By Roblimo from
Slashdot's stand-up-hook-up-shuffle-to-the-door-jump-right-out-and-count-to-four department:
Meet
Justin Whitehead. While a lot of his contemporaries were going to college, he became an
Airborne soldier. After that he went to college, became an IT technian, got some experience as a Computer Forensic Analyst, and met people who looked like they were having a good time as penetration testers. So he took some recommended classes,got hired by
One World Labs, and last week at
B-Sides Austin,
he and coworker Antonio Herraiz gave a talk titled 'Spanking the monkey/How pen testers can do it better.
Justin is 40, an age where a lot of people in the IT game worry about being over the hill and unemployable. But Justin's little video talk should give you hope -- whether you're a mature college student, have a stalled IT career or are thinking about a career change but want to keep working with computers and IT in general. It seems that there
are decent IT-related jobs out there even if you're not a youngster; and even if you didn't start working with computers until you were in your 20s or 30s.
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By samzenpus from
Slashdot's go-ahead-and-ask department:
Zach Weiner is the author and illustrator of a number of webcomics, most notably
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC). He's been a guest contributor to xkcd and founded the sketch comedy group SMBC Theater. His project
Augie and the Green Knight, was the most funded children's book on Kickstarter, and his newest project
The Gentleman's Single-Use Monocle offers readers emergency reading protection with a bit of class. Zach has agreed to step away from the comics for a bit and answer any questions you might have. As usual,
ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post.
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By samzenpus from
Slashdot's go-ahead-and-ask department:
Zach Weinersmith is the author and illustrator of a number of webcomics, most notably
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (SMBC). He's been a guest contributor to xkcd and founded the sketch comedy group SMBC Theater. His project
Augie and the Green Knight, was the most funded children's book on Kickstarter, and his newest project
The Gentleman's Single-Use Monocle offers readers emergency reading protection with a bit of class. Zach has agreed to step away from the comics for a bit and answer any questions you might have. As usual,
ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post.
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Kolab Summit 2015 Announced
Posted by News Fetcher on March 16 '15 at 09:15 AM
By samzenpus from
Slashdot's check-it-out department:
First time accepted submitter
stilborne writes
The Kolab Collaboration Suite, the open source groupware system that scales from "Raspberry PI" installations to 100k+ seat enterprise deployments, has been adopted by companies and governments around the world, making it one of most successful "poster children" for Free Software and Open Standards. In order to chart the next steps forward, the Kolab community has announced the inaugural Kolab Summit to be held in The Hague on May 2-3, 2015. Along with workshops, BoFs and coding break-out sessions, presentations will be given by key developers from a number of open source projects including Kolab, Roundcube, cyrus imap, and KDE among others. Registration is free, and the call for presentations is live for the next few weeks.Read Replies (0)
By samzenpus from
Slashdot's I-think-I-got-one department:
An anonymous reader writes about new NASA software that can help you become an asteroid hunter.
"Since the early 20th century, astronomers have relied on the same technique to detect asteroids — they take images of a section in the sky and look for star-like objects that move between frames. However, with an increase in sensitivity of ground-based telescopes, it has become increasingly difficult for astronomers to sift through the massive pile of data and verify every single detection. In order to increase the frequency of asteroid detection, including of those bodies that could be potential threats to our planet, NASA has released new software, developed in collaboration with Planetary Resources, Inc., capable of running on any standard PC. The software, which can be downloaded for free, will accept images from a telescope and run an algorithm on them to determine celestial bodies that are moving in a manner consistent with an asteroid."Read Replies (0)