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Since I’m a technologist, I sometimes get asked “what is the biggest hole in computer security”? The answer is that the IT industry is not regulated. To be a Medical Doctor, Nurse, Vet, Lawyer, Architect or Electrical Engineer (among other professions), you need to go to school and become licensed. Not the case for IT. Anyone can just wake up and call themselves a programmer. The problem is that IT should require some formal training and a license to practice. Professionals should also be required to carry some kind of formal insurance.

Knight Capital Management lost $400 Million last year because a systems administrator flubbed an update and countless websites have been hacked to and confidential customer data stolen because of inexperienced developers writing insecure code. A majority of mistakes could be avoided by hiring qualified candidates with a formal education and by having well though out policy and procedures.

For HP servers, there are a few things you can do to check hardware:

for Disks use hpacucli:
- how to install: http://computergod.typepad.com/home/2012/09/install-hpacucli-on-redhat-enterprise-linux-server.html

- how to use:
http://jreypo.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/hp-proliant-servers-management-with-hpasmcli/

Basically it is two rpm’s that you can get from HP

DELL also has a similar suite of tools called Open Manage -
http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/dept/cron/documentation/dell-server-admin/en/Dosa/CLI/index.htm

omreport: (for checking disks) - http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/OpenManage_command_line_interface

Both HP and Dell hardware interfaces can be scripted - so you can generate a report on all servers - Combined with the Linux command “dmidecode”, you can grab serial numbers and models to attach to your report.

Both utilities also show predictive failures to hardware (so you can fix a hardware before it becomes an actual problem).

if you really want to automate stuff, you can check to see if the servers are under warranty by automating the web based check here: http://biff.freeshell.org/warranty_lookup.html

Most other hardware manufactures have similar products for linux.

Title: Advanced LinkedIn Techniques (& other Social Media
Date: March 18, 2013
Location: Pace University, Multipurpose Room
Time: 6:30PM-8:00PM

Advanced LinkedIn Techniques (& other Social Media):
Boost Your Career
LinkedIn is now an essential tool for job-seekers and career-advancers: Those who are well versed are reaching their career goals more quickly. But, you can’t forget about Twitter and other social media which, depending on your situation, can potentially help you land meetings and ace interviews.

Robert Hellmann, career coach and author of Your Social Media Job Search, will go beyond the basics to show you advanced techniques in leveraging LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social media to build your network, research prospects, be “found,” contact people, and get meetings and interviews. You’ll learn:
* The “right” way to build and leverage your LinkedIn network
* Advanced LinkedIn people-search techniques that will improve your ability to both find and connect with those who can help you
* Under-used methods to leverage LinkedIn & Twitter for key job-target research
* Verbiage to include in LinkedIn messages that will boost your response rate
* Twitter’s potential for helping you to get interviews and clients
* The benefits of other social media, including Facebook, blogs, and email lists
This meeting assumes a very basic knowledge of LinkedIn. The content is targeted both to those in transition and consultants seeking to land your next client.

BIO
Robert Hellmann ( http://www.hellmannconsulting.com ) has helped hundreds of clients to reach their job-search and on-the-job goals. In addition to his private practice, Rob is a Five O’Clock Club Master Career Coach, where he leads career strategy groups for its most senior executives. He is also a professor at NYU, and author of the book “Your Social Media Job Search.” His career-related insights and commentary have appeared in media outlets such as the New York Times, Forbes, the Washington Post, Money Magazine, ABC News, NBC News and many others. Rob combines his 20-plus years in corporate marketing with his coaching training and experience to help people market themselves in their careers.

Robert Hellmann
Hellmann Career Consulting
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http://www.hellmannconsulting.com
Blog: http://www.hellmannconsulting.com/blog
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Email bmiller@pace.edu to sign up

Evernote - some software that might be worth taking a look at.

“I have a terrible memory,” Barnett says, explaining that he used to rely largely on physical notebooks to keep track of ideas, until he started adding those to Evernote. Then he added a cheat sheet of parents’ names at his daughter’s school. Now, at the end of a work meeting, he’ll photograph the whiteboard, store that picture in Evernote, add some thoughts and questions, and send it around to his team. On his recent vacation in Istanbul, he used Evernote to create a one-man Fodor’s guide to the city for friends. Basically, the more Barnett used Evernote, the more he thought of new ways to use it.”

www.evernote.com

Y-Love & DeScribe “Change” (official music video)

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