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About the Author
Matthew Basham is the Program Director Main Contact and Lead Instructor for the St.
Petersburg College-CISCO Regional Networking Academy in Clearwater, Florida. Mr.
Basham has been employed (adjunct and full-time) with SPC since 1996. He has
completed his CCAI (CISCO instructor), CCNA 2.0, and CCDA. Currently he is
finishing the instructor CCNP 2.0 track. He holds an M.A.M.C. from the University of
Florida and a B.A. from Oakland University (Rochester, Michigan). Mr. Basham has
been working professionally in networking as a network administrator, technical writer,
teacher, and consultant since 1993. He has been using computers since the 1970's and
still owns his original Commodore 64. He has held certifications or trained students in
Novell 3 and 4, NT 4.0 workstation, TCP/IP, NT 4.0 server, A+, Network+, COBOL,
Fortran, Pascal, DOS, BASIC, and HTML. His hobbies include computer security,
cyber-law, and anti-hacking techniques for network administrators and educators. In
2002 he will be a panel member for a discussion of cybersecurity education in
Washington D.C. and be attending a summer school session at Harvard Law School on
Internet Law.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank my wonderful textbook representative for the inspiration to collect
my notes, handouts, and scribbles and turn them into this lab manual…Kristin
Cunningham…without her this lab manual would still only be an “idea.”
I would like to thank many people: my family, grandparents (rest in peace), Worrell
family, Wolfe family, Jeanette LaBelle and family, Autumn, Krysta, Rachel (no
particular order), Beth & the Bindle family (if you hadn’t turned me down I wouldn’t
probably be writing this), Ronda Tranter (legal inspiration), Frank Ferrano (you’re
right…we aren’t all dumb kids), Dr. Mary Ann Ferguson (for never giving up on me),
Arturo David Vasquez, Converse family, the poker gang and their wives, Uncle Bill,
Aunt Mary, cousin David, Jaime, Dave, Kent, Rich, Kyle, Ms. Minton, Julie and Lisa (for
the ambition or revenge to do even better), all my Operation Paycheck students, and to all
my students everywhere!
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