My wife and I are 25, and found ourselves in a similar position when we first graduated. When I graduated and moved to take my job, I was so poor I actually ran out of gas and didn't have any money to fill up because I was waiting on my first paycheck.
We started a scholarship at our university to give $1,000 annually to support college students who were student teaching and participating in internships. My wife and I both struggled financially through our experiences, but they provided us with the foundation to land our current jobs. We decided to give back to those who were going through similar times.
The real eye opening thing for me was getting a year-end bonus check larger than my total annual wage at the university. I had no excuse not to give back. Since that time, we have seen at least 5 other young couples from our school who followed our lead. That has been the most rewarding part.
We chose to support kids and college students. Many of them need the help.
You are on the right track - except for expecting them to terminate the phone Cat 5E in a convenient place. I have thought of using this, but the way they terminated the cables (to the best of my knowledge) will not make this feasible. I do intend to do a little more digging to see if this would be practical or not (or, if I could use the phone lines to fish Cat 6 and re-do it.
You are correct about utilization - it isn't practical right now to use the full connection. It is mainly a curiosity - if I wanted to use the full connection, are there any innovations or alternatives available which I hadn't thought of?
I'll be sure to report back once we're in and everything is set up. It should be a great opportunity to experiment.
Thanks for the input. I'm a former networking guy, still working in development/IT related business. I posted the question to generate some discussion about alternatives or innovations that I may not be aware of. Slashdot is the best resource for expert discussion, and I can appreciate a little shit talk from the crowd while that discussion happens.
I am mainly curious, if I did have a need to use the full gig pipe (which I don't in the immediate future) how I could achieve it. It is more of a curiosity than a necessity. I plan to tinker with it quite a bit to see what I can get it to do. Obviously, there is no practical use for a gig symmetrical right now, but the fact that I have it gives me an opportunity to experiment a bit.
Moving the jack could be an option. The reason it is in such a bad location is they put it in the cutout above the fireplace, where a TV is supposed to go (if I were to build the house, I'd tell them not to have a cutout for a TV, because who wants a TV over the fireplace?) Getting inside wires up to where the router is not going to be an easy task.
The home is wired with Cat 5E for landlines. I have considered cutting those and trying to wire them to a switch, but am not confident this is the best quality stuff. Hiring an electrician might also be an option to distribute Cat 6. It would future-proof the house, at least.
Definitely understand this. I was mainly interested in seeing if there were any innovative ways to distribute gig internally that I hadn't thought of. I'd be interested in having someone wire Cat 6 if they could do it without tearing up the walls. I used to be an IT contractor/consultant for public schools, and I had more than one nightmare with inside wiring.
In short, I don't expect to need it right away. It is just an interesting technical challenge where the wireless is a bottleneck. The most I see myself using at the current point in time is about 100mbps when I am downloading backups from my VPS, which has a 100mbps pipe.
I tend to agree with your statement. It is hard for me to describe just how bad of a location the fiber jack is in - it is in a place where it is impossible for me to fish from. I have considered wiring up a switch in another location, but I'm not sure how exactly I would get the wires fished where I need them to go.
For what it is worth, I am also considering having Google move the fiber jack if they will let me pay them to do it.
Appreciate this response. I've grown very tired of my apartment complex's saturated wireless spectrum (both 2.4 and 5) because everyone is right on top of each other and every apartment has one of three routers from the different ISP options. Even when I wire up, the connections still suck because the lines going out are saturated. It is a terrible experience.
Google Fiber availability in the new house (pre-installed) was a big plus. I just wish things were wired a little differently to make it more accessible.
This is part of a standard notice on.gov/.mil sites:
"This is a protected U.S. government web site and should be accessed by authorized users only. To intentionally cause damage to this website, or to any [agency] electronic facility or data through the knowing transmission of any program, information, code, or command is unlawful.
This system and related equipment are subject to monitoring. Information regarding users may be obtained and disclosed to authorized personnel, including law enforcement authorities, for official purposes. Access to or use of this Web site constitutes consent to these terms."
I can't think of a faster way to send more development jobs to China/India than to unionize. Globalization largely blocks the benefit of unionizing in our industry, whether you are for or against unions is beside the point.
Companies that hire here value a level of service and language skill as a cost of doing business. You start reducing the cost-benefit of that relationship, and they will start shipping more jobs overseas.
These guys were targeting primarily older users. They called my parents at least 5 times telling them they could tell there were viruses on their machine and that if they didn't pay the fee, the computer would stop working. My mother asked me what she should do, and I told her to get a contact number so she could forward to the Kansas Attorney General.
Phone call went like this:
"Can I get your number so I can send it to the Kansas Attorney General for investigation?"
"What?"
"I need your number so I can send it to the AG."
[someone in the background] "HANG UP! HANG UP NOW!"
Steve Jobs must be turning in his grave. It sounds like Mr. Cook failed to learn from Mr. Job's demand for perfection before release. I guess this could be like iPhone v1 not having the copy and paste feature at product launch. Eventually, I wonder if people will get sick of dealing with this kind of attitude from Apple? I did - a long time ago.
Cliff-
I'm another person who has you to thank for getting me into the security field through your book. I'm 21 now, just getting ready to finish up my undergrad in Information Assurance. I was working as a web developer at an internet security firm in high school when my boss, an old Unix hacker, suggested your book to me. It got me hooked and I haven't ever looked back.
Appreciate your insight into Mr. Morris's life. He laid the foundation for all of us.
Thanks for jumping in.
Tyler
Take a look at the Department of Informatics at Fort Hays State University - you can take all of the courses (at both undergrad and graduate level) online to complete a degree. It is not one of those curriculum sets you can just ace - it is a challenging set of courses which encompass internetworking, web development, media studies, and information assurance. You can pick your specific concentration, but you will still get to see a little bit of everything.
This is one of the best programs in the country for updated networking and web curriculum. It is both a Cisco Networking Academy and an NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance. You can work toward you CCNA/CCNP/CISSP if that is the direction you'd like to take, or you can work toward an advanced degree in web development.
I know these classes are quality because I have taken them - the internetworking series of classes were the most difficult classes I have ever taken. I loved the challenge and the connections you gain with classmates from around the world are invaluable.
http://www.fhsu.edu/informatics/
Thanks for posting and good luck!
I think you forget that the government just declassified portions of COMINT and SIGINT documents dating back to 1933. These documents were the precursor to the NSA run by the US Army Signal Corps. In the case of cryptographic information, 25 years is an awfully short period. I found many of the documents that were declassified from '33 to contain tons of extremely interesting and historically valuable information.
Oh, we were quite serious. And look for a picture of us handing them a $100 check coming on the site in the next week or so. Enough is sometimes enough, especially when these people abuse our staff.
Whatever you do, do not accept stock options. Take the cold hard cash - it has real value. I've seen too many small startups get screwed when their genius product was bought out and then the company that bought it went under. Suddenly, they sold the rights to their product for... nothing.
Take cash. Upfront.
As an 18 year old, I can recommend the Jedi Apprentice series by Jude Watson. They are absolutely fantastic books to start with and can really get thought patterns down. Once they are comfortable reading that, and if they enjoy it, move them into Mathew Stover's writing. It is absolutely dark and political, but it is also amazing at getting someone to understand themselves and controlling their emotions. Although it is fiction, Stover really gets down to the fundamental level of human nature, and they will be valuable lessons to know growing up.
I have done a significant amount of research into the idea of Information Warfare on an international scale.
First off, the government has been shown to have numerous points of entry to their networks, which would be a problem. Also, the number of agency setups are so diverse, will the CyberCommand provide a strict set of guidelines for all equipment used on the network? It seems rather risky to me that there is such a variety of hardware used by all the different agencies in the government. A standardization of network and computer equipment would be a vital task, and I would say the CC would have a unique opportunity - and responsibility - to define these standards and enforce them.
Secondly, the nature of information warfare shows that there are blurred boundaries between military and civilian attacks, and where the DOD has jurisdiction to operate. I believe in order to protect the critical national infrastructure, the CC would operate domestically as well as abroad to prevent catastrophic network failure in any of the critical infrastructure. How do you view these gaps in traditional military wisdom?
Thirdly, I am a 17 year old student in Kansas. I have been programming as a job for around two years, working at a company that does internet security. I will be getting a degree from Fort Hays State University (hopefully in four years) in Information Networking Telecommunications with an emphasis on Advanced Networking and Information Assurance. What exactly would I need to learn or look into in the future that could be useful to the CyberCommand? I am extremely interested in participating in the Command - as long as the two year relocation standard is *not* enforced.
Lastly, we have been provided very sketchy details about the job descriptions for positions in the cyber command. I assume network engineers, software engineers, information security analysts, and other technical positions will be needed. Can you provide a brief overview of the positions you are interested in filling for your Cyber Command, and what they would be doing?
My father is an instructor at FlightSafety International - one of the most well-respected flight training centers in the world - and teaches on Piston model Beech / Ratheon aircraft. Pilots in the jet programs are - and have been for years - trained in simulators only. The simulators are so realistic that a corporate jet license does not even require that the pilot have been in a jet, as long as the proper training was conducted in a simulator. I'm not talking about 747s or stuff like that, I am talking about Citations, and King Airs. (small airplanes, in my opinion.)
The reason is: jets are WAY too expensive to operate to have training done in them.
The reason Creative is in trouble is because the Ipods sell TONS more, because kids see an Ipod, and they want an Ipod themselves. They don't want a 'cheaper' Creative model. Hell, my Palm does 10x more than an Ipod, and I still hear "Well, my Ipod is cooler!"
Kids do not care about functionality or price, they care about what is cool. Trust me on this - I see it every day.
Honestly, I'm just sick of companies wasting money suing each other. Maybe if they would waste the money in their business, we wouldn't have all the outsourcing we do today. Does that make sense? I think it does.
I am a manager at PCMech [pcmech.com], and we recently published a very straightforward, windows-user-friendly install and transition guide for Ubuntu Linux. This guide has gotten thousands of hits in just a few weeks, and the author has gotten more than 100 responses to it.
The reason it works is that the guide is not so technical that you have to be a linux user to install it. That's a big problem out there - guides assume you know what you are doing.
We got one person who complained that he didn't try and build on the wiki, instead writing something of personal interest instead of helping the community. Really, what they are doing is *hurting* the community by not making such resources availible.
The guides can be found here:
http://www.pcmech.com/show//903/ [unbuntu install guide
http://pcmech.com/show/os/917/ [windows to linux transition guide]
Being from Kansas, I figured I should post my two cents on the matter. I'm currently enrolled in the 10th Grade of a High School near Wichita.
It boils down to the separation of Church and State, in my opinion. If we are a secular country, which we are supposed to be (however, I know that we were founded on Christian principles, which I adhere to), then science should be taught from a pure science perspective. In the context of the issue, I don't see a problem with them pointing out that evolution is just a theory and that theories are always challenged. I think they should push for further exploration of the matter.
If you don't want your kid to learn about evolution, quit your bitching, pay the big bucks and send them to a Christian private school!
Is it really that difficult? If you don't like how public schools teach, send your kid to a private school!
So, I think the whole thing is being blown out of proportion. Politics and education just don't mix...
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My wife and I are 25, and found ourselves in a similar position when we first graduated. When I graduated and moved to take my job, I was so poor I actually ran out of gas and didn't have any money to fill up because I was waiting on my first paycheck.
We started a scholarship at our university to give $1,000 annually to support college students who were student teaching and participating in internships. My wife and I both struggled financially through our experiences, but they provided us with the foundation to land our current jobs. We decided to give back to those who were going through similar times.
The real eye opening thing for me was getting a year-end bonus check larger than my total annual wage at the university. I had no excuse not to give back. Since that time, we have seen at least 5 other young couples from our school who followed our lead. That has been the most rewarding part.
We chose to support kids and college students. Many of them need the help.
You are on the right track - except for expecting them to terminate the phone Cat 5E in a convenient place. I have thought of using this, but the way they terminated the cables (to the best of my knowledge) will not make this feasible. I do intend to do a little more digging to see if this would be practical or not (or, if I could use the phone lines to fish Cat 6 and re-do it.
Thanks for the input.
You are correct about utilization - it isn't practical right now to use the full connection. It is mainly a curiosity - if I wanted to use the full connection, are there any innovations or alternatives available which I hadn't thought of?
I'll be sure to report back once we're in and everything is set up. It should be a great opportunity to experiment.
Thanks for the input. I'm a former networking guy, still working in development/IT related business. I posted the question to generate some discussion about alternatives or innovations that I may not be aware of. Slashdot is the best resource for expert discussion, and I can appreciate a little shit talk from the crowd while that discussion happens.
I am mainly curious, if I did have a need to use the full gig pipe (which I don't in the immediate future) how I could achieve it. It is more of a curiosity than a necessity. I plan to tinker with it quite a bit to see what I can get it to do. Obviously, there is no practical use for a gig symmetrical right now, but the fact that I have it gives me an opportunity to experiment a bit.
Moving the jack could be an option. The reason it is in such a bad location is they put it in the cutout above the fireplace, where a TV is supposed to go (if I were to build the house, I'd tell them not to have a cutout for a TV, because who wants a TV over the fireplace?) Getting inside wires up to where the router is not going to be an easy task.
The home is wired with Cat 5E for landlines. I have considered cutting those and trying to wire them to a switch, but am not confident this is the best quality stuff. Hiring an electrician might also be an option to distribute Cat 6. It would future-proof the house, at least.
Definitely understand this. I was mainly interested in seeing if there were any innovative ways to distribute gig internally that I hadn't thought of. I'd be interested in having someone wire Cat 6 if they could do it without tearing up the walls. I used to be an IT contractor/consultant for public schools, and I had more than one nightmare with inside wiring.
In short, I don't expect to need it right away. It is just an interesting technical challenge where the wireless is a bottleneck. The most I see myself using at the current point in time is about 100mbps when I am downloading backups from my VPS, which has a 100mbps pipe.
I tend to agree with your statement. It is hard for me to describe just how bad of a location the fiber jack is in - it is in a place where it is impossible for me to fish from. I have considered wiring up a switch in another location, but I'm not sure how exactly I would get the wires fished where I need them to go.
For what it is worth, I am also considering having Google move the fiber jack if they will let me pay them to do it.
Appreciate this response. I've grown very tired of my apartment complex's saturated wireless spectrum (both 2.4 and 5) because everyone is right on top of each other and every apartment has one of three routers from the different ISP options. Even when I wire up, the connections still suck because the lines going out are saturated. It is a terrible experience.
Google Fiber availability in the new house (pre-installed) was a big plus. I just wish things were wired a little differently to make it more accessible.
This is part of a standard notice on .gov/.mil sites:
"This is a protected U.S. government web site and should be accessed by authorized users only. To intentionally cause damage to this website, or to any [agency] electronic facility or data through the knowing transmission of any program, information, code, or command is unlawful.
This system and related equipment are subject to monitoring. Information regarding users may be obtained and disclosed to authorized personnel, including law enforcement authorities, for official purposes. Access to or use of this Web site constitutes consent to these terms."
I can't think of a faster way to send more development jobs to China/India than to unionize. Globalization largely blocks the benefit of unionizing in our industry, whether you are for or against unions is beside the point.
Companies that hire here value a level of service and language skill as a cost of doing business. You start reducing the cost-benefit of that relationship, and they will start shipping more jobs overseas.
These guys were targeting primarily older users. They called my parents at least 5 times telling them they could tell there were viruses on their machine and that if they didn't pay the fee, the computer would stop working. My mother asked me what she should do, and I told her to get a contact number so she could forward to the Kansas Attorney General.
Phone call went like this:
"Can I get your number so I can send it to the Kansas Attorney General for investigation?"
"What?"
"I need your number so I can send it to the AG."
[someone in the background] "HANG UP! HANG UP NOW!"
Never called back. Problem solved.
Steve Jobs must be turning in his grave. It sounds like Mr. Cook failed to learn from Mr. Job's demand for perfection before release. I guess this could be like iPhone v1 not having the copy and paste feature at product launch. Eventually, I wonder if people will get sick of dealing with this kind of attitude from Apple? I did - a long time ago.
Cliff- I'm another person who has you to thank for getting me into the security field through your book. I'm 21 now, just getting ready to finish up my undergrad in Information Assurance. I was working as a web developer at an internet security firm in high school when my boss, an old Unix hacker, suggested your book to me. It got me hooked and I haven't ever looked back. Appreciate your insight into Mr. Morris's life. He laid the foundation for all of us. Thanks for jumping in. Tyler
Take a look at the Department of Informatics at Fort Hays State University - you can take all of the courses (at both undergrad and graduate level) online to complete a degree. It is not one of those curriculum sets you can just ace - it is a challenging set of courses which encompass internetworking, web development, media studies, and information assurance. You can pick your specific concentration, but you will still get to see a little bit of everything. This is one of the best programs in the country for updated networking and web curriculum. It is both a Cisco Networking Academy and an NSA Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance. You can work toward you CCNA/CCNP/CISSP if that is the direction you'd like to take, or you can work toward an advanced degree in web development. I know these classes are quality because I have taken them - the internetworking series of classes were the most difficult classes I have ever taken. I loved the challenge and the connections you gain with classmates from around the world are invaluable. http://www.fhsu.edu/informatics/ Thanks for posting and good luck!
I think you forget that the government just declassified portions of COMINT and SIGINT documents dating back to 1933. These documents were the precursor to the NSA run by the US Army Signal Corps. In the case of cryptographic information, 25 years is an awfully short period. I found many of the documents that were declassified from '33 to contain tons of extremely interesting and historically valuable information.
Oh, we were quite serious. And look for a picture of us handing them a $100 check coming on the site in the next week or so. Enough is sometimes enough, especially when these people abuse our staff.
Whatever you do, do not accept stock options. Take the cold hard cash - it has real value. I've seen too many small startups get screwed when their genius product was bought out and then the company that bought it went under. Suddenly, they sold the rights to their product for... nothing. Take cash. Upfront.
As an 18 year old, I can recommend the Jedi Apprentice series by Jude Watson. They are absolutely fantastic books to start with and can really get thought patterns down. Once they are comfortable reading that, and if they enjoy it, move them into Mathew Stover's writing. It is absolutely dark and political, but it is also amazing at getting someone to understand themselves and controlling their emotions. Although it is fiction, Stover really gets down to the fundamental level of human nature, and they will be valuable lessons to know growing up.
I have done a significant amount of research into the idea of Information Warfare on an international scale.
First off, the government has been shown to have numerous points of entry to their networks, which would be a problem. Also, the number of agency setups are so diverse, will the CyberCommand provide a strict set of guidelines for all equipment used on the network? It seems rather risky to me that there is such a variety of hardware used by all the different agencies in the government. A standardization of network and computer equipment would be a vital task, and I would say the CC would have a unique opportunity - and responsibility - to define these standards and enforce them.
Secondly, the nature of information warfare shows that there are blurred boundaries between military and civilian attacks, and where the DOD has jurisdiction to operate. I believe in order to protect the critical national infrastructure, the CC would operate domestically as well as abroad to prevent catastrophic network failure in any of the critical infrastructure. How do you view these gaps in traditional military wisdom?
Thirdly, I am a 17 year old student in Kansas. I have been programming as a job for around two years, working at a company that does internet security. I will be getting a degree from Fort Hays State University (hopefully in four years) in Information Networking Telecommunications with an emphasis on Advanced Networking and Information Assurance. What exactly would I need to learn or look into in the future that could be useful to the CyberCommand? I am extremely interested in participating in the Command - as long as the two year relocation standard is *not* enforced.
Lastly, we have been provided very sketchy details about the job descriptions for positions in the cyber command. I assume network engineers, software engineers, information security analysts, and other technical positions will be needed. Can you provide a brief overview of the positions you are interested in filling for your Cyber Command, and what they would be doing?
Thank you for your time,
Tyler A. Thompson
My father is an instructor at FlightSafety International - one of the most well-respected flight training centers in the world - and teaches on Piston model Beech / Ratheon aircraft. Pilots in the jet programs are - and have been for years - trained in simulators only. The simulators are so realistic that a corporate jet license does not even require that the pilot have been in a jet, as long as the proper training was conducted in a simulator. I'm not talking about 747s or stuff like that, I am talking about Citations, and King Airs. (small airplanes, in my opinion.)
The reason is: jets are WAY too expensive to operate to have training done in them.
Maybe this guy should stick to what his University has in its name: READING. Keep out of my math textbook, please!
Maybe we can use this system to alert cops over at the local donut shop that they actually have something going on.
Oh wait, I bet they'd be too lazy to leave. A system doesn't do any good without people who would care. I don't see it being implemented.
Is anyone else sick of all this crap?
The reason Creative is in trouble is because the Ipods sell TONS more, because kids see an Ipod, and they want an Ipod themselves. They don't want a 'cheaper' Creative model. Hell, my Palm does 10x more than an Ipod, and I still hear "Well, my Ipod is cooler!"
Kids do not care about functionality or price, they care about what is cool. Trust me on this - I see it every day.
Honestly, I'm just sick of companies wasting money suing each other. Maybe if they would waste the money in their business, we wouldn't have all the outsourcing we do today. Does that make sense? I think it does.
I am a manager at PCMech [pcmech.com], and we recently published a very straightforward, windows-user-friendly install and transition guide for Ubuntu Linux. This guide has gotten thousands of hits in just a few weeks, and the author has gotten more than 100 responses to it. The reason it works is that the guide is not so technical that you have to be a linux user to install it. That's a big problem out there - guides assume you know what you are doing. We got one person who complained that he didn't try and build on the wiki, instead writing something of personal interest instead of helping the community. Really, what they are doing is *hurting* the community by not making such resources availible. The guides can be found here: http://www.pcmech.com/show//903/ [unbuntu install guide http://pcmech.com/show/os/917/ [windows to linux transition guide]
It boils down to the separation of Church and State, in my opinion. If we are a secular country, which we are supposed to be (however, I know that we were founded on Christian principles, which I adhere to), then science should be taught from a pure science perspective. In the context of the issue, I don't see a problem with them pointing out that evolution is just a theory and that theories are always challenged. I think they should push for further exploration of the matter.
If you don't want your kid to learn about evolution, quit your bitching, pay the big bucks and send them to a Christian private school!
Is it really that difficult? If you don't like how public schools teach, send your kid to a private school!
So, I think the whole thing is being blown out of proportion. Politics and education just don't mix...