OK What’s Next…

5 years ago I was wanting to become a Network & Security Engineer so badly. I sacrificed so many things to come this far. Specially my precious youth where I could just enjoy so many other things other than writing a program or configuring a router. But everything I planned 5 years ago were archived successfully.

I got a degree from a good university, have industry experience for more than 2 and half years, I have industry certifications like CCNA, MCSA, CCNA Sec and studying for CCNP and CCSP, also eventually step in to CISSP and looks great huh! What a great technology career.

Now I don’t want any of that. Why??? See, the reason behind I needed to become this person called a professional, because I could live the life that I wanted, I get the attention from the people I loved and I don’t have to struggle so much in my life.

Now what I want is my own company. It could be in IT, could be in Clothing, or could be just another Import/Export company. That’s all in my mind right now. So now I am struggling for the 1^st time in my life. I know my IT skills and experience going to help me whatever I do in the future, but all the hard work I have done would it be wasted?

I am in position to start my own business. Yes I am in a great position to start my own thing. Do I have the contacts I needed, yes I do have great contacts. Do I have enough money to get things started, yes I do have money to invest and also I have good investors. Do I have enough experience , probably not, but nothing is perfect in this world.

So if I want to become a company owner should I have to give up my career and step in to whole new world. People say different things, as I always do, should I experience this by myself. Should I still keep reading my articles and studying my CCNP stuff?

Confused for the 1^st time in my life!

Change the default startup directory for Command Prompt

• Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
• Navigate to the following branch:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Command Processor

• In the right-pane, double-click Autorun and set the startup folder path as its data, preceded by “CD  C:\Program Files\Nmap> “. If Autorun value is missing, you need to create one, of type REG_EXPAND_SZ or REG_SZ in the above location.

YaY I am MCP (70 – 291)

I have completed the MCSE module 70 – 291 yesterday, Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure.

Questions were heavily focused on DNS management, ISA server, GPO, DHCP server management, WSUS. Some of the questions were really silly, I personally don’t think some of those questions are practically challenging in the industry.

Alright one down, 6 more to go to be MCSE! But now I am MCP

Nmap Official Book is Out

Nmap Network Scanning: The Official Nmap Project Guide to Network Discovery and Security Scanning (Paperback)

by Gordon Fyodor Lyon (Author)

The book that we all being waiting for. It seems like it has included all the techniques in port scanning and enumeration. You can buy this in Amazon;

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0979958717/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

VMWare, VirtualBox, Windows Hyper-V, Qemu

VMWare

VirtualBox

Windows Hyper-V

Qemu

How to get Local and Global Group Memberships in Command Line

I have been looking around a way to get all the Local and Global Group Memberships in command line for the past few days. Initially this issue was raised by one of my colleagues at work and he asked me whether I know how to get all the groups that a user in Active Directory is member of.

net users rdenawaka /domain

 

How to add your Outlook 2003 personal contact details to address book.

 

Step 1 Go to Tools > Email Accounts Under Directories select Add A New Directory Or Address Book and click Next. Select Additional Address Books and click Next Select Personal Address Books and click Next Click Ok.

 

Step 2 Go to your Contacts in outlook. (Short cut Ctrl + 3) Right click on Contacts and select Properties. Go to the 3rd tab which is “Outlook Address Book” Select Show This Folder as an Email Address Book

 

Go to your global address list (Short cut Ctrl + Shift + B)

You should be able to see the newly created address book in there.

E-Books for free

http://www.esnips.com

Screencast-your-linux-desktop

http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/05/20/5-ways-to-screencast-your-linux-desktop/

Microsoft Windows Most Wanted Short Cuts

DSA.MSC —>Active Directory
eventvwr —>Event Viewer
inetmgr —>IIS