ComputerWorld wrote today that information security jobs specifically those with “network security experience and government security clearances” will be a hot in 2006.
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Archive for December, 2005
Just in case any of you didn’t know, Ubuntu and Gnome will take over the world. Check out this amazing interview with Jeff Waugh, one of the developers for the Gnome and Ubuntu projects.
Jeff profiled some applications which I was really happy about. I used the first couple he mentioned (Beagle, Tomboy, F-Spot) but hadn’t heard of some of the others.
more later… just read the whole damn interview.
Now if only the Linux people would start naming their apps better….
For all of you that have had to listen to me whine for the past month or so about my hard drive problems, one final thing stopped me from fully recovering today. Copying the contents of one drive to another appears to be a very peculiar science. Permissions can easily get screwed up and when they do you won’t be able to boot into your system. What worked for me?
cd /mnt/old
sudo tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/new; tar vpxf -)
no
cd /mnt/old
sudo pax -rw . /mnt/new
no
sudo cp -pR /mnt/old /mnt/new
yes
figures
I know from experience that Plextor makes the best, most reliable optical drives but when I was buying a DVD/CD-RW combo drive for my desktop last year, I got an AOPEN for $40. Needless to say, cheap drives die fast. I’m replacing it with another Plextor.
CSAW is over and I won two prizes! I won 1st place in Forensics and, with Yan’s help, we won 4th place in the Quiz. Even Amanda got in on it and took 1st and 3rd in the Awareness Poster competition :-). I wrote two blurbs to advertise CSAW, one of which got published on poly.edu for a few days. Here are the relevant links:
- CSAW Blurb
- CSAW Press Release
- My Forensics Submission (WARNING: THIS CONTAINS VIRUS CODE)
- Amanda’s Poster Entries
Right now I’m doing a few things to keep me busy:
- Deploying an ERP/CRM solution for a small business
- Researching uber-secret yet-to-be-revealed network black ops
- Possible Information Security consulting for an unnamed company in Florida
- Learning XHTML + CSS
I’ve got some other little things here and there but for the most part, unless I get that job in Florida, it looks like I’m going to have a relaxing yet productive break. Though, when any of my friends are looking for me they should realize I have an apartment in Brooklyn now and won’t be able to come back to LI every day to hang out. What they should realize is that I’ll be 21 with my own apartment with spare sleeping arrangements… :-).
UPDATE: Almost forgot. I competed in UCSB iCTF again. We ended up taking 7th out of 22 internationally. We’re getting there. I think by next June when they have it again we’ll have gotten the system down pat and be able to win :-). Mike has some video of the competition (20 geeks hacking in a room crammed full of computers) which hopefully we’ll digitize and put on the web for you to laugh at.
