Computer Careers Book
Sunday, September 17, 2006
BitTorrent
I have neglected both my site for Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career and this blog which updates it for quite awhile. Hey, I had many other things to do.
But I am hopeful that because I've made some adjustments in the site, that'll it'll be worth more effort in the future.
To that end, I wrote and published a brand new article, on Drupal, earlier this week, and today one on BitTorrent:
BitTorrent for Not Yet Techies
We'll see how things go.
By the way, my niece graduated from college this year and already had herself a good job. Of course, it's true that she went to a prestigious school and was at the top of her class. And I'm sure it also helped that last summer she did an internship at the same company that hired her.
Plus, she'd spent years as a Teaching Assistant for beginning Computer Science degree undergrads.
But she followed my advice to network (surely her teaching assistant work helped her to brown nose . . . er, helped her university professors regard her favorably.
And she sought and got that internship and evidently worked hard at it, so they wanted her back.
She may be an aberration, but we're not hearing media sob stories about Computer Science graduates being unable to find jobs, so evidently the economy is now taking them in, which is good news.
BitTorrent
BitTorrent
Microsoft ISA 2006
This updates the article at:
.NET Internet Security and Accelerator ISA Server for not Yet Techies
The latest version is Microsoft ISA Server 2006. In Microsoft's words, it's the "integrated edge security gateway."
What that means is, it protects networks from Internet-based security threats such as hacker attacks, while allowing network users to access the resources of the Internet.
Microsoft Internet Security and Accelerator ISA Server 2006 can preserve bandwidth by compressing content over the HTTP network. It uses GZIP and Deflate compression technology algorithms to accomplish this.
It also uses the Differentiated Services protocol to give preferential treatment to certain packets going over the network. Thus, a critical document being sent to an important client can be given preference over Joe's who's just surfing the Net for fun (on his break, of course).
ISA 2006 uses flood mitigation to protect networks against viruses, worms and spyware -- and denial of service attacks from hackers. Plus, it tells you in real time the traffic coming through it, whether it was allowed or denied (and why denied), and records enough information about such traffic that it may be possible to track the attackers by IP address.
In effect, ISA 2006 operates as a super-firewall protecting a large business's security, while allowing normal business to continue.
.NET Internet Security and Accelerator ISA Server
.NET Internet Security and Accelerator ISA Server
Microsoft .NET IL Assembler
This updates the article at:
.NET IL Assembler for Not Yet Techies
No news is good news. Microsoft's Intermediate Language / IL is what all of the .NET higher level languages such as C# compile to. It's the intermediate step to the machine level assembler language. To change it would require a vast reworking of a lot of technologies.
Therefore, although the higher level languages such as VB.NET can and will evolve and change and expand their characteristics, .NET's IL assembler's function remains constant.
I can only speculate that Microsoft's .NET Intermediate Language / IL and Assembler will change only in reaction to changes in hardware design, function and capabilities.
Microsoft .NET IL Assembler
Microsoft .NET IL Assembler
