Jon’s Network

Stan Trevena, IT director for Modesto City Schools, penned The Internet Filtering Battlefield and describes the constant struggle to keep student and faculty behavior inline with the acceptable use policy. This is important to keep students safe and to keep the district out of legal trouble.

It is a great article that explains exactly how users [...]

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I’m working with a midsize business looking to ditch their Surfcontrol/ISA setup. They want an inline filtering appliance and have already looked at Barracuda and 8e6 Technologies. The problem is they want most of the users filtered transparently (bridge mode proxy) and some using an explicit proxy. Barracuda needs two boxes to [...]

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I actually think I’m going to take the leap and learn a different typing layout. Doing things better with less effort always appeals to me. I thought originally I would try Dvorak but that layout looked too foreign and I heard it took weeks to learn. I also read that it is [...]

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Whenever I learn about a new UTM device (or next generation firewall, secure network gateway, etc.), I’m amazed that there is yet another one. Some of these are well known, but others I’ve never seen in the wild. How many of these companies are making money right now? Here is a first stab [...]

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EllisLab is releasing Expression Engine 2.0 with lots of new bells and whistles this summer. Check out the quick video showing off the back end: Expression Engine 2.0 Preview.

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I mentioned before that in Susan Wolcott’s: Steps for Better Thinking Rubric(.pdf), skilled thinkers use general principles to interpret information, i.e. they use a model and they know which model they are using.

Since critical thinkers know which model they are using, they can easily question their model and adapt it to new facts and reality. [...]

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