CISSP - 6 days and counting - Amazing how time flies... October 25th is right around the corner. Spent a good chunk of time on cccure.org last night and wound up being a bit concerned that I have been underestimating the exam. I think the practice exams that come with the books I have have to a degree lulled me into a false sense of safety. So today, on an absolutely gorgeous autumn day, I'm inside with my laptop paging through presentations and PDF files. My concern is mostly about some of the detail. Much of it I think I'll hit without a problem... but there are some areas where I am weaker. We'll see.

Interesting to see that my 10+ years of volunteer firefighting experience actually has some relevance... there is a whole section devoted to physical security issues including issues around fire prevention and suppression.

Diff with Vim? - As soon as I had to reformat my laptop and install Windows XP (related in another entry long ago), one of the first things I did was go out and install Vim so that I could have a "real" editor on my system. Today I discovered a hidden treat that I didn't know it had.

There have been numerous times when I have wanted to compare two files on XP and wished there was the good old UNIX/Linux 'diff' command. Well, today I had several files selected in Windows Explorer and instead of dragging them to the trash can to delete them I right-clicked and chose Delete. But... in the process, I noticed that one of the choices offered was "Diff with Vim". So of course I had to try it out... what a fantastic capability to include! It works wonderfully... splitting the window in two so that you can scroll through and see what was deleted/inserted/changed/etc. Very cool!