southsideirish71

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 9, 2009 -> 01:37 PM) Sounds like your wife works for an insurance company. Often they have "packages" that work together with other software to verify you are secure, not only via encryption, but secure from viruses, malware, etc. The process is probably something simple which verifies certain services are running on your PC upon connection and if they aren't, it terminates the VPN session. With VPN packages like this (proprietary) there may not be much you can do. Exactly. They are probably running some sort of admission control program that does a few checks. This is not a technology issue of the Mac firewall versus another. Its a policy decision by the business to provide an audit trail for PCI compliance. They have to have the ability to prove that they have provided adequate security measures or get decked with fines. Their package is probably certified to run on X products, and X builds of software.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Mar 9, 2009 -> 03:45 PM) Well I'm doing it much more because of interest. Making money would be great as well. I would look to get several certificates just so I won't limit myself. Thanks for the information. I'm going to look into programs, but I'm going to start looking for some books first. Thanks guys. I can write up a list of books, and give you some websites to use to read up on networking, and some specific technologies out there. If you could let me know specifically what you are looking at now it will help. You will find out, certifications are a necessary evil. Most paper based certs are worthless by themselves. They prove only that you can memorize a set of facts, and regurgitate them. However non-technical HR people get hundreds if not thousands of resumes, and use a automated system looking for keywords to qualify you for an interview. You won't get past the door without them. Case in point. I was certiifed as a CCIE with a few years experience at the time and was trying to apply for security jobs. I didn't get a nibble in the security arena, because I didn't have CISSP on my resume. I picked up a book, passed that silly cert and boom got a job right after. Make sure that if you are serious about this, that you spend some of that time learning the theories behind the scenes. You don't have to know the bits and bytes. But its easier to troubleshoot when you know the basic laws on why something happens under the hood.

Stone hands

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 9, 2009 -> 03:24 PM) Link LMAO

They should start excommunicating priests who touch little boys. If anything deserves ex-communication these days, its that.

Forbes talked about this in an interview. Hell what could it hurt. While we are at it, lets suspend SOX as well. Time to suspend Mark to Market.

QUOTE (Friend of Nordhagen @ Mar 7, 2009 -> 04:09 PM) Please, no more trying to wedge guys into centerfield because they can hit or are decent enough athletes. If the guy has played center before and well, then he's a centerfielder. If he hasn't, he shouldn't be out there. I am so tired of the Mack, Swisher route that this team has taken the past few years, all the while with Kenny expressing shock that centerfielders are hard to acquire. I think he's a fine GM, but you know what? Make centerfield a priority, not an afterthought, and you'd find a guy who can play out there. Its been said before, but moving Alexei to CF would solve a lot of problems.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 6, 2009 -> 03:17 PM) Would you rather us have lost a couple more games and be holding Tim Beckham? The only reason we have Gordon is the shear stupidity of the Cincy Reds.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 05:00 PM) He's going to walk about 7%-9% of the time in the big leagues, that's not good. That's Jermaine Dye territory. Another thing he does poorly: he strikes out too much for a speedy slap hitter. 16%-19% is too damn high. But he runs real fast on the dropped 3rd strike.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 5, 2009 -> 09:35 AM) Where the hell has he been? He probably misses the fun little tunes and wit that the Yankee fans used to toss his way.

I went to Aruba for my honeymoon and it was awesome.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 11:39 PM) Can you really blame the Sox for not wanting to give a high school pitcher a major league deal? Putting a 19 year old on the 40 man roster can seriously f*** things up 3 years down the road. I can't argue with the fact that Boras and his silly demands for major league deals for the 18 year old messes it up. The draft needs to get a pure slotting method so we can neutralize the Boras effect with amateur talent.

QUOTE (BFirebird @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 11:35 PM) Do people on this board really like Owens? I was under the impression this board would loathe Owens starting in center. Myself included. Well lets go into the wayback machine to last year. He was scheduled to be our starting outfielder, with Quentin on the bench. I know the most horrible thing you have ever heard. It still scares me to think about Quentin on the bench, and the 4-3 machine making outs at a high rate with some speed. Well thank god the Angel of mercy took care of that. Owens is not a starting outfielder. He is a pinch runner. He can't hit, he doesn't get on base that much, he can't throw. His only skill is the ability to put his left foot in front of his right over and over very fast.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 11:36 PM) I hope to see Jerry Owens get an extra base hit. And I'd like to see Corky throw someone out on the basepaths. Its like seeing a solar eclipse. Exciting, and rare.

QUOTE (Ishmookie @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 11:34 PM) Were you excited when Poreda was drafted? I wanted Porcello over him, but at least he has tools. And when Lance was drafted I wanted Garza or Carillo over him as well.

QUOTE (Jimbo's Drinker @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 11:31 PM) I hate how Casper says "Cubs". It always bothers me. Has anyone seen Casper and Kermit the frog in the same place at the same time. Just saying...

QUOTE (Ishmookie @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 11:29 PM) When we drafted Broadway I was excited but like so many other prospects he hasn't panned out yet. I wouldn't quite say he's a AAA pitcher yet though. He's still young and could possibly develop. I hated the draft pick when it happened. He and his twin McCullough are perfect examples of low risk, low ceiling talent that we hopefully are going to avoid in the future. We already had this guy in our system before Felix Diaz. Except Felix pitched well at AAA.

QUOTE (ozzfest @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 11:26 PM) And you implying Richard's not a control pitcher? No, Broadway is a control pitcher with no control and gives up lots of homers. Richard is a lefty, and is breathing. I give the advantage to Richard.

QUOTE (ozzfest @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 11:18 PM) I can't decide this for myself. Lets see. One is a right handed control pitcher with no control who has a propensity to give up the long ball. And the other guy is a lefty. I go with Richard.

Ah Drunken Cub fans. The national parasites of baseball.

Just what the world needs, another top level domain. Well at least they make it easy to block.

Nice to see the situational hitting fundamentals are in full effect. Get him on. Get him over, strand him like a dirty pirate.

Is it a natural reaction to try and gouge your eyes out after watching Len Casper sing and dance on TV.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Mar 4, 2009 -> 10:56 PM) 97 on the first pitch fastball for Poreda. Only 2 miles per hour faster than the dummies who broadcasted the As game said Broadway used to throw.

Wasserman is just not good. Hopefully we don't see him on the big club this year.