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security
A Guard buddy of mine and I found ourselves with some time to kill last weekend and ended up at the local mall. While wandering around we decided to check out a small independent computer store. It had some cool systems, and the usual accessories.
But what made us both laugh (IT security is part of our training after all) is that the clerk told us several times that we were welcome to check our email on their systems. Wow, thanks. Why don’t we just hand over our passwords to you and save you some time.
Surprisingly there were plenty of guys (and they were all guys) that were doing just that, plus playing WoW and other similar games.
My advice, if you can’t be certain of the security status of a system, don’t use it for things you don’t want people knowing about.
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Windows-Shell
Over the weekend I was talking about people not defragging their drives or running disk cleanup on their PCs very often. I am of the opinion that most people don’t for two reasons - either they don’t know how/don’t have permissions xor it is inconvenient to do it.
For those in the second camp, here’s a couple of quick tips to make it less painful.
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blogging
This month marks the third anniversary of LordKingSquirrel.com. In that time I’ve written just over 200 posts and have learned a lot about the craft of blogging. My first posts were, well, a little rough. I’d like to think that I’ve gotten better with time and have contributed to the “Interwebs”. So here’s a brief retrospective on the first three years:
My first post was more a little tentative and, I guess, a sort of rant.
Later, while still working at the Associated Colleges of Central Kansas, I began to experiment with Google Maps. That initial work really took off when I started at Sedgwick County in the GIS department. The result was the Equus Beds Google Map Project. It’s currently being rewritten, so doesn’t really work right now, but it’s been fun to work on. I used that data as an example to try the (then) new integration between Google Maps and Google Spreadsheets.
About that time I also discovered ArcWeb Public Services, and, with some encouragement from Jame Fee and code from Andrea Rosso, I put together some examples using PHP and SOAP to access ArcWeb. The result was a series of articles that managed to get picked up by a PHP news feed and resulted in a pretty big spike in readers.
I also have done a fair number of articles on the Windows Command Line and some interesting things that can be done with it. Those efforts have led to another small collection of articles on using the Windows Management Interface (WMI) and VBScript to do some interesting system management things. I hope to expand this in the future.
Of course these examples just scratch the surface. Thanks to everyone that has commented and provided private feedback. Here’s to another three years!
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humor
Well, it was a long weekend. We upgraded our ArcIMS servers (more on that some day perhaps) on Sunday and finished just in time to make it to a Super Bowl party. So rather that work on some sort of deep thoughtful post, here’s a little light humor for Monday.
I get a lot of emails that are simply forwards of some inane ramblings meant to be deep (hmmm, hopefully that’s not what I’m doing here). Often they are complete with frilly formatting and angry-fruit-salad color schemes. A while back on a forum I frequent I posited some email “laws”. So here’s the first one:
LKS’s Law of Redundant Repetitive Email
In general, the more times an unattributed story appears in your inbox, the less likely it is to be true.
Corollary: The greater the number of different formating styles that appear in a story the greater the likelihood of it being completely made up crap.
Corollary 2: The more derivative an email is, the more likely it is to be utter crap.
Corollary 3: Messages attributed to famous people are likely written by some anonymous Cretan living in their parent’s basement and thus utter crap.
Fell free to email these to all your friends.
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intelligence
I came across (via a listserv I’m on) the article “Spartans in Darkness: American SIGINT and the Indochina War, 1945-1975“.
A very interesting read, and, although redacted quite a bit in places, it gives a lot of good background on Signals Intelligence during Viet Nam.
