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by dmacias

Job Search Information Management

The saying is that treat a job search like a full time job. Right, specially when you already have a job that is close to full time and you’re a full time student. So can you really have 3 full time jobs? Not really.

The point is that I looked around the web for a tool that would help me manage all my information concerning my job search. The tool I am createing will manage:

  • Job Postings
  • Job Contacts
  • Job Leads
  • References
  • Resumes
  • Cover Letters
  • Thank You Letters

  • Read on…

    • The saying is that treat a job search like a full time job. Right, specially when you already have a job that is close to full time and you’re a full time student. So can you really have 3 full time jobs? Not really.

    The point is that I looked around the web for a tool that would help me manage all my information concerning my job search. The tool I am createing will manage:

  • Job Postings
  • Job Contacts
  • Job Leads
  • References
  • Resumes
  • Cover Letters
  • Thank You Letters

  • Read on…So ideally this tool would be web accesible, however due to time constraints and the fact that I have “3” full time jobs, I will be releasing the first version of this tool in MS Access. For those of you who do not have Access, I will release a MySQL version as soon as the Access version is usable.



    This is just a heads up on what is to come at the end of the week, hopefully sooner.

    -david macias

    • by dmacias

    Oh how I love the internet rumours, lies, and unicorns.

    So the internet is buzzing with rumours about our esteemed governor Rick Perry. It seems that his wife will be filling for devorce and she has hired a well known lawyer from Austin. This lawyer is known for her “go for the throat” tactics. Well, you know a divorce is quite common these days, but that is not all. Supposedly, Governor Rick Perry was found in bed with someone other than his wife. So what? Infidelity is quite common in politics today, right Bill? Well, it seems that Governor Rick Perry was not just caught messing around but messing around with another man! But, not just any man, but the Secretary of State Geoff Conner.



    Now, if you have no idea why this is more significant than normal, please read a newspaper.



    Now this is all rumours, but it seems that there is a lot of chatter, and no one is denying anything.



    ~david macias



    what a tangled web we weave . . .



    . . . when first we practice to deceive!

    So the internet is buzzing with rumours about our esteemed governor Rick Perry. It seems that his wife will be filling for devorce and she has hired a well known lawyer from Austin. This lawyer is known for her “go for the throat” tactics. Well, you know a divorce is quite common these days, but that is not all. Supposedly, Governor Rick Perry was found in bed with someone other than his wife. So what? Infidelity is quite common in politics today, right Bill? Well, it seems that Governor Rick Perry was not just caught messing around but messing around with another man! But, not just any man, but the Secretary of State Geoff Conner.



    Now, if you have no idea why this is more significant than normal, please read a newspaper.



    Now this is all rumours, but it seems that there is a lot of chatter, and no one is denying anything.



    ~david macias



    what a tangled web we weave . . .



    . . . when first we practice to deceive!

    by dmacias

    A little something.

    Fear before the march of flames,
    fear before their heated pace.
    Hear the steps as they approach,
    feel the heat and feel the burn.
    Tremble quietly there’s no pain,
    praying softly for the rain.



    The sun is rising there is no time,
    it is now that you must hide.
    Shy away from all that’s golden,
    do it now, the god has spoken.
    It is the light that will destroy you,
    fear before the march of flames.

    Fear before the march of flames,
    fear before their heated pace.
    Hear the steps as they approach,
    feel the heat and feel the burn.
    Tremble quietly there’s no pain,
    praying softly for the rain.



    The sun is rising there is no time,
    it is now that you must hide.
    Shy away from all that’s golden,
    do it now, the god has spoken.
    It is the light that will destroy you,
    fear before the march of flames.

    by dmacias

    Trying out Mozilla Thunderbird for the first time.

    So at work I usee MS Outlook 2003 and Outlook Express for my personal email. So, I just reformatted my machine and decided to try a new/better email client. I had heard a lot about Mozilla Thunderbird so I decided to give a spin. The installation was quite painless, and it is very fast. I am also using it for surfing newsgroups and so far so good. There is somewhat of a learning curve and I am still trying to figure out the new keyboard shortcuts, as well as how NG posts are handled when received. Overall this is definetly a step forward passed Outlook Express. Next, I will try to import all of my old email, as well as try some themes and extensions.

    -david macias

    So at work I usee MS Outlook 2003 and Outlook Express for my personal email. So, I just reformatted my machine and decided to try a new/better email client. I had heard a lot about Mozilla Thunderbird so I decided to give a spin. The installation was quite painless, and it is very fast. I am also using it for surfing newsgroups and so far so good. There is somewhat of a learning curve and I am still trying to figure out the new keyboard shortcuts, as well as how NG posts are handled when received. Overall this is definetly a step forward passed Outlook Express. Next, I will try to import all of my old email, as well as try some themes and extensions.

    -david macias

    by dmacias

    The most familiar part of your body

    Just a little something that was running through my head, don’t expect a masterpiece, don’t expect a work of art. A lot of these little blurbs stay in my drafts folder for ages, until I feel like letting the sunlight hit them.



    Wear lots of sunblock.


    ~david macias

    Just a little something that was running through my head, don’t expect a masterpiece, don’t expect a work of art. A lot of these little blurbs stay in my drafts folder for ages, until I feel like letting the sunlight hit them.



    Wear lots of sunblock.


    ~david maciasThe most familiar part of your body, is the back of your head.
    As you walk away I see you leave.
    I see you leave again, and that oh so familiar view.
    Straigh jet black hair, shoulder length, Onyx waterfalls.



    Today again, you walk away. Out of my life with my life.
    I look back at my life and see your face,
    I look forward into my future and see me, see me there…

    by dmacias

    So speaking with my mother…

    She told me that she shows everyone the poem I wrote six years ago. She even had it translate it, so people who do not speak English would understand it. By the way, translations of poems, specially not by the author, really make for a crappy poem. So this exposure has given me the idea that maybe I should post my poem here, and traslate it myself. What poem you may ask? I like to call it the best thing I’ve ever written, the most deep and personal words that have ever appeared from my pen. So, perhaps soon I will post the piece of my own writting I hold most dear.

    I don’t sleep to dream, but to forget.

    -david macias

    She told me that she shows everyone the poem I wrote six years ago. She even had it translate it, so people who do not speak English would understand it. By the way, translations of poems, specially not by the author, really make for a crappy poem. So this exposure has given me the idea that maybe I should post my poem here, and traslate it myself. What poem you may ask? I like to call it the best thing I’ve ever written, the most deep and personal words that have ever appeared from my pen. So, perhaps soon I will post the piece of my own writting I hold most dear.

    I don’t sleep to dream, but to forget.

    -david macias

    by dmacias

    Awesome article from SecFoc.com

    Definetly a great article about Low-level enumeration (port scanning). Talks about some of the techniques everyone’s favorite scanning software (NMAP) uses, which gives you a great insight to all those little commands like:




    nmap -v -sS www.microsoft.com




    Read all about it, I found it more than informative.



    -david macias

    Definetly a great article about Low-level enumeration (port scanning). Talks about some of the techniques everyone’s favorite scanning software (NMAP) uses, which gives you a great insight to all those little commands like:




    nmap -v -sS www.microsoft.com




    Read all about it, I found it more than informative.



    -david macias

    by dmacias

    February 1st

    In the odd case that you didn’t own a calendar, today is February 1st. What is he significance of this date? Honestly, none. However, thanks to a little critter running around the internet, today might be a bit significant, at least to a couple of network administrator somewhere.

    These netadmins, are the netadmins of SCO.com and MS.com. Turns out that the creator of the MyDoom virus, if you do not know what I am talking about read a newspaper, has decided to DDoS these two domains. SCO today, and MS tomorrow.

    Aren’t they just some cute little critters?



    -david macias

    In the odd case that you didn’t own a calendar, today is February 1st. What is he significance of this date? Honestly, none. However, thanks to a little critter running around the internet, today might be a bit significant, at least to a couple of network administrator somewhere.

    These netadmins, are the netadmins of SCO.com and MS.com. Turns out that the creator of the MyDoom virus, if you do not know what I am talking about read a newspaper, has decided to DDoS these two domains. SCO today, and MS tomorrow.

    Aren’t they just some cute little critters?



    -david macias

    by dmacias

    Minor security updates.

    Security never stops, now does it?

    Fixes include:

    It was possible for users in the Group Admin and User Admin groups to become a member of the Root group (reported by Samuel M. Stone, bug #135).

    Being admin for a certain area (e.g. Story Admin for stories) made it possible to delete all objects in that area (e.g. stories) even if the user was not supposed to have access to them, provided the id of the object was known.

    It was possible to delete other people’s personal events if you knew the event ID.

    It was possible to browse through the comments of a story even if the user did not have access to the actual story (reported by Peter Roozemaal).

    Due to an XSS issue, it was possible to change someone’s account settings (including the password) if you got them to click on a specially crafted link (reported by Jelmer, fix suggested by Vincent Furia).
    The comment display suffered from the possibility of an SQL injection (reported by Jelmer).

    It was possible to inject Javascript code in the calendar (reported by Jelmer).

    It was possible to execute (but not save) Javascript code in the comment preview (reported by Jelmer).

    -david macias

    Security never stops, now does it?

    Fixes include:

    It was possible for users in the Group Admin and User Admin groups to become a member of the Root group (reported by Samuel M. Stone, bug #135).

    Being admin for a certain area (e.g. Story Admin for stories) made it possible to delete all objects in that area (e.g. stories) even if the user was not supposed to have access to them, provided the id of the object was known.

    It was possible to delete other people’s personal events if you knew the event ID.

    It was possible to browse through the comments of a story even if the user did not have access to the actual story (reported by Peter Roozemaal).

    Due to an XSS issue, it was possible to change someone’s account settings (including the password) if you got them to click on a specially crafted link (reported by Jelmer, fix suggested by Vincent Furia).
    The comment display suffered from the possibility of an SQL injection (reported by Jelmer).

    It was possible to inject Javascript code in the calendar (reported by Jelmer).

    It was possible to execute (but not save) Javascript code in the comment preview (reported by Jelmer).

    -david macias