Something struck me the other day that I think most power-users with experience on both Windows and OS X would agree with. Windows gets better as you tweak the hell out of it. Power-users on that OS invariably add this skin, this mod, that hack, etc. On OS X, however, following that same paradigm does little more than…
Archives for February 2005
CISSP vs. GSEC
With my recent attainment of the GSEC credential, I’ve had some discussions about how it compares to the CISSP in terms of difficulty and respectability. Here is one such discussion from a forum I frequent.: The main reason the CISSP in more respected is because of the standards the ISC2 has established, such as proving the identification of…
Firefox Quicksearches
As I covered to some degree in an earlier post, quicksearches are quite sick. They let you search sites from Firefox’s address bar. Well, here’s an awesome site featuring some quicksearch links for sites that I didn’t know you could do it with. Very cool indeed. For all those who like the search bar within Firefox, or like…
The Infosec Trinity
Well, I just passed the final exam for the GIAC GSEC credential from SANS, and I have to say it’s a pretty good feeling. It’s still less respected in most circles than the CISSP, but that’s because less people know about it. I think that’s likely to start changing very soon, though. If I were to go for…
Adding MSN Search and Technorati Quicksearches To Firefox
One of the coolest things in Firefox is its ability to do Google searches via the address bar; I use this all day long. This is done simply by, in my case, typing: g searchterm ** I changed the prefix from “gg” to “g”. So if I am looking for some Gentoo information related to Postfix, I can…
OS X vs. Linux Revisted
Upon further reflection, I am going to give OS X at least another revision, i.e. Tiger. I want to go ahead and get myself a G5 tower and experience the next release of OS X; after that, however, I am going to start looking heavily at options. Here are some considerations: OS X Benefits Hardware Detection: OS X…