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Posted by: Pawel on: December 28, 2009
FireEye
Posted by: Pawel on: December 28, 2009
Pracownicy amerykańskiej firmy FireEye rozpracowali i praktycznie zniszczyli jeden z największych swego czasu internetowych botnetów – Mega-D. W zaledwie kilka dni udało im się sprawić, że liczący w szczytowym momencie ok. 250 tys. komputerów-zombie botnet zniknął z Sieci
Botnets, networks of malware-infected machines that are controlled by an adversary, are the root cause of a large number of security threats on the Internet. A particularly sophisticated and insidious type of bot is Torpig, a malware program that is designed to harvest sensitive information (such as bank account and credit card data) from its victims.
Intrusion Prevention
Posted by: Pawel on: December 21, 2009
Successful network attacks have become so common that they are no longer news. With so much at risk, businesses are under pressure to take a proactive approach to IT security by implementing a holistic security management program to help reduce the impact of these attacks, prevent breaches from happening and meet compliance needs. This summit will cover current trends in intrusion prevention systems, the total economic impact of network security intrusion prevention, and best practices and strategies to protect your database from the inside out.
Independent schools community – on SE?
Posted by: Pawel on: May 5, 2009
Social Engine – Install your own unique social network!
How about idea to built social network dedicated to independent schools?
Last week I was looking haw use SE to build social network for independent schools.
So what is the Social Engine?
“Social Engine is a PHP script that creates a social network on your website. Right out of the box, your social network will offer nearly all of the features found on today’s popular social networking sites”
With this script you can set up Facebook like network in the minutes. I liked the ease of instillation and the clean design. I saw also that there is many plugins and modules to extend basic functionality of the script.
Basic set up is running without any problems but you want to be competitive on the quickly expanding social networks market you have to profile your script regarding your niche market and add specific functionality. It is possible with different SE modules and plugins – but means additional costs for additional plugins.
My market is schools and I tried to find out how and using which plugins I will arrive to set up
SE for schools.
As usual with this profile I would like that
- users subscribe to schools and classes like in classmates.com.
- to have different profiles for schools, pupils teachers, …
- to have possibility to use forums and groups, upload videos, images, give points for activity
- run adverts to pay my bills…
Many of this functionality you can have by buying additional plugins but my main problem was how to set up a logic which will add new user to the right school and class (study year).
I wanted to have school profile with classes pupils and teachers inside. I wanted to connect the profile with the forum where members could exchange their thoughts and had
Some troubles.
- I don’t know how to build separate profile for schools and add it automatically on user subscription
- I don’t know how too build different classes inside the school profile.
After testing different solutions I decided to
Give a try with this one
- School profiles are like other user profile
- School profile are leaders of schools groups
- Groups are divided in subgroups like schools, clubs, associations….
- In schools subgroups I formed the category for each school and gave the possibility to form classes in by users.
This solution is not perfect but is the only one I found to implement schools profiled SE.
In practice this set up gives full possibilities to users to form any kind of school profile and group. The role of administrator will be how users are behaving, what types of activities they are choosing and with this observations customize the SE to their needs. This type of the solution was used by naszaklasa.pl and worked very well (17 millions of users).
What SE means for me on this tage for my personal project?
Expanses for
- SE script
- additional plugins
- specific customization (regarding emerging needs- full time staff)
Ad the stage of thinking about social network for independent schools it is to much form me – I can do it (or similar) for you 
. I will also look for other solutions.
Next one for testing will be WordPress MU.
The set up I described can be viewed under this link. Fell free to give a try and if some put comments. It is a full working site so you can subscribe, build profiles, schools profiles like in the live version.
Independent Schools Bodies
Posted by: Pawel on: April 27, 2009
SCIS – Established in 1978 to represent independent schools in Scotland, the Scottish Council of Independent Schools (SCIS) became a charitable company limited by guarantee in 1990.
ISC schools cover the entire academic range. They also cover a wide social range, with nearly a third of children receiving help with their school fees.
Independent Schools Directory UK This site contains information on over 2000 schools in the UK which you can use to FIND a particular school or to SEARCH for schools geographically and by various other criteria.
The Independent Association of Prep Schools is the professional association for Heads and Deputy Heads of the leading 600 independent prep schools in the UK and worldwide.
Pawel`s Online Surveys – service providing survey and mailing services for independent schools
School Survey Types
Posted by: Pawel on: April 19, 2009
What types of survey usually are made in schools?
- AfL Survey
- Assessment for learning is a powerful way to improve learning and raise standards.
To find out more on “What is assessment for learning?” follow the link or download the online survey template
- Assessment for learning is a powerful way to improve learning and raise standards.
- Anti-Bullying Questionnaire (fill out the online questionnaire or see the results)
- More resources about anty-bullying you can find on BullyingUK, Anti-Bullying Network or Annty-Bullying Week. For more results just check google there. Download the online Anti-Bullying Questionnaire template on this page.
- Environmental Review Questionnaire (online demo)
- An Environmental Review (or audit) is designed to give a realistic picture of your school’s current environmental performance. It should tell you what you are doing well and what you might need to work on. The Environmental Review informs your Action Plan, helping your school to decide whether change is necessary and how urgently the changes are required. More on in Eco Schools to get a questionnaire online template from this page.
- Primary Health Check Questionnaire
- to help and continue to improve your school. Get the online template on this page or see the demo survey and statistics.
- ITC Questionnaire
- Get the online template on this page or see the demo survey and statistics.
- OFSTED Parent Questionnaire –
- Get the online template on this page or see the demo survey and statistics. (also see HMIe publication on Journey To Excellence)
- Pupil Survey
- Engage children and young people and allow them to make a postive contribution to the development and improvement of their school with an Infonetlive Survey Surveys Pupil / Student Survey. Get the online template on this page or see the demo survey and statistics.
- Parents Anti-Bullying Survey
- See Anti bulling websites , get the online template on this page or see the demo survey and statistics.
- Summer Holiday Activities Survey
How you can make your own surveys?
If performing surveys can bring improvement for your school management, than I can help you by providing surveys creation and deployment services. To find more on just go to my website
Happy Easter/ Joyeuses Pàques
Posted by: Pawel on: April 9, 2009
| Took a little love, walked thru a garden Who can I see, in and around your hand Looking to the top, as he feeds beside you Humming bird, close to your hand It was for a reason I did not see before, it was (it was); |
That is nature sounding within In the face of it In the face of it there’s nothing left to rhyme and the more you try you’ll understand They’ll be flying into your hand tomorrow. |
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