Last year, I got the idea of making a game where a group of friends could get together, have a game scenario generated for them, and they could start playing. This is something called procedural generation, wherein game settings, mechanics, assets, and other components are created from an alogorthim, and a bit of randomness. I […]
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Newer Ways of Audit Reporting on Third Party Companies
I went to a recent meeting of the North Texas chapter of ISACA, and there was a presentation on SSAE 18. For those of you who don’t know, SSAE 18 supersedes SSAE 16, and consolidates Service Organization Controls reporting into something more manageable. Here, I’ll talk about what I’ve learned about SSAE 18, SOC 1, […]
Migrating My Nextcloud Server to Another Server
Edit: As of June 14, 2022, probably most if not all of the information found in this article is out of date! You’ll probably find better information somewhere else. When I saw that my version of Ubuntu could not be upgraded any more (due to Digital Ocean’s system), I had to migrate my Nextcloud installation […]
Helping Out a Local Charity
I’ve been helping out a local charity with preparing tax returns for the needy and underprivileged for the past few weeks and we’ve run into a problem. Each time we have to print out the tax returns for the clients, we have to take the laptop over to the printer to have it printed out. […]
Learning About Setting Controls for I.T. Assets
In my pursuit to get into the information technology (IT) audit field, I must learn about setting controls for securing IT assets, minimizing risk, and eventually testing that said controls work. In major organizations where information flows constantly and is utilized to advance the organization’s goals, ensuring that the information and knowledge are accurate, intact, […]
MyCroft, AI, and how I’m trying to help it
The other day, I saw that a version of MyCroft was released for the Raspberry Pi. I have been following MyCroft for a while now (mostly through the Linux Action Show) and have tried using it. The software is still in beta, so I found some bugs with it, namely I can’t really use it. […]
Interesting video on designing programming languages
Yesterday, I started watching this video on programming languages, and it took me over forty minutes to stop watching the video. It’s not because that the video was over an hour long, but rather the subject matter of the video. It’s a presentation by Brian Kernighan titled “How to succeed in language design without really […]
Made My Own NES Classic Console
It looks like the NES Classic is sold out every where, and there are scalpers on eBay trying to bilk old fans out of their hard-earned coins. Now, I don’t want to get an NES Classic on account of owning a couple of the featured games, as well as owning them on the Virtual Console. […]
Dealing With the Internet of Things
The other day, I attended a meeting of the North Texas chapter of ISACA. There, the information technology veteran, Austin Hutton, gave a presentation on the dangers of the Internet of Things (IoT). I have written about the IoT and how it can be used to devastating effect. One of the problems that Hutton talked […]
Wondering About Risk Assessments
Since I have little knowledge on audits (only from what I learned in college), I have been reading up on the finer details of an audit. I came across this documentation on the methods of carrying out a risk assessment in an audit. The article lists three options for performing a risk assessment (though there […]