Month: December 2003

You cannot use DHCP as a security mechanism. If a DHCP client elects not to follow the protocol, a network administrator can do little, other than to track down the offending device and shut it off. A malicious user who wants to access the network can always simply make up an IP address, send an ARP request for it, and then, if it does not get an answer, use the fabricated address. Access control based on client identification can be very convinient, but it does not prevent unauthorized access to a network. [Droms and Lemon, 2002, p. 16]

Droms, Ralph Ph. D. &amp; Lemon, Ted (2002), <i>The DHCP Handbook, Second Edition</i>, Indianapolis: Sams Publishing.

Breakfast this morning was cereal. I think the scale read 159, though I do not know if I should believe my eyes.



<ins datetime="2003-12-10T15:17:00-05:00">Scott and I walked over to the Carnegie building to check out their network equipment. On the way back, we stopped at the HUB to grab some lunch. I had a salad. The walk was maybe 2 miles, round trip.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-12-11T13:21:00-05:00">Dinner was another batch of <a href="http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1950,159184-233192,00.html" title="Cooks.com | Recipe | BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND VEGETABLE GRATIN">butternut squash and vegetable gratin</a> and a <a href="http://www.sierra-nevada.com/beers/celebrationale.html" title="Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale">Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale</a>. We modified the gratin recipe to leave out the walnuts and to add a breadcrumb and paparika topping more like that on potatoes au gratin. We also salted the squash a little bit before going in to roast in an effort to kill some of its sweetness. The changes were quite successful.</ins>

<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/10/business/10FOOD.html?ei=5007&amp;en=e2e72041650fe5e0&amp;ex=1386392400&amp;partner=USERLAND&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;position=">Restaurant Hiring May Lead the Way to Wider Job Gains</a>: &ldquo;Since the beginning of August, the restaurant business, which includes everything from McDonald&rsquo;s to corner bars to four-star restaurants, has accounted for 18 percent of the 300,000 jobs created in the nation&hellip;



&ldquo;The restaurant business, which has about $420 billion in annual sales in the United States, accounts for 6.6 percent of economic activity and has 11.7 million workers, according to the National Restaurant Association. When consumers are willing to spend more freely, the business tends to benefit directly. &lsquo;Dining out is generally considered a discretionary item,&rsquo; said Richard D. Rippe, the chief economist at Prudential Securities. &lsquo;As income rises, there&rsquo;s more willingness to do that. Now, as we begin to get a little better employment cyclically and as consumer confidence gradually improves, I think that would be a plus as well.&rsquo;&rdquo;

Sally Squires has this to say in <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47067-2003Dec8.html" title="The Holiday Challenge: Fun With Fiber (washingtonpost.com)">today&rsquo;s Lean Plate Club</a>:

“Eating more fiber is one of the best things that you can do for your health,” notes JoAnn E. Manson, chief, preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and co-author of the study. Foods rich in fiber and whole grains “increase satiety — you feel fuller — and that may lead to consuming fewer calories, which can help with weight control.”

…To help boost fiber:

• Start the day with whole-grain cereal and berries. Some cereals have up to 13 grams of fiber per cup. Add a half-cup of berries and you can get three to four more grams of fiber. Can’t stomach high-fiber cereals? Top regular cereal with a quarter- or third-cup of the high-fiber stuff to make the taste more palatable.
• Switch to whole-grain varieties of bread, crackers, pasta and rice. They have double or more the fiber found in the white bread, pasta and rice, which are stripped of fiber during processing. Rye, pumpernickel and other whole-grain breads are good choices, with about three grams per slice. Wild rice and brown rice have about three grams of fiber per cup. Whole-wheat pasta has about six grams of fiber per cup…
• Snack on popcorn, fruit or vegetables. Popcorn has a gram of fiber per one-cup portion. Get two grams from a small banana, three from a medium apple with the skin or a half-cup of cooked broccoli.
• Sip bean soup. At about 17 grams of fiber per cup, beans, lentils and legumes are also high in protein and rich in complex carbohydrates, which helps keep hunger at bay. Bean dips are another good option.

Breakfast was a bowl of cereal and a glass of orange juice. I weighed in at 160 pounds. I was hoping for an instant that I would break that barrier. <a href="http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/m/h/mhl100/2003_11_01_journal.html#id106901106645625479" title="Easy as Apple Pie">As you may recall</a>, I said I chose a target weight of 155 pounds knowing that I would probably give up when I reached 160. Well, I am there now, and I  would like to prove myself wrong by breaking the 160 pound barrier. I guess that will have to <em>weight</em> for another day. <img src="http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/m/h/mhl100/images/wink.png" height="18" width="18" alt=";-)" />



<ins datetime="2003-12-09T13:32:00-05:00">I had a <a href="http://www.naturevalley.com/Products2.htm" title="Welcome to Nature Valley: Products">Nature Valley Oats &rsquo;N Honey Crunchy Granola Bar</a> for lunch before my walk &mdash; about three miles.</ins>

<ins datetime="2003-12-09T19:04:00-05:00">We had some of our own chili, a small salad, and two <a href="http://www.sierra-nevada.com/beers/celebrationale.html" title="Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale">Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale</a>s for dinner. Gretchen made the chili at the beginning of October, using the last of our garden tomatoes, and froze it.</ins>

Martha had <a href="http://www.foodtv.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_22594,00.html" title="Food Network: Techniques-Miscellaneous">James Peterson</a> on tonight. He showed some neat&sup1; techniques. This one shows how he makes a quick brown sauce:

Sauteing is an excellent way to cook steaks. The high heat forms a savory crust on the outside of the meat, and the meat is able to cook quickly enough that it stays moist and juicy. An added advantage of sauteing steaks is that it gives you caramelized juices that can be deglazed with a variety of liquids and slightly thickened to make a quick pan sauce.

Pour out and discard the fat from the pan skillet in which you have cooked a steak. Pour about ½ cup liquid — such as stock or wine into the hot pan. Scrape the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon to dissolve the caramelized juices. Reduce the wine until only a few tablespoons remain. Add beef or brown chicken stock and reduce again until the sauce is lightly syrupy. Swirl in butter until the sauce is thickened to a desired consistency. Spoon sauce over meat or pass in a sauce boat at the table.

¹ I was going to try to find an acronym for “neat,” since originally I was thinking in terms of the “cool” definition of neat. In the process, I was reminded of the “free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful;” definition, and changed my mind about replacing it.

You are Charles VI of France, also known as Charles the Mad or Charles the Well-Beloved!

A fine, amiable and dreamy young man, skilled in horsemanship and archery, you were also from a long line of dribbling madmen. King at 12 and quickly married to your sweetheart, Bavarian Princess Isabeau, you enjoyed many happy months together before either of you could speak anything of the other’s language. However, after illness you became a tad unstable. When a raving lunatic ran up to your entourage spouting an incoherent prophecy of doom, you were unsettled enough to slaughter four of your best men when a page dropped a lance. Your hair and nails fell out. At a royal masquerade, you and your courtiers dressed as wild men, ending in tragedy when four of them accidentally caught fire and burned to death. You were saved by the timely intervention of the Duchess of Berry’s underskirts.

This brought on another bout of sickness, which surgeons countered by drilling holes in your skull. The following months saw you suffer an exorcism, beg your friends to kill you, go into hyperactive fits of gaiety, run through your rooms to the point of exhaustion, hide from imaginary assassins, claim your name was Georges, deny that you were King and fail to recognise your family. You smashed furniture and wet yourself at regular intervals. Passing briefly into erratic genius, you believed yourself to be made of glass and demanded iron rods in your attire to prevent you breaking.

In 1405 you stopped bathing, shaving or changing your clothes. This went on until several men were hired to blacken their faces, hide, jump out and shout ‘boo!’, upon which you resumed basic hygiene. Despite this, your wife continued sleeping with you until 1407, when she hired a young beauty, Odette de Champdivers, to take her place. Isabeau then consoled herself, as it were, with your brother. Her lovers followed thick and fast while you became a pawn of your court, until you had her latest beau strangled and drowned.

A severe fever was fended off with oranges and pomegranates in vast quantities, but you succumbed again in 1422 and died. Your disease was most likely hereditary. Unfortunately, you had anywhere up to eleven children, who variously went on to develop capriciousness, great cruelty, insecurity, paranoia, revulsion towards food and, in one case, a phobia of bridges. [Goodyear]

<a href="http://www.rumandmonkey.com/articles/bio.php?authorid=2" title="Satire - Author Bio">Goodyear, Owen</a>. &ldquo;<a href="http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/tests/lunatics/" title="Rum and Monkey : Satire, personality tests and web toys">Which Historical Lunatic Are You?</a>&rdquo; <i><a href="http://rumandmonkey.com/" title="Rum and Monkey : Satire, personality tests and web toys">Rum and Monkey</a></i>. 2003. <a href="http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/tests/lunatics/" title="Rum and Monkey : Satire, personality tests and web toys">&lt;http:// rumandmonkey.com/ widgets/ tests/ lunatics/&gt;</a> (8 December 2003).

Breakfast this morning was cold cereal and a glass of orange juice. I weighed in at 161 pounds.



<ins datetime="2003-12-08T14:38:00-05:00">I walked over to the Telecommunications Building and back this morning, then I walked to the HUB for lunch &mdash; all told, about four miles. I had a Panda Bowl of tofu with string beans, vegetables, steamed rice, and a fortune cookie.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-12-08T18:34:00-05:00">Dinner was homemade beef stew and a <a href="http://www.sierra-nevada.com/beers/celebrationale.html" title="Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale">Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale</a>.</ins>

We are going to continue our research on what to plant in our garden next year. Today we cover… 

Bell Peppers

• At 64 days, Gypsy is an early, exceptionally productive pepper. Its sweet, tasty, medium-thick walls make it ideal for use in salads or frying. Elongated 4- to 5-inch 3-lobed fruits can be used when yellow-green at early maturity, or left to ripen to orange-red. Plants are 18 to 20 inches tall and are tobacco mosaic virus resistant.
• King Arthur matures in 67 days. It is resistant to bacterial leaf spot, tobacco mosaic virus, potato virus Y, and tobacco etch virus. Dwarf plants provide leaf cover for jumbo 4½-inch square green and red fruit.
• Jupiter¹ matures in 70 days, making it the earliest nonhybrid bell. It is tobacco mosaic virus resistant. Matures in mid-season with abundant yields of large, thick-walled fruit. It’s huge! Great for stuffing, freezing or fresh out of the garden.
• Bell Boy matures in 72 days. It is tobacco mosaic virus resistant. This excellent pepper is an old standard. It is considered one of the best all-purpose early bell peppers. Sturdy, vigorous plants bear a heavy crop of large, blocky, mostly 4 lobed peppers which can be used when a deep glossy green or left to turn bright red. Fruits are uniformly large, thick walled and fine quality.
• Big Bertha matures in 72 days. It is tobacco mosaic virus resistant. Glossy green to red fruit reach 7 inches long, with thick walls and a firm shape. The plants offer great coverage for the maturing fruit, and are vigorous all season.
• Valencia matures in 72 days. Resistant to bacterial leaf spot, tobacco mosaic virus, potato virus Y. Robust plants bear abundant quantities of 4½-inch square green to bright orange fruit with a symmetrical shape and thick walls that keep their firmness even when ripe.
• X-3R Wizard matures in 73 days, producing green to red fruit. It is resistant to bacterial leaf spot and tobacco mosaic virus.
• X-3R Camelot matures in 74 days. It is resistant to bacterial leaf spot and tobacco mosaic virus. It produces 4½-inch square green to red four lobed fruit with thick walls.

&sup1; Jupiter is <em>not</em> a hybrid

Breakfast this morning was scrambled eggs, hash brown potatoes, and a glass of orange juice. I weighed in at 161 pounds. Lunch was a <a href="http://www.sierra-nevada.com/beers/celebrationale.html" title="Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale">Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale</a>. Gretchen and I made French onion soup for dinner and accompanied it with another <a href="http://www.sierra-nevada.com/beers/celebrationale.html" title="Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale">Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale</a> and a half of an apple for dessert.