IT Systems, Networks, Security and Education
Okay people in New Mexico listen up: NM Workforce Solutions has 60 (that’s SIXTY) full-ride financial aid openings for students in the four central counties of NM. That means *60* people can take the full A+, Network+ and Security+ certification series *free* including a stipend for rent and fees! Somebody here should grab this. IT …
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This ominous-sounding set of regulations is going to apply to a lot more businesses than they will expect. And they’re deep, and specific. Most organizations are going to be required to have a CISO, for instance, and that’ll be a bitter surprise to some. It’s likely that the responsibility will be loaded onto some existing …
The hottest certification org in Albuquerque: EC-Council’s Certified Incident Handler training is coming May 29th – 31st, 2019. See https://lnkd.in/ezAYtJf Lots of my students ask about more advanced certifications, which really means, which advanced topics to study. Interested in pen testing? Or being a CISO? Forensics? Or incident management? Things get very specialized once you’re …
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This is post 5 of 5 in the series “[ How to Teach Hacker Highschool ]” This is the fifth unit of my course for teachers, which brings together a lot of material I generated while working as Project Manager for the Hacker Highschool v2 Rewrite Project, 2012-2016. This session helps you get started with …
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This is post 4 of 5 in the series “[ How to Teach Hacker Highschool ]” This is the fourth unit of my course for teachers, which brings together a lot of material I generated while working as Project Manager for the Hacker Highschool v2 Rewrite Project, 2012-2016. This session helps you get started with …
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Bash is so powerful it scares me. It’s like Fred Flintstone riding a dinosaur to work: one false move and it’s gonna be mad destruction. So I love me some man pages. I also dig through the better online references. If you want man pages for a specific version of Ubuntu, nothing beats manpages.ubuntu.com. Check …
Virtual machines are great. They’re cool for testing operating systems, and let you deploy machines and add and remove applications and services. But they’re big and resource-intensive. Containers are the new kids. Think in terms of deploying a virtualized application, rather than a whole OS. The big names here are Docker and Kubernetes, with the …
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I recently worked on a migration from OpenVMS to Red Hat Linux, and spent some serious effort porting VMS DCL (Direct Command Line) scripts to Python and Bash. The long-time VMS people were completely unfamiliar with the Linux command line, so we went looking for some good online resources that mapped DCL to Bash. (See …
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This is post 30 of 30 in the series “Introduction to Python” This script is specific to operations moving from VMS to Linux, which requires migrating DCL scripts to Python scripts. #!/bin/bash # processDCL.sh # Glenn Norman 2018 # Uncomment these two lines to prompt for a script name. # This script assumes the …
This is post 29 of 30 in the series “Introduction to Python” Here’s a sample Python/Pexpect script, which is called by the bash script in the previous page. Note how the spawn function runs the command you supply as the argument, in this case “ftp ftp.ubuntu.com”. #!/usr/bin/python # Connects to a public ftp server, downloads …