My Periodical Playing with Perl

When I get my copy of ;login: from USENIX I page through looking to see if there is a tool that I can use. I pay more attention to the PERL Tools section as I want to learn more about PERL and add it to my tool belt. But I have yet to really wrap…

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Wow! RAID really works

To some of you this may be a trivial thing but for me it is like finding that extra money in your wallet or even hitting the lottery. Some of you may know I am a single sysadmin shop. I do have other sysdmins in my Department but I am actually on my own to…

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My little Hacker is two years older and getting worse

A few posts back I posted about my Granddaughter who I cleverly nicknamed “Kevin” after Kevin Mitnick. After her little hacking escapade on her Aunt’s laptop I had a discussion with her about privacy and why we use passwords. But who would think you would have to deal with that at her age. Especially when…

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That isn’t the 5th Wave I know of

Recently i was writing up a presentation for work and was looking for a comic image to add to my presentation. In my days with the Federal Government I used to get a periodical called Government Computer News. Inside it was a cartoon a creation of Rich Tennant (http://www.the5thwave.com/content/about-rich-tennant) The feature was called the 5th…

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Your never too old to learn

Your never too old to learn. I took the family out to dinner yesterday and our resident hacker (my eight year old granddaughter) taught everyone at the table about a tool in Windows. My two oldest children are in the computer field and computer related field. I go to both of them when I need…

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A Teaching Moment and the Hour of Code

A Teaching Moment and the Hour of Code In  recent blog entry I wrote abou the Sessions I attended at the reent PETE&C onference (www.peteandc.org). Since coming back from the conference I tried to get some time to sit with my granddaughter and start teaching her programming on the code.org site.  I got her for…

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Open Source and Young Programmers

Open Source and Young Programmers In previous entries I spoke of teaching my young Granddaughter to code. It is a bit tough keeping the attention focused but the tools work very well. I receive emails from opensource.com and this latest email highlighted  Blockly. This is the engine behind the code tutorials on code.org. It is…

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Open Source Tools for Education

Open Source Tools for Education   In my last Blog entry I spoke about my attendance at The Pennsylvania Education Technology Exposition and Conference (www.peteandc.org). I was happy to see a session was dedicated to highlight Open Source Tools for education. The session was run by Charlie Reisinger, Technology Director for Penn Manor School District in…

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