Memories

I was getting ready to sign up for some training at this year's SANSFIRE 2007 in Washington DC when I thought about my previous SANS GIAC certifications. I looked them up and they are still posted on-line. The memories!

Here is my first, probably not very good, practical for the GCFW certification.

And here is my second, hopefully better, practical for the GCUX certification.

It is funny how fast time flies and how much you can learn when you put your mind to it. I will hopefully be attending the SANSFIRE 2007 conference in Washington this year, though I am not going after a major certification. I am going to be taking an official SANS management class and three USENIX hosted training classes, two for Solaris (System Administration and Security) and one for system and network performance tunning. I am still mulling it over, but I am pretty sure this is what I am going to do.

Matthew

RHEL 5

It has been awhile since I have ran anything but WindowMaker on a Linux box. This weekend I installed RHEL 5 on my Dell Precision M65 and I decided to give GNOME a try. I am quite impressed with it so far. It has a Windows fell to it, but not to the point where it is merely trying to imitate it. The only thing I don't like so far is being able to Alt-Right Mouse Click to resize my xterms, but I will have to be ok.

Matthew

Mobile Phone Terms

Everyone around me has been talking about text messages, SMS messages, picture mail, picture messages, MMS messages, and so on. This has frustrated me a bit, so I have put together a small definition for the unique items.

SMS - Short Message Service: This is what is commonly referred to as a text message. The text message server is often referred to as a SMSC, for short message service center.

MMS - Multimedia Message Service: This is what is commonly referred to as a picture message. The picture mail server is often referred to as the MMSC for multimedia message service center.

Now that I have typed that out it seems obvious, but that is because you now know the difference.

One of the reasons I needed to make the distinctions is that I am learning how the OTAF (Over The Air Function) technology works. I just read that the SMDPP procotol sends SMS messages. One more sentence like that and I might lose it.

SMDPP - Short Message Delivery Point-to-Point Protocol: Designed to transmit the SMS (short message service) messages.

More to come I am sure.

Matthew

Office Templates

I rebuild my computer every once in awhile and there are some things you never remember to backup. One of those for me is any templates I have downloaded for Office. I had to go searching for the original template and I was able to find it by rating the my customized version. It sent me off to Office Online and gave me the name of the template I was about to rate. Here is the template I am referring to:

Five Day Event Schedule

I customized this one to make the Vlan and IP allocation spreadsheet at the last job and the current one. If you are interested in that spreadsheet, let me know.

I am about to customize it for keeping track of what I do each day. I used to be annoyed by having to keep track of my time, but now I realize the value when you have many people wanting your time. Of course, I am still annoyed by it.

Matthew

A Memento

I did some shopping after work today and one of my purchases came with this small memento.