In the rounds of looking for a specific syntax highlighting mechanism for Text Wrangler ( a fairly nice but large text editor for OSX). I found what I was looking for there but realized there was a problem with Text Wrangler, it would only start the syntax highlighter based soley on the extension of the file. This is a problem because I was looking for a syntax highlighting for cmake, and the primary build files are usually denoted as CMakeLists.txt files. I really didn't want to start the syntax highlighter for all txt files as I end up processing a large variety of files.
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The usual Developer's dilemma here, I went on a hunt to try and find a decent open source cross platform C++ library that offered a good logging system. One that would write proper text logs on mac/linux and write either to the event viewer/text file on windows machines. Well all the systems I found out there worked really good on one platform but seriously lack in other areas. So in typical open source fashion I figured I would write my own that would be generic and fit my current needs. |
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So I got into the beta for the star trek online (STO) mmorpg game and well not very impressed with what they got going. I understand that it is a beta and as such there are bound to be bugs, glitches or other anomalies with the system. Except that by todays standards when a game is only about a week from release then maybe the vast majority of the bugs should be fixed before the game goes live and well they likely won't be. Bugs aside the game wasn't very fun either and had a real feeling of just being slapped together. |
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Midterms was last week, and for one of my classes I had to write a mockup Risk Analysis and really generic Security Policy for a fake company. The point is during the Security policy part I was thinking about a network user policy that would be interesting to see. Basically the idea would be to have a security policy that gave users the ability to help diagnose security issues. Within reasonable restrictions though as to not be damaging to the network. |
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Why would a network admin, security admin or a network developer be concerned with packet tracing software like Wireshark or Snort? To some that answer might be extremely clear, but others maybe not so much. The basic premises is that a packet tracing program like Wireshark or my own sniff is that it can read all the traffic that is coming in on the network adapter. |
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So today marks the first day of classes for me. Going for another degree, this one will be in Information Technology: Systems Security. It will be mildly amusing, especially classes like Desktop Computing. Yes I could have tested out of the class but I need to stay full time and I was a little late on the testing out of it so not really that big of a deal. I will have more interesting topics to talk about as I go on. Hopefully this degree will compliment the one I already have and everything will be good. And it figures that the site for backtrack is down this morning. |
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So I have this one single pc right now floating around here that doesn't have a cdrom drive. Hooking up a cdrom drive is an extreme hassle as the case only has room for a slim drive and I haven't gotten one for it. To make it more fun and exciting the machine won't boot off a usb flash drive or usb hard drive go figure. Either way that leaves me with a couple of choices on being able to perform an operating system installation. The first is to go out and purchase an external cdrom drive and just do it which is kind of lame and not very interesting. |
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I know I have been rather quiet on here lately. There has been a fair amount of stuff going on lately. First I did finally get a job albeit not in my field and that is ok for now. I am also starting school again for a second Bachelors degree, this one will be in Information Technology: Systems Security. Hopefully that will go rather nicely with the software development degree I already have. |
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Out of curiosity maybe or general interest but I find that all this big push to "Cloud" computing and clustering lately has still been missing something. All the different cloud computing systems out there seem to all be very much application based. Like running clustered apache setups that allow resources to be dynamically reassigned between users of the system. Now this isn't bad per say, but it is missing the point by a bit. Not saying that the idea is bad or offering services in a cloud is off, just incomplete. |
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