Last semester I completed a unit called “Computer Facilities Security” which, among other things, covers the survivability of a site undergoing natural or man made disaster. This includes such areas as the redunance and durability of power, water, communications infrastructure of a city or installation, the ability of its medical facilities to cope with the [...]
So this week is the beginning of the final year project for IT and compsci students: since I’m still an undergraduate in the final throes of my degree I get to participate. After being divided up by specialty last week (Software Development, Networking, Security) we had a brief meeting with our supervisor whereby several things [...]
A few weeks ago I was tasked with establishing a *nix based server at work for the purposes of development access (first year Unix and C Students). Up front this sounds fairly simple (install a distro, openssh, install the dev tools, create accounts, voila) but in practice there are a number of other considerations which [...]
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique by Michael S. Gazzaniga
