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How to prepare for the CISSP

Posted October 6, 2013 - 4:12 pm

The CISSP is a valuable certification, but it takes a lot more than just your many years of experience to prepare for it. You will likely have to learn about a lot of technology and processes that you’ve never worked with, some of it not especially current and all of it a lot less vendor-specific than you’ve ever imagined.
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6 must-have free downloads for your network

Posted October 4, 2013 - 2:51 pm

If you've got a small or medium-sized network and you need to manage it yourself, you're not alone. I've rounded up size great free network tools that make it much easier to handle and troubleshoot your network.
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Top 10 productivity tips for iOS 7

Posted October 2, 2013 - 2:16 pm

Want to get more out of iOS 7? I've got ten tips to make you more productive on it immediately.
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Apps to power up and cash in on your personal brand

Posted September 30, 2013 - 2:00 pm

Whether you work in a company or by yourself, you're a brand, not just a person, and that brand has value. Here are apps and Web sites you can use to increase its value and cash in on it.
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Unix: When pipes get names

Posted September 29, 2013 - 3:09 pm

Oh, Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling. But if you want to call them back, you need to give them names.
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How to use Touch ID on the iPhone 5s (and when it won't work)

Posted September 25, 2013 - 1:32 pm

If you picked up a new iPhone 5s this weekend or are awaiting one in the mail, you're probably aware of Apple's new Touch ID feature, which is built into the iPhone 5s's Home button. In case you haven't yet set it up, however, here's a primer on how to do so (and when you'll have to fall back to your passcode).
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10 tips to prepare for a video job interview

Posted September 24, 2013 - 3:26 pm

Video interviews, while not new, are becoming an increasingly mainstream option in IT as companies look for ways to shorten the hiring cycle and lower costs.
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Who needs Microsoft Office? 7 great free office suites for PCs, Macs, iOS and Android

Posted September 23, 2013 - 2:17 pm

Microsoft is being coy about when and if it will release Office for the iPad and Android tablets. Why wait? Here are seven free office suites for the a PC, Mac, iPad or Android device you can use right now.
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How to parse URLs, hash tags, and more from a tweet

Posted September 18, 2013 - 12:00 am

Tweets come with all kinds of actionable elements inside them these days. Shortened URL’s, #hashtags, @replies, and the actual message body. When you’re consuming a list of tweets, it’s important to be able to parse out these elements from the plain text so that they can be made into hyperlinks and directed at the proper location.
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Unix: Tracking disk space usage

Posted September 16, 2013 - 4:43 pm

No matter how much disk space you add to a system, sooner or later you're going to run short. But watching disk space get slowly used up is a lot like watching grass grow. How do you avoid a disk space crisis and avoid being lulled into a data stupor?
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How to hide apps you never use on an Android phone

Posted September 13, 2013 - 5:31 pm

Not everything on your phone gets used, but you have to scroll past everything. Here's how to hide the stuff you don't need.
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How to protect your Wi-Fi network from snoopers...including Google

Posted September 11, 2013 - 2:16 pm

A lawsuit against Google for snooping on Wi-Fi networks is moving forward, and it should raise this question for you: Just how safe is your own network against snoopers? If you've got a small wireless network you use for business or home, here's how you can protect yourself against break-ins and snoopers.
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Use your cell phone as a WiFi VOIP phone

Posted September 11, 2013 - 12:00 am

Does your home or office use a VOIP based phone system? Wouldn’t it be great if you could use your cell phone as a VOIP phone instead of running back and forth to your desk whenever the phone rings? It turns out that this can be a reality quite easily, provided you can wrangle the proper details from your IT folks.
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Unix: Avoiding repetitious work with sed

Posted September 9, 2013 - 5:49 pm

The only thing wrong with sed is that most of us barely grasp how powerful it is. We use it in pipes to change "this" to "that", but we rarely consider it for the big editing jobs where it could save us considerable time and effort -- especially when it comes to boring repetitious work.
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Unix: Flexibly moving files with lftp

Posted September 1, 2013 - 7:09 pm

Moving files between Linux (and other) servers is a lot smarter and more versatile when you discover lftp.
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3 ways to pimp your BASH console

Posted August 29, 2013 - 12:00 am

If you spend a lot of time around a linux console, you’re familiar with the vast color emptiness that is BASH. The default color scheme and text layouts for BASH can be pretty lame. Luckily the terminal is pretty customizable and you can do some modding to improve the experience.
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Unix: How to select every 1,000th line from a file

Posted August 25, 2013 - 8:46 pm

Log files on Unix systems can easily grow to hundreds of thousands or even millions of lines. Here's a simple way to pluck out every Nth line.
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Unix: Why you love (or don’t love) your job

Posted August 21, 2013 - 12:59 pm

The things that make you love a job or drive you to thinking about moving on may have less to do with how much you earn than whether you look forward to Monday morning.
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Creating a Twitter proxy for mobile development

Posted August 21, 2013 - 12:00 am

It’s been several months now since Twitter switched over to version 1.1 of the Twitter API. Headaches were expected, and headaches are being had. A primary cause of these headaches is the move to enforce OAuth for every API request, but a second culprit - rate limiting - is responsible for drastic restructuring of existing code.
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Don't let Vine constrain your creativity

Posted August 15, 2013 - 3:53 pm

Do you love making those six second videos but find the app holding you back? There’s a way around it
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Running Linux on a Windows PC: Your getting started guide

Posted August 12, 2013 - 9:12 am

It used to be easy to run Linux on any PC. That changed with Windows 8 and Secure Boot, but it's still doable. Here's how...
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Unix: Getting from here to there (routing basics)

Posted August 3, 2013 - 5:21 pm

You need to understanding routing tables if you're going to do any kind of network troubleshooting. Let's take a look at what Linux commands can tell you about how your system is making connections.
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iOS app provisioning during member center outage

Posted August 1, 2013 - 12:00 am

While most of the services related to the Apple Developer Portal outage have been restored, there is still one component left dark on the live status page that can cause you some problems. Xcode Automatic Configuration.
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How to hide updates, photos from your Facebook profile

Posted July 29, 2013 - 12:26 pm

If just untagging something on Facebook isn't enough, consider 'hiding' photos and updates that you don't want anyone to see.
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How (and why) to celebrate Sysadmin Day

Posted July 25, 2013 - 7:32 am

Friday, July 26th,2013 is Sysadmin Day or "Systems Administrator Appreciation Day" -- a good reason to celebrate those individuals who devote themselves to keeping our servers available, usable and secure, but how do you go about thanking these geeky superheroes? First, you have to disentangle them from whatever tasks they're currently juggling and then you have to get and hold their attention long enough to express your appreciation.
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