The updates covers the new material in the 640-802 exam, including Cisco’s Security Device Manager (SDM), Wireless Communication, Access List enhancements in Cisco’s newer IOS versions, and IPv6.
Jason Emerson, Palaestra Training’s Cisco CCNA instructor does an excellent job conveying the information you’ll need for the exam. You’ll finish the series with a thorough understanding of how to install, configure and maintain Cisco routers and develop a solid foundation to build a networking career upon.
Jason’s CCNA videos are some of the most viewed technical training videos on YouTube! Check out Palaestra Training’s site for yourself, and get your CCNA certification today.
What is the DoD 8570.1-M? It’s part of a directive that’s part "Information Assurance Workforce Improvement Program" which mandates that every full- and part-time military service member, defense contractor, civilian and foreign employee with privileged access to a DoD system, regardless of job series or occupational specialty obtains a commercial certification credential that has been accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
Palaestra Training (www.palaestratraining.com) has created a CompTIA A+ certification series that will prepare personnel for CompTIA A+ Certification. CompTIA A+ certification meets the T1 requirements of the directive. CompTIA A+ Certification is the cornerstone of any IT career and allows a student to secure a position in a wide variety of industries.
Found a VERY nifty tool that allows you to write blogs offline, and sync them up to your blog (either a hosted blog service, or your own) and get the benefit of full WYSIWYG editing tools. There are a number of other offline tools out there, so this certainly isn’t the first one of it’s kind (just the first one I’ve used).
You can download Windows Live Writer at their website. The product is still in beta, but so far it seems really nice. Check it out for yourself if you’re a blogger as it has the ability to connect to multiple blogs and blogging systems (WordPress, Movable Type, etc) and allows you access all the sites you blog to in one place.
I came across a really nice looking piece of equipment earlier today from a company called MVIXUSA (www.mvixusa.com) which has created a truly portable, wireless media center for your home entertainment center. The device I’m talking about is the MX-760HD and it looks like it might fit nicely with any home entertainment center.
This device allows you to play pretty much any video format on your standard or high-def TV, and stream content wirelessly from your PC. So all those videos you’ve downloaded can be played directly on your TV rather than watching on your desktop PC or laptop.
You can put in pretty much any size hard drive into the unit, to give yourself a boatload of storage, which allows you to keep your content local and take it with you if you want to watch all those movies in the car, boat, etc.
Check out their website for more information. If anyone has this unit, I’d love to hear how you like it.
MVIXUSA, if you’d like a great in-depth review of your product, feel free to contact me at send a unit for review.
If you’re looking for a crash course on the ins and outs of buying and selling websites, identifying niche markets and learning how to determine a site’s value, the folks from StomperNet have created a new site/system called Dominiche to teach you just that.
Check them out, they have a few free videos that give you some great insight in their system.
Looks like someone forgot the do the final round of user testing on this ATM, which is displaying the Windows XP Activation message! I wouldn’t want to be in the IT group that signed off on that user testing.
It’s amazing how things that seem like they should be a no-brainer slip through the cracks.
Hopefully this is a doctored photo, but something tells me it’s not.
I upgraded the site today to WordPress 2.3, which was a very easy process. Upgrading consisted of:
Downloading the 2.3 source files
Extracting the files locally
FTP’ing them to my server (overwriting the existing files)
Running the upgrade script (upgrade.php)
That was pretty much it.. took about 5 minutes. Now granted, the size of my site is pretty small, so depending on the size of your site, your mileage may vary. I also don’t use a large amount of plug-ins, so I had no compatibility issues.
Something a lot of people who are new to website development, and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) overlook is how effective is their website? After all, a website is a collection of individual pages, and typically we want people to move from one page to another, right?
However, often times the navigation of the site is confusing, or non-existent. There is no clear route for the visitor to go from one page to another, and no clear direction of what you want them to do (your “Call to Action”)
When I teach class, especially to beginners or when I’m talking with parents about Internet Safety, a question I’m often asked is “How does the Internet actually work?” Well, in reality it’s obviously a complex topic, but we can certainly break it down into familiar terms. When you type in a web address, like www.palaestratraining.com, your computer actually does some work behind the scenes to translate that human readable name into an IP address. Just like if you wanted to call your friend Susy’s house, you would translate that (in your head probably) from her name into her telephone number, and you’d contact her by her telephone number.
Let’s use the concept of directory services (think of the yellow pages for your town). Let’s say there is a directory service for each city, for each state, and one master directory service for the whole country. Read the rest of this entry »
A question often asked by people starting out in the IT (Information Technology) field is “What is the BEST entry-level IT certification to get started with”? That’s an excellent question and one that I’m sure garners a variety of responses. For the most, it’s generally agreed that CompTIA’s A+ Certification Training is an excellent way to get started in IT. It exposes to the student to a wide variety of hardware and software, and ensures they have a thorough understanding of not only how a PC works, but how it fits within a company’s infrastructure. In essence, it provides a person with the basics of hardware, software, networking, troubleshooting and customer service.
Palaestra Training released an updated version of their best selling Cisco CCNA Certification training this week. 
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