RIT offers a degree in Networking, Security & Systems Administration as a 4 year undergrad. I just completed it after transferring in from a local community college with an Associates in CS. The content was challenging and the equipment/labs were a great asset. We have quite a few open houses if anyone wants to check out the program. The curriculum is pretty Cisco-heavy, but we have some Extreme equipment and McAfee just donated a pile of IDSs. The "hacking" classes are a lot of fun too. One class breaks the students up into 4 groups and pits them against each other to attack and defend a group of Windows and Linux systems. It's a no-holds-barred 10 weeks of learning the tools that we'll have to defend against as network architects and sys admins.
They've also just launched a new undergrad Network Security degree, and there's 2 graduate degrees - one in Networking/Sys Admin, and one in Information Assurance and Security.
I travel alot for work, and have a Dell C840 as my main PC at work. Here's some of my essentials:
1) Stickers all over the lid! (From thinkgeek, of course). This makes it more recognizable from all the other "dudes who got a Dell" at airport security. I imagine it also deters thiefs since it doesn't look as attractive
2) A good backpack/case. Targus makes some nice ones. Make sure it has good padding and sensible pockets. If you can run with it comfortably (Chicago terminals!), all the better.
3) Bunches of power adaptors! I have one on my dock at work, one on my dock at home, one in my bag for travel at a moments' notice and a Targus airline multi-adaptor. Use SeatGuru to determine which seats have power on your flight.
4) AV port cable. Has S-Video and RCAs
5) Headphone splitter. It's nice to share your DVDs with a travel partner or whomever may be sitting next to you on a flight
6) Crossover cable (short), Patch cable (long! for hotel rooms with crappy desks), wireless ethernet card.
7) USB keychain. Go big or go home.
8) At least 2 batteries, but that does make it heavy. I need 2 for transcon flights.
9) USB PDA Charger and sync cable. Power your PDA thru the USB slot! Brando has some cheap ones.
10) Media wallet with backups of essential software and essential personal backups. In the event of catastrophic failure on the road, could you buy a new HDD and rebuild your PC in time for that technology demo the next day? It's happened...
11) Notepad and pens. For when you have to go analog.
12) Travel mouse. They're great on flights, even though I prefer the keyboard
13) Small gamepad for playing MAME. Always a great conversation piece too!
I started looking into a replacement PVR solution when my DishNetwork sub ran up. My wife and I were hooked on the Dish501 PVR and hadn't watched TV bound to a schedule in more than a year. Our local cable provider (TW-Rochester) gave us a great deal on all the digital offerings with HBO @ 25.99/mo for 12 months. Sounded like a good idea. I went on board with their PVR "solution", the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000.
Has anyone else used one of these clearly beta units? Ack!
That lasted about 3 weeks. So I sat down and looked at our needs and our options:
- Two tuners (the only nice feature of the SA8000) - Intelligent recording options (record once/series/all) - Sufficient storage (enough to fit the entire Tour De France: 20 stages x 3hrs. That was our unit of measurement. YMMV) - Ability to record network channels (NBC/ABC/CBS/Fox) - HighDef is a nice-to-have
Options: - DirectTV with DirectTivo (No Rochester locals then) (~$550 for Series2 unit with big HD) - DishNetwork with the Dish921 (High Def! Have to lie to get Plattsburgh locals) ($1000+) - DishNetwork with the Dish721 (Have to lie to get Plattsburgh locals) ($500) - Time Warner with SA8000 (Ack!) ($5 + $9 rental/mo) - DIY box (???)
Wife gave the project a green light, and I bought the parts to build it. Motherboard with integrated LAN and VGA, $100; AthlonXP 1800+, $50; PVR250 Tuner cards, $130 x2; Wireless mouse & keyboard, $40. I already had a case and 120Gb drive.
It took a bit of work and a weekend to get it running the first time (Myth 0.11). Thanks so much to Jarod's guide. I tweaked it and broke some stuff about 3 weeks later, and rebuilt it. Only took 8 hrs that time.
Tweaked stuff again and broke it again. I should realize that it's a TV device, not a playtoy. This time I rebuilt it in 3 hrs. (That included restoring a backup of the programs saved on the HD.) ATRPMS with apt-get (thanks Axel) makes it a breeze.
It's been fine for the last month. It sits quietly mounted between floor joists in the basement crawlspace storage, where it is keep quite cool. As a bonus over Tivo, it has a picture gallery viewer of all the PCs in our house, it runs MAME and ZSnes, plays MP3s and shows the weather.
Thanks Issac and all the developers who put so much hardwork into a great project. Your efforts are very appreciated.
By the way: The best part about this being an open source, Linux based project? When there's a problem with the app and I'm not at home, I can ssh to it and fix it remotely. No more trying to explain things over the phone!
Readerware uses Amazon.com, Library of Congress, and several other sources to dish up info about the books, as well as a picture of the cover. It's surprised me on some of the books it can find - even a narrow circulation book published by the company I work for...
I bought "If Chins Could Kill" for my wife at a book signing in Syracuse, NY last month. The book tour is over now, but he still has one more appearance in Portland, OR on Dec 2nd. Check out the listings at http://www.brucecampbellbook.com/appearances.html
I have 2 palms, one each under separate profiles (m100 and PalmV for my wife and I). Running palm desktop 4.01. I did a scratch install of XP, and then installed palm desktop 4.01 from palm's website. I may have had to do it logged on as each different user... I don't quite remember. Then I installed Chapura's pocket mirror software from my PalmV CD under each user, and then I upgraded it to the 3.0 PocketMirror Professional. Works just fine.
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RIT offers a degree in Networking, Security & Systems Administration as a 4 year undergrad. I just completed it after transferring in from a local community college with an Associates in CS. The content was challenging and the equipment/labs were a great asset. We have quite a few open houses if anyone wants to check out the program. The curriculum is pretty Cisco-heavy, but we have some Extreme equipment and McAfee just donated a pile of IDSs. The "hacking" classes are a lot of fun too. One class breaks the students up into 4 groups and pits them against each other to attack and defend a group of Windows and Linux systems. It's a no-holds-barred 10 weeks of learning the tools that we'll have to defend against as network architects and sys admins.
They've also just launched a new undergrad Network Security degree, and there's 2 graduate degrees - one in Networking/Sys Admin, and one in Information Assurance and Security.
Obligatory link... nssa.rit.edu
Being able to ssh and kill a process that's died on your system at home, all from the comfort of a local tavern... that's priceless.
I travel alot for work, and have a Dell C840 as my main PC at work. Here's some of my essentials:
1) Stickers all over the lid! (From thinkgeek, of course). This makes it more recognizable from all the other "dudes who got a Dell" at airport security. I imagine it also deters thiefs since it doesn't look as attractive
2) A good backpack/case. Targus makes some nice ones. Make sure it has good padding and sensible pockets. If you can run with it comfortably (Chicago terminals!), all the better.
3) Bunches of power adaptors! I have one on my dock at work, one on my dock at home, one in my bag for travel at a moments' notice and a Targus airline multi-adaptor. Use SeatGuru to determine which seats have power on your flight.
4) AV port cable. Has S-Video and RCAs
5) Headphone splitter. It's nice to share your DVDs with a travel partner or whomever may be sitting next to you on a flight
6) Crossover cable (short), Patch cable (long! for hotel rooms with crappy desks), wireless ethernet card.
7) USB keychain. Go big or go home.
8) At least 2 batteries, but that does make it heavy. I need 2 for transcon flights.
9) USB PDA Charger and sync cable. Power your PDA thru the USB slot! Brando has some cheap ones.
10) Media wallet with backups of essential software and essential personal backups. In the event of catastrophic failure on the road, could you buy a new HDD and rebuild your PC in time for that technology demo the next day? It's happened...
11) Notepad and pens. For when you have to go analog.
12) Travel mouse. They're great on flights, even though I prefer the keyboard
13) Small gamepad for playing MAME. Always a great conversation piece too!
I started looking into a replacement PVR solution when my DishNetwork sub ran up. My wife and I were hooked on the Dish501 PVR and hadn't watched TV bound to a schedule in more than a year. Our local cable provider (TW-Rochester) gave us a great deal on all the digital offerings with HBO @ 25.99 /mo for 12 months. Sounded like a good idea. I went on board with their PVR "solution", the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000.
Has anyone else used one of these clearly beta units? Ack!
That lasted about 3 weeks. So I sat down and looked at our needs and our options:
- Two tuners (the only nice feature of the SA8000)
- Intelligent recording options (record once/series/all)
- Sufficient storage (enough to fit the entire Tour De France: 20 stages x 3hrs. That was our unit of measurement. YMMV)
- Ability to record network channels (NBC/ABC/CBS/Fox)
- HighDef is a nice-to-have
Options:
- DirectTV with DirectTivo (No Rochester locals then) (~$550 for Series2 unit with big HD)
- DishNetwork with the Dish921 (High Def! Have to lie to get Plattsburgh locals) ($1000+)
- DishNetwork with the Dish721 (Have to lie to get Plattsburgh locals) ($500)
- Time Warner with SA8000 (Ack!) ($5 + $9 rental/mo)
- DIY box (???)
Wife gave the project a green light, and I bought the parts to build it. Motherboard with integrated LAN and VGA, $100; AthlonXP 1800+, $50; PVR250 Tuner cards, $130 x2; Wireless mouse & keyboard, $40. I already had a case and 120Gb drive.
It took a bit of work and a weekend to get it running the first time (Myth 0.11). Thanks so much to Jarod's guide. I tweaked it and broke some stuff about 3 weeks later, and rebuilt it. Only took 8 hrs that time.
Tweaked stuff again and broke it again. I should realize that it's a TV device, not a playtoy. This time I rebuilt it in 3 hrs. (That included restoring a backup of the programs saved on the HD.) ATRPMS with apt-get (thanks Axel) makes it a breeze.
It's been fine for the last month. It sits quietly mounted between floor joists in the basement crawlspace storage, where it is keep quite cool. As a bonus over Tivo, it has a picture gallery viewer of all the PCs in our house, it runs MAME and ZSnes, plays MP3s and shows the weather.
Thanks Issac and all the developers who put so much hardwork into a great project. Your efforts are very appreciated.
By the way: The best part about this being an open source, Linux based project? When there's a problem with the app and I'm not at home, I can ssh to it and fix it remotely. No more trying to explain things over the phone!
Readerware uses Amazon.com, Library of Congress, and several other sources to dish up info about the books, as well as a picture of the cover. It's surprised me on some of the books it can find - even a narrow circulation book published by the company I work for...
http://www.readerware.com/
I bought "If Chins Could Kill" for my wife at a book signing in Syracuse, NY last month. The book tour is over now, but he still has one more appearance in Portland, OR on Dec 2nd. Check out the listings at http://www.brucecampbellbook.com/appearances.html
I have 2 palms, one each under separate profiles (m100 and PalmV for my wife and I). Running palm desktop 4.01. I did a scratch install of XP, and then installed palm desktop 4.01 from palm's website. I may have had to do it logged on as each different user... I don't quite remember. Then I installed Chapura's pocket mirror software from my PalmV CD under each user, and then I upgraded it to the 3.0 PocketMirror Professional. Works just fine.