Kirt Cathey, NH2GX, JG1FXZ

Everybody in this country wants a window seat on the bullet train, but nobody can hold their bladder long enough for a two hour ride to Osaka. So, people like myself who actually like the ‘edge’ leg room and ease of mobility offered by the aisle position, find themselves levitating toward the window seats. When Japanese try to get out of their window seat, some where in their mind they think they can get get by without waiting for you to stand to get out of their way.

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What is so different about J-World and a private cloud? What is so different about any web service out there and a public cloud?
Answer: A lame consultant that doesn’t have the technical skill to sell any other service.

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First things first! WorkPapers Web Edition is now available at https://workpapers.pro. The site still has a few rough edges, but the project has progressed enough to invite blog readers, registered users of the desktop software, and others for a taste of the best work flow software on the ‘net.

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The fine folks over at passwordrecoverytools.com sent a request for an evaluation about four months ago, and as I was ensconced in a plethora of security work and programming, I never had a chance to test the tool for a good writeup. That was, until I decided to go on vacation last week and a client sent a password protected zip file without forwarding the password!

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After much anticipation from the WorkPapers user community, I am proud to announce that invitations for WorkPapers trials and testing will go out throughout the following week. After watching some fireworks tonight (from Honolulu Hawaii), I will setup the first pre-production release that will be setup as invitationware.

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Hi All. Crawled out of the dark coding dungeon for some fresh air over the next couple days. Then back into web site touch-ups, alotta photoshop, and some rounding out the rough edges, then deployment. Last night uploaded a milestone version of the web version of WorkPapers to the repository.

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This posting is basically to document the procedure for setup, so others do not have to go through the ordeal that I went through. I am not sure why more explicit instructions are available , since when I Googled for the run-time errors that were produced as a result of using the MySQL DMG package, there were a myriad of comment postings and forum postings but very few solution.
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Hi All!! Still alive and kicking. Been a couple weeks since the last posting but have been hard at work putting together another platform iteration of WorkPapers software. So far, I have created the audit working papers management software solution in Cocoa and RealBasic, so this time around thought I would try one more iteration [...]

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Over the past couple of days I have concluded that enough (bad) breath has been spent ranting about how system and security auditors really are missing the mark. However, one cannot reasonably just point a finger in one direction – it takes two to tango, so it is now time to point out what CIOs and administrators of secure environments should start to consider in order to prevent incidents. And along the way add a rant or two about how the average CIO is (too) an administrative paper-pushing, policy guru that does not really have real systems administration experience – most come from a consulting background and have not had to own a system for more than a year.

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This article over in the Dark Reading brings up an issue that power companies apparently have been denying for a long time. However, for those of you who get the weekly SANS newsletter may have seen the sideline from Alan Paller: ” The data that will be discussed at the SCADA Security Summit ( http://www.sans.org/scada-security-summit-2010/ ) will make it much harder for EEI to claim it isn’t happening.” The power companies spokespersons seem to be in complete denial, but reports are showing over 120 attacks have been carried out against such systems.

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