2 December 2009
No real changes, but I'm finally retiring frankenmac this weekend. Hopefully I can re-repurpose the PSU to work on the old P4 LGA775 box i've got sitting
waiting. The replacement is a new Core2 mini, which I'm sure apple will update january 1 with some new i-series intel processors to make me regret being
so impatient. Meanwhile i can finally start playing with Snow Leopard full time and seeing what else is new using an intel mac day to day.
Finally started working towards official IT training. Enrolled and started at WGU, Western Governors University, in a program
for IT Security. This will give me more training and certifications that will allow me to further my career.
10 October 2009
Still learing about anything I can. Lately I have been playing with tunneling over ssh and more python. I finally
dreamed up an idea for a program; create a list of books linked to a webpage, starting with the isbn number.
I have no idea how to do the meat of this, the lookup, but I have figured out a working loop that asks for input, checks
the format, and either stops the loop or does a function. it is basic CS stuff that I am sure I did in high school cs, but
that was almost exactly 10 years ago and my retention is about 0.0%.
I also setup two new websites; koppdomain.com and
wiki.koppdomain.com. There is not really any goal with these, but the hosting
was cheap and I am learning what is possible. What little I remember of webdesign stuff is continually proven to be out
of date. Also I tend to start something and then forget about it, hence no updates here since May.
I have also been playing with windows 7 as a daily OS. I have to admit it is pretty damn slick. good enough that I will have
to recommend it to people. I had tried it a long time ago on my laptop and it kept losing the display drivers every time
it rebooted. it is a lot more stable now and I have had no more problems than I did with xp, and especially no permissions
issues like I have had with vista.
19 May 2009
Learning networking and BSD stuff remotely via ssh is fun.
So I was stuck with some free time and remembered that I had setup my server for ssh... and setup lynx...
and the router's admin interface is a webpage... So with this info I learned that I could ssh into my box,
get to the router with lynx, and open a port to test something remotely. Probably not the most efficient
way to do something, but I did what I wanted to do and learned a few things: just how much access you can
have even with a command line only interface, just fumbling aroung with "man nmap" can get you the info
you need to find out what boxes are doing with which ports on your network, and that is about it.
So the learning BSD-unix is going well, still do not know much, but lots more than I did a month ago.
Also starting to actually learn python.
27 Feb 2009
I have fixed the resume page. Note to self: do not open .html documents in open office, it will break formatting when you are not paying attention. I am not really working on a programming language, but learning more admin-y type things. I have got FreeBSD installed on my desktop and am working on using it more for a daily OS to force myself to learn new things. Now that I have started that, next is to get a mirror of the website working at home on a BSD server.
03 Nov 2008
Still more small site updates, building a frame that I will just drop content on later. Changed the navigation look and feel to fit better with the rest of the site. the gallery pages work, I just do not have any relevent content, so they are not showing.