Congrats! Let us know how it is, I need to take CISSP some time this year

Thanks, dynamik. I've got a lot of people interested, I just hope they stick with it.

alucian, I am not him, but I met him at Shmoo. I will make sure he gets an invite.

Hey everyone,

I had so much fun in Lockpick Village at ShmooCon, that I'm starting a new group in my area, Jax Locksport. Hoping that this will be an official TOOOL chapter sometime in the future.

We're having our first Jax Locksport meeting in 2 weeks, on Friday, March 2. We're meeting at Tijuana Flats in San Marco (5635 San Jose Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL, 32207) on the first Friday of every month, with the Jax2600/DC904 group. We will continue to combine the two groups until we have enough members and are stable enough to branch it off into a separate meeting.

We've got plenty of locks and picks, people who are eager to help teach others, and we're planning on having some kind of competition/giveaway. It should be a lot of fun, and I hope to see a lot of people there!

It was excellent, rance and I were an awesome team in the lockpicking competition.

I'll be there Thursday night, I'm in for a meetup.

Glad to have you here!

This year should hopefully be busy for me.

My certification plans for 2012:
Linux+
Network+
Security+
CISSP

I still have that CPTE that I need ti finish up and take the exam for, but not exactly part of my 2012 goals. I may try to take that in January, hoping to take the first part of Linux+ exam in early February.

Hmm, let's try to rule out the obvious problems.

Did you extract the contents of the zip file before running setup.exe?

If you're using Windows Vista/7, did you try to right-click setup.exe and "Run as administrator"?

It looks like this has a lot more than just a hex-editor, but I've been using Notepad++ with the hex-editor plugin. I suppose I will give this a shot since I've got in installed now.

A brief observation of the videos indicates to me that the information is about the same as what I learned in CEHv5. That being said, in most of the demonstrations, he's also using BackTrack 3, which may also say something about the age of the content.

The videos aren't wholly bad from what I've seen, just minor inconsistencies, like the volume level seems to change from one video to the next. In some modules, every section is numbered. Others are not. Some sections don't even have names, they'll be titled something like "Untitled-1". I guess they don't have very good quality control?

Has anyone taken the exam, yet? Any ideas how long before the certification expires?

tl;dr.

Seriously, nice review. I love their exam policy: free courseware, voucher never expires, take it at home, and try again free if you fail! We need to find more certifications like this!

I just want to learn more about the field. If I really get into it, then I might pursue it further. For now, it's just to learn.

I'll be looking forward to your next book review!

Thanks for the review. I'll probably pick up a copy after the holidays.

Glad I could help. I believe that if you have a swap partition, any distro will utilize it (unless you use some bootup option like noswap on Knoppix). Not sure if this will work if you put the swap partition in LVM.

Congrats, elwellj! You're going to have a blast! Have you been to any conferences before?

My laptop was setup with Linux, plenty of hard drive space, 6 GB of RAM, and no swap partition. I was getting ready for a presentation on WEP cracking last month. I had no problem until I started collecting IV packets. I would only get to about 3,000 or so before the laptop would just crash.

It took me a while to figure out the problem, but all I did was use GParted on a LiveCD to shrink my Linux partition and add a 2 GB swap partition. No more problem.