Girl Geekette

*Update* Nov 21, 2008

The newer version of Microsoft Word had a problem opening these older files and the .doc format was noted as corrupt. I was able to open it in Open Office (A free alternative to MS Office) and resave the files as *.pdf files. The files have been updated on the server and are now available for download again.

• Erica’s CWNA Study Guide PWO-100
• Erica’s Linux+ Stury Guide (XK0-002)
• Erica’s Security+ Study Guide

These files are now *.pdf files 

Adobe Acrobat to maybe download to view the *.pdf files (A free download)

stateful inspection

• close off ports until connection to the specific port is requested
• firewall architecture that works at the network layer. Unlike static packet filtering, which examines a packet based on the information in its header, stateful inspection tracks each connection traversing all interfaces of the firewall and makes sure they are valid.

   

SlurpConfirm404

Another of my daily bad habits (yes, amonsgt many) is the continious monitering of my logs. At any given time I am watching the logs of my websites. Beleive it or not, sometimes this pays off! And other times, it brings more questions to mind which.. yes, I am going to search, read and learn until my questions are satisfied.

This time, I happen to be watching my logs and noticed that Yahoo’s Slurp engine was searching for pages that did not exist on my site. I had to stop and think about it for a minute, but I realized that the pages it was searching for were not only ones that did not exist, but they never had existed!

Now, through the various versions of my sites, of course pages have moved. And when this happens, search engines still might be looking for the old and outdated ones. But in this case, /SlurpConfirm404/Schultz/HSchorus.htm (see the image above) brought a big HUH?? to my lips.