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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

I went awhile without an update. The Ubuntu article before this was actually written about a week ago, but I had not gotten a chance to get on and publish it, and did end up publishing it a little incomplete, which is why I am going to do another update in a few weeks [...]

It’s been 3 weeks since I began using Ubuntu as my primary desktop OS, and so far I am loving it. I never claimed to be the expert on Linux, and had never really run it for anything other than experimentation before, so this has been quite a learning experience for me.
Obviously the best [...]

The past week included one CISSP study group session, installing Ubuntu 7.04 “Feisty” on my spare hard drive, and the usual weekend partying/cooking out.
I’ve been using the latest Ubuntu release since early Saturday morning, and I have to say I am impressed. If my parents lived closer than a 10 hour drive from me [...]

Okay so I didn’t quite make it on the once per week promise.
Over the last 9 days I managed to (with the help of friends) troubleshoot and send parts to my Mom so she could have a guy at work fix her computer without me having to fly up there, which just wasn’t going to [...]

Yes, I haven’t forgotten, I’m still sticking to the minimum of one post per week.
This week has been mostly work, although I did get my favors in this past Sunday so I can call in some karma later on when I need it. Helping friends move can get pretty interesting sometimes.

I might as well make the vow from here on out that barring any disasters, there will be at least one post per week here.
With that said, here are some of the things i’ve been up to in the last 6 days:
Movies: Finally got around to watching Pirates of Silicon Valley. I thought [...]