Thomas Nicholson

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I am working on creating a series of “how to” videos covering various network security topics for my NicholsonSecurity.com website. One of the requirements I have is I needed to create a bunch of Virtual Machines running various operating systems. I was able to create all the Linux and BSD images just fine. [...]

I have been a big fan of PuTTY for years.  I am always looking for new PuTTY tips and tricks.  Well I wanted to share one with you that I have been searching for since I started using PuTTY.  It’s called PuTTY Command Sender.  When I was working in a NOC many years ago, I [...]

My old desktop died a few days ago.  I had known over the last few days it was on it’s way out.  I was getting HDD, CD/DVD, RAM and CPU errors.  I’m pretty sure the motherboard was dieing.  I thought the RAM upgrade and a clean upgrade to Vista would make it better.  All was [...]

I decided to upgrade to Vista Business SP1 about two weeks ago.  My first impressions are that I like it.  Comparing it to XP SP3 I like the enhancements made.  Since when I did my install of Vista Business it started downloading updates so I wasn’t able to experience the full blown hell of Vista [...]