Microsoft Insights Jump Start

What a great Jump Start but it took place at the different broadcasting location with the guests coming from other companies. It is basically about how you will advance your IT life to the career by how you will take the Microsoft certified courses so that you can take an IT job based on those courses you have taken. Then, there was some global situation, people dropping out of the universities as if they were not able to make it that they were left jobless. Well, there was obviously no need to worry about being jobless like forever if that was the case. You can still can take a job to the IT related company such as Microsoft, Cisco, etc. based on the certified courses you have taken. You can also include in the certified courses in your resume as well as questioned by someone in the Q&A section.
The presentation was short and the first phase lasted an hour but after that was the interview time that lasted for two hours. I heard that the certified exams will be more difficult than before as if the exam layout will not be the same anymore and the requirements are likely to be spread out even more. You will need sufficient skills and experience for those exams. I do have skills and experience in networking, virtualization, cloud, Windows administration, etc but then, I do need to have more of the skills and experience if I want to get prepared for the certified exams in the future. Also, the technology is changing that I may need to KNOW the new features of it. Like, I don't even know what those new things are from Windows Server 8 onwards for instance, and I don't know much of other tools like System Center, Windows Server, other VMWare technology and other virtualization tools.
Virtualization-wise, even System Center will be involved as well due to the fact that you can use that tool to deploy, patch and manage virtual machines there. For cloud, things may be difficult when it comes to forming your OWN private cloud. Yes, the course about forming your own private cloud is more difficult and especially when it comes to using Windows Azure which is business related IT technology that it is not suited for personal use.
Lastly, the Jump Start even had the 60FPS Microsoft Insights commercials that were played during the break and the media player for playing those Jump Starts is revamped.

iMessage–Vulnerable to spying of users’ messages?

OK, we may be sure that the company may never dare to do the spying on their own but if they’re order to do so, then it looks like we’re fucked for using their products like that. The news about this may be everywhere so even non-American news articles about this are there as well talking about the company’s ability to read the users’ messages from the iMessage app.

Now, we may know that the normal hacker can’t sneak in such things like this due to how powerful the encryption system is for today’s technology but things cannot be the same when those stupid spying agencies can intrude in the services like iMessage and BitLocker to collect data from users like trying to detect for baddies. We don’t know if iMessage will be used by Apple for spying purposes but it is said that it is not gonna happen. Some company called QuarksLabs has found some vulnerability which enables the spying to happen.

So, what should you do? Do you use Android, Windows Phone or BlackBerry when seeing such kind of news like this? Either way, you’re spied no matter which brand of smartphone do you use. It will be a shame on Apple for following the order to read those messages as well.

At least Google may have like same guts to collect your stuffs for advertisement but you are given an opportunity to disable some option that disallows Google to do that because things will get out of hand next month if you didn’t disable that. I already disabled that for my Google account but for now, I don’t think that there’s enough evidence of knowing Google’s similar corrupted motives.

Future of privacy rights in Europe

Three days from now and the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee will decide the future of the privacy rights of the Europeans and of course, whether you’re from Europe or not, you may have already known about what the NSA has been up to today. News about that has been everywhere and better privacy in Europe may mean better freedom. However, the proposals for this have been targeted by the foreign governments and corporate lobbyists so we must make sure that those proposals are approved.

Skype on the other hand was already in investigation for attempting to gang up with those spies to spy on their users under some law in Europe and that was some good news we had already seen in Neowin but that doesn’t mean the spying from Skype will probably end like that after the investigation.

Beatmania IIDX Gameplay Report Oct 8th

Okay, it seems that I’m finally used to the turntable in addition to the keys but I still have to improve my skills even more if I want to attempt Level 8 songs with Auto-Scratch turned off. Level 9 songs are pretty much Assist-Clear attempts for me so I guess that I can handle Level 6 and 7 songs with Auto-Scratch turned off although the grading is likely to be affected with this challenge. Furthermore, I attempted one of the boss songs from IIDX Lincle and Assist-Cleared it.

Jubeat Gameplay Report Oct 8th

OK, I still have tons of songs to attempt in Beatmania IIDX and SDVX and the songs in IIDX I will have to attempt will be the ones from IIDX Lincle and Tricoro. It’s kind of jerky to blog my playing of the same games again as there’s probably nothing new to say. However, it seems that we have to tell you the additional update regarding SDVX that the Skill Analyzer/Grade Certification Mode is updated with different sets of songs as well as the newer grade levels which may consist of songs to be played in Infinite difficulty.

Jubeat on the other hand as played yesterday, well, there were newer songs in stores for me but I attempted the songs I could recognize so what else can I say? I’m already sticking back to SDVX and Beatmania IIDX for sure.