Nokia N770 Internet Tablet
I wooted this little baby the other day for $135 shipped and have been playing with it since yesterday evening. It’s an internet tablet, and allows you to do far more than most low-end PDA type gadgets. I’ve never been that much of an electronic toy person so I [...]
As I will be having a lot more hands on with Snort once I assume my new role at work in a couple of weeks, I decided I needed to beef up my library, so I picked up Jay Beale’s Snort Toolkit book off of Amazon.
It starts out explaining what IDS/IPS are and then jumps [...]
I made my appearance on hak5live last night and all I can say is that it was quite an interesting night. I was a little tense with the cameras at first but I think I managed to pretend they weren’t there after a couple of minutes.
My show and tell involved Homebrew roms obtained from [...]
For those of you who never watched Mr. Wizard when you were growing up, you missed out on quite a show. I used to watch it before I went to school at least a couple of mornings per week for a couple of years, and it was downright fascinating every time. He made science easy [...]
I succeeded in setting up a dual-boot of Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.04 on my laptop yesterday. It’s an (almost) 3.5 year old Gateway M505XL (with an extra 256MB RAM, and an Intel 2200 B/G vice the stock 2100) but everything was recognized, no driver issues at all.
The main purpose was for the Hak5Live show [...]
This past Sunday I obtained my SANS GCIH certification. That brings me up to four, with two more left in queue (Linux+ and CISSP). I am proud of my 92/91 test scores for it, and plan on taking it Gold along with my GSEC sometime in the next year or so.
I’m presently [...]
Learned a new word today, which applies quite nicely to me. Audodidacticism
It’s basically defines a person whose education is primarily through self-directed learning, self-teaching. It’s not any sort of special label, as everyone can be defined by this at numerous points in their lives, but I did find it neat to learn a new word.
I [...]
Thursday was a good day. I passed my Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) test and can now wield that badge. This weekend I will be taking parts 1 and 2 of my GCIH certification, and should be able to successfully obtain that.
CISSP is coming up and I am starting to really hunker down. [...]
