I am currently deep diving into the whole TrustSec architecture. It has quickly become apparent to me, that i need to lab alot of this out in detail. That means upgrading my homelab with a 3650 switch as well as a refurbished laptop for acting as the supplicant for Dot1x operations.
[Read More]Dropped Lab Date
Today I made the decision to drop my next lab date for the CCIE Security V6 lab exam.
Why?
Im simply not ready for another attempt yet and im not sure im going to be ready for the V6 before they transition to V7.
[Read More]Invest in Yourself
Hi Folks,
I wanted to take a few moments to share an idea I learned way back. Its very simple, because its the simple of act of “investing in yourself”.
What I mean by that is, that you should set aside some amount of $$$ each year and use that to further educate yourself in a suitable area.
[Read More]A quote from an Ex-Googler
I really like this paragraph, because almost everyone wants to imitate google. Why? well, the answer to that questions seems to be what everyone is missing!
Google’s solutions were built for scale that basically doesn’t exist outside of a maybe a handful of companies with a trillion dollar valuation. It’s foolish to assume that their solutions are better. They’re just more scalable. But they are actually very feature-poor. There’s a tradeoff there. We should not be imitating what Google did without thinking about why they did it. Sometimes the “whys” will apply to us, sometimes they won’t
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What I was thinking a while back..
This is cool, a p2p program based on real life trust.
Alliance is a program that everyone has seen before, but with a twist. Instead of searching everybody and their uncle’s stash of bits, you only search a much smaller circle of people whom you already trust. This makes it virtually impossible for the RIAA/MPAA/ to catch you in the act (if you were doing something illegal with the technology in the first place).
[Read More]Filesharing: Filesharing as a technology.
Filesharing, as I define it, is a way for people to share files with one and another.
Filesharing programs, are programs that enable people to do so.
The programming instructions which perform the transfer of bits from one computer to another is a technology.
[Read More]Quote to ponder about!
“we think a life without internet may be worse than one without money.” — Gizmodo