Technology content from Leo Nelson
Happy New Year!
Security Planner is a good link to use to guide you with your security related technology resolutions.
DirSearch – A command line tool designed to brute force directories and files in websites.
DirBuster – A Java application designed to brute force directories and files names to aid with finding hidden pages/directories and directories with a web application.
A good document from Microsoft, comparing the various service offerings from Azure and AWS titled Cloud Service Map.
Example:
| Service | Description | AWS | Azure |
| Virtual servers | Allows users to deploy, manage, and maintain OS and server software; instance types provide configurations of CPU/RAM.
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Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) VMs |
Virtual Machines |
Source: AWS to Azure services comparison
Western Michigan University has a very handy reference guide on distinguishing the various forms of Alumni and Emeriti.
| Term | Description/Definition | Example |
| Alumna |
Singular female i.e. a female graduate or former student of a particular school, college, or university.
|
Jane is an alumna. |
| Alumnus | Singular male i.e. a male graduate or former student of a particular school, college, or university. | John is an alumnus. |
| Alumnae | Plural female i.e. female graduates or former student of a particular school, college, or university. |
Jane and Mary are alumnae.
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| Alumni | Plural male and plural when both men and women are included. | John, Jane and Mary are alumni. |
| Emerita |
Singular female i.e. a female professor having retired but allowed to retain her title as an honor.
|
Jane is an emerita. |
| Emeritus | Singular male i.e. a male professor having retired but allowed to retain her title as an honor. | John is an emeritus. |
| Emeritae |
Plural female i.e. female professors having retired but allowed to retain their title as an honor
|
Jane and Mary are emeritae. |
| Emeriti | Plural male and plural when both men and women are included. | John, Jane and Mary are emeriti. |
A good tool from Willem Broekema to help with organizing and managing your Twitter lists.
Product Link: TwitterListManager
If you’re going to rebuild a company’s customer service reputation and customer experience, good foundations to start building on include transparency, accountability and brutal, yet humbling honesty. Kudos to the Comcast team for starting down this path.
We’re holding ourselves accountable and we are working hard to make real improvements across the board. While it will take us some time, we can and will do better than this.
Source: A Public Apology to Conal O’Rourke.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Leo Widrich, from Buffer, on Bad Customer Service Support
While at a conference recently, a vendor was using a Twitter activated vending machine from Innovative Vending Solutions.
Each Twitter-activated vending machine incorporates a touch-screen interface to display the instructions to the consumer. The consumer is prompted to “tweet” a specific #hashtag to a dedicated @handle from their mobile device. Once the consumer tweets the @ and #, a product is immediately dispensed from the machine. Apparently, the machine utilizes a unique hashtag that is specific to the machine, so you have to be standing directly in front of the machine in order to utilize this functionality.