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@mikelococo That sounds pretty darn classy -- allows for more distinction than the obvious red v. white comparisons! - posted on 19/02/2012 21:58:57
@HockenberryB A vertical tasting is several different price/quality tiers within a brand or style. Often several vintages of the same wine. - posted on 19/02/2012 18:35:47- @mikelococo Is this some sort of euphemism? - posted on 19/02/2012 17:53:14
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- @gdickinson The others are noticeably nicer than black, but still nondescript IMO. Maybe a more refined palette would call them balanced. - posted on 18/02/2012 22:45:41
@mikelococo I'm not surprised. I've always found JW to be a bit underwhelming although I've never tasted anything 'above' black - posted on 18/02/2012 22:38:09- @gdickinson Black, green, gold, blue. Quite frankly, I'm universally disappointed. They're all quite mild and I like bigger flavors. - posted on 18/02/2012 22:25:12
- @mikelococo Which labels are on the menu? - posted on 18/02/2012 21:26:11
- Doing a vertical tasting of Johnny Walker. - posted on 18/02/2012 21:21:55
- RT @avibryant: Love it: NSA declassifies handwritten letter from Nash which anticipates P vs NP and its application to crypto, in '55. h ... - posted on 18/02/2012 10:46:32
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Author Archives: Mike Lococo
Capacity Planning for Snort IDS
Snort is a very capable network intrusion detection system, but planning a first-time hardware purchase can be difficult. It requires fairly deep knowledge of x86 server performance, network usage patterns at your site, along with some snort-specific knowledge. Documentation is … Continue reading
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Monitoring Snort Performance with Zabbix
In January I gave a presentation to the REN-ISAC on how to monitor the performance of Snort IDS systems. It covers: A comparison of high-performance capture-frameworks like vanilla-libpcap vs pfring vs dedicated capture cards from Endace or similar. An overview … Continue reading
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Relaunch
My RSS subscriber has reminded me that my feeds have gone a little bit wild over the last couple of days as I’ve gone through old posts to retag and update dead links. That’s all finished now, promise. I’ve been … Continue reading
Virtualization and Security Boundaries
Virtualization security is coming up frequently in higher-ed security forums as folks scramble to understand best-practices before whatever path-of-least-resistance gets too entrenched to change. Unfortunately, there’s almost no intermediate-level documents on virtualization security to help us wrap our heads around … Continue reading
Fedora 8 on a Dell Latitude D620
Fedora 8 works quite well on the D620 right out of the box, and with a few tweaks can be just about fully supported. This guide summarizes what I’ve done to get things working to my satisfaction. It is not … Continue reading
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