Recent content by Yoshi

Within the next six months or so I will have the opportunity to take a security class for my work. I was wondering if anyone here had a favorite security class or workshop that they would recommend. Last year I took a SANS class (504) and it was amazing, lots of hands on activities and even a...

Not sure whats up with the upload side of things.

We use IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager. It seems to work well enough, but I mostly only deal with the client side. As far as duplication goes, I think you can have offsite duplication of the storage pool, which I believe is how ours is setup. It does have a bit of a learning curve to get...

We use a combination of two SANs, an iSCSI box and a tape backup system for archiving/backups. While the SANs were expensive it gives us a lot more flexibility in assigning resources between the physical servers. Honestly I don't see our storage demands increasing that much over the next...

Whenever I start up my computer in the morning, I have to either press the power button several times or simply hold it in to get the computer to start up. Simply hitting it once will not do anything. This has been going on for a couple months but recently I've had to flip the switch on the...

I'll vouch for the whole lightning frying your comp through the phoneline. (My father) Had a sweet 486 based comp when they were new, and got it fried through the modem. Luckly we got around 3k from our insurance to cover most of the cost. I still run my comp during storms though, too much...

I agree with laneo, you've got to start somewhere I was planning on taking the CCNA sometime over this next year and just studying for it has taught me a lot. However, the CCENT cert seems pretty useless on its own.