The (ISC)2 amended the domains within the CISSP in 2015. This document, the CISSP 8 Domain Refresh Summary Guide 15042015 summarises the changes.
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Flash
It won’t go away! How to display an alternate image for one’s flash object. Actually I gave up, I decided that the browser default was more informative but here’s my notes.
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BBC Funding
I have taken an interest in the BBC’s financial balance of trade on Intellectual Property. Their annual report can be found here … while the National Audit Office undertook a landscape review on their commercial services. The annual report is a typical haven’t we done well and getting the answers to the questions I am…
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Redshift
Sun CTO Greg Papadoupolos, in the late noughties posited that the growth in IT spend was going to come from those applications (or installations) that would grow faster than Moore’s Law and that this growth had significant implications for systems designers.
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Labour Conference 2018
Let’s see if I can make it three in a row, here’s my document repo, for #lab18, Labour Conference 18.
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WordPress in the Cloud
WordPress is famously available at wordpress.com as Software-as-a-Service. What should one do if one comes to the conclusion that this isn’t what you need? The two obvious solutions are one of the cloud providers and I should say I personally use one&one for various reasons.
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DaaS
I was thinking about DaaS and how to use RDP to access a modern desktop from my Tablet and my thoughts moved to Azure although I have not given up on AWS. In fact, I will be faster with AWS and actually have an account. Here’s the links and reading …
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I have been attempting to finish an article I started five years ago and hoped that reviews of David Warsh’s Knowledge and Wealth of Nations might help me avoid re-reading it. One of the reviews I came across was by Prof. Michael A Bernstein. Here are my notes.
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Wifi on my linux laptop
My HP Probook Wifi has stopped working. It uses Elementary OS 0.4. Loki. Here are my notes!
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Miele S500
Another instruction manual, this time for a vacuum cleaner, the Miele s500.
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YANF web calendar
I came across https://tockify.com, it seems to be a calendar implemented as Software-as-service and access via http. It could be useful for wordpress (or other CMS) sites where plugins are unavailable but html is.
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Value Gap
I need to write a blog on the RIAA’s concept of the “Value Gap”. WTF? This is defined as the lost value to the author/publishers of music and other content. It’s proponents argue that copyright is meant to appropriate this value. Anyway, here are some links!
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Yet more Copyright
Last week, the JURE committee of the European Voted to approve the current draft of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market this includes proposals to implement a link tax and that ISSPs must implement something akin to Google’s Content ID, to defend copyright from whatever. These are now it seems called upload filters….
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IUSY 77
I attended the IUSY 77 Congress in Stuttgart, as part of the Labour Students delegation and stayed for the summer camp. I still remember some of the fabulous conversations I had and the amazing campaigning comrades that I met from the (West) German JUSOS and other parties across the world. Were you there? Do you…
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Netiquette
As everyone, I am on email/chat groups which need to be reminded of good behaviour; I was reminded of the early usenet rules of etiquette. These seem hard to find but I tried and came across these two articles. I also include some words written by a friend.
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