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Fixing CVS annotate
Yes, some of us work on projects started almost a decade ago and as such we use CVS (yes, CVS has many limitations and yes, git is better – for a nice introduction see Randal Schwarz’s video about git), but migrating is not directly justifiable (it would involve: training IT staff to be able to…
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CBT Planet – PR Newswire
cbt planet recently announced their MCITP bootcamps for 2010. MCITP stands for Microsoft Certified IT Professional, and in good Microsoft tradition, it doesn’t stand for one certification, but rather a group of certifications. So we have (list taken from the Microsoft site): MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Administrator 7 MCITP: Consumer Support Technician MCITP: Enterprise Support Technician…
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cbt planet
The issue of certifications is a contentious one in the field of IT. On one hand there are the people who try to hire without having necessarily the expertise to judge the candidate (ie. HR). On the other hand there are the people who complain about the low quality of “certified” people. The best attitude…
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One more thing…
So, if I started ranting on Microsoft, here is one more thing: you should never ever use Microsoft servers if you want to scale. The reasons is simple: currently the best scaling method is horizontal (ie. buy loads of cheap hardware and distribute the load between them). Using Microsoft server software would mean that for…
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My opinion about Microsoft, software piracy and everything
This post is a response to a blogpost on tudor g’s blog about software piracy issues in Romania, and as such it might not be of interest to you, dear international reader. If this is the case, feel free to skip this post. Disclaimer: arguments are very emotional things. As much as we would like…
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Space Invaders Rulz!
Found this in the mall. While the quality is somewhat poor and I’m not quite sure that the proper license fees were paid for the images (“raiders invasion” ???), it is still fun.
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Two new challenges
Well, new for me at least… The first one is 0x41414141.com. Just go to the site and you can start directly. As far as I know, this is not time-bound. The second one is spargecoduasta.com (“break this code”). It is put up by BitDefender and I don’t know if it has a time limit. The…
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VoIPstreet Affiliate Program review
Branded affiliate programs are a great way to offer services to your clients which are not your core competency (for example you are web-design company but you would also like to offer hosting to your clients so that they have a one-stop-solution experience). This is what VoIPstreet Affiliate Program does for VoIP: you can resell…
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SMOG button removed!
Almost a year ago I added a SMOG button to each blogpost, which (in a more or less serious manner) evaluated the “reading level” needed to understand the blogpost. However, today the site used for this service came up with a warning from Google saying that it might be malicious. I’ve looked into it, and…
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ERR – Exponentially Expanding Rants
I’m expanding! Not only am I ranting on my own soap box (blog), now you can read my rants on other blogs as well: fudsec just published my Knowing Walls from Speed Bumps rant. Thank you! If you are fed up with FUD in the security industry, check out the site and went away! Who…