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. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
The Problems With the Internet of Things
As more and more Internet of Things (IoT) devices are bought and set up, there is a growing concern for what they can do, in addition to their normal purpose. The security researcher, Brian Krebs, had his website brought down by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The company who formerly hosted Krebs and […]
My attempts at watching a video on job hunting
For the past couple of days, I have put off watching this video called “5 Fast Ways to Make Yourself More Hireable”, which was put out by the The Society for Collegiate Leadership and Achievement. When I finally sat down to watch the thing, I couldn’t view it. I don’t know why I couldn’t view […]