Category: education

  • Educational investment resource

    Yesterday I wrote about FORA.tv, and today I have an free other online educational resource for those who are interested for a reason or other in the world of finance / investment: the MarketPlace Whiteboard (found it via zero hedge). Here senior editor Paddy Hirsch explains with the help of a whiteboard (hence the name)…

  • FORA.tv

    I discovered FORA.tv just recently, but I’m already a huge fan. If you like TV channels like Discovery or National Geographic, you will certainly find something of interest here. What’s great: it’s free with very little and unobtrusive advertisement the programs are professionally recorded / postprocessed (no volume-to-low-to-hear problems here) link to individual parts of…

  • Does AV more harm than good?

    This article is one of the best description of the current situation that I’ve seen out there. Some of juicy bits: This comfort and confidence is the problem – if this user had learned the basics about how malware works and is spread, and been educated on the simple day-to-day activities which put them at…

  • Education

    I knew that that in Romanian schools you couldn’t get decent education, but it seems more and more that that this is a general truth, independent of your country: Web Development at WTFU An interview with Al Shugart

  • The state of affairs in Romanian education

    One of the regular podcasts I listen to is Casting From the Server Room. It’s guys who work in IT / SysAdmin jobs in the education (colleges, high-schools, etc). I usually listen for the technical content, but I can also catch a glimpse about the state of education in the US. Usually they complain, but…