This is definitely what I want to be doing in the future. Obviously, there are days where everything breaks, but that’s with any job. Currently, I’ve been doing a lot of projects involving security changes, as well as revamping some of our processes to make use of what we have more efficiently.

On my most recent project, which I started a couple of days ago, I’ve been using Microsoft’s System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) for hardware and software inventory. This product’s been around for quite a while – formerly being called SMS. We use it for distributing software, and generating reports on who has what, among other things. I’m trying to customize SCCM to hold our inventory information with a variety of things. It seems like an easy enough concept, but I’ve learnt that applying it is more complicated than trying to design a method.

I urge you to check out a more technical blog that my friends started, which I’ll be contributing to. This is more meant to be a place where we keep our notes for ourselves, either through our experiences or referencing other stuff we’ve found online; but hopefully this helps you. http://nerdy-notes.blogspot.com.

On a more personal note, classes are going to be starting up in another couple of weeks. I’m not sure what this fourth/final year is going to hold for me, but I’m definitely looking forward to my CCIE classes/labs and my Capstone Project. Computer Forensics sounds interesting as well!

For everyone starting classes, whether you’re in Elementary school, High school, Apprenticeship, or College/University; I’d like to wish you the best of luck for the upcoming year.

Ciao!

Lets start with the basics: How to insert an equation in the document

This is super simple. There’s two ways of doing this:

1. In the “ribbon” go to Insert -> Equation (it has a huge pi symbol above it, you can’t miss it)
2. Use the keyboard shortcut Alt + = (that’s Alt and Equal)

Equation Editor 2007

I’m not going to explain all the things you can do in Equation Editor, but basically you can see the symbols, and the different functions you can put in to the right of the symbols. The interface is really simple to use; I’m sure you can figure it out.

Userful Keyboard Shortcuts

Here’s some useful keyboard shortcuts that Brad/Albert/Myself find useful while in Equation Editor:

Subscripts: _ (underscore) Eg: A_c for A subscript c
Superscript: ^ (carat/hat/whatever you want to call it) Eg: x^2 for x²

Division: / Eg:  1/2 for ½ Note: I can’t really give a good example without including an image but it gives 1 right above 2
Multiplication: \times  gives you the multiplication symbol (×) or \bullet gives you a dot in the middle if you don’t want to use ×

Integral: \int brings up the integral symbol, combine with subscript and superscript to get definite integrals. Eg: \int_-10^10 for a definite integral from -10 to 10.

Greek letters: basically these are just \ then their name. Capitalize the first letter if you want a capital letter. Eg: \pi gives you π but a \Pi would give you an uppercase pi.

Arrows:  ->  <- ….you get the idea..

These are just a few of the commands..there’s a much more in-depth list available in pdf format at: http://bit.ly/9ajhbS. It’s really well done..and explained probably better than I do.

Hope that helps! If you have any questions, leave a comment!

Open Network And Sharing Center

Click "Manage Wireless Networks"

Click on "Add"

Click on "Manually create a network profile"

Fill in the choices with this information

Now, it will have added it, but wont connect, because you need to make more changes

Click on the security tab, and make sure the settings are exactly as shown

Click on the settings tab next to the PEAP dropdown and make sure the settings look like this

Press OK and close the window, going back to the old window, and press advanced settings. Make sure the settings are the same as above.

After you close the windows, you should get an authentication box like this. Type in your network username and password. You may have to do this a few times (I'm not sure why..)

If all goes well, you should have connected! If you’re having trouble, feel free to ask me in person, or leave a comment.

OS of choice: VMware ESXi 4.0

Now, I haven’t used any of their competitors products (Citrix XenServer, or Microsoft Hyper-V), but I must say that ESXi is quite easy to install, and to use.

Why virtualize?

Well, in my case, I only needed to have 1 box for an entire lab, including (soft) routers, a few servers, and a couple of clients to test out stuff.

This saved me so much money…especially in terms of power and equipment: instead of having several boxes, I have one box, with one power supply, that’s utilized very efficiently.

For those of you that are students like myself, and want to toy around with different operating systems interacting with each other, but don’t want to have the overhead of running several physical machines in your house, I highly suggest this.

If you’re not too sure on how to get VMware ESXi set up, just google it, there are a lot of tutorials for installing ESXi.

Just be careful about you’re hardware; make sure everything’s compatible with ESXi or whatever virtualizing platform you may choose to use.

Good luck!

I just want to wish everyone good luck on all of their exams.