Category: education

6 November 2008

They’re Doing WHAT To The Electric Company?

Filed under: education, entertainment - 06 Nov 2008

Growing up, The Electric Company was one of my favorite shows. …

31 March 2008

11-Year Old Becomes Network Administrator For Private School

Filed under: education, security, software, windows, workplace - 31 Mar 2008

Jon PennWhen I was 11, which puts me in 6th grade, our school had a couple of Apple ][e’s in the library. There wasn’t any network connectivity to speak of, but I knew …

8 March 2008

The Academy: Video How-Tos On Network Security Products

Filed under: education, security - 08 Mar 2008

A friend of mine just sent me the following, which may be of interest to some of you:
The Academy (http://www.theacademy.ca) officially launches its web site today providing instructional videos for the information security community. For the first …

26 January 2008

Using Google As A Spell Checker

Filed under: education - 26 Jan 2008

WebstersUsing Google as a kind of a spell checker is great–if you know how to spell the word. Even the automated spell checkers in my browser don’t exactly …

15 September 2007

SupportSpace: Professional, Paid Community Support

Filed under: connectivity, education, voip - 15 Sep 2007

SupportSpaceSeveral months ago, I was contacted by an old friend from my days of supporting Check Point FireWall-1 about a new venture he was working on called SupportSpace. I eventually joined their …

20 May 2007

I Took My CISSP Exam Today

Filed under: education, security - 20 May 2007

I never thought in my life I would spend almost the entire allowed 6 hour time on the CISSP exam, but I did. And I was oddly zen about the whole experience. Sure, I was a little nervous when I …

26 April 2007

The Joys of Knowledge Management

Filed under: education - 26 Apr 2007

The person who usually doesn’t get what the kids or wife gets picked up a nasty cold from the daughter. My daughter handles it okay during the day, not so good at night. Hopefully, I can lapse into a drug-induced …

10 April 2007

A Tale of Two Online Classes

Filed under: education, mac, voip, windows - 10 Apr 2007

I am taking a couple of online classes: a CISSP Prep Class with Global Knowledge, and a Intrusion Detection class with SANS. Global Knowledge currently uses a tool from iLinc Communications to provide the class. SANS is …