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9.10 UNR mini-review

By Nick On 2009/08/31 · · In Personal

Just wanted to post some thoughts on UNR 9.10 -

Most of the netbooks utilize the Intel i915 based video cards and have HORRID performance under the latest xorg drivers. 9.10 fixes this and allows for UXA acceleration and was my main reason for skipping over 9.04 UNR. The image installs quickly and provides for [...]

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Defining Security

By Nick On 2009/08/29 · · In Personal

A great post from W. Mark Brooks asks when did Information Security become IT Security? The point is very much in line with my triangle theory, that security is the pinnacle of IT and requires mastering the lower levels first. Though to counter the ITS vs IS argument I posted that IA is [...]

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PGP for Mac Whole Disk Encryption Review

By Nick On 2009/08/28 · · In Personal

Wanted to share a quick “how does it work” about PGP WDE for Mac.

http://www.pgp.com/mac/

This is the only solution that does pre-boot and true WDE for the Mac. The software is 189 for a yearly license or 239 for perpetual. The software itself is very “apple-ish” with great wizards and walk through for those [...]

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Systems Engineering and Redundancy

By Nick On 2009/08/14 · · In Personal

I posted this to ServerFault.com today. Folks loose site of requirements and systems engineering and it drives me batty. Here was my response to the guys question about redundancy and RAID/COOP/etc.

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Every design and architecture should be requirements driven. Good systems engineering calls for defining the constraints of the design and implementing [...]

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    • Nick Schmidt lives passionately in the digital world advising and advancing technology everywhere he goes. He has served in the US Air Force, been a self-employed consultant, a senior manager and chief engineer at Boeing, and now co-founding and running Spec Ops Technology. Decorated in his military and professional career you can find his work in the nations networks and across the web.

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