Attended a BOF on incident handling, which was discussed at length. Setup BASE for monitoring Snort logging to MySQL.
Today we discussed stuff. The evening BOF I attended was about wireless deployments. We discussed deployments and products at length before moving into wired network management for nearly two hours. The most popular discussion was dealing with p2p traffic and malicious activity. Users simply moving to another port when they’re cut off is rather common. [...]
Today it was exceedingly windy, and thus frigid cold outside. It lightly snowed some throughout the day. We covered more tcpdump output, IDS evasion and insertion, and a review of bitmasking. The WiFi issue had not entirely resolved itself. In the morning DHCP leasing was broken campus wide. Later in the day it worked, but [...]
I wandered out of bed around 8:20. I scarfed down some food and drove off to VT for the day. When I arrived, there was a large line for WiFi card registration, which I skipped. When I entered the auditorium I quickly discovered there were far more people than effective workspace. Around 240 people were [...]
I finally arose around 10. I discovered I turned the laptop off when I turned off the lamp. The battery was dead. I spent some time messing with WiFi in an attempt to determine the weather for the day. The Weather Channel on the TV was quite useless, as per usual. Since early this morning [...]
I left Gainesville at 9am, furnished with directions from both Microsoft’s Streets and Trips and MapQuest. I have lived in Gainesville nearly five years and still managed to get lost following Microsoft’s directions onto 301 North. Not really Streets fault, since the road was under construction and it wasn’t clear the road in question was [...]
Arslinux.com has a nice WiKi entry on installing Java under Debian with something a bit like dh-make-perl or kernel-package, called java-package. You pull down the official Java JRE from Sun and transform it into a nice Debian package. Debian at arslinux.com. There’s a bunch of other Debian related stuff too, like cloning a source machine’s [...]
I was quite excited to initially learn of the new Apple Mac Mini. A relatively inexpensive Mac, with OS X goodness, that I can actually afford. Or so I thought. For $500, sure, why not? However, AnandTech’s recent review indicates that a mere 256MB of RAM is simply inadequate for OS X. So, add another [...]
For ages I have been using unofficially Woody ‘Net install CDs to get boxen up and running. Since I am burning down my media laptop today, I thought I would try out RC2 of DI. I have been a bit curious for a while, but haven’t had any boxes that really need a reinstall. So [...]