Creeva’s World 2.0

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Work has always blocked social networks (ironically facebook always worked), but now in the days of internet applications, news sources, and social networks the distinction is getting blurred.    This is not a good thing.    I understand blocking users access to myspace (and facebook), but today the web blocking finally really interfered with me...... Read More

I sent out the following message in response to a strange email I got.  If you received the same email please leave a comment below so I can do a bit more follow up on this...... Read More

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Recently I’ve been put forth to design a kiosk solution for our internal environment.   This is the second part of my kiosk series which is going to examine testing and deployment of such a system.  To read the first section go to Part One - Choices For Your Environment...... Read More

Recently I’ve been put forth to design a kiosk solution for our internal environment.   This is the first part of my kiosk series which is going to examine testing and deployment of such a system...... Read More

This was a persuasion piece I wrote for work on how to quicker deployments and restores in the training lab.   It seems we had employees several times a week had hours of their time taken up by reloading PC’s in the training rooms or in the testing labs.   I wrote up this piece which is unfortunately light on detail (if you have questions post them here I’ll answer) for management to look at what we could do to script this solution out.   Because of work security requirements I did make some modification to the information listed here, I kept the changes to a minimum though.  I actually will be doing a follow up ot this article which will contain the reload scripts and technical nitty gritty.  My idea has been at least going so far as to be tested (I have VMware workstation on my work PC now). ..... Read More

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Lately we’ve had a security product at work that allows for secure end to end file sharing via NFS.  That is about the best thing I can say about NFS at this point.   For those not familiar with NFS wikipedia has this description:..... Read More

Most people in the technical field that have delved into cryptographic, public keys, or file authenticity has at one time or another at least heard of MD5. MD5 is a fingerprint that is unique to a file. It is that signature line that is included at most reputable Linux download site to make sure the file you downloaded is not corrupt. It is the thing that is the current bane of my existence...... Read More

So your company has a requirement to maintain log files for a year?..... Read More