Cert Life

July 1, 2020

Out of the hundreds of security certifications to set my eyes on, I've narrowed my current pursuits down to four:

Lacking any formal education prior to my bootcamp experience, I hope these will be enough to bring me up to speed.

A Working List of Formative Software in Roughly Linear Order

June 21, 2020

-A Peanuts MS-DOS floppy disk game -Freddy Fish -Windows Media Player -Limewire -Limewire Pro, downloaded via Limeware -iTunes running on Windows XP -Zune -Runescape -Myspace -Facebook -Tumblr -Dropbox (Beta) -StumbleUpon -Something that let me join all my IM software under the umbrella of Google Talk -Chrome (Beta) -A pirated version of a Spiderman game -Spotify (Beta) -Firefox -Flux -Google Voice -Linux Mint -Gimp -Darkroom -Something that let me play Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds against ...

Double Crash

July 2, 2020

I noticed that the network had been running slower than expected the past few days, and today had ground to a complete halt. I rebooted the OpenWrt router to be met with the LED message that something was off. I took the access point down until I could further diagnose the issue. Immediately after, my Chromebook failed to boot due to Chrome OS being missing or damaged. I'm sure this is a coincidence, but I feel paranoid nonetheless. Although I took many preliminary steps to harden and segment t...